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Caption: Tesfa Wondemagegnehu, Credit: Johnny Goodson, St. Olaf College
Choral conductor Tesfa Wondemagegnehu believes vocal music can help change the world. In 2017, he co-founded the Justice Choir movement in Minneapo...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2019
  • Length: 03:27
Caption: Matthew Mehaffey with Phil Nusbaum, Credit: Connie Shaver
The Oratorio Society of Minnesota exists to dynamic and diverse choral music performed with skill and passion. On April 13 at St mark’s Episcopal C...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2019
  • Length: 07:58
Caption: Master musician and storyteller Joe Crookston.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes North Carolina powerhouse bluegrass group Songs From The Road Band and st...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KDLG, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KTRL, WVRU and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2019
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 16
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Poetry about sleep and dreams, actual and metaphorical.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2018
  • Length: 59:57
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For centuries, art has been made possible through the generous support of donors. These patrons of the arts have come in many guises – royal, wealt...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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This week on Harmonia we journey to Spain, North Africa, and Italy as we explore Sephardic Jewish music from the late Middle Ages through the early...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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A somewhat enigmatic Elizabethan composer who died tragically young, and who left us some of the most expressive and virtuosic polyphony of the 16t...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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On Harmonia this week, we’re exploring music composed for the feast of All Saints, celebrated each year on November 1st in the Western church. Musi...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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“A mighty fortress is our God,” reads the text of a popular English-language translation of Luther’s classic hymn, “a bulwark never failing.” Marti...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
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This week, we’re celebrating the “Bad Boy of the Bassoon,” Michael McCraw, in honor of his birthday on October 19th. Join us as we explore music fo...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: David Harland, Credit: Joanna Gail
David Harland performs and composes finger-style guitar music. His next show is at the Aster Café in Minneapolis, Thursday November 8 from 8 till 1...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
The 2018 Selby Avenue Jazz Fest is coming this Saturday Sept 8 from 11AM till 8PM. It’s centered at the Selby Avenue intersection with Milton St in...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
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-A musician composes with the sounds that get stripped from MP3s. -The rich sonic landscape that defines New York City.

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WYAP, WUGA (part of GPB), KRZA and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
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In this episode of Peace Talks Radio, Hannah Colton explores peacemaking in hip hop culture and history with one documentarian and one artist - Hip...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Jun 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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It may have grabbed my attention when I first got a chance to experience what playing in a large band was like. The sound is big, loud at times, bu...

Bought by KTXK, WUAL, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KMFA


  • Added: Apr 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 4
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Humorous and ironic examinations of the human condition.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2018
  • Length: 59:09
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In this piece, Connor interviews multiple musicians, producers, and educators in Austin's music scene about the good and the bad they have experien...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2018
  • Length: 06:24
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of The Live Feed we talk with violinist Gaelyn Lea. She is the 2016 winner of NPR's tiny desk contest and is a public speaker. She ...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 45:12
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Sam Beam of Iron and Wine discusses his philosophy for choosing cover tunes to inhabit. From his interview in November, 2017 for Musician's Spotlig...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 06:18
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For over a decade Sam Beam has been creating music as Iron & Wine. Through the course of five albums, numerous EPs and singles, and the initial vol...

Bought by WSLR, KGLT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
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An interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw - What happens when our musical heroes die? - Bringing rock 'n' roll into the class...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Dec 29, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
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An interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw - What happens when our musical heroes die? - Bringing rock 'n' roll into the class...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCWP and more


  • Added: Dec 29, 2017
  • Length: 54:28
  • Purchases: 12
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An interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw

Bought by WJCT, KRDP, KMUN, KRZA, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Dec 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
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This season is filled with music that has been around for years and years, to the degree that most Christmas albums or collections all contain some...

Bought by KRPS


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1