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Island City Block Party 2021: Wurk
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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Tonight on The Live Feed we take you back to the Island City Block Party from this past July for the band Wurk. Wurk is a funk-fusion group from Ma...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 58:55
Top of Mind Christmas Special
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: For people with dementia, reflecting on past events in life is a form of therapy; Topic 2: We associate ghost stories with Halloween, but ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, RADIOLEX, KOWS, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 51:50
  • Purchases: 9
Call Your Elders: A Letter to Italy
From: Feet in 2 Worlds
Series: A Better Life
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Two Italian women living in San Francisco compare their experiences during the pandemic.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 15, 2020
  • Length: 13:20
  • Purchases: 1
Facing the Black Hole
From: Catherine Saint Louis
Caption: A portrait of Ralph Reese at his drawing desk in his apartment in April 2018. , Credit: Catherine Saint Louis
Illustrating comics saved Ralph Reese as a teenager. Now, at 68, Ralph's living in South Dennis with a new creative outlet.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 06, 2018
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 1
The Karaoke Singer
From: Sophie McKibben
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Meet Jstar, the sexagenarian karaoke singer. After raising 7 kids, surviving abuse, and overcoming alcoholism, Jstar (aka Joyce Korsak) became a re...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 06:52
  • Purchases: 1
SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION -- Seymour Bernstein Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Sydney Bernstein talks synchronicity, metaphysics, and why the universe may be resonating in b-flat.

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 18:32
Love Advice for the Young: Take Care of Your Teeth
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: Bob Athearn
Bob Athearn's a cat who's played a lot of joints -- joints you wouldn't take your best girl to. But the best of what this journeyman musician has t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 1
Touch Of Grey: Lecturing to retired Deadheads
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Peter Richardson lecturing about the legacy of the Grateful Dead., Credit: Jeremy Dalmas
Peter Richardson, a lecturer at San Francisco State, was teaching a course on the Grateful Dead at a school for adults over 50. A cultural history ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 26, 2015
  • Length: 07:44
  • Purchases: 1
Collaborating with the Mystery
From: Mary Quintas
Caption: Bud Brown with his trumpazoo and washboard, Credit: Mary Quintas
Bud Brown is known for singing Iris DeMent's "Let the Mystery Be". A few years ago, his relationship to the song changed: Bud's wife became termin...

Bought by XRAY.fm, PRX Remix, KALW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 13, 2014
  • Length: 07:41
  • Purchases: 4
88 Years of Harmonica-izing
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Jack Hopkins, left, and Frank Jamison, right, jam together at weekly meetings of the Capital Harmonica Club, which Jack founded in 1991., Credit: Eric Shimelonis
Jack Hopkins got his first harmonica at age 7, and nearly 90 years later, he is still going strong.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 2
15: Music and Memory (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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Nearly everyone has strong emotional connections to music, and one man realized that our relationship to music might improve the quality of life fo...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Sights & Sounds of Bayview: Dancing with the ladies in line
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Sights & Sounds of Bayview
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On a wide street full of work spaces, lined with cars and no trees in sight is the Dr. George W. Davis Senior Center. It’s the one building on the ...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 07:30
Hugh Oliver: Late Bloomer
From: Sean Rasmussen
Series: Happy
Caption: Hugh Oliver
If you have ever given up on a dream, or think you're too old to start something new, you might think again after hearing this episode of happy...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 08:23
  • Purchases: 1
"Survivors" Rock the Senior Circuit
From: Catie Talarski
Caption: Jules Bashkin, Credit: Catie Talarski
An old timer band rocks the senior living circuit

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 05:21
  • Purchases: 3
Jim and Martha - 56 years and karaoke
From: Sara Paul
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Jim and Martha were married in 1955 - and took up karaoke "a week ago". It might have made their love stronger. Might have. Found sound from the...

Bought by KALW, Prairie Public, WABE, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 4
My Transistor Radio mtr-013
From: Chuck Ayers
Series: My Transistor Radio
Caption: My Transistor Radio, Credit: Web file photo
My Transistor Radio is a retrospective spotlighting “Dance and Romance” teen music from 1950s and 60s A-M Radio. MTR is attempting to examine why ...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 11, 2011
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
Out of Sight
From: Dan Gordon
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Mike Rogers used to be a schoolteacher, but when a disease robbed him of his sight he had time to find his true passion-the harmonica. His music h...

Bought by KUOW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 2
"You're Not Getting Older, You're Gettting ......"
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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This "newsical" program is an informal survey of pop culture myths and popular music misconceptions about getting older...by a veteran of Pacifica ...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Mar 28, 2011
  • Length: 54:53
  • Purchases: 1
Dancing Into Death
From: Rhonda J. Miller
Series: Folk River
Caption: Rodolfo Akel in the kitchen at West Hartford Town Hall during a dance., Credit: Courtesy of Sheila Browne
None of us knows when our heart will beat its last beat. For Rodolfo Akel that last beat came on the dance floor. Friends in the Cajun and Zydeco d...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2010
  • Length: 04:25
Wandering the Psychedelic Galaxy with Gong
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Daevid Allen of Gong
It's been 40 years since Daevid Allen convened his space gypsy rock band Gong which influenced everyone from Ozric Tentacles to Steve Roach. Allen...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 22, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Out of Sight
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Blindness helps a man rediscover a dream.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 1
Viejotecas
From: World Vision Report
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The city of Cali, Colombia is considered by many to be the world capital of salsa dancing. It’s usually seen in upscale nightspots around town. Bu...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2009
  • Length: 05:23
The Life and Times of Bud Shank
From: Reese Erlich
Series: Jazz Perspectives
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Flutist and saxophonist Bud Shank helped create the West Coast Jazz sound and fuse jazz with Brazilian music. He passed away Feb. 2, 2009.

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, WEKU, and KCUR


  • Added: Apr 07, 2009
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Come Soul, I Have Need Of Thee
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A Maine folk singer struggles with his identity, since losing his voice to cancer.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2009
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 2
Profile of Irish Folksinger and Blacksmith Michael Hennerty
From: Deborah Begel
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Irish folksinger gives concert and tour of blacksmith shop

  • Added: Oct 31, 2008
  • Length: 05:52