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Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
King Wilkie’s Dream plays new acoustic country music and strives for originality. You can hear the group at the Hook and Ladder, Sunday March 12 fr...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2020
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
The Barley Jacks with Brian Wicklund. It’s a string band influenced by bluegrass, Appalachian tradition, rock and blues. When Phil Nusbaum caught u...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
The Barley Jacks with Brian Wicklund. It’s a string band influenced by bluegrass, Appalachian tradition, rock and blues. Catch the group’s act at t...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Orange Mighty Trio, Credit:  Nik Powell
The Orange Mighty Trio is an instrumental band with a stylistic breadth like no other. Some might view the mix as a great risk, but the mix seems p...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Charlie Maguire, Credit: Cheryl Walsh Bellville
Pop Wagner and Charlie Maguire have created a performance called Woody Guthrie Legacy Voices. It combines Woody Guthrie songs framed in selections ...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Sep 21, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Charlie Maguire, Credit: Cheryl Walsh Bellville
Pop Wagner and Charlie Maguire bring Woody Guthrie Legacy Voices to Crooner’s Lounge and Supper Club in Minneapolis on Saturday October 19 at 6pm. ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
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Cannabis users have long been closeted. Generations of Americans innately hide marijuana use for fear of prosecution. But medical marijuana has bee...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 30, 2019
  • Length: 11:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: J.C. Sanford and Asuka Kakitani, Credit: Rie Takaoka
Inatnas is the work of two modern big band composers, Asuka Kakitani and JC Sanford. When they got together with interviewer Phil Nusbaum, they tal...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Thoroughfares, Credit: Julia Meek
Musically speaking, on this Folktale of Thoroughfares, it's my way or the highway!

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


  • Added: Jun 18, 2019
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Bloodline, Credit: Jason Larkin
Keyboardist John Keston bassist and vocalist Cody McKinney and percussionist Pete Hennig combine to form Bloodline. The group is interested not onl...

  • Added: May 18, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Matt Wilson and His Orchestra, Credit: Becca Dilley
Matt Wilson and His Orchestra features a songwriter and vocalist with a backing band of strings that you wouldn’t expect in a pop oriented group. T...

  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Riches, Credit: Julia Meek
Money isn't everything...or is it? Hear for yourself this week on our Folktale of Riches.

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), KLCC, 'The Sea', 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
This coming Friday and Saturday, the Cedar Cultural Center presents the Cedar Commissions concert. Each night from 7:30 till 10:30, 3 artists who h...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: American Roots Review poster, Credit: Raquel Mendez
Larry Long has an extensive career using songs to promote his vision of a better world. On Nov 10, Larry and a group of other musical luminaries fr...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Nathan Hanson, Credit: Benny Moreno
Nathan Hanson is a saxophonist with international credits who is based in Saint Paul, MN. , in 2006, not long after returning to Minnesota after 8 ...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 12:40
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The Sound Of Wonder Radio Show is a weekly podcast that gets played on stations on both sides of the Atlantic. We rock up and record the podcast at...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 01:00:00
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Cai Emmons discusses her novel, "Weather Woman." She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Greg Herriges, Credit: Rebecca Goodwyn
Stella Roma was formed to create new music based on what are considered to be traditional sources. The group performs at Café 318 in Excelsior on S...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
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Radio Curious visits with film maker Ken Paul Rosenthal, whose "work explores the geography of madness through the regenerative power of nature, ur...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
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This week Laura speaks to Edgar Villanueva, about being one of the very few indigenous people working in grant-making, and ask what he thinks Nativ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The Parish News is a weekly experimental radio show that gets aired on both sides of the Atlantic. Hosted by Andrew Backhouse, the show plays avant...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2018
  • Length: 02:00:00
Caption: Billy McLaughlin, Credit: Ryan Taylor
Billy McLaughlin has helped blaze the trail for a guitar style known as tap guitar. But when Billy talked to Phil Nusbaum, we learned that to Billy...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Billy McLaughlin, Credit: Ryan Taylor
Billy McLaughlin has carved out a career as a tap style guitar stylist. Catch his act in Minneapolis at the Aster Café, Tuesday July 17 at 8pm. The...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Dan Schwartz, Credit: Benny Moreno
Dan Schwartz, Minneapolis guitarist, explores the harp guitar. It looks a lot like a regular acoustic guitar, with heavy, range-extending bass stri...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Dan Schwartz, Credit: Benny Marino
Dan Schwartz of Minneapolis plays the harp guitar. It looks a lot like a regular acoustic guitar, but with heavy, range-extending bass strings adde...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2018
  • Length: 08:00