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Escape with us to a simpler place and time. Before COVID, before monkeypox, before traveling got so fraught. To a town promoters claimed then was e...
Bought by WORT
- Added: Aug 09, 2022
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
County Fairs and harness racing go hand in hand. The two hundred year old sport has been dominated by men, but here in Ohio, a group of women are c...
- Added: Dec 27, 2019
- Length: 04:47
Carlos Samaniego created Mariachi Arcoiris de Los Ángeles, or Mariachi Rainbow, back in 2000 for a pride event. Almost two decades later, the group...
- Added: Jun 17, 2019
- Length: 06:53
Here's the full mix-the hour long celebration of one of greatest drummers of all-time, Hal Blaine with dozens of his classic contributions to thous...
- Added: Mar 18, 2019
- Length: 01:59:04
This time we profile Wynonie Harris, who hit the top of the Billboard Rhythm & Blues charts with "Good Rockin' Tonight," this week in 1948.
- Added: Mar 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Woodrow Adams, who made his recording debut in Memphis, this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Wilbert Harrison, who landed at the top of the R&B charts in 1959 — but created a headache for producer Bobby Robinson.
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile harmonica wizard Little Walter, who cut "the national anthem of blues harmonica," this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 14, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we take a look at one historic day of recording — May 5th, 1937 — that changed the course of blues history.
- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Lightnin' Hopkins, who, in 1954, laid down some hard rocking sides for Herald Records.
- Added: Mar 07, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Etta James, who landed at the top of the Billboard R&B charts this week in 1955, with "The Wallflower."
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Elmore James, who was in a recording studio in Chicago, this week in 1953.
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 03:29
- Added: Mar 21, 2017
- Length: 30:01
- Purchases: 2
In her native Nigeria, Cynthia Dieyi is a pop singer who celebrates her culture through her music. But here in America, she's still unknown, and h...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 1
This month RadioActive hosts Sarah Rosenthal and Ann Kane take you on a trip around the world.
- Added: Jan 16, 2015
- Length: 21:44
In Seattle, some in the fashion industry are going green. Aarti Chandorkar finds out how two young designers - Chrissy Wai-Ching and Renee Corrick ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KLCC
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 05:41
- Purchases: 2
Molly Freed learned there was a new park going up in her neighborhood, West Seattle. When she investigated, she learned the park was going to be bu...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 05:25
- Purchases: 1
Did you know that Tukwila is the most diverse school district in the nation? So says the NYT. And Foster High School in Tukwila is celebrating its ...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 15:31
Ceyela Braxton, 17, interviews students at her school about how they found out the truth about Santa. Then her 7-year-old niece, Tatum, arrives to ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Dec 22, 2014
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 1
The best of what's brand new in the world of EDM.
- Added: Sep 13, 2014
- Length: 01:00:00
Ivan Gálvez plays timbales with the Seattle band Picoso. He also scans my brainwaves with an electroencephalogram machine at the hospital where he ...
Bought by KZYX, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Jun 11, 2014
- Length: 11:16
- Purchases: 3
Whitley Newman, also known as Nabintu, isn’t who you’d expect to be teaching a Rwandan dance class. She’s a small, blonde woman from the Midwest.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KLCC
- Added: Mar 26, 2013
- Length: 06:24
- Purchases: 2
Kenny Endo is one of the leading artists in contemporary percussion and rhythm. He is a consummate artist, blending Japanese taiko with rhythms inf...
- Added: Sep 29, 2012
- Length: 52:59
Our second annual Delta Music Show, featuring singer/songwriter and Delta bluesman Jimbo Mathus singing and telling stories. True stories told by t...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Jun 08, 2012
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Chicks who dig comics, fighting the epic battle against sexism
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRVO Public Media, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 06:17
- Purchases: 4
