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Free Annual Bluegrass Festival in Minneapolis on Labor Day
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Alan Jesperson, Credit: Craig Evans
To many, the Laughing Waters Bluegrass Festival at Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis serves as the exclamation point at the end of a Twin Cities summe...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
Gems 1627: Bluegrass Music: A Great Tradition from Many Sources
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/ 2013 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
The piece shows that despite that bluegrass is considered a singular styles, it actually stems from a variety of cultural traditions.

  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 08:34
New Year's Eve in Coleraine, MN
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Close to Home
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Grant Frashier spends New Year's Eve in Coleraine, MN.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 1
Thanksgiving
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Close to Home
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Grant Frashier explores the different ways to celebrate Thanksgiving in Grand Rapids, MN: Turkey Trot, Community Dinner, and Free Day in Minnesota ...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1
Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis Hosts a Fourth of July Festival
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Jazz 88, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
Powderhorn Park always does it with flair, and this 4th of July, it hosts musician Greg Herriges and troupes of puppeteers and dancers. Phil Nusbau...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 28, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
God Had Been There Forever
From: Cathy Corman
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Retired American Presbyterian missionary Barry Alter explains, in India, how the Easter story convinced her that Christianity wasn't about converti...

Bought by KZYX, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KZYX, and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 05, 2015
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 4
War on Christmas
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Dec 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
Thanksgiving: People Without A Nation
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Chickahominy Assistant Chief Gene Adkins.
There are eleven tribes of Indians who call Virginia home, among them the Chickahominy. And though they all now enjoy state recognition, the federa...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2014
  • Length: 28:31
04: Thankful for Sound (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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In honor of Thanksgiving, Craig, George, and a number of their guests share why they are thankful for sounds.

Bought by KDUR


  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Classical Winter Travels
From: D. Christine
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A winter's journey from the Arctic to the Antarctic, with familiar works by Mozart, Prokofiev and Debussy along with surprises by newer composers f...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WCQS, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 3
Halloween :The North Side Witch Hunt
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: PM was one of the North Side witches., Credit: Catherine McGuigan
Witch-hunts are curious phenomena, and thoroughly reactionary in nature. They generally begin with an inexplicable event of one kind or other—cows ...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2013
  • Length: 26:55
04: Thankful for Sound
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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In honor of Thanksgiving, Craig, George, and a number of their guests share why they are thankful for sounds.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 21, 2012
  • Length: 05:28
  • Purchases: 1
A Tuba Christmas
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Ron Keller, Director of the Naperville Municipal Band and the Naperville Tuba Christmas, talks tubas, the holidays, and his lifelong love of music.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 22, 2011
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 12/24/11
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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THE GREATEST RIDDLE OF ALL TIME ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 11, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Messiah Comes to Town
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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A behind-the-scenes look at how a community choral society in a small town prepares for its own grand holiday performance of Handel's Messiah.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 51:53
Kareem Salama, Muslim Cowboy
From: Kyle Gassiott
Caption: Kareem Salama
Born to Egyptian immigrants and raised in Ponca City, OK Kareem Salama drove a pickup truck to high school; wore a black hat and bolo tie; and drea...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 05:37
  • Purchases: 1
Yes, Virginia, There Still is A Santa Claus
From: Avishay Artsy
Caption: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/3124443099/, Credit: Kevin Dooley
Is there a Santa Claus? A look at how today’s embattled editorial writers would answer that question.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Boise State Public Radio, KUER, WLPR , WTIP and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2010
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 10
Northern Lights 2009: A Solstice Celebration
From: Ric Cengeri
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Cheryl Willoughby presents “Northern Lights,” a singing and dancing celebration to welcome the solstice – and coming of the new year.

Bought by WCQS, Spokane Public Radio, and WHRV


  • Added: Nov 23, 2009
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Halloween: Trunk or Treat
From: Morrigan McCarthy
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There is much debate amongst Christians in America about how to celebrate halloween. Increasingly churches are providing alternatives such as Trunk...

Bought by KTXK, WSLR, and WLPR


  • Added: Oct 26, 2009
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 3
SRP: Ramadan Away From Home
From: Sudan Radio Project
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From the Sudan Radio Project: we hear about the bond that’s grown between two Sudanese men living in Norway who had to spend Ramadan far from their...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Oct 04, 2009
  • Length: 06:26
  • Purchases: 1
Crypto-Jews
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Hidden Jews of Mexico profile

Bought by WBEZ, WYSO, and WFUV


  • Added: Feb 12, 2009
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 3
The Stories of Hanukkah
From: Eric Molinsky
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Hanukkah can be seen as a holiday about assimilation.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUER, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2008
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 16
Believing in Santa Claus
From: Youth Radio
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Youth Radio talked to young people of different ages about their belief in Santa Claus.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Dec 19, 2008
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 2
The Black Jews of Chicago
From: Eric Molinsky
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Rabbi Capers Funnye leads the black Jews of Chicago.

Bought by Vocalo.org, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 09, 2008
  • Length: 07:33
  • Purchases: 3
"Lee the Horselogger"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Valentine Programming
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Joe Bevilaqcua meets a man who set out in a covered wagon in 2006 to find his childhood sweetheart and fell in love with America instead.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jan 11, 2008
  • Length: 10:28
  • Purchases: 1