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'Dark Sky Memories' from Grand Portage
From: WTIP
Series: Arts and Culture
Caption: Northern Lights in Cook County, Credit: Travis Novitsky
Shelley McIntire is a longtime resident of Cook County and a member of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. She describes herself as ...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 09:56
Musician's Spotlight -Dirty Dozen Brass Band-Galactic Remix Mspot Part Two - 729
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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To warm up listeners in early December, a remix encore broadcast from the Musician’s Spotlight archives of two great bands that will bring the heat...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMXT, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2019
  • Length: 29:34
  • Purchases: 4
Musician's Spotlight -Russ Nasset-Martha Scanlan Mspot Part One- 716
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Two of Montana’s most beloved singer songwriters in one broadcast. Missoula based singer songwriter and Montana honky tonk legend Russt Nasset retu...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 3
Rio Nido
From: KRCB 104.9
Series: WONDERLAND RADIO HOUR
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Gaye LeBaron, historian & newspaper columnist; Slavyanka Russian Chorus; Clare Harris: A Rio Nido Life

  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 57:30
AMOS 19.065: Mpingo, the Music Tree, 4/1/2019
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Mpingo, the Music Tree

  • Added: Mar 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
Cold Comfort | Episode 11 | Life Is Too Hard Without Music
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Iqaluit is the capital city of Nunavut, the largest territory in Canada., Credit: Nick Mott
All across the Arctic, indigenous languages are on the decline. But in many communities, people are finding new ways to reclaim both language and c...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 03, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 4
Earth Day (Is Every Day) Vol. 2
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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A second PRX installment about songs about or easily relatable to Mother Earth that fall along the bluegrass > jazz sonic continuum.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2018
  • Length: 01:56:00
AMOS 18.027: Incredible Shrinking Shrews, 2/6/2018
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Incredible Shrinking Shrews

  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
The River Show
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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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
WoodSongs 896: The Looping Brothers with Si Kahn and Still on the Hill
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Caption: Master musician and storytelling from Still on the Hill.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes German bluegrass trio the Looping Brothers with folksinger icon Si Kahn p...

Bought by WETS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WLPR , WLIW, WOUB and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 6
The Sound of Science
From: Outside Magazine
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Why environmental scientists are transforming big data into music.

Bought by KWMR and KRZA


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 19:40
  • Purchases: 2
For Kindred Spirits
From: Paul Messing
Series: For Kindred Spirits (and separate elements)
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This is a beautiful audio production about the more profound nature of our relationships with animals and the natural world. Hosted by NY Times bes...

Bought by WCPN and WFSU


  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 47:22
  • Purchases: 2
WinterFest
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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Ol' Man Winter has become something of a quaint anachronism from another time's forgotten space. This show celebrates the clear and necessary seaso...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:55:08
Musician's Spotlight Promo - The Indigo Girls- 637
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promos
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Amy Ray and Emily Sailers have spent the last 35 years performing together, produced fifteen albums (seven gold, four platinum, and one double plat...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: :45
Musician's Spotlight - The Indigo Girls- 637
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Amy Ray and Emily Sailers have spent the last 35 years performing together, produced fifteen albums (seven gold, four platinum, and one double plat...

Bought by WZRE, KGLT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Music of the Glaciers (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The Alaskan wilderness is experiencing a major meltdown, but not all will be lost. Thanks to a musician in Virginia, the sounds of Alaska’s glacier...

Bought by KENW, WEZU, WABE, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 5
The Music of the Glaciers (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-An electronic musician uses the sounds of melting glaciers in his composition to raise awareness of climate change. -Documenting 1,000 years of mo...

Bought by WCNY, Raven Radio, WMUU-LP, KRDP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 7
Debbie Duncan, Defining Jazz Vocalist
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Debbie Duncan, Credit: Nathan Youngerberg
When Debbie Duncan sings and lets her imagination run on a song melody, you are in the presence of someone who is a master of her craft. Debbie’s i...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2016
  • Length: 07:58
Folktale of Animal Instinct
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Animal Instinct, Credit: Julia Meek
As Dr. Doolittle notes: "If we could talk to the animals, just imagine it..."--that's the conversation this folktale proposes--and to be sure, they...

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


  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 10
The Speed of Sound: Jose Gonzalez
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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Jose Gonzalez released his 3rd full length, Vestiges and Claws, earlier this year, showcasing a more stripped down sound for the Swedish songwriter...

Bought by KUCB, KSUT, KHNS, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 4
Labor, Climate & The Music Behind Movements
From: Context Partners
Series: Movement Making
Caption: Pete Seeger entertaining Eleanor Roosevelt, honored guest at a racially integrated Valentine's Day party marking the opening of a new chapter of United Federal Labor in then-segregated Washington, D.C., Credit: Joseph A. Horne via Library of Congress, 1944
A conversation with Andrew Revkin, who's best known as a longtime New York Times environmental journalist but is also a songwriter and was for 20 y...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Sep 04, 2015
  • Length: 15:58
  • Purchases: 1
#1301- Religious Environmentalism, Part 1
From: Sandburg Media
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Fletcher Harper on religious environmentalism; Katy Scrogin on Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists.

Bought by 'The Sea' and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 33:32
  • Purchases: 2
Folktale of Peak Experience
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
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This week on Folktales, we're headed to the top--with a mountain of good music to conquer. Hope you're up for joining us on the Folktale of Peak Ex...

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


  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 10
VOICES4theSoul Show 723
From: Lori Holladay
Caption: Xavier Rudd
AAA Music show featuring songs that express a more meaningful side of life. This hour features songs by various artists, including a personal conve...

Bought by WVRU


  • Added: Aug 04, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
John Luther Adams: Tuning in the sound of a frozen world
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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It was John Cage who suggested that music was always in the air, and John Luther Adams has been tapping that sound for over 30 years. His evocative...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2009
  • Length: 03:30