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AG 23-13: Tributes To The Lady, 3/27/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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This week, we pay tribute to singer Billie Holiday by hearing a few tributes to her from other artists over the years, including Carmen McRae, Abbe...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Musician's Spotlight - Camila Meza 2023 - 835
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Chilean born singer, guitarist and composer Camila Meza returns to Musician's Spotlight. Camila goes deep in describing the process, both creativel...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Episode #670 - Camille Howard "Boogie Woogie Chanteuse"
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The pre-Rock n' Roll era is full of unsung performers who's style directly impacted those who came after. This week's "Juke In The Back" spotlight ...

Bought by KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, WHRV, KJZX-Austin and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
S07 Ep27: Looking North, Part 3, 3/4/2023
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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The first of 4 episodes exploring women's music around the globe. This week we look North, to Finland, Iceland, even the arctic.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
#23-11 Mousai REMIX: Vive la Femme
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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Music by pioneering and contemporary women composers for Women's History Month

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNIJ, Rhythm & News Service, WCNY, KPOV and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 8
AG 23-12: Billie Holiday in the 1940s, 3/20/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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This week, we’re taking a deep dive into the recordings of the great Billie Holiday from the 1940s. We’ll hear her work for the Commodore and Decca...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
International Women's Day
From: Wind & Rhythm
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Come celebrate International Women’s Day with us! On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, our entire show is comprised of music written by female compose...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WRTI, WQCS, GCR (Global Community Radio), WBAA and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:31
  • Purchases: 14
Jazz Women of the 1960s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz featuring female jazz performers and composers of the 1960s.

Bought by WNMU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, KMUN, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 39
Jazz Women of the 1940s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring women instrumentalists who thrived in the upside-down jazz world of wartime America.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WJCT, WGBH Radio Boston, High Plains Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 15
Jazz Women of the 1980s*
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.

Bought by KLCC and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz Women of the 1990s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Renaissance Women: The Music of Courtesans
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated, socially refined, ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Blue Dimensions L10: Jane Bunnett & Maqueque Play With Fire
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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new internationally seasoned music from Jane Bunnett and Maqueque, and the latest from busy violinist Sara Caswell

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KKRN, Royalton Community Radio, KHNS, WJSU and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Musician's Spotlight - The Suffers - 834
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Gulf Coast Soul from the Suffers arrives to Musician's Spotlight, as singer Kam Franklin visits with host John Floridis. Kam dives deep into her Ho...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 58:32
  • Purchases: 2
Rhythm Atlas 277 2023-02-27 International Women's Day Special
From: Denis McGilvray
Series: The Rhythm Atlas
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On this week’s special edition of The Rhythm Atlas, host Denis McGilvray celebrates International Women’s Day with a playlist featuring bands whose...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KAMU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
S07 Ep26: Women of Color: Composers, Part 5, 2/25/2023
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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For this episode, we feature works composed by Women of Color. These remarkable women have worked to overcome both gender and racial bias in order...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
Musician's Spotlight - Ani DiFranco 2023- 833
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Iconic singer songwriter Ani DiFranco returns to Musician's Spotlight to talk with host John Floridis about her work on "The Knowing" her first chi...

Bought by WZRE, RadioFreePalmer, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 58:32
  • Purchases: 3
S07 Ep25: Patchwork Quilt, Part XXXV, 2/18/2023
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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Time for another Patchwork Quilt episode. No special theme, just great music composed and performed by women.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
Crys Matthews - Black History
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 947 (Air Dates Feb 20 - 26, 2023) For Black History Month we revisit our 2021 interview with singer-songwriter-music educator, Crys Matthews. ...

Bought by KRZA, KUNM, WHRV, High Plains Public Radio, WETS and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
S07 Ep24: With a Song in Her Heart, Part 2, 2/11/2023
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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This week, singing and more singing, as we hear women's voices raised in song.

  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
Patti Frye Meredith
From: WNCW
Series: Appalachian Vibes
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Patti Frye Meredith is a Southern fiction, Galax, VA born and raised novelist, currently residing in Chapel Hill, NC. She discusses her latest nove...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Episode #666 - Hadda Brooks
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The "Juke In The Back" is jumpin' this week with one of the most underrated boogie woogie piano ladies of all-time, Hadda Brooks. You'll hear a lot...

Bought by KMUW, KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, KJZX-Austin and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
S07 Ep23: Glimmering Gold, Part 2, 2/4/2023
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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This week, another look at works for brass, composed and performed by women.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
#23-06 American Impressions: NSO with Er-Gene Kahng
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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Violinist Er-Gene Kahng joins the Newport Symphony for an all-American program including Dvorak's New World Symphony.

Bought by KPOV, WCNY, Rhythm & News Service, RadioFreePalmer, KWAX and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 6
S07 Ep21: Low Strung, Part 5, 1/21/2023
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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In the second of our episodes highlighting the strings, we hear from women playing cello and double bass.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:30

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