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Joy Labs Part One with Sarah Johnson
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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Today on Art Beat we talked with Sarah Johnson, the Joy Labs Founder to hear more about their collaboration with the Winona Public Library. The pro...

  • Added: May 27, 2022
  • Length: 13:16
WoodSongs 805: Tom Paxton and Sam Gleaves
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Folk legend Tom Paxton on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes legendary singer/songwriter Tom Paxton plus Appalachian folksinger Sam Gl...

Bought by KHNS, KEDT, KKRN, WETS, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 21
WoodSongs 867E: Jean Ritchie
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
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On this week's WoodSongs, it's a very special rebroadcast featuring The Mother of Folk Jean Ritchie.

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WETS, KKRN, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRZA and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 23
RDD: Ükulelists with the heavy metal umlaut
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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The RDD is crashing a band practice of the Grande Royale Ükulelists of the Black Swamp. Check it out!

  • Added: Aug 19, 2019
  • Length: 06:04
The Untold Story of Beaver Island Bluegrass
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack discovers a dedicated blue grass community that’s been...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 27:42
Amanda Grace
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of The Live Feed we have a special in studio performance by Minnesota singer / songwriter Amanda Grace. Amanda stopped by our studi...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2019
  • Length: 35:57
Magpie Revival
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of The Live Feed, we are joined in the studio by local band Magpie Revival. Magpie Revival plays an eclectic mix of old time, folk,...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2019
  • Length: 31:17
Lizzy Plotkin — Music at the root of things
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople host Alan Wartes spoke with singer, songwriter, and fiddler Lizzy Plotkin.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Leonard Bernstein, his Mass, and Mahler's Fifth--according to Ted Libbey
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: NEA Audio Miscellany
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In honor of Bernstein’s 100th birthday (August 25), we turn to Ted Libbey, a music scholar who knew the American icon well. Since there’s so much g...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2018
  • Length: 13:47
StoryCorps: Brian Peterson and Matt Faris
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Brian Peterson (left) and Matt Faris (right)
Brian Peterson, 31, is an artist — he designs cars for a living — who lives in Santa Ana, California. Matt Faris, 38, is a homeless musician who wo...

Bought by WEZU and WOUB


  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 2
WoodSongs 866: Kelsey Waldon and K Phillips
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: WoodSongs Kid Maisy Reliford.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Kentucky country roots songwriter Kelsey Waldon plus from the hills of We...

Bought by WETS, WPCA-LP, WOUB, WLPR , RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 6
A Change of Tune
From: Ellery Lamm
Caption: Sarah Swain, Credit: Organic Photography
Sarah Swain was about to make it big in LA…playing music she didn’t like. So she quit. It wasn’t until she came to Cape Cod that she really found h...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
WoodSongs 842: Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver and Coaltown Dixie
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Bluegrass icon Doyle Lawson returns to the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes one of the lion's of bluegrass Doyle Lawson plus all female Kentucky blue...

Bought by KENW, KENW, WETS, RadioFreePalmer, WLIW and more


  • Added: May 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 8
WoodSongs 833F: Joan Osborne
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Joan Osborne on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes powerful vocalist and songwriter Joan Osborne.

Bought by KBRW, WOUB, KJJF, WLPR , KSRQ and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 9
Poets Off the Page: Music & Poetry
From: New Letters on the Air
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POETS OFF THE PAGE: POETRY & MUSIC features an interesting look at the works of three different poets who have recently merged their poetry with mu...

Bought by KWMR, WNJR, WNMU-FM, and WJCU


  • Added: Jul 15, 2015
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 4
35: The Grand Guitar
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
Caption: Photo by: Emile Klein
A guitar-shaped building in Bristol, TN gives a glimpse into the roots of country and bluegrass in the region.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2013
  • Length: 20:18
Guy Clark on Art of the Song
From: Art of the Song
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We sat down with Guy in his Nashville studio to talk about songwriting and creativity

Bought by KPIP-LP, KUAF Public Radio, Prairie Public, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 21, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Milk Carton Kids Create Buzz At Folk Alliance
From: Candice Ludlow
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I caught up with The Milk Carton Kids in a hotel hallway at Folk Alliance 2012 in Memphis. Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale talk with Candice Ludl...

  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 05:03
A Conversation with Martina Arroyo
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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2010 NEA Opera Honoree and legendary soprano Martina Arroyo talks about her career in opera, including working with such luminaries as Leonard Bern...

Bought by 'The Sea' and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 27:18
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with NEA Heritage Fellow, Del McCoury
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Bluegrass legend Del McCoury discusses his 50-year career, from joining Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys in the 1960s to multiple appearances at the B...

Bought by Prairie Public and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 28, 2011
  • Length: 26:39
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with The Birmingham Sunlights
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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2009 NEA National Heritage Fellows, The Birmingham Sunlights, discuss the creation of their group and their unique "Birmingham sound."

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 25:40
The heartbeat of a Middle Eastern drummer
From: KALW
Caption: Percussionist Mary Ellen Donald
When Mary Ellen Donald was eight years old, she fell in love with the piano. Around that same time, she was also diagnosed with macular degeneratio...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2011
  • Length: 07:12
Gail & Emile
From: The Recollective
Series: Sounds and Echoes: A Musical Portrait of Buffalo, New York
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In the 1970?s, dancer Gail Lyons and drummer Emile Latimer discovered love in Buffalo, New York through West African music. After all these years,...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 1
Mississippi Melodie Showboat
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Arts
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We talk with Director John Schroeder about this year's Mississippi Melodie Showboat.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 07:04