PRX - Pieces for Tone: Sound-Rich
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Mike Sawyer is on a mission to uncover the roots of Upper Midwest folk music and keep it alive for future generations.
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 30:20
In the last full episode of the season, we travel to the Greenland ice sheet and hear from a researcher who collects data at the face of tidewater ...
- Added: Jul 12, 2023
- Length: 23:22
A rare little seabird nests in the rugged mountains between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
- Added: Feb 08, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Escape with us to a simpler place and time. Before COVID, before monkeypox, before traveling got so fraught. To a town promoters claimed then was e...
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- Added: Aug 09, 2022
- Length: 29:30
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The art of writing a good joke welds a lot of power. A good joke can drive the plot of a TV sit-com, can spark political controversy … or, in this ...
- Added: Jan 02, 2022
- Length: 06:25
In the world of audio recording, sound is visually represented in what’s called a wave form. They often look like tall ovals with vertical spikes. ...
- Added: Nov 15, 2021
- Length: 06:42
At the start of World War II, 200 women were employed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That number ballooned to 7,000 at the height of the war, but after...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
Thirty years ago, variety was hard to come by at Twin Cities farmers markets. But that’s changed, with many operations boasting an array of fresh f...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2021
- Length: 04:53
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While New York City reopens, Harlem musicians continue one of jazz's most revered traditions at the historic Minton's Playhouse.
- Added: Apr 16, 2021
- Length: 04:20
“Everything can change just like that.” That’s what Jane says. But there is no snap of fingers. This is the preamble to a story she’s retold a hun...
- Added: Mar 13, 2021
- Length: 27:43
Western Films as America’s origin story, and why they sound the way they do. Featuring Gary Farmer, Rion Amilcar Scott, Jeff Grace and Kathryn Kali...
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 50:00
This moment in time is teaching us to find ways to be alone. That's what it's always been like for James.
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- Added: Dec 02, 2020
- Length: 04:40
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COVID-19 cancelled Richmond's premier music event--the Richmond Folk Festival, which annually attracts a couple hundred thousand people to three da...
- Added: Nov 02, 2020
- Length: 26:59
Meet Joann Jones. She's 79 years old, and she loves to dance. So, she helped start a line dancing class for senior citizens at the Hadley Park Comm...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 15, 2020
- Length: 15:57
- Purchases: 1
Take a non-narrated trip through the 11th annual Mecklenburg County Hummingbird festival.
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- Added: Aug 24, 2020
- Length: 02:39
- Purchases: 1
Season 1.5, Episode 2
In 1968, Yvonne Bechet became one of the first female police officers in New Orleans. She was also the first African America...
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- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 11:41
- Purchases: 1
The final episode of this series. Spoon and Matthew perform an excerpt from a play by Spoon. Spoon and his brother Abe talk about their dad, Matthe...
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
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This Northampton, Mass., music instrument store became a worker co-op in April 2019. Part of its mission in this new era? To change the infamous re...
- Added: Apr 01, 2020
- Length: 06:56
If you are seeking to make music your life and career, the path that my guest Janie Barnett has navigated through the 'music biz', should demand yo...
- Added: Mar 28, 2020
- Length: 58:12
CATALINA ISLAND, CA—Meet the Meals on Wheels Volunteer who makes sure people in need get fed all over the small island of the coast of Long Beach, ...
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- Added: Mar 21, 2020
- Length: 05:02
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I first met Rob Clancy at a small local radio station when he and his band Cold Roses were up and comers in the Philly music scene a few years back...
- Added: Mar 14, 2020
- Length: 56:00
Singers and Songwriters Jeremy Beck and Brett Kull join forces to form the core of the Progressive Rock band, Rise Twain.
Mixing everything they lo...
- Added: Feb 14, 2020
- Length: 58:15
- Purchases: 2
You always have to think about the air.
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- Added: Feb 11, 2020
- Length: 04:00
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It was a good living. If you can stay in business 53 years, that says a lot.
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- Added: Feb 11, 2020
- Length: 04:15
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The same people who told me it wouldn't work, they come every day.
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- Added: Feb 11, 2020
- Length: 04:11
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