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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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...

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


  • Added: Jan 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 5
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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 WMUU-LP and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 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...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
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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...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
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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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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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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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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 WMUU-LP and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2018
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
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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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The Lucky Valentines are Fort Benton, Montana native songwriters Shaun and Jamie Carrier. Their music has been described as “stirring” Americana, ...

Bought by KMXT and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
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A native of Connecticut, multi-instrumentalist, teacher and entrepreneur Erica von Kleist began her career as a saxophonist and flautist in the New...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Betsayda Machado is the voice of Venezuela. Raised in the small village of El Clavo in the region of Barlovento, her recent rural recordings with...

Bought by KMXT and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Victor Wooten is generally regarded as the most accomplished bass guitarist of his generation and is one of the founding member of the multiple Gra...

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


  • Added: Jun 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Suzanne Santo, the front-woman, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist for the popular Americana/Roots-rock duo HoneyHoney sets out on her own in suppo...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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A “songwriter’s songwriter” by any standard and a musical voice of the verdant Southeastern United States, Malcolm Holcomb stopped by the studios o...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Brothers Oliver and Chris Wood pursued their successful musical journeys separately until their mother’s battle with and subsequent death from ALS ...

Bought by WSLR and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Sarah Watkins, Aoife O’Donovan and Sara Jarosz all had successful solo careers on their own before forming the acoustic music supergroup I’m With H...

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


  • Added: Apr 26, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
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In 2014 Scottish born singer songwriter and live looping artist KT Tunstall had had enough of “fame” and was on the verge of pulling the plug on he...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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It has always been a political act, a practice in strength and defiance, to be a woman and a bandleader, a female electric guitarist and composer, ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Whitefish, Montana based multi-instumentalist and songwriter of a blend of indie rock, pop and soul Luke Dowler returns to Musician’s Spotlight for...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1