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Patty Peterson is one of the bright lights on the Peterson jazz family tree. Her family inspired her to get involved in music. And what they taught...
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 09:37
Is the Jazz scene some kind of men’s club? No, and especially not in this day and age. So why not get some of the women long-time luminaries of the...
- Added: Sep 14, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Beth Harrington talks strong women, powerful music, and Johnny Cash descending from heaven.
- Added: Apr 22, 2016
- Length: 23:55
Jazz musician Esperanza Spalding took up the violin at age five, was a concertmaster at fifteen and graduated from the Berklee School of Music at a...
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 06:51
She’s an artist of many talents, and she keeps embracing more and more. Diane Jarvi is touched by Finnish, American and other world cultures, and s...
- Added: Mar 28, 2016
- Length: 09:19
Deje Rene Carr has basically reached the status of local music legend in Pioneer Valley. The catch, she's still in high school.
- Added: Mar 07, 2016
- Length: 05:57
My Wild West may be Lissie’s third album, but she’s been on the scene for well over 10 years in various projects. Still, this new album finds her a...
Bought by KUCB, KSRQ, KRCB 104.9, and KSUT
- Added: Feb 29, 2016
- Length: 07:00
- Purchases: 4
Rhiannon Giddens has become one of the strongest voices in music today. As one part of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, she dug deep into historical...
Bought by KUCB, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Dec 07, 2015
- Length: 07:05
- Purchases: 3
The duo First Aid Kit burst onto the scene a few years back with the championing of Conor Oberst, but quickly started blazing their own path. Thei...
Bought by KSUT and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Dec 07, 2015
- Length: 07:02
- Purchases: 2
Sarah McLachlan has been a source for many, some that you wouldn’t expect like DMC from Run DMC, who’s on record saying that her song Angel saved h...
Bought by KRCB 104.9 and KSUT
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 07:00
- Purchases: 2
So you say you haven’t been paying attention to Lisa Loeb since the 90s? Why not? She’s kept things interesting with her own TV shows, her own li...
Bought by KUCB, KRCB 104.9, and KSUT
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 07:04
- Purchases: 3
For Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, Sylvan Esso came about as a fluke as much as necessity. Both of their previous bands, Mountain Man and Megafaun,...
Bought by KSUT, KUCB, and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Oct 17, 2015
- Length: 07:02
- Purchases: 3
In our latest edition of Bay Area Beats we'll hear from Dom Jones. She came up in East Oakland, writing poetry and singing solos in church on Sunda...
- Added: Oct 02, 2015
- Length: 07:44
Berkeley-based singer songwriter Diana Gameros comes from Ciudad Juárez -- a Mexican border town ripped apart by violent drug cartels. Gameros hasn...
- Added: Oct 02, 2015
- Length: 03:44
Elizabeth “Libba” Cotton’s “Freight Train” was the unofficial anthem of the 1960’s folk music revival. Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary, and Jerry Ga...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 12:12
- Purchases: 1
Sixteen-year-old Angelique explains how she went from total dork to pretty cool after she joined a local hip hop band.
- Added: May 30, 2015
- Length: 11:53
Producer Kali Beeson's feature features a woman whose first yoga experience involved chanting. She went home and told her husband it was weird. Now...
- Added: Apr 28, 2015
- Length: 03:26
Award-winning composer Jenny Olivia Johnson explores synesthesia, where sound is perceived as color or touch. Her feature is a work of sound art as...
- Added: Apr 10, 2015
- Length: 10:09
A 5-1/2 minute, sound-rich ride through the audio-guided Bjork exhibit (much lambasted in the press) at New York's Museum of Modern Art, March 8 th...
- Added: Mar 12, 2015
- Length: 07:51
Noa Guy was a promising Israeli composer. When she came to New York twenty-one years ago to rehearse for a concert at Carnegie Hall, she never imag...
- Added: Mar 08, 2015
- Length: 14:09
Bob Athearn's a cat who's played a lot of joints -- joints you wouldn't take your best girl to. But the best of what this journeyman musician has t...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 1
About 25 members of the dance company Mind Over Matter, mostly women, are finishing their warm up. Dressed in comfy street clothes, they stretch wh...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 03:29
Conducting is a surprisingly male world. Elizabeth Askren Brie has fought sexism throughout her career.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 16, 2014
- Length: 04:01
- Purchases: 2
Emily Ritz and Kacey Johansing are best friends. They were both in separate bands and living in Marin County when they decided to go on tour togeth...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 05:53
- Purchases: 1
Emily McWilliams comes from a family of musicians. She always performed and written music: she's been playing the piano for 20 years and composes s...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 06:13
- Purchases: 2
