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2017 National Heritage Fellow buck dancer Thomas Maupin lets his feet do the talking.
Bought by KWMR
- Added: Sep 26, 2017
- Length: 26:29
- Purchases: 1
It's Sonny Rollins 87th birthday and he sat down with the NEA's Josephine Reed to talk about his life in music.
- Added: Aug 31, 2017
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
To whom do we give the title, "Origin of the Blues"? No one truly knows, but there a several geographical locations that have dibs. Does it matter?
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 20, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Try to arrive at a definitive, all-inclusive understanding of jazz, and you’ll be mistaken. After all, the real beauty of the music is that it cann...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Pianist and 2017 NEA Jazz Master Dick Hyman is a musical shape-shifter.
- Added: Apr 18, 2017
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
The National Endowment for the Arts speak with bassist and NEA Jazz MAster Dave Hollnd
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 2
Three stories about that elusive quality - musicianship.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 03:13
Nicholas Rodriguez brings classic American musical theater into
the 21st century
- Added: Dec 09, 2016
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
Alex Lacamoire talks about bringing Hamilton and In the Heights to life on the stage.
- Added: Oct 01, 2016
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
Dave Porter’s iconic music is an essential part of the story: Think: Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul
Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR
- Added: Dec 11, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Find out about the artistic exuberance that is Squonk Opera with artistic directors and founders, Jackie Dempsey and Steve O'Hearn.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNJR, KPVL, WABE, and KPIP-LP
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 5
Music festivals all around the country are great places to hear live music. However, not everyone can enjoy the music. Many of the stages have an a...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 06:22
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
Page Wilson was a singer and a song writer and host of the most popular music show in Richmond, Virginia. Called the Out of the Blue Radio Revue, i...
- Added: Oct 24, 2011
- Length: 52:46
Lady E tells me that some nights when she’s finished singing and returns to her apartment and is having trouble with the zipper on her dress, she’l...
- Added: Oct 15, 2011
- Length: 56:36
They have no band. No backup. No room for error. In a barbershop quartet the only instrument is the vocal chords.
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 06:14
Pianist Ludovico Einaudi is a different kind of classical composer. He's a student of the avant-garde and the rich classical tradition of his nati...
- Added: Feb 25, 2010
- Length: 03:30
An African griot meets a German jazz trumpeter when Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze talk about their unlikely and serenely beautiful collaboration.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 29, 2010
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
Americana is a genre that usually refers to rustic music with roots in heartland American sounds from folk, blues and country. But recently, Americ...
Bought by KTRL
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
Senegalese singer Baaba Maal talks about the evolution of the African Griot and his own ethereal new CD, Television, recorded with The Brazilian Gi...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KTRL
- Added: Dec 09, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 2
Many of the musicians who perform at fiddlers' conventions and music festivals throughout southern Appalachia are, in fact, young kids.
Bought by WMMT, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and WTIP
- Added: Dec 04, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 3
Donna De Lory turns Hindi chants into spiritual pop songs. A back-up singer for Madonna and a gifted singer-songwriter in her own right, Donna De ...
- Added: Oct 14, 2009
- Length: 03:30
Sumner McKane has been releasing albums of evocative soundscapes dipped in Americana as cinematic as a John Ford western and as nuanced as Andrew W...
- Added: Oct 24, 2008
- Length: 03:30
Ludovico Einaudi talks about his lush, harmonic piano music
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 03:30
Will Sheff's songs for Okkervil River have the cinematic quality of short films.
- Added: Sep 05, 2008
- Length: 13:49
