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FOLK SALAD AIRING 3-13-2022 St. Paddy's Day show
From: SCOTT Aycock
Series: Folk Salad- Certified Organic Music
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Folk Salad celebrates St. Paddy's Day playing songs from the Emerald Isle and Scotland. You will hear songs from Andy M. Stewart, The Clancy Broth...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
Folk Salad airing 3-6-2022
From: SCOTT Aycock
Series: Folk Salad- Certified Organic Music
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Folk Salad celebrates Mardi Gras with a musical trip to Louisiana. We will be playing songs of Dr. John, Red Stick Ramblers, Fats Domino, Lucinda ...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
Folk Salad airing 9-5-2021 (Labor Day)
From: SCOTT Aycock
Series: Folk Salad- Certified Organic Music
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Folk Salad recognizes Labor Day with songs celebrating work, avoiding work, and we include some labor songs, as well.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
Beginning Anew
From: Wind & Rhythm
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On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we sound in the new year with works “At Morning’s First Light” by David Gillingham and “Overture to a New Millenn...

Bought by Capital Public Radio, WUAL, WQCS, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMFA and more


  • Added: Dec 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 11
WVIA and BTE presents Dickens' A Christmas Carol
From: WVIA
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Charles Dickens' classic tale, A Christmas Carol, comes to life in an original adaptation as a radio drama by James Goode and performed by BTE, the...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:30
Cafe Latino Christmas Special
From: Tony Vasquez
Series: Cafe Latino
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An all music Cafe Latino special featuring renditions of Christmas Classics performed by Latino Artists.

Bought by WHYY and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 10, 2021
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 2
A Cool Christmas
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz. Come along for a jzz sleigh ride with music from Shirley Horn, Paul Bley, Duke Ellington, and more...

Bought by WVIA, WHRV, KUAT, WNMU-FM, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 26
Strange Enchantment: Jazz for Halloween
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Music for the holiday from Duke Ellington, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Kay Starr, and others. We'll also hear comedian Lenny Bruce's impersonation of Drac...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Oct 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
21-50 Christmas Music, interviews: Liona Boyd, Mark Cruz
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Tony Morris & Friends 2004 White House Christmas sign, Credit: Tony Morris
This week’s program features music for Christmas and interviews with American guitarist-composer Mark Cruz and Canadian guitarist Liona Boyd.

Bought by KUCO, Ohm Radio , KXIQ , WVIA, WETS and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 62
21-46 Thanksgiving Music by Bach, Giuliani, Interviews: Mark Mancina, David Russell Interviews, and more
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Christopher Parkening, Credit: EMI Records
This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Bach, Giuliani, Torroba, Frederic Hand, and a 2016 interview with 3-time Grammy-wi...

Bought by Ohm Radio , KXIQ , WVIA, KAAD-LP, KETR-FM and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 63
The Songs That Won The War (Memorial Day Special)
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials
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From 1939 to 1945, as World War II raged on, American Popular Music responded. On Afterglow’s Memorial Day special, we look at the songs of World W...

Bought by KSKA, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, KRCB 104.9, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KSKA and more


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Have Yourself a Very Quiet Christmas
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Night Lights pays tribute to the holidays in the mellowest of moods, with music from Joe Pass, Dave Brubeck, the Modern Jazz Quartet, and more. Joi...

Bought by KCME, WJAB, WVAS, WCQS, WVAS and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
HARM 20-52: There Were Shepherds, 12/21/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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It may be nearing the Christmas season, but don’t pour the hot cocoa just yet! This week on Harmonia, we’re going outside-- not into the snow, but ...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
DEAR SANTA -- Dana Nachman Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Dana Nachman talks sitting by the phone, having a game plan, and being a preemie.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2020
  • Length: 14:06
20-51 Christmas Music, Interviews: Liona Boyd, Mark Cruz
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Liona Boyd & cat, Credit: Liona Boyd
This week’s Classical Guitar Alive! features traditional and new music for Christmas and interviews with Canadian guitarist Liona Boyd and American...

Bought by KXIQ , WVIA, KBIA, WETS, WKMS and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 58
Little Durga
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Kids of Bhandarkhali and their Durga, Credit: Meghdutam Foundation
Durga Puja, the festival of the ten armed Goddess Durga, has always been a time of excess in Kolkata. But this is the story of the “Little Durga.”

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 19, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Holocaust Memories (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Everyone remembers things differently. With Good Reason takes you to Washington D.C., Poland and Jerusalem to reveal the different ways people in ...

Bought by KECG, KWIT, WCNY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 13
The Juneteenth Jazz Jamboree
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, celebrating an American holiday marking the formal end of slavery.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, KAAD-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 30
20-27 American Music, Giovanni de Chiaro Interview
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Scott Joplin, Credit: Scott Joplin
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is a celebration of music by American composers, and features an interview with Giovanni De Chiaro,...

Bought by KXIQ , WVIA, RadioFreePalmer, KACU, WOSU and more


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 45
Jim McGowan performs on The Roadhouse
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Jim McGowan recently joined Dave and Julie on The Roadhouse - for the entire show!

  • Added: Apr 05, 2020
  • Length: 01:29:18
Nora's Irish Step Dancing
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Patton Elementary Stories
Caption: Nora Caselli wearing her Irish step dance shoes, Credit: Danielle Warner
Nora is a 5th grade student in Austin, Texas, and is continuing her grandmother's tradition of Irish step dancing.

  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 03:22
Jim McGowan shares a couple holiday songs and more
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
Caption: Jim McGowan in Studio A in July 2019 , Credit: Brian Neil
Jim McGowan, a Roadhouse favorite, stopped by the studios to chat with Julie and Dave about holiday traditions, and of course, play a mix of holida...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 41:22
NL 19-51: A Cool Christmas, 12/16/2019
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Night Lights celebrates the holiday season with from Paul Bley, Duke Ellington, Wes Montgomery, June Christy, and more.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
19-48 Bach, Giuliani, Interviews: Mark Mancina, David Russell, Music of Thanksgiving & more
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Mark Mancina, Credit: photo by Tony Morris 2016
This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Bach, Giuliani, Torroba, Fred Hand, and a 2016 interview with 3-time Grammy-winnin...

Bought by KXIQ , WVIA, WUAL, Yellowstone Public Radio, Public Radio East and more


  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 59:27
  • Purchases: 42
Masters on NEA Masters
From: Jim Luce
Caption: Jim Luce, Luce Group, Credit: Sarah Juliet Luce
From the Luce Group, Renee Rosnes Quartet, Steve Turré Big Band and Gary Bartz Quartet pay tribute to Joe Henderson, JJ Johnson and Jackie McLean i...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:45