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Mindless Chanting: Catfish Courtesy
From: Thomas Kenning
Caption: The members of Catfish Courtesy, circa 2002.
Mindless Chanting is a documentary tracing the DIY history of an obscure and unheard band called Catfish Courtesy.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2014
  • Length: 36:04
Shenandoah Valley Shape Note Singers
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Cross Keys Ruritan Hall, Harrisonburg, VA, Credit: Sarah Cumming
Contributor Kelley Libby visits a shape note sing event in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Sometimes this style of singing is referred to as Sac...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 10:18
  • Purchases: 4
Knoxville's Miss Biscuit
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Liz Barr, reigning Miss Biscuit, Credit: Tanner Latham
One of the highlights of Knoxville’s International Biscuit Festival is the Mr. & Miss Biscuit Pageant. This piece profiles Liz Barr, the reigning M...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 08:18
  • Purchases: 4
Singer-Songwriter Josh Vasa
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Singer-songwriter Josh Vasa, Credit: Tanner Latham
Birmingham, Alabama, singer-songwriter Josh Vasa of the band Sanyasi talks about his Indian heritage, writing, and the value of cheesy lyrics.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 08:24
  • Purchases: 3
Doug Henderson Jr.
From: Mighty Writers
Series: "Going Black: The Legacy of Philly Soul Radio" Companion Pieces
Caption: Former WDAS disc jockey Doug Henderson Jr., Credit: Yowei Shaw
Jocko Henderson was one of the most imitated Black personality disc jockeys of all time. He's known as the godfather of rap, the “Ace from Outer Sp...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUCB, WFHB, WDSE, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 7
Hungarian Blues
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
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Little G Weevil is a Hungarian-born Blues musician living in Kennesaw, Georgia. When he talks, you know he had to come from Budapest. But when he s...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WABE, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 08:25
  • Purchases: 5
Scott and the Calypsonians
From: Ethan Chiel
Caption: The Mighty Sparrow
Scott Britton has never been to Trinidad, but he really loves calypso.

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 05, 2014
  • Length: 06:36
  • Purchases: 2
Sonny Newman, Tango Master
From: Sallie Bodie
Caption: Sonny teaches tango
Not many of us get to live our dream and do what we love for work. Sonny Newman is the exception. He charted his own course and along the way, disc...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2013
  • Length: 07:53
The Gyuto Monks: No Ordinary Experience
From: Sallie Bodie
Caption: A young apprentice tries his hand at making a mandala.
The Gyuto monks, followers of the Dalai Llama, live in cultural exile in India. They teach love, wisdom and kindness by performing programs of thei...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
The Impossible Blue Rose
From: Veronica Simmonds
Series: Visual Arts News podcast
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From Paradise City to Death Valley, Lisa Lipton drummed her way around North America in search of the Impossible Blue Rose

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:59
Will Robinson's Brutalist Inspiration
From: Veronica Simmonds
Series: Visual Arts News podcast
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Halifax based artist Will Robinson is trying to play a library like a record.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:04
The Calling Voice - Moira Smiley and Voco
From: Anny Celsi
Caption: Voco performing live: April Guthrie, Moira Smiley, Sally Dworsky , Credit: Simone McSparran
VOCO sings folk music - but not the usual coffeehouse fare. It’s music that's steeped in generations of tradition, from far-off, tucked-away corner...

Bought by American Voices


  • Added: Dec 02, 2013
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 1
That Song
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
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A show about songs and stories about songs. There is brave singing. There is blood and guitar solos. It’s an hour of music you’re sure to love and ...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 30:40
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
Secret Awesome
From: Dylan Peers McCoy
Caption: A Surly Puppet
Secret Awesome defies categories. But if you press the founder, Zak Kirwin, he describes them as a D.I.Y. artists collective. They are definitely a...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:45
25: The Packard Campus
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Learn about lost films, the National Jukebox, IRENE, how big a petabyte is, and much more on a tour of the Library of Congress Packard Campus featu...

  • Added: May 23, 2013
  • Length: 28:10
Liberace & His Spectacular Crystal Closet
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: One of Liberace's incredible feather capes, Credit: Glen Rutter
A half-hour music-rich documentary on Liberace and the former Liberace Museum. His story is told using historical clips from Liberace himself in pe...

Bought by WORT, KFAI Minneapolis, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:42
  • Purchases: 3
24: Tom Bills: Guitar Maker
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Tom Bills creates custom guitars in his basement shop near St. Louis. Hear the sounds of the guitar-making process as well as stories of his most f...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 25:37
  • Purchases: 1
Regional de NY: Choro Music from Brazil
From: Willis Arnold
Series: Local Music Worldwide
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Choro is a music of the people that can be found in Brazil’s bars and at barbecues. Band members of Regional de NY, a choro band from Brazil, the...

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 04:05
From Ukraine to Michigan: The Bandura Still Sings
From: Willis Arnold
Series: Local Music Worldwide
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Julian Kytasty is a world-renowned bandurist who's family and musical history can be traced from the Ukraine, through exile from Stalinist USSR, to...

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 04:59
The Lomax Archives
From: Willis Arnold
Series: Local Music Worldwide
Caption: Records From Around the World, Credit: Willis Arnold
Step into the world of Alan Lomax, his archives, and his legacy - The Association of Cultural Equity. Featuring interviews with his daughter Anna ...

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 05:38
Pittsburgh, PA
From: American Student Radio
Caption: The Harlan Twins, Credit: Chaz Mottinger
The music of Pittsburgh's own rockers, The Harlan Twins, rings true, "I can't be blue in Bloomfield."

  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 07:33
Silent Seekers
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Most people know Sufism as the religion practiced by the whirling dervishes. But this mystical form of Islam has taken root in America, too.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 06:41
A Blues Unlimited Special: In Their Own Words - A Conversation with the Blues
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
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In this montage of story and song, we hear Blues musicians speaking about their lives, the meaning of the Blues, growing up in hard times, and maki...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
Gems #1309
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/ 2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass music is a combination of the Scots-Irish heritage of many of the first generation of bluegrass player, with the blues woven through the ...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 06:33

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