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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Quarteto Nuevo merges western classical, eastern European folk, Latin and jazz with an organic feel that packs a wallop! The ensemble’s razor-sharp...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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What began as an all-female festival collaboration quickly morphed into a serious passion project driven by sisterhood, harmony and humor - along w...

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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Acclaimed pianist Margery McDuffie Whatley and her brother internationally renowned violinist Robert McDuffie return to Musician's Spotlight for a ...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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Los Angeles based singer songwriter Mary Scholz makes her debut appearance on Musician's Spotlight with host John Floridis. Mary discusses her upb...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:16
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Vocalist and songwriter Sugaray Rayford joins host John Floridis to review his incendiary performance at the Montana Folk Festival in July, 2022 fr...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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Grammy Award winning composer and bassist Pedro Giraudo visits with host John Floridis at the historic Finlen Hotel in Butte, Montana Where Pedro w...

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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Guitarist, singer/songwriter Peter Mulvey returns to Musician's Spotlight to visit with host John Floridis. The prolific recording artist has relea...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 58:31
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Nani Vazana visits with host John Floridis prior to her appearance at the 2022 Montana Folk Festival in Butte, Montana to talk about her most recen...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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Songwriter Joe Purdy returns to the forefront of the Americana genre with his new recording "Coyote" recorded "off the grid" in the desert area nea...

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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Missoula Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Northwest conductor and musical director, and the Co-Artistic Director of the Seattle Modern Orchestr...

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  • Added: May 30, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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Violinist, guitarist, mandolinist and composer Mark O'Connor returns to Musician's Spotlight to visit with host John Floridis and reflect on his fo...

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  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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Grammy Award nominated harpist and composer Brandee Younger joins host John Floridis by phone from Harlem to discuss her most recent recording "Unr...

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  • Added: May 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:16
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Oliver Wood of the Grammy Nominated Americana band The Wood Brothers returns to Musician's Spotlight to talk with host John Floridis about his firs...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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Assembled and led by Cuban vocalist José “Pepito” Gómez, Orquesta Akokán is a big band collective of the finest musicians on the island, both young...

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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Multiple Grammy Award winning multi-instrumentalist and singer songwriter Sarah Jarosz returns to Spotlight by phone to visit with host John Florid...

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  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 58:32
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Legendary Irish American multi-instrumentalist, folklorist and historian Mick Moloney joins host John Floridis...by phone from Bangkok! Mick has de...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2022
  • Length: 58:31
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Together they're The Growling Old Men, individually they are Ben Winship and John Lowell, and they're two first rate musicians in every sense of th...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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Pianist and composer Danaë Vlasse brings her unique French-Greek heritage full circle after the award winning recording "Poeme" with her newest pro...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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Multiple Grammy Award nominee and multiple winner of several Blues Music Award Awards, singer songwriter Ruthie Foster visits with host John Florid...

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:16
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World renowned Nouveau Flamenco guitarist and multiple Grammy Award nominated recording artist Ottmar Liebert joins host John Floridis to discuss h...

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:16
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