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Transgender Experience: Musician, educator details transition in song and talk

From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco

In the condensed version of our March special, hear about transgender experience from singer-songwriter and foster-parent educator Nick Lawrence. H...

Bought by WORT and WNED Buffalo

‘Changeling’ dives deep and sings about transition

From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco

Hear about the transgender experience from singer-songwriter Nick Lawrence, a former foster-parent educator on LGBTQ topics. His album, "I Am A Man...

Bought by WORT

Black Kings of Swing

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

More than a decade before the Big Band Era of 1936, there was big band jazz, and they brought swing to their music. Fletcher Henderson, Duke Elling...

Bought by KCBX

Big Freedia, “Queen of Bounce” — no guns, more twerking!

From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco

Caption: Big Freedia is credited with bringing New Orleans "Bounce" music to the rest of the USA, Credit: Brad Hebert

New Orleans musician Big Freedia is famous for her music and twerking; her life story and anti-gun activism are less well known.

2020 National Puppetry Conference with Ronnie Burkett – Under The Puppet #46

From: Grant Baciocco
Series: Under The Puppet

Caption: Ronnie Burkett, Credit: Ronnie Burkett

I talk to master puppeteer Ronnie Burkett, who is teaching a Master Class at the 2020 National Puppetry Conference, about his thoughts on the Confe...

Gabriel's Horn

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

This is a feature of those unsung heroes on trumpet and cornet in early jazz. They received little notice because there were two, at that time, who...

Bought by KCBX

The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Credit: Thomas Wolf

Dana Tai Soon Burgess choreographs the American Experience.

Bought by WMUU-LP

Director Donald Sanders--Making a Life on the Stage

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Ensemble for the Romantic Century blends chamber music with fully staged dramas and changes both theater and concerts in the process. Don Sanders i...

Bought by WABE, WNJR, KPIP-LP, and KPVL

Joni Mitchell on Illusions

From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank

"I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don’t know why I seem to bring that out in people." - Joni Mitchell as told to Joe Smith ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix

Rachel Barton Pine in The Green Room

From: Lara Downes
Series: THE GREEN ROOM with Lara Downes

Behind the scenes and before the downbeat… join concert pianist and host Lara Downes backstage in the Green Room for a look into the real lives of ...

StudioTalk No. 1: Music follows Behaviour.... with Mandolin player Sri Sugato Bhaduri (Kolkata)

From: ElJay Arem
Series: IMC - India meets Classic presents... StudioTalks

Sri Sugato Bhaduri is one of the few mandoline maestros in Indian Classical music and from Kolkata (India). The Mandolin is an Italian instrument b...

StudioTalk No. 2: Music awareness by Love… from Love to Music... with Sarod player Ranajit Sengupta (Kolkata)

From: ElJay Arem
Series: IMC - India meets Classic presents... StudioTalks

The StudioTalk presents Ranajit Sengupta, a sarod player from Kolkata (India), film composer, lecturer for Indian Classical Music, working on resea...

On The Margins of Music - Alan Lomax & Anthony Burgess

From: Open Source

Caption: Anthony Burgess by David Levine, from The New York Review of Books

First, we join biographer John Szwed in thanking the eccentric musical anthropologist Alan Lomax for his rare recordings of early twentieth century...

Bought by KRVS, KPIP-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXOT Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Pete Seeger on "We Shall Overcome"

From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank

Folk music legend Pete Seeger explains the history behind the civil rights anthem, "We Shall Overcome", and why this famous song has many brothers ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, XRAY.fm, KWEMradio.com/KWEM LP and more

The Great Migration that Changed America - Isabel Wilkerson

From: Open Source

Isabel Wilkerson is the epic tale teller of the Great Migration of Southern black people that remade America — sound, substance and spirit — in the...

Bought by KWMR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., 90.5 WSNC, WSKG, WRPI and more

Every Little Curve In The Road

From: Susan O'Leary

Interview with guitarist Stuart Mason (Molly's Revenge, Little Black Train) about making a living as a musician, writing new songs in an old tradit...

A Journey through Tibetan Music

From: The Tibet Connection

Interview and musical interludes by musician and songwriter Techung

Here on Earth: Chanting Monks - The New Pop Stars (:20 Promo)

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders

"Here on Earth - Radio Without Borders" is Wisconsin Public Radio's live international talk program and podcast. (Promo for program "Chanting Monks...

Here on Earth: Chanting Monks - The New Pop Stars (Billboard)

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders

The billboard for the "Here on Earth" program "Chanting Monks - The New Pop Stars."

Here on Earth: Chanting Monks - The New Pop Stars

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders

Preview "Here on Earth," Wisconsin Public Radio's international talk program and podcast. In this edition, host Jean Feraca introduces us to a grou...