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Powell biographer Peter Pullman joins us again to help chronicle the up-and-down final years of a bebop piano legend.
- Added: Sep 19, 2024
- Length: 07:00
Bud Powell revolutionized jazz piano for the bebop generation and beyond. For this centennial tribute, we focus on his early years and talk with Po...
- Added: Sep 14, 2024
- Length: 59:02
The Folk Opera is called The Mushroom that Swallowed the Moon Whole is a playful sounding title, but actually is a platform for author Ritika Gangu...
- Added: Sep 03, 2024
- Length: 08:00
Riktika Ganguly, the Twin Cities composer and anthropologist, debuts a new folk opera this Friday and Saturday at Luminary Arts Center in Minneapol...
- Added: Sep 03, 2024
- Length: 08:00
Next Thursday The Renegade Ensemble performs new Minnesota Classical music. It’s part of the Vanguard New Music Series at Zion Community Commons. R...
- Added: Aug 17, 2024
- Length: 08:00
This program is a 20 year retrospective on our visit with the legendary B.B. King. On July 30th, 2004 Musician's Spotlight host John Floridis and t...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP
- Added: Aug 17, 2024
- Length: 59:28
- Purchases: 2
Percussionist Peter Kogan’ musical biography includes work with the Minnesota Orchestra, backing blues legends such as Lightnin’ Hopkins and teachi...
- Added: Aug 14, 2024
- Length: 08:00
Percussionist Peter Kogan’ musical biography includes work with the Minnesota Orchestra, backing blues legends such as Lightnin’ Hopkins and teachi...
- Added: Aug 14, 2024
- Length: 08:00
2024 National Heritage Fellow Bril Barrett reflects on the enduring power of tap to connect past, present, and future and how his teaching philosop...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WDCB, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZUM, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Aug 12, 2024
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 5
John Penny creates dense musical textures using virtual instruments. These crafted arrangements accompany John’s singing and guitar playing on orig...
- Added: Aug 12, 2024
- Length: 08:00
John Penny creates dense musical textures using virtual instruments. These crafted arrangements accompany John’s singing and guitar playing on orig...
- Added: Aug 12, 2024
- Length: 08:00
The group known as the New Primitives has been playing its brand of American Reggae for over twenty years. It’s new CD is called Primitive Road, an...
- Added: Aug 07, 2024
- Length: 08:01
The group known as the New Primitives has been playing its brand of American Reggae for over twenty years. It’s new CD is called Primitive Road, an...
- Added: Aug 07, 2024
- Length: 08:00
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Canadian country star Michelle Wright plus rustic Kentucky Americana song...
Bought by Radio Bristol, Allegheny Mountain Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), WEJP-LP 107.1, KENW and more
- Added: Jul 24, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 34
Joan Hutton and Sue Orfield celebrate Splash, their second CD of original music. Joan and Sue talked to Phil Nusbaum about the project. Joan told P...
- Added: Jul 19, 2024
- Length: 08:00
Global Jazz Collegium’ new CD is called Labyrinth and is centered on fusion jazz, with a mix of older music and originals. Pavel Jany plays the gui...
- Added: Jul 17, 2024
- Length: 08:00
Global Jazz Collegium releases its new CD, 6:30 Saturday night August 4 at the Metrodome in Saint Paul. The CD is called Labyrinth and is centered ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2024
- Length: 08:00
Lissa Frenkel CEO of the Gaillard Center in Charleston, South Carolina, discusses this cultural cornerstone which presents vibrant art, honors loc...
Bought by WSLR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZUM, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jul 16, 2024
- Length: 28:37
- Purchases: 5
We're marking July 4 with this 2016 interview with Lin-Manuel Miranda in which we talk about "Hamilton" and discuss the meticulous process behind t...
- Added: Jul 02, 2024
- Length: 29:01
Carlisle Evans Peck sings songs that tell of facing the straight world from a Gay orientation. In order to overcome difference and create connectio...
- Added: Jul 01, 2024
- Length: 08:00
The Minnesota Original Music Festival Comes to Multiple Locations in Saint Peter Wednesday July 17 through Sunday July 21. The festival has perform...
- Added: Jun 30, 2024
- Length: 08:00
Sunday afternoon July 14, the Northfield Jazz Fest takes place. It is a multi-venue event, with much of the action taking plat at Northfield’s Way ...
- Added: Jun 28, 2024
- Length: 08:00
Adam Met is a behind-the-scenes climate policy powerhouse. He also happens to be the bass player in the award winning indie pop group AJR. During M...
Bought by WAMU, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more
- Added: Jun 20, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 11
Adam Met is a behind-the-scenes climate policy powerhouse. He also happens to be the bass player in the award winning indie pop group AJR. During M...
- Added: Jun 20, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Groups led by Kevin Gamble play many kinds of music, but on this performance preview, we’ll listen to a couple of Kevin’s Jazz fusion originals. Wh...
- Added: Jun 18, 2024
- Length: 08:01
