PRX - Pieces for Tone: Sound-Rich

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Checkers Barker has obsessed over drums and drumming for more than 50 years. In one year – 1979 – he founded a music shop, joined a successful cove...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2019
  • Length: 03:17
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Four farmers in the Syracuse, New York, area reflect on their journeys as farmers, including the challenges they've faced and the changes they've s...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 21, 2019
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 1
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Brentano String Quartet play Mendelssohn's Quintet #2

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 15, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
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A rural pocket of Northern California is seeing some of the highest rates of suicide in the state. This project explores the mental health crisis i...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 01:05:14
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Nowadays we’re very accustomed to recording and hearing the sound of our own voices. But in the 1930s many people were doing it for the first time....

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 4

  • Added: Jul 22, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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The Southern Oregon Repertory Singers make their first performance on the show with a world premiere commissioned work called Unquenchable Light by...

Bought by WCNY, WNIJ, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 14, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
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After interviewing his two challengers, Rob MacClanahan questions El Dorado Supervisor Ranalli, even though he's not there...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:09:21

  • Added: May 28, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Emerson Quartet Plays Shostakovich 14, and OSU-Corvallis Plays Reformation Symphony

Bought by WCNY, WNIJ, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: May 18, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
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Last February, a former student at Utah State University wrote a Facebook post. She said she’d been raped by an instructor in the piano department,...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 26:53

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Meryl Streep narrates an hour-long documentary special about how the Women’s Movement changed poetry, and how women poets changed the culture.

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WGTE Public Media, WNMU-FM, KBIA, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 73
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I stood up in front of them without a prepared speech; it was improv. Those in the room were some of the most celebrated professionals in the condu...

Bought by KTXK, WUAL, and KMFA


  • Added: Feb 27, 2018
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 3
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From an Oregon visit just two weeks ago, the Takacs Quartet play the quartet number 14 by Beethoven, and the Newport Symphony takes on Bedrich Smet...

Bought by WCNY, WNIJ, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Julie Cataldo prepared to be lifted from her wheelchair into an accessible kayak on the Erie Canal., Credit: Veronica Volk
The Great Lakes region provides recreational opportunities all year – whether it’s hiking in the fall, ice fishing in the winter, or boating in the...

Bought by KSKA, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, Interlochen Public Radio, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 7
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Often times a book can become just another piece of furniture in your home. But when your home is a prison cell, a book can be an open door.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 11:41
Caption: Ahmad Naffory is pictured on a Beirut rooftop. He founded the band Assa'aleek,  but after being denied re-entry to Lebanon,  was granted asylum in the Netherlands. The band endures without him, and he has continued making music in his new home., Credit: Photo courtesy of Mohamad Khayata
Ahmad Naffory fell in love with the guitar in a Syrian grocery store, but he didn't know that his music would cause him to flee his home for anothe...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2017
  • Length: 27:05
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This week on Folk Salad we put it on Shuffle and play a random selection of songs from some great singer/songwriters and artists. Johnny Cash make...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
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Amazing Journey

Bought by KRZA, KKWE Niijii Radio, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 26, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Folk Salad pays tribute to Oklahoma Guitar Shaman Steve Pryor on the one year anniversary of his untimely death in the first half hour of our show...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
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Plus....Tubular Bells!

Bought by KRZA, KKWE Niijii Radio, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Where angels don't bother to tread.

Bought by KRZA, KKWE Niijii Radio, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Interview with Jonathan Lethem on his new book "More Alive and Less Lonely" and listener-reader reviews

  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 10:46
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In these short pieces, Dee Dee talks about scatting, her big break, and studying the moves of Betty Carter.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 13