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I sat down and talked with Angela Dy about Youth Speaks in Seattle.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 03:35
Caption: John Williams
Over his fifty-plus year career, John Williams has written many of the most famous scores in Hollywood film history.

Bought by KGUA, KPIP-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Barry Bergey with Mavis Staples, Credit: Tom Pich
The NEA's recently retired Director of Folk and Traditional Arts Barry Bergey shares some memories about a lifetime immersed in folk and tradition...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 19, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Kevin Doyle dancing at the 2013 National Heritage Fellowship Concert
2014 NEA National Heritage Fellow Kevin Doyle talks about his passion for Irish Step Dancing.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Why do books so often turn to music? Richard Powers, author of a new, music-filled novel Orfeo, speaks to the strength of songs and symphonies, inc...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 12:57
  • Purchases: 3
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Interview with John about his relationship with heavyweight musicians and altering consciousness without chemicals.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2014
  • Length: 08:40
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Interview with Jack Elliott. Great stories about meeting Johnny Cash and playing with Bill Cosby at the Gaslight Theatre.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2014
  • Length: 06:15
Caption: ETHEL, Credit: James Ewing
Believing that music is a unifying force, the string quartet ETHEL has joined forces with musicians across genres and regions. The result is musica...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: Aug 07, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bora Yoon, Credit: Leslie Van Stelte.
Bora Yoon talks about building the sonic design of her album Sunken Cathedral.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Where is jazz headed in a new century? With the pianist Vijay Iyer as guide, newly tenured as a professor at Harvard, it tends toward the experimen...

Bought by KMUW and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 58:36
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Boukman Eksperyans, Credit: Courtesy of LEAF
For Jennifer Pickering, all art is both local and global and LEAF is that philosophy in action.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Inspired by a recent broadcast that featured story songs, towards the beginning of the show we hit the mother lode of story songs: those that tell ...

Bought by KSJD, KEOS, WOUB, KSKQ, KPVL and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 18
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This marks the 20th anniversary of "Over The Back Fence". "Over The Back Fence" is a community variety show that happens the 2nd Friday of every m...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:31:06
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Anthony Braxton, Credit: Photo by Michael G. Stewart
Anthony Braxton may be considered avant garde but he embraces all musical traditions

  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 40:46
Caption: Keith Jarrett, Credit: Rose Anne Colavito
Pianist Keith Jarrett - letting the music happen.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 34:27
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Studs Terkel interviews Pete Seeger on the culture of folk music. Includes one hour interview and 7 breakout segments from the interview by Studs T...

Bought by KZYX, XRAY.fm, WMMT, KFAI Minneapolis, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:04:39
  • Purchases: 8
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Jazzy singer/songwriter Rebecca Martin talks with us about her musical life.

Bought by WRNC-LP, WRNC-LP, and Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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“I think of a lot of things when I’m playing the piano and one of the last things I think about is the piano…you try to somehow think and feel li...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 11:02
  • Purchases: 3
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He sings, plays piano, harmonica, and guitar while she paints. Every night they create art together with separate mediums as their form of living. ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 29, 2013
  • Length: 36:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Conversations with artists of all kinds doing work in and about the real world. Hour long, magazine format episode of Word of Mouth.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and NPR Illinois


  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 2
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In the spring of 1972, an event took place in a field west of Austin. It would not only give birth to Willie Nelson's now-famous 4th-of-July picnic...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 54:09
  • Purchases: 2
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How do musicians come up with the scores for Hollywood blockbuster films? Mark Graham, seasoned music preparation supervisor, reveals the hectic be...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 07:02
Caption: Jason Forrest
Cathy Byrd connects by Skype with Jason Forrest, an American laptop musician based in Berlin, about why he loves the performance spotlight.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 18:57
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A look into the Electronic Dance Music (EDM) culture through an EDM producer.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2012
  • Length: 05:21
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All of us at Art of the Song are deeply saddened by the untimely passing of Eagles founding member Glenn Frey on January 18, 2016. An inspiration t...

Bought by KREV-LP, KGLP, KUNM, WOMR, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9