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John Lilly
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 953 (Air Dates: April 3 - 9, 2023) As we celebrate our 20th year on the air, we look back at some of the amazing artists we’ve had the opportu...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, WHRV and more


  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Culture Caravan (3/26/23)
From: Julian Booker
Series: Culture Caravan
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Featuring music written by Rafael Hernández Marín and performed by Xenia Rubinos and Ibrahim Ferrar / Omara Portuondo, new music by Senegalese arti...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Hemingway Project Imagines Jazz in Paris Between the Two World Wars
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Rick Carlson and Gary Schjulte, Credit: photo by Andrea Canter, poster by Maud Hixson
We’re at a rehearsal of violinist Gary Schulte and pianist Rick Carlson of the Hemingway project. Along with bassist Graydon Peterson, the group pl...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
The Hemingway Project Imagines Jazz in Paris Between the Two World Wars This Thursday at Crooner’s
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Rick Carlson, Credit: Andrea Canter
We’re at a rehearsal of violinist Gary Schulte and pianist Rick Carlson of the Hemingway project. Along with bassist Graydon Peterson, the group pl...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
She Can Play
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish continues the Women’s History Month celebration with hot Jewish tunes from bands featuring women.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lucie Blue Tremblay
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 952 (Air Dates: March 27 - April 2, 2023) This week on Art of the Song we visit with Lucie Blue Tremblay as part of our Live From Caffè Lena s...

Bought by KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, WHRV, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
Place to Place
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s record shop
Interesting that there was an abundance of songs in the 1920s about places: streets, venues, cities and states. The musicians identified, through t...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Decade Like No Other
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Twenty years into the 19th Century there was a string of something new. Cars, fashion, flight, and the arts and entertainment, including talking mo...

Bought by KCBX and Northwest Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Paula Cole
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 950 (Air Dates: March 13 - 19, 2023) Paula Cole is our guest this week on Art of the Song. Never afraid of speaking complex truths, her musica...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, WHRV and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Reeds-A-Plenty Part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jimmy Dorsey
This program takes us through the later 1920s to the ‘30s, with the clarinet of Jimmy Dorsey’s creativity to the influence of tenor saxophone of Co...

Bought by KCBX and Northwest Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Culture Caravan (2/26/23)
From: Julian Booker
Series: Culture Caravan
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Featuring music from Brooklyn-based / South Korea-raised artist, Yaeji, one from the new release by Mexican guitar duo Rodgrigo y Gabriella, a new ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:55
Darrell Scott
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 949 (Air Dates: March 6 - 12, 2023) This week on Art of the Song we revisit a live show we did with award-winning Nashville singer/songwriter ...

Bought by KRZA, KUNM, WHRV, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Reeds-A-Plenty
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Omer Simeon
As jazz evolved over its first decade, the clarinet was the primary wind-instrument. But, when the music reached Chicago, the saxophone, more speci...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Southern Hospitality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s jazz band
Southern Hospitality: The term conjures up wonderful images. Primary on the list is it’s the birthplace of jazz. The program is devoted to the mus...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bix & the Gang
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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Although Bix Beiderbecke’s career spanned less than a decade, his influence on future cornetists lasted generations. What is not surprising is the ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Smokey Robinson - Black History
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 946 (Air Dates: Feb 13 - 19, 2023) This week for Black History Month, we revisit our 2015 interview with Motown artist Smokey Robinson. His ...

Bought by WBHM, KTSW 89.9, KRZA, KUNM, WHRV and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
Culture Caravan (1/29/23)
From: Julian Booker
Series: Culture Caravan
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Featuring music from the Caribbean: Cuba's Buena Vista Social Club, Jamaica's Althea & Donna, daughter of Haitian immigrants Leyla McCalla & more!

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:43
Eric Bibb
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 945 (Air Dates: Feb 6 - 12, 2023) For Black History Month we go into the archive to replay a live interview and concert with Eric Bibb. Eric w...

Bought by KEDT, Angelica Community Radio, KRZA, WHRV, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Episode 326: Halo
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: GAMEPLAY
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We're taking a musical tour of this iconic video game franchise!

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WBAA, Vermont Public, WKAR, KECG and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Small Labels
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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As the decades of the 1920 began, so did a plethora of brand-new small label recording studios. They, indeed, grabbed the attention of jazz musicia...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 325: The first Grammys
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: GAMEPLAY
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Video game scores have earned a category of their own at the 2023 Grammy Awards. Join us for a look at each of the nominees!

Bought by WBAA, WXXI Rochester, Vermont Public, WKAR, KUCO and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
The Pugilist
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jimmy McPartland
When Cornetist Jimmy McPartland was growing up in west side Chicago, He was constantly finding he was at odds with the law. He says, if it wasn’t f...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 324: Eímear Noone
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: GAMEPLAY
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We talk with the "Irish queen of game music" and the first woman to conduct at the Oscars.

Bought by WBAA, WXXI Rochester, Vermont Public, WKAR, KUCO and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
David Olney - Tribute
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 943 (Air Dates: Jan 24 - 30, 2023) Revered songwriter David Olney died three years ago on January 18, 2020, after suffering an apparent heart ...

Bought by KRZA, WHRV, KUNM, WETS, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Ma Rainey
Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya is the title of a 1920s song written by Ma Rainey. It is also a book by Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro that tells stories from t...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1