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879: One Nation Under God? / 880: Jazz Migrations, 3/9/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "One Nation Under God?" - January 6th was an unprecedented day of political violence for the United States. Can it happen again? And how ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:01
Appalachian Vibes: Seed Picker, Thomas Thurman, Megan Jean's Secret Family
From: WNCW
Series: Appalachian Vibes
Caption: Amanda Bocchi, Credit: Jaimie Phillips
SW VA blues driven band, Seed picker,Thomas Thurman is a christian rock influenced singer-songwriter from SW Virginia, and Megan jean’s Secret Fami...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:58
Appalachian Vibes Tony Williamson cont'd, Touchdown Tommy and Emily Musolino
From: WNCW
Series: Appalachian Vibes
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This week on Appalachian Vibes, my conversation continues from last week with Tony Williamson. Tommy Touch Down Edwards was a Virginia Tech college...

  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
Hymn Songs
From: Wind & Rhythm
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Do you have a favorite hymn song? On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we listen to music inspired by and incorporating famous hymns, with music by Fr...

Bought by KWAX, WRTI, GCR (Global Community Radio), KVNO, KMFA and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 9
Encore Episode "Mass"
From: Wind & Rhythm
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If mass means, to you, a church service rather than say… a measure of matter, we have a show for you!. This week on Wind & Rhythm we hear music fr...

Bought by KWAX, KMFA, Delmarva Public Media, WBAA, WUAL and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 6
White Solstice / Burnt Devil
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Well we wound up burning the devil, here in Joshua Tree. It's the kind of winter-holiday fun you can expect up here in the High Desert. And Jason P...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 21, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
NL 19-52: Sacred Blue: Jazz Goes to Church in the 1960s, 12/23/2019
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the 1960s, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, and some other jazz artists began to write religious or so-called “sacred jazz,” to be performed i...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Sound the Shofar! An Ancient Instrument in Modern Times
From: The WFMT Radio Network
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The shofar, an instrument made from a ram’s horn, is heard in synagogues all over the world during the Jewish High Holidays. It has also been heard...

Bought by WRTI, WWFM, WRGY, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
Winona Hims Christmas Concert 2018
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
Caption: Winona Hims, Credit: Bill Stoneberg
On this episode of The Live Feed we have a special holiday episode featuring the Winona Hims, an all male choir based in Winona, MN. This year’s C...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2018
  • Length: 52:00
PIO 18-20 Emerson Quartet Plays Shostakovich
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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Emerson Quartet Plays Shostakovich 14, and OSU-Corvallis Plays Reformation Symphony

Bought by WCNY, WNIJ, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: May 18, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
We Sing
From: Margaret Poethig
Caption: Eunice Blanchard Poethig at her 80th birthday celebration in 2010.
A documentary about a family hymn-singing tradition

  • Added: Apr 14, 2018
  • Length: 22:58
Pauline Oliveros RIP
From: Karen Michel
Caption: Pauline Oliveros at home, Credit: Karen Michel
Electronic music pioneer and founder of Deep Listening, Pauline Oliveros, born: May 30, 1932, Houston, TX, died: November 24, 2016, Kingston, NY re...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: 04:14
Chris Foreman at the Green Mill
From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words
Caption: Chris Foreman at the Hammond B3
Chris Foreman plays Sundays in Church. And every Friday night, he's at Chicago's legendary Green Mill — playing the funky Hammond B3 organ in a nig...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 04:21
The Singers showcase choral music with a modern twist
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Choral music often consists of centuries-old compositions. But one local group—the Singers Minnesota Choral Artists—has premiered more 70 new compo...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 06:03
The Spiritual Edge: Celebrating the commonalities at Oakland’s ‘Sushi’ Mosque
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - The Spiritual Edge
Caption: Musicians lead the congregation in Praise Singing at ICCNC, Credit: Hana Baba
Mosques here are generally identified by sect, you have, say, the Sunni Mosque, the Shia Mosque, the Sufi Mosque. But the Islamic Cultural Center o...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2015
  • Length: 07:52
Opening the voice with Silvia Nakkach
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - The Spiritual Edge
Caption: Musician and composer, Silvia Nakkach
Nakkach’s musical philosophies are influenced by both Western and Eastern traditions. She was born in Argentina and attended Mills College before m...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:31
Musician Maria Nickolay makes Roadhouse debut
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson & Dick Swanson welcomed Hovland musician Maria Nickolay to Studio A recently. She's just back from five months in Ireland, Israe...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 18, 2014
  • Length: 32:27
  • Purchases: 1
The Gyuto Monks: No Ordinary Experience
From: Sallie Bodie
Caption: A young apprentice tries his hand at making a mandala.
The Gyuto monks, followers of the Dalai Llama, live in cultural exile in India. They teach love, wisdom and kindness by performing programs of thei...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
The Church of Coltrane
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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On Sunday morning, while the Fillmore District is brunching or sleeping in, I’m sweating to attend something I’ve never run for in my life: church....

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 1
Amnon Weinstein's Violins of Hope - Live in Charlotte
From: Sam Van Hallgren
Caption: Amnon Weinstein, with a Violin of Hope, Credit: Ken Lambla
Master violin maker Amnon Weinstein has spent the past two decades finding and restoring violins that survived the Holocaust. In April, 2012, he br...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Taste of Eternity, A Musical Shabbat: Part 1 - Friday Night Service and Table songs - Sung by The Western Wind; Narrated by Leonard Nimoy
From: William Zukof
Series: The Western Wind Judaica Series
Caption: Taste of Eternity, A Musical Shabbat: Part I
Taste of Eternity A Musical Shabbat Part I: Friday Night Service and Table Songs Sung by The Western Wind and Guest Chorus Matthew Lazar, Gue...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 59:41
  • Purchases: 1
Sacred Music from the Navel of the World
From: Zak Rosen
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A Palestinian violin master, an Israeli woman singing Bedouin songs, two Brothers from Tehran improvising age old Sufi music. These are just a few ...

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 05:34
  • Purchases: 2
Sacred Harp: the punk rock of choral music
From: KALW
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Sacred harp singing is considered to be one of the oldest forms of American folk music. It dates back to the 1700s, to a choral style that develop...

Bought by PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 29, 2012
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 3
Ladino Hanukah Songs Shed Light on Endangered Language of Jews
From: Rhonda J. Miller
Series: Ladino: The Endangered Language of the Spanish Jews
Caption: Rivka Amado performs Ladino songs at the Reutlinger Community for Jewish Living in Danville, California., Credit: Rhonda J. Miller
As the candles of Hanukah connect Jews around the world, holiday songs in Ladino shine a light on a language UNESCO rates as “severely endangered.”...

Bought by KSFR, KUPR low power FM, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WTIP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 27, 2011
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 7
Like Hanukah Oil, Endangered Ladino Language Endures Among Jews
From: Rhonda J. Miller
Series: Ladino: The Endangered Language of the Spanish Jews
Caption: Professor Gloria Ascher teaches Ladino at Tufts University., Credit: Rhonda Miller
As Jews around the world celebrate Hanukah, some in Boston are singing in Ladino, a language UNESCO rates as "severely endangered" in its 2009 Atla...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 20, 2010
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 2