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HARM 23-51: Las Posadas, 12/11/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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Get ready to burst open the piñata as Harmonia celebrates the traditional Latin American Christmas pageant, Las Posadas, with Renaissance- and Baro...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
HARM 23-50: Holiday Triple Spin, 12/4/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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"Holidays are a great time for music! And this week on Harmonia, we’re going to take a spin through three favorite tunes and enjoy how early compos...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:03
Harmonia Holiday Triple Spin
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Holidays are a great time for music! On this edition of Harmonia, we’re taking a spin through three favorite tunes and enjoy how early composers an...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:03
Las Posadas: Christmas Music from Renaissance and Baroque Mexico
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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We’re heralding in the holiday season with an extended devotional prayer—or is it a party?—called Las Posadas. This Mexican Christmas tradition dat...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and WCNY


  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Kali and Diwali
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Chinna Masta Kali, Credit: Sandip Roy
While the festival of Diwali is well known across the world as the festival of light another festival at the same time, the festival of the Goddess...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
Sublime Thanksgiving Jazz
From: PJ Ewing
Series: Lester the Nightfly
Caption: SUBLIME THANKSGIVING JAZZ
Thanksgiving Jazz | Thanksgiving in Oldtown Combining the most thematic of jazz standards and new additions with a few excerpts from Harriet Beeche...

Bought by WJSU and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 05, 2023
  • Length: 58:24
  • Purchases: 2
Bountiful Harvest Music
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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We’re celebrating the harvest season. From pumpkins and cool breezes to the more spiritual aspects of remembrance and mortality, we’ve got bushels ...

Bought by WVIA


  • Added: Oct 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
UpFront Soul #2023.43- October 24-30, 2023 Soulful Spooktacular!
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Screamin' Jay Hawkins
We'll spin spooky tunes from Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Stevie Wonder, Rockwell and Redbone, Toots and the Maytals and The Jimmy Castor Bunch!

Bought by WOMR, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Prairie Public, KZUM, KAAD-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 21, 2023
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 11
Durga Puja Cashes In
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Image of the Goddess at the Samaj Sebi Durga Puja installation in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
Like all big festivals, Kolkata's biggest festival Durga Puja is big big business. Now a Durga Puja organizer wants the actual  art installation to...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
Songs of Thanks and Praise
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Join us as we sample music of Thanksgiving in early America. From Spanish settlers in Florida to Moravians in North Carolina to the father of Ameri...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and WVIA


  • Added: Oct 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Horrors of the Night
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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October is the time for ghost stories, in this season of growing darkness.Tonight we are visited by a mysterious geist, in an ancient old city that...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Film Score: Music for the Winter Holidays
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Holiday Specials from WFMT
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The Film Score: Music for the Winter Holidays is an hour-long special devoted to holiday and wintertime movie music. In addition to beloved standa...

Bought by WLVT, KTEP, WITF, Public Radio East, KISU and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 117
Winter Holidays around the World with Bill McGlaughlin
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Holiday Specials from WFMT
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Winter holidays are celebrated around the world, and their music is wonderful to hear, regardless of which tradition you observe. Bill’s spirited s...

Bought by WLVT, WGUC/ WVXU, WMNR, Spokane Public Radio, WRKF and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 93
A Chanukah Celebration with Chicago a cappella
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Holiday Specials from WFMT
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Join Jonathan Miller, artistic director of Chicago a cappella and a longtime champion of Jewish choral music, for an inspiring and informative show...

Bought by KSJE, WLVT, WFDD Ops, KCBX, KUAT and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 131
The Ballad of the Brown King
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Holiday Specials from WFMT
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Dr. Louise Toppin, a preeminent performer and scholar specializing in the concert repertoire of African American composers, presents the world prem...

Bought by KTEP, WUFT, WCQS, WWNO, WRKF and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 82
The Autumn Tint of Gold
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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This autumn is getting off to a strange start, as here in the Mojave High Desert there are carpets of little yellow wildflowers thanks to the hurri...

Bought by KSJE and KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
NL 23-27: A Big Band Fourth of July, 6/26/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Night Lights celebrates America’s Independence Day with music from James Reese Europe, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and other c...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
Modern Notebook Special: Juneteenth 2023
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook Specials
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A two-hour special celebrating contemporary music by living Black composers in America.

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and WVIA


  • Added: Jun 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:03
  • Purchases: 3
Fistfull of Joy
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Stalls set up to sell Holi colors in Kolkata. , Credit: Sandip Roy
It’s time to play Holi in India and Sandip Roy grabs a fistful of joy!

  • Added: Mar 07, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
UpFront Soul #2023.07-February 14-20, 2023
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: The Soul Rebels
It's Carnival time! We'll take you to the Crescent City with hot brass from the Soul Rebels, Rebirth Brass Band, the Sixth Ward All-Stars, and Los ...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KMXT, Prairie Public, WOMR and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 16
UpFront Soul #2023.03-January 17-23, 2023- Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This week, we honor the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We'll hear excerpts of his sermons, speeches, and interviews, along with funk,...

Bought by KZUM, WOUB, KAAD-LP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KSTK and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2023
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 13
Happy (Indian) Christmas
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A Kolkata Christmas scene, Credit: Sandip Roy
In Bethlehem there was no room at the inn for baby Jesus. But in India there’s always room at the Christmas party.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
The Atomic Hour Episode 80- A Christmas Gift For You From Mister 1960 (Holiday Special)
From: KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio
Series: The Atomic Hour
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Featuring: Brand New Oldies, Cool Songs for Cold Nights, Mister 1960's Record Review, and More!

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Night Lights Wonderland
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Night Lights celebrates the holidays with jazz from Fats Waller, Joe Williams, Claude Thornhill, and more.

Bought by KCME, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and WCVE


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
Holidays
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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Celebrate the holidays with The Children's Hour, in our musical special honoring Christmas, Hanukkah, and including the world debut of the story "S...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WUTC, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KRSC and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 9

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