Musician's Spotlight

Series produced by John Floridis

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Voted "Best Non-Commercial Program" by the Montana Broadcaster's Association, Musician's Spotlight is a weekly, prerecorded, 60 minute program featuring music and conversation by a wide range of musicians and groups. The program is hosted and produced by John Floridis, in association with Montana Public Radio.

Today's most talented and compelling musicians visit Musician's Spotlight to "talk shop" and give you a deeper insight into their music. Host and producer John Floridis brings his own musical expertise along with over a decade and a half of experience conducting interviews.

Guests on the show have included legendary musicians like B.B King, Alison Krauss, Bonnie Raitt, Ben Harper, Iron and Wine, The Emerson Quartet, Judy Collins, Bela Fleck, Grace Potter, Lyle Lovett, Wilco, Brandi Carlile, Daryl Jones of the Rolling Stones, The Cowboy Junkies, Richard Thompson, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bruce Cockburn, Shawn Colvin, Edgar Winter, KT Tunstall, The Kronos Quartet, Marc Cohn and Chris Hillman of the Byrds along with talented Montana artists like Jeni Flemming, Tom Catmull, Martha Scanlan, John Dunnigan, Jenn Adams, Jack Gladstone and Eden Atwood.
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Today's most talented and compelling musicians visit Musician's Spotlight to "talk shop" and give you a deeper insight into their music. Host and producer John Floridis brings his own musical expertise along with over a decade and a half of experience conducting interviews. Guests on the show have included legendary musicians like B.B King, Alison Krauss, Bonnie Raitt, Ben Harper, Iron and Wine, The Emerson Quartet, Judy Collins, Bela Fleck, Grace Potter, Lyle Lovett, Wilco, Brandi Carlile, Daryl Jones of the Rolling Stones, The Cowboy Junkies, Richard Thompson, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bruce Cockburn, Shawn Colvin, Edgar Winter, KT Tunstall, The Kronos Quartet, Marc Cohn and Chris Hillman of the Byrds along with talented Montana artists like Jeni Flemming, Tom Catmull, Martha Scanlan,... Show full description


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Born in Azerbaijan and now based in New York, pianist and composer Amina Figarova brings her exotic and exquisitely written explorations in jazz to...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 04, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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One of the most respected bass guitarists in popular music, Nathan East is also a producer and writer who has collaborated with an all-star caliber...

Bought by WZRE, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2018
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
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Though born in Michigan, pianist/guitarist and composer George Winston was formed as a man and as a musician growing up in Miles City, Montana insp...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
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New York based drummer/composer/bandleader Allison Miller has been creating a buzz for her work over the last decade having been named “Rising Star...

Bought by KMXT, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
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The San Francisco Chronicle calls singer songwriter Caitlin Canty’s alto a “casually devastating voice” and NPR says her music mixes “a gritty side...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, KMXT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4
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Singer songwriter Amy Ray has always been toward the “rockier” side of the folk-rock description that usually follows her work as one half of the G...

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  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Pianist, composer and electronic musician Wayne Horovitz has a career of performing and recording as diverse as his Seattle, Washington home. His c...

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Singer songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman has carved out a career of over two and a half decades writing hit songs for artist like Faith Hill, Willie ...

Bought by WZRE, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Voted the top live band in Los Angeles, Dustbowl Revival is a "nine-piece mini-orchestra’s devotion to the roots of American jazz and folk is as im...

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  • Added: Jan 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 5
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The founder of the popular Missoula based alt folk band Butter, Hermina Jean returns to Musician’s Spotlight to discuss her recent move to performi...

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  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 2
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Once compared to a man who wears many suits, in thirty-two short years Justin Townes Earle has experienced more than most, both personally and prof...

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
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Riyaaz Qawwali represents the diversity and plurality of South Asia. The ensemble’s musicians, who are settled in the United States, hail from Indi...

Bought by KMXT, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
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Missoula Symphony Orchestra director Darko Butorac was praised by the Westdeutsche Zeitung for his “exceptional combination of passion, elegance an...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 2
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From the time he left his home of Beaumont, Texas in the 1960’s up to present day 2019, singer, saxophonist and keyboardist and rock and roll legen...

Bought by WZRE, KMXT, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 4
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Dimitris Mann is the main driving force behind the Greek Rebetiko Trio performing music that he describes as "Greek blues.” The music is a synthesi...

Bought by KMXT, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
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Without question one of the most influential instrumental performers of his generation and one of the greatest players of the modern banjo in music...

Bought by Ohm Radio , RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 5
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"When the anesthesia wore off, I looked up hazily at my parents and his doctors. and tried to piece together any memory of my life.” Legendary jazz...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 5
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Kristin Korb jumped ahead of the game in a musical sense, when she took up the advice of one of her college professors to take up singing along wit...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KMXT


  • Added: May 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
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An artist who literally need no introduction, the legendary singer and songwriter and Grammy Award winner Judy Collins visits with host John Florid...

Bought by WZRE, WMUU-LP, KMXT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:33
  • Purchases: 4
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How many musicians can lay claim to being not only a first class jazz pianist but the foremost virtuoso of the diatonic harmonica? Grammy winner Ho...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, KMXT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 4