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Caption: Sawtooth Bros, Credit: Scott Ward
The Sawtooth Bros band members are in their young 20s, and have been playing together half their lives. The group started out playing traditional b...

  • Added: May 31, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
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It wasn't until the 1980s that music featured anger. Some would say that introduction was liberating and progressive. That the anti-war music was...

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 03:39:09
Caption: Ben Abrahamson, Credit: Corinna Bernstein
Ben Abrahamson is a Twin Cities guitarist who specializes in Flamenco. But to Ben, it’s not only the great historic flamenco, but combining the idi...

  • Added: May 16, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Monroe Crossing, Credit: Jamey Guy
Monroe Crossing from Minneapolis has been playing traditional and original bluegrass music for decades. The group’s talent and perseverance led to...

  • Added: May 05, 2018
  • Length: 08:02
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States as portrayed by Chautauqua scholar Clay Jenkinson.

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Apr 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: JC Sanford, Credit: Andrea Canter
JC Sanford is a trombonist, composer and arranger. And he has three bands. In a conversation with Phil Nusbaum, JC addressed the stylistic niches o...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: JC Sanford, Credit: Andrea Canter
JC Sanford is a trombonist, composer and arranger. And he has three bands. On Thursday march 29, he brings the 4-piece combo into Vieux Carre in St...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Dan Rein, Credit: Bryan Aaker
Iranian Music through Dan Rein

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 07:59
Caption: Dan Rein, Credit: Bryan Aaker
How does someone from Shakopee, MN get started in Iranian music? Well in the case of Dan Rein it was radio. Dan is an experienced world music radio...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 07:59
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Urban Living, Credit: Julia Meek
It's musical customs for, from and about "the masses" we're sampling this week, on WBOI's Folktale of Urban Living. Care to come along?

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WLPR , WFIU, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 5
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Songs about rivers by bluegrass artists, jazz musicians and the brave souls blending these genres into something other.....

  • Added: Nov 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:56:13
Caption: One Ukulele, Credit: Dan Wilder
One Ukulele. Well, it’s actually three men who sing with ukuleles and guitars, too. The group performs and spreads the word about how fun it is to ...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 08:00
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR pays tribute to the Past American Voice of John Ashbery. The poet, critic, and translator, who died on September 3rd at age ...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Jay Afrisando, Credit: Hannah Devereux
Jay Afrisando is from Indonesia, where the national form is gamelan music. And Jay is interested in gamelan. But his starting place is really jazz,...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2017
  • Length: 08:00

  • Added: Aug 14, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
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Toronto’s Bill King starts off with Hammond B3 music, then into the semi-abstract Summertime with Sonny Greenwich’s guitar. Minneapolis’ Connie Evi...

Bought by WMOT, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR


  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Agriculture, Credit: Julia Meek
It's fields & farmlands we're cultivating this week on Folktales, with a bountiful harvest of musical customs from every corner of the agrarian wor...

Bought by WFIU, KWMR, WLPR , and WFIU


  • Added: May 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:56
  • Purchases: 4
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We utilize our opening moments dealing with the death of a master. James Cotton was endeared perhaps in America’s blues regions initially, but his ...

Bought by WMOT, KSRQ, KRZA, WJSU, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 7
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A recent guest on the program as the lead singer for the Best Westerns, native Montanan Izaak Opatz returns to Musician’s Spotlight to highlight a ...

Bought by KGLT and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Stanley Kipper, Credit: Miles Kipper
When you see the New Primitives, you’re seeing a band that is a master at creating and maintaining a great vibe. Stanley Kipper helped start the ba...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 08:29
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What happens when you hear a songwriter who makes you turn your head (or in this case ear), and say "Who is this?" These songwriters are engaging ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WOUB, and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Here's where we meet the bend in the river. Our 1st hour stuck with very similar music styles. Now we reach the apex where the styles change but th...

Bought by WOUB and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 2
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Dr. Victoria Patterson,Dr. Victoria Patterson, an anthropologist based in Ukiah, California, who has wor...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2015
  • Length: 58:02
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Elongated harmony with John Coltrane is what everyone needs for sail-away, we have flugelhornist & vocalist Marquis Hill too. Kurt Elling has his w...

Bought by KPVL, WVBI-LP, and WOUB


  • Added: Jun 16, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Tigre Bailando on MIW, Credit: Oddua Productions
With Akeisha Johnson, your host, this episode of Making it Work, Tigre will share about his art and what he is creating, while living in The Bay.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Apr 20, 2015
  • Length: 23:59
  • Purchases: 1