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It's a jazzy show as impressario Todd Barkan remembers his life with the music and musicians.
- Added: Jul 20, 2018
- Length: 34:01
National Heritage Fellow Artemio Posadas has devoted his life to keeping the Mexican musical tradition of son huasteco vibrant. We learn about Pos...
- Added: Jun 29, 2018
- Length: 21:59
- Purchases: 2
Urban Arias creates and presents contemporary opera for contemporary audiences.
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 29:57
- Purchases: 1
Rapper Dessa explores her broken heart at the intersection of science and music
- Added: Mar 08, 2018
- Length: 29:45
- Purchases: 4
2016 National Heritage Fellow and Dakota flute player and maker Bryan Akipa is reinvigorating a First Nation musical tradition.
Bought by KZUM
- Added: Nov 21, 2017
- Length: 21:41
- Purchases: 1
2017 National Heritage Fellow buck dancer Thomas Maupin lets his feet do the talking.
Bought by KWMR
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 26:29
- Purchases: 1
It's Sonny Rollins 87th birthday and he sat down with the NEA's Josephine Reed to talk about his life in music.
- Added: Aug 31, 2017
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
Louisiana singer-songwriter Wendy Colonna performs live at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, interviews with Wendy, a perfor...
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 58:59
Renée Fleming along with other musicians and scientists look at the remarkable ability of music to make us whole.
- Added: Jun 16, 2017
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 3
Dana Tai Soon Burgess choreographs the American Experience.
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: May 26, 2017
- Length: 27:29
- Purchases: 1
Pianist and 2017 NEA Jazz Master Dick Hyman is a musical shape-shifter.
- Added: Apr 18, 2017
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
The National Endowment for the Arts speak with bassist and NEA Jazz MAster Dave Hollnd
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 2
One of the best jazz organists, ever…and one of the most sampled jazz musicians.
Bought by Prairie Public, Harford Community Radio, Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, WTJU and more
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 29:28
- Purchases: 7
Nicholas Rodriguez brings classic American musical theater into
the 21st century
- Added: Dec 09, 2016
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
Sadler Vaden left South Carolina on the brink of his band's national success, in search of more collaboration for his guitar playing and more outle...
- Added: Nov 15, 2016
- Length: 58:01
With Presidential Suite,Ted Nash transforms iconic political speeches into an inventive jazz composition.
- Added: Nov 08, 2016
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
Alex Lacamoire talks about bringing Hamilton and In the Heights to life on the stage.
- Added: Oct 01, 2016
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
After 2 members of the Allen Thompson Band broke their backs in separate freak accidents, the band re-evaluated their personal lives and the direct...
- Added: Sep 29, 2016
- Length: 58:00
Members of Town Mountain, the award-winning bluegrass band from North Carolina, chat in a coffeeshop with Sloane Spencer, about their new album, So...
- Added: Sep 02, 2016
- Length: 58:00
Old Crow Medicine Show founder Willie Watson performs live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, interviews with W...
- Added: Jul 29, 2016
- Length: 58:59
National mountain and hammered dulcimer champions past & present perform live at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, Brooks Bl...
- Added: Jul 14, 2016
- Length: 58:59
Button accordionist and 2016 National Heritage fellow billy McComiskey plays beautifully and builds a community for irish music.
- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 29:23
- Purchases: 2
McBride’s latest book looks to understand what shaped James Brown-- one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
- Added: May 18, 2016
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
2016 NEA Jazz Master and Executive Director of the Jazz Foundation of America, Wendy Oxenhorn: Keeping the music alive and the musicians playing.
- Added: Apr 07, 2016
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
Neil Golden is more known for his keyboard and bass playing for other bands from Athens, Georgia, but this South Carolina native has finally releas...
- Added: Mar 20, 2016
- Length: 58:00
