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We continue this month with our Stevie Wonderfest including songs by the legend and celebrate the musical superstar with tunes by Chaka Khan and In...

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:27
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Hear a new silky soul single, “Never Change,” by BJ the Chicago Kid, featuring the legendary Earth, Wind & Fire’s, Phillip Bailey. Also, new gospe...

Bought by WGZS, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RadioFreePalmer, KSLU, KHNS and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 59:27
  • Purchases: 6
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A smoldering new single by The Whispers, “Maybe the Fire Isn’t Out” along with classics from the talented Patrice Rushen, Boz Scaggs and Kool & Th...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WGZS, KHNS, RadioFreePalmer, KSLU and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:26
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Hubby Jenkins on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes singer and multi-instrumentalist Hubby Jenkins plus old time string band ...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KMSU, KEDT, KCHW, KJZX-Austin and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 58
Caption: Larry & Joe on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Larry & Joe two master musicians who merge Appalachian bluegrass with tra...

Bought by KUCO, KMUN, KBRW, WEJP-LP 107.1, Radio Bristol and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 38
Caption: Lovie Austin
When the New Orleans community of Storyville was shuttered in 1917, musicians began traveling north to find work. No one could have been prepared f...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Armstrong & Ellington
They could not have been more opposite in their approach to jazz. Yet, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington had identical goals. Provide the best mus...

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  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Victor Wooten on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes virtuoso bassist and founding member of the super-group Bela Fleck and th...

Bought by KUAR, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KUPR low power FM, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 44
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Violinist Er-Gene Kahng joins the Newport Symphony for an all-American program including Dvorak's New World Symphony.

Bought by KPOV, WCNY, Rhythm & News Service, RadioFreePalmer, KWAX and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Rara Bel Poze
Bob Francois - President and Booking Manager of Rara Bel Poze - 33rd Lowell Folk Festival

  • Added: Jan 01, 2023
  • Length: 15:00
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Toronto-based curator and scholar Andrea Fatona has been addressing institutionalized racism on her own terms since the 1990s. Our conversations ac...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 16:17
Caption: WRK
The group went by quite a number of different names, but the one they were best know for was The Washboard Rhythm Kings. They were, by far, the mos...

Bought by KCBX and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Louis Armstrong & Luis Russell
Two of the finest New Orleans musicians … Armstrong and Russell … brought the birthplace of jazz into the “Big Apple” in the 1920s, and heavily inf...

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bessie Smith
Although she wasn’t the first blues artist to record, she was most certainly an influential trailblazer. Frequently, her recordings were enhanced w...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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This title says it all. This is a program featuring Jazz ensembles accompanied by a choral group or a spiritual setting. This is a good quality J...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:01:33
Caption: 1920s Chicago, Credit: Getty
In the 1920s, Chicago became the jazz capital of the world. During that time, there were More than 70 nightclubs, ballrooms, and theatre halls part...

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Wallace Sisters on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon it's a celebration of WoodSongs Kids from across the country for the entire bro...

Bought by Angelica Community Radio, KZUM, KKRN, KBRW, KENW and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Caption: Gumbo, Grits & Gravy on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes the International Bluegrass Music Awards Entertainer of the Year Award wi...

Bought by KTRL, KEDT, WETS, KRZA, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 46
Caption: Congo Square
Although the origin of the blues cannot be precisely known, it’s generally understood to have evolved in the Mississippi delta, just north of New O...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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If Black Lives Matter, how are journalists and media organizations considering Black pain in their coverage? And how are journalists and editors ac...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KWMR


  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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From Jamaica, Rosie Gordon-Wallace is a globally recognized curator, arts advocate, and community leader based in Miami, Florida, since the 1970s. ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 19:01
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Ingrid Douglas never finished high school as a teenager. When she started looking for a better job at age sixty, she found not having a degree was ...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Every school day in February, first grade teacher LaToya McGriff dresses up to teach Black History.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:30