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Music from women composing for film and live theater. Their music tells many different stories.

  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
Caption: Sarah Cahill, Credit: Christine Alicino
Pianist Sarah Cahill joins us as we revisit her performance project "The Future is Female." Also, music for the violin by Augusta Read Thomas, feat...

Bought by KMUN, WRTI, Classic107.3, and KMXT


  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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We explore new sound worlds, with works by women exploring the music that is possible through acoustic and electronic partnerships.

  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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Time for another Patchwork Quilt episode. No special theme, just great music composed and performed by women.

  • Added: May 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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Carla Bley is renowned today for her big-band writing, but it was small-group recordings of her work in the 1960s that introduced her to the jazz w...

  • Added: May 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
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Music inspired by the building blocks of existence - earth, air, fire and water.

  • Added: May 05, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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Multiple Grammy nominated jazz singer Sara Gazarek joins host John Floridis for conversation about her beginnings in music during her youth in Seat...

Bought by WMUU-LP and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 58:32
  • Purchases: 2
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An hour filled with performances from duos and trios. Women playing great music together!

  • Added: Apr 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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Jacqueline du Pré was a brilliant cellist, whose performances were filled with emotion and nuance, leaving her audiences in awe. Yet, at just 27 y...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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One of the most successful and popular bluegrass musicians of her generation, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter Rhonda Vincent joins in ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 2
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Faith is expressed in many different ways, and the music that is rooted in faith can be powerful. This week, music of faith, drawn out from the so...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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More women are playing percussion - and percussion is so much more than drums! It's an hour filled with exciting music for percussion.

  • Added: Apr 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
Caption: Xuefei Yang
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features an interview with Chinese guitar virtuoso Xuefei Yang, who speaks about her early studies a...

Bought by Ohm Radio , New Hampshire Public Radio, WBAA, KMUN, KACU and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 61
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This week, we hear performances by Hispanic and Latinx women.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
Caption: Regina Carter, Credit: Bob Travis; (CC-BY-2.0)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: First of a two-part podcast with violinist and NEA Jazz Master Regina Carter

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 1
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We come full circle, and end our global journey with some of the newest music coming from women living and working in North America.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish continues the Women’s History Month celebration with hot Jewish tunes from bands featuring women.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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SHOW 952 (Air Dates: March 27 - April 2, 2023) This week on Art of the Song we visit with Lucie Blue Tremblay as part of our Live From Caffè Lena s...

Bought by KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, WHRV, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
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We continue our trip around the world with a look to the east. Music from Asia, blending traditions and sounds into something new.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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SHOW 951 (Air Dates: March 20 - 26, 2023) For Women's History Month we revisit our 2020 interview with singer/songwriter/activist Holly Near. An i...

Bought by KRZA, WHRV, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
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Our global trek continues, as we hear works from the Southern hemisphere. Music by women from Australia and New Zealand, South America, and Africa.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:31
Caption: 12th-century trobairitz Azalais de Porcairagues
Troubadours have been romanticized and re-imagined in popular culture for centuries now, but rarely does that evocative re-imagination include the ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
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The first of 4 episodes exploring women's music around the globe. This week we look North, to Finland, Iceland, even the arctic.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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Music by pioneering and contemporary women composers for Women's History Month

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNIJ, Rhythm & News Service, WCNY, KPOV and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 8