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2018 Crown Guitar Festvial Special Part Two
From: John Floridis
Series: Montana Public Radio Special Programs - Related to Musician's Spotlight
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Highlights to preview the 2018 Crown Guitar Festival and Workshop in Bigfork, Montana.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Cornerstones and Foundations 5
From: Wind & Rhythm
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When composers begin a new composition, they start with a foundation of genre, motifs, voicing, structure, meter, and key. While what they create o...

Bought by KTXK, WUAL, and KMFA


  • Added: Mar 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 3
The King's Singers
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: The King's Singers, Credit: kingssingers.com
Named after King’s College in Cambridge, The King’s Singers is a vocal sextet formed in 1968.

Bought by KMUN, KMUN, WETS, KMUN, 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Monday Music Special- Musician's Spotlight 25th Anniversary Promo
From: John Floridis
Series: Montana Public Radio Special Programs - Related to Musician's Spotlight
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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
Jazz at 100 Hour 1: Jazz Comes to Records – First Jazz Recordings and Precedents
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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On February 26, 1917, five musicians from New Orleans recorded for Victor Records in New York as the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, bringing a new s...

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WCNY, KMUN, WMOT and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 28
Year's Best Part 1 (hour 1)
From: D. Grant Smith
Caption: PRX default Piece image
We're getting a jump on the process of picking our favorite albums of 2016. There are many to choose from, and this first part of a 2 part series d...

Bought by KSRQ and WOUB


  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Musician's Spotlight - Mary Chapin Carpenter Part 1
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight Archives
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Multiple Grammy Award winning singer songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter makes her debut appearance on Musician's Spotlight. Her most recent recording...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 1
Musician's Spotlight - Tracy Silverman - 628
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Lauded as “the greatest living exponent of the electric violin”, Tracy Silverman’s groundbreaking work with the 6-string electric violin defies mus...

Bought by KGLT and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
EXP 16-35 B: Pastoral Symphonies, Episode 2, 5/24/2016
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
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Featuring music inspired by bucolic nature scenes, including Pastoral symphonies by Beethoven and Vaughan Williams, and Richard Strauss’ Alpine Sym...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:59
Jeffrey Foucault Interview #1603: Salt As Wolves
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Jeffrey Foucault, Credit: Official Press Photo
Jeffrey Foucault’s (pronounced Folk-alt) latest album, Salt As Wolves, brings the #CFRalum (previously featured on CFR) back to his rock and blues ...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
Musician's Spotlight - Kronos Quartet- 618
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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David Harrington, the founding member of the pioneering, genre mixing, multi award winning Kronos Quartet reflects on the remarkable and still ongo...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, KGLT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Bones of JR Jones Interview
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Dark Was The Yearling official album cover, Credit: The Bones of JR Jones
Don't let the one-man band fool you, The Bones of Jr Jones play the blues.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KKRN, and KRPS


  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Mastersons Interview (Chris Masterson & Eleanor Whitmore)
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: The Mastersons, Credit: Official Press Photo
Chris Masterson & Eleanor Whitmore are first-class side musicians who joined together personally and professionally to write their own songs, bring...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , KRPS, WYAP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Dom Flemons (Co-Founder, Carolina Chocolate Drops)
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Dom Flemons/Prospect Hill, Credit: Official Album Cover
Dom Flemons interprets traditional music with a distinct rhythmic drive, using instruments like bones and quills.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, WSLR, KSRQ, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 01, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Aaron Lee Tasjan Interview #1411
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Aaron Lee Tasjan, Credit: Crooked River Burning album cover
Aaron Lee Tasjan has played guitar for the New York Dolls, Drivin N Cryin, and The Golden Palominos, his own bands, Semi Precious Weapons and the M...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, WLPR , WLPR , KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Episode 3 ~ Sound Design
From: Matthew Mustovich
Series: The Art of Video Game Design
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With the help of Don Maue, a sound designer and Duquesne University professor, we examine the role of sound in video games.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2014
  • Length: 09:19
Country Fried Rock: The Defibulators
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Debt'll Get 'Em, Credit: Album Cover
Bug Jennings never thought he'd leave Ft. Worth, Texas for Brooklyn and form a country band, but that's just what happened -- thanks to a chance me...

Bought by KZYX, Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , KFOK-LPFM, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 6
The Best Things In Life Are Free: Adam Browning and Chuck Leavell
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Chuck Leavell
This week on Sea Change Radio, we dip into the archives to reconnect with three timeless essentials – the sun, the trees and music. First, we hear ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Gems of Bluegrass #1346. Mainstreaming Bluegrass Vocals. For regular users, piece for Nov 9-15, 2013. Others use anytime.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Noaman
Historian Charles Wolfe tells us that 1920s country music grew organically. It took a while for recording companies to learn that rural southerners...

Bought by KRZA and WVRU


  • Added: Oct 23, 2013
  • Length: 06:48
  • Purchases: 2
Country Fried Rock Interviews Ben Tanner of Single Lock Records & Alabama Shakes
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Ben Tanner by ConcertCapture.com, Credit: Daniel DeSlover
Keyboard player and audio engineer, Ben Tanner, plays music with the Alabama Shakes, and has joined with his long-time friend, John Paul White, of ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WSLR, WLPR , KKRN, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 6
Country Fried Rock #1324 Cold Satellite (Jeffrey Foucault)
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Cold Satellite -- Cavalcade, Credit: Official Album Cover
What happens when a poet turns over her work to a songwriter on a recent electric guitar kick? Find out with Cold Satellite, the composite project...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, KKRN, KKRN, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jul 08, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
Country Fried Rock #1323 Alex Culbreth
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Alex Culbreth & The Dead Country Stars, Credit: Official Album Cover
Alex Culbreth has self-released ten albums in less than five years, following a completely DIY path to music. He's just been added to the bill at ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, KKRN, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jul 01, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
Music Licensing
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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On this week's Rock School, we'll be talking about the different kinds of music licensing being used in the world of advertisement and beyond. We'...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 01:05:44
The Belles of the Blues
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Alberta Hunter
The four blues vocalists in this hour are not well known. That certainly doesn’t mean they aren’t worthy of praise and recognition: Alberta Hunter...

Bought by KMUW, KBBI Alaska, WMMT, WJSU, and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 5