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From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Tuning an accordion isn't just a matter of intonation. The sculpting of the reeds makes all the difference between those classic sounds, from Texas...
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 07:22
For years, Michael Page has struggled to work out his troubles through art, creating a catalog of dark and strange music.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 04:55
- Purchases: 1
Elisheva and Amaris,
mother and daughter, know a thing or two about uphill battles where every inch of gained ground costs dearly. Each in her way...
- Added: May 13, 2016
- Length: 26:51
During the night of November 13th, 2015, a series of terrorist attacks claimed by ISIL killed 130 people and injured 368 in Paris, France. Kansas C...
- Added: Apr 01, 2016
- Length: 10:05
Live Art,
sponsored for the past three years by the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community (SPARC), is the only program of its kin...
- Added: Mar 30, 2016
- Length: 27:38
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
The work of composer and sound artist Olivia Block has been described as "distinctive and individual" by The New York Times. She is happy enough wr...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WUNC, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 01, 2016
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 3
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
Austin-based entrepeneur Barton Knaggs recounts the first days of the ACL festival, when everything was on the line and nothing was certain.
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 04:38
Even if you grow up in a hip hop hotspot like New York or LA, it’s not easy to make it as a rapper. It’s even harder if you’re from a small town li...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 01, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Live Art,sponsored by the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community (SPARC), is the only program of its kind in the country. It’s the...
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 25:54
Live Art, sponsored by the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community (SPARC), is the only program of its kind in the country. It’s th...
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 25:38
Live Art,sponsored the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community, is the only program of its kind in the country, or the world for t...
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 24:21
The Age of Discovery took place between the 15th and 18th century in Europe according to historians. It was a time of exploration and it was a time...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Oct 05, 2015
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 1
Live Art is the only program of its kind in the country, if not the world. It’s the brainchild of Erin Thomas Foley and what it manages to do is as...
- Added: Oct 02, 2015
- Length: 25:59
Gloria Rhoden hails from Saint Mary, Jamaica. She has traveled the United States, up and down the East Coast for years. She knew Bob Marley and san...
- Added: Aug 14, 2015
- Length: 24:17
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
Bill Kirchen is a showman and a storyteller. Mainly though he’s a singer and a songwriter and a player of the world’s most versatile Telecaster. Th...
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 27:32
He’s been called the Titan of the Telecaster, the King of Diesel Billy. Bill Kirchen is all that and a lot more. He’s a master in a league of his o...
- Added: Jul 24, 2015
- Length: 27:45
In her native Nigeria, Cynthia Dieyi is a pop singer who celebrates her culture through her music. But here in America, she's still unknown, and h...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 1
This is the story of the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra preparing for their final performance of the concert season. They played the Carmina Burana, a...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 30, 2015
- Length: 09:47
- Purchases: 1
2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of “What the World Needs Now Is Love” by Jackie DeShannon in April of 1965. The song was written...
- Added: Apr 07, 2015
- Length: 07:09
Lady E lost just about everything that gave her life meaning and then she found something else inside her. Her voice.And now Lady E sings the blues...
- Added: Apr 02, 2015
- Length: 27:23
If James Brown was the Godfather of Soul, George Clinton remains the undisputed Crown Prince of Funk.
Parliament-Funkadelic. Flashlight. The Mothe...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 04:59
For six decades, radio announcer and jazz enthusiast Leigh Kamman guided listeners on a musical journey through the sounds he loved: Jazz. KFAI pro...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 05:36
- Purchases: 1
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
