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Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next “Sounds Jewish” for a continental celebration featuring Jewish music and comedy from Canada, the US, and from Canadians and Ame...

  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Music from women composing for film and live theater. Their music tells many different stories.

  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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: jazz88 logo 2022, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
A group of prominent music North Side Minneapolis music people are creating a Minneapolis Sound Museum. Sure there is Paisley Park which documents ...

  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
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SHOW 961 (Air Dates: May 29 - June 4, 2023) We remember Austin, Texas singer/songwriter Jimmy LaFave six years after his passing. We’re proud to du...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRZA, WCUW 91.3 FM, WHRV, KHEN-LP and more


  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
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Beyond the hackamore, we have purpose & direction with media & application. Marlena Shaw sings with gobs of soul from the Montreaux festival (she’s...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, KHNS, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 10
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SHOW 960 (Air Dates: May 22 - 28, 2023) As a part of our 20th anniversary celebration we revisit our 2013 interview with guitarist extraordinaire J...

Bought by KRZA, KUNM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WHRV, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: Paul Robeson
At the turn of the century, 1900, entertainment promoters discovered the value of staging musical reviews for introducing musical scores. In order ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Featuring music from Modern Cosmology (Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier & Brazil's Mombojo), Colombia-Canadian singer/songwriter Lido Pimienta, the grea...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: EmiSunshine returns to the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes 17-year-old songwriter and ukulele virtuoso from East Tennessee EmiSunshi...

Bought by KDLG, KBRW, KMUN, WEJP-LP 107.1, KUGS Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 39
Caption: Natty Dominique
The Jam Session: It’s the proving ground for a musician. That’s where you test your chops. Your creativity. For 1920s jazz performers, these sessio...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Grammy winning folk duo Mark & Maggie O’Connor.

Bought by KBRW, KMUN, WEJP-LP 107.1, Angelica Community Radio, KMSU and more


  • Added: May 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 36
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SHOW 959 (Air Dates: May 15 - 21, 2023) Our guest this week on Art of the Song is Grammy nominated, Nashville singer-songwriter Gretchen Peters. Sh...

Bought by KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KUNM, WHRV and more


  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next “Sounds Jewish” for music exploring and celebrating the coming Lag B'Omer holiday.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: May 05, 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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Valida Snow
Women have made vast contributions to the history of early jazz. Not only as vocalists, but as musicians, bandleaders, composers and lyricists. Unf...

Bought by WJCT and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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SHOW 957 (Air Dates: May 1 - 7, 2023) As a part of our 20th Anniversary Celebration we revisit our interview with John Oates. Best known for his wo...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, WHRV and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
Caption: 1929 House Rent party
Harlem Stride piano, boogie and skiffle were all created by the house rent party. Hosts opened up their apartments for a night, charging a fee to g...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ted Yoder's hammered dulcimer on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes hammered dulcimer champion Ted Yoder plus bluegrass ambassadors The Henho...

Bought by WVTF, WRGY, Radio Bristol, KEDT, WETS and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 50
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SHOW 956 (Air Dates April 24 - 30, 2023) As a part of our 20th Anniversary Celebration we revisit our interview with Rosanne Cash, and her husband/...

Bought by KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WHRV and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Caption: Irving Berlin
Tin Pan Alley songsters were quick to pick up on the popularity of jazz in the 1920s. And, the lyricists, like Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen and Hoag...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A chronological overview of the history and development of the Cuban Descarga (jam session) tracing its roots in Cuba and the musicians who were pi...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WICR, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Northwest Public Broadcasting, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Straight from the trajectory, our KRDP Phoenix radio studio. Recordings come in, get collected, sent back out live on the air. Combinations of mult...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, KHNS, Northwest Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Storyville
At the edge of the New Orleans French Quarter at the turn of the twentieth century Storyville kick started jazz. There are a couple of reasons for ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1