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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 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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Electronic music composer, producer and songwriter Scott Hansen, also known as Tycho joins host John Floridis for this program. The twice Grammy No...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
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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
Caption: Ritika Ganguly by Vinod Srinivasan, Credit: Vinod Srinivasan
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
Caption: Ritika Ganguly by Vinod Srinivasan, Credit: Vinod Srinivasan
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
Caption: Andrew Rumsey, Credit: Andrew Rumsey's Facebook page
Singer, Songwriter, and... Anglican Bishop of Ramsbury in Wiltshire, England Andrew Rumsey has created an album that is, in the words of Former Boo...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2024
  • Length: 54:04
Caption: jazz88 logo 2022, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
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
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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...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2024
  • Length: 59:28
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Peter Kogan by Andrea Canter, Credit: Andrea Canter
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
Caption: Peter Kogan by Andrea Canter, Credit: Andrea Canter
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
Caption: Bril Barrett, Credit: Maia Rosenfeld
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
Caption: John Penny by Andrea Canter, Credit: Andrea Canter
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
Caption: John Penny by Andrea Canter, Credit: Andrea Canter
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
Caption: jazz88 logo 2022, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
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
Caption: jazz88 logo 2022, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
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
Caption: Rob Robinson on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes LA based songwriter Hannah Connolly plus Louisiana bluesman Rob Robinson.

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  • Added: Aug 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 35
Caption: Kenan Serenbetz by Urian Franco, Credit: Urian Franco
Kenan Serenbetz has always been interested in medieval music, English folk song and sacred harp singing. His new LP builds on those interests, with...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2024
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Michelle Wright on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Canadian country star Michelle Wright plus rustic Kentucky Americana song...

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 34
Caption: Joan Hutton and Sue Orfield, Credit: Terry Snider
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
Caption: Pavel Jany, Credit: Andrea Canter
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
Caption: Pavel Jany, Credit: Andrea Canter
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
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Lissa Frenkel CEO of the Gaillard Center in Charleston, South Carolina, discusses this cultural cornerstone which presents vibrant art, honors loc...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
  • Length: 28:37
  • Purchases: 5
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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
Caption: jazz88 logo 2022, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
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
Caption: MN Original music Festival image by Windy Schultz, Credit: Windy Schultz
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