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Today there are so many instrument combinations and influences coming in that would not have happened a few decades ago. Like matra, with its combi...
- Added: May 19, 2017
- Length: 08:12
Matra presents its CD Release Concert at the Cedar Cultural Center this Friday night. The group is influenced by many music styles, but does not se...
- Added: May 19, 2017
- Length: 05:00
This is a special 90-minute show, live from The Atlas Bar, featuring the music and protest politics of Fela Kuti, the Nigerian multi-instrumentalis...
- Added: May 17, 2017
- Length: 01:32:39
A two hour special. Legendary Music producer Stuart Epps talks about working with Elton John, Chris Rea, Paul Rogers, Robbie Williams and the indus...
- Added: May 13, 2017
- Length: 01:59:33
The Phil Hey Quartet plays at Jazz Central on May 19. It’s a group of 4 committed jazz musicians who got started playing together almost by acciden...
- Added: May 11, 2017
- Length: 05:00
The city is at best a necessary evil when it comes to bluegrass songs, Our show opens with a couple of songs about people who live in northern citi...
Bought by WTIP, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and Prairie Public
- Added: May 11, 2017
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 3
Ritika Ganguly is conversant in many music styles. But her true genius may just be in finding ways of combining them so that the outcome is greater...
- Added: May 09, 2017
- Length: 12:28
New York City-based composer and conductor Whitney George talks about rebellion in the bathtub, the relative loudnesses of sexism, and the beauty i...
- Added: May 09, 2017
- Length: 24:19
Composer Jessie Montgomery speaks about identity, patriotism, and music as a catalyst for physically bringing people together.
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 29:50
The Blues has been around a long time because it’s a way of telling it like it is. And that is how Nikki and the RueMates operates. Nikki told Phil...
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 08:12
Early on today’s broadcast, we play a couple of recent songs about love. They are not broken-hearted melodies, but romantic songs depicting happy c...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WTIP, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and Prairie Public
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 4
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcome vocal powerhouse from Austin, Texas Ruthie Foster plus East Nashville base...
Bought by KDLG, KJJF, WETS, WOUB, RadioFreePalmer and more
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 10
Bluegrass music concerns itself with farm work. Many, including those on this show concern themselves with how hard the work is. The Gem of Bluegra...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WTIP, and Prairie Public
- Added: May 03, 2017
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 3
Like many good things, Bobb Fantauzzo’s recent music is both new and old. Both the Native American flute and jazz have been around awhile, but putt...
- Added: May 03, 2017
- Length: 07:38
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcome one of the great blues masters of the genre Corky Siegel plus the Country ...
Bought by KDLG, KJJF, KKWE Niijii Radio, WOUB, WLPR and more
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 10
John Floridis hosts a 25th anniversary celebration of Musician's Spotlight with musical highlights and interview segments from some of the most eng...
- Added: Apr 24, 2017
- Length: 01:02
Twin Cities guitarist David Singley has a new CD, his first in 20 years. The CD is more than a collection of tracks, but a project that caused Davi...
- Added: Apr 21, 2017
- Length: 06:51
David Singley teaches guitar at McNally Smith College locally, he plays in bands, he composes, but he seldom records under his own name, at least n...
- Added: Apr 21, 2017
- Length: 05:00
Les Savy Fav frontman Tim Harrington explains the importance of casual brilliance in his approach to art. Radiolab creator Jad Abumrad talks about ...
Bought by KWIT, KBBI Alaska, and WLPR
- Added: Apr 21, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
In bluegrass songs, bad things seem to happen to marginal people in marginal places. We comment on that characteristic during the Gem of Bluegrass....
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WTIP, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and Prairie Public
- Added: Apr 21, 2017
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 4
Pianist and 2017 NEA Jazz Master Dick Hyman is a musical shape-shifter.
- Added: Apr 18, 2017
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
Aaron Kerr’s Dissonant Creatures plays every Wed at the Black Dog in Saint Paul. It is a group that thrives on Aaron’s original music, which is inf...
- Added: Apr 16, 2017
- Length: 05:00
Aaron Kerr. He’s a man of multiple musical personalities. Aaron is first and foremost a composer. Owing to his formal musical training, he plays cl...
- Added: Apr 16, 2017
- Length: 05:45
Craig Finn discusses his journey as a songwriter from Lifter Puller and The Hold Steady to his solo work. Cameron Esposito talks about her journey ...
Bought by KBBI Alaska, KWIT, and WLPR
- Added: Apr 14, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
The National Endowment for the Arts speak with bassist and NEA Jazz MAster Dave Hollnd
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 2
