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Caption: Ticket to Brasil, Credit: Jane Jany
The first concert was in 2003, and now it’s a major family, locally-produced International music event. We speak with event organizer Pavel Jany, t...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 11, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Becky J and Rahjta Ren, Credit: Jim Larson
When Becky J and Rahjta Ren perform, it's a close collaboration between a great singer and an imaginative keyboardist.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 04, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Great Cissy Houston
Gospel Artist Great, Cissy Houston talks about her career, her children which included her daughter, the late great recording Artist Whitney Housto...

  • Added: May 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:36
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John Sebastian talks with Jake Feinberg about his mentors and teachers like Mississippi John Hurt and Lightnin' Hopkins.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Interview with rhythm guitar player from the Grateful Dead. Ranges from stories about The Reverend Gary Davis to Garcia's addictions.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 07:49
Caption: Johnson being sworn in next to Jacqueline Kennedy , Credit: Cecil Stoughton
If you want a truly unique, refreshing, approach to the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination, then please check this out. White House photogr...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2013
  • Length: 57:55
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"I did a lot of practicing with my dad. We were practicing five days a week Monday through Friday for 90 minutes a day starting at the age of 3 up ...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 14:23
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Jordan Corey
Not many aspirational musicians can claim their songs rated alongside groups like Maroon 5 and Gwen Stefani. But, Jordan Corey can! And, she did ...

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 07:00
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"When I started to play jazz... I started in the middle. I wanted to play Coltrane, Charlie Parker, and all of that stuff first... When I started c...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 07:39
  • Purchases: 4
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"I want to have clarity of ideas and I want to be able to execute ideas. So if I'm going to play something really sloppy, I want it to be sloppy on...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and KREV-LP


  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 18:32
  • Purchases: 2
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How do musicians come up with the scores for Hollywood blockbuster films? Mark Graham, seasoned music preparation supervisor, reveals the hectic be...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 07:02
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Michael Johnson opens up and shares the key to living a happy life. His band's legal troubles hint at larger issues of name and identity, but Micha...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 02:57
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We sat down with Guy in his Nashville studio to talk about songwriting and creativity

Bought by KPIP-LP, KUAF Public Radio, Prairie Public, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 21, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Bill Fischer grew up in Connecticut, went to Columbia medical school, and then moved back to Bethany, Connecticut in the seventies to practice gene...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 05:24
Caption: Bertie Pearson, Credit: Rama Hughes
Bertie Pearson is an Episcopal priest in San Francisco. Before becoming a priest, he led two lives: one as a churchgoer, one as a rocker. So he w...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 46:31
Caption: Vince Martinez, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Vince Martinez talks about writing songs inspired by Stephen King's The Shining. Written and performed for the monthly showcase The Bus...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Songwriter Aaron Zig talks about his approach to writing songs inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Written and performed for the mont...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
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2009 National Heritage Fellow Queen Ida Guillory discusses the Zydeco tradition and how she became a part of the band!

  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 28:57
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A world without Mary Poppins? No way. The two-time Oscar winner and 2008 National Medal winner lets us in on how great show tunes get written.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:58
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Interview with Canadian singer-songwriter David Francey.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2011
  • Length: 08:30
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East Alabama Art's Kyle Gassiott interviews Deondra and Ryan Brown two members of The 5 Browns who will perform at the Opelika Center for the Arts ...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 14:30
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David Kontak builds bizarre musical machines out of found objects and uses them to produce experimental soundscapes.

Bought by KMXT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 03, 2011
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 2
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A journey into ideas of self-love. Can we be ourselves, and still be accepted?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 03, 2011
  • Length: 15:50
  • Purchases: 1
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The Knots are an Orlando-based duo whose original songs meld the retro stylings of 1950s croon-tunes with gut-bucket blues and tasty jazz; pretty c...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2010
  • Length: 07:19
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On this edition of Don't Cha Know we introduce Dr. Rich MacDonald. We will get to learn about what inspired him to be a musician, hear stories of w...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2010
  • Length: 03:41