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The Brussels Choral Society has over 120 members from 26 nationalities, and has been performing since 1979. In this feature, reporter Alison Turner...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 12:50
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
Beat Pedaler is an in-depth exploration of rapper, inventor and educator Paul Freedman’s passion for bike culture.
Bought by KDNK, KUNM, KVSC, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRIR and more
- Added: Jun 25, 2012
- Length: 30:01
- Purchases: 24
New Orleans’ J&M recording studio birthed rhythm & blues in the late forties as well as proto-rock & roll. It had it’s own self-contained backing b...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 04, 2012
- Length: 07:56
- Purchases: 1
Ron Carter is an icon of jazz. He has played his bass on more than 2000 albums. His name, however, is most vividly linked with Miles Davis. Carte...
- Added: Mar 16, 2012
- Length: 07:27
- Purchases: 2
Spanish guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Rosalia Roio talks about her Pájaro Volador ("Flying Bird"), one of her many homemade instruments built fro...
- Added: Apr 12, 2011
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Dec 09, 2010
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 2
"Oh, I love it. You can't live without corn bread. And you gotta cook it in that skillet, too! ... Corn bread basically was poor man's food that ...
Bought by Raven Radio, KALW, KTXK, Raven Radio, Cards Against Humanity: The Good News Podcast and more
- Added: Nov 16, 2010
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 10
A look at a fast-changing China through the lens of youth culture and rock music.
- Added: May 03, 2010
- Length: 06:59
This is a feature story documenting the performers and organizers of the 30th annual Skaneateles, NY chamber music festival.
- Added: Feb 23, 2010
- Length: 07:29
Ordinarily, if you want to perform with an orchestra you have to have years of musical experience and you have to go through a rigorous audition pr...
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 06:42
- Purchases: 3
Carole Starr was a dedicated violinist, until a brain injury left her with a rare hearing disorder. Suddenly the music Carole loved dearly became s...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and SALTcast Podcast
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 05:51
- Purchases: 5
San Antonio is home to underground music mecca--an understated cinderblock shrine on the banks of the San Antonio river--Taco Land.
- Added: Dec 14, 2009
- Length: 08:24
- Purchases: 2
Have you ever eaten Fried Rabbit? Barbecued Rabbit? Rice with Rabbit Gravy? They were standard fare at the Venz Rabbit Hutch Restaurant in Logan, ...
- Added: Dec 14, 2009
- Length: 07:49
- Purchases: 3
Every year at Yale, 14 male seniors are tapped to sing in an elite a cappella group called the Whiffenpoofs. Their repertoire ranges from Cole Port...
- Added: Dec 02, 2009
- Length: 05:22
The Paschall Brothers of Chesapeake sing four-part harmony in a style with a storied tradition.
- Added: Nov 24, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Added: Sep 08, 2009
- Length: 07:29
- Purchases: 2
After experiencing the horror of the Khmer Rouge experience, Daran Kravanh credits an accordion that appeared on a stump in a forest with saving hi...
- Added: Apr 15, 2009
- Length: 04:59
Wilma Pang, Professor at San Francisco City College, shares the influence of Chinese opera, a rapidly-disappearing art form, wherever she can. Pan...
- Added: Apr 15, 2009
- Length: 04:58
Some may associate contradancing with corny, gym-class square dance lessons, but for thousands of people across the country, contradancing and its ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 21, 2009
- Length: 07:21
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 21, 2009
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 1
A profile of one of the last music box technicians.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Jan 20, 2009
- Length: 05:47
- Purchases: 3
A portrait of two musicians in the Bautista Family and the town they live in--San Juan Mixtepec, Oaxaca
- Added: Dec 01, 2008
- Length: 10:45
- Added: Sep 18, 2008
- Length: 05:34
- Purchases: 1
Day Job is a look at how (Seattle) musicians pay the rent.
- Added: Aug 21, 2008
- Length: 03:45
