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Song Story features songwriters telling the true stories behind their original songs. This pre-season sneak-peek features singer/songwriter/creativ...
- Added: Mar 30, 2014
- Length: 10:06
Song Story features songwriters telling the true stories behind their original songs. This first pre-season sneak-peek features Song Story host, Er...
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 10:54
Is it possible to make “music” from “noise”? Is it possible to enjoy it? Randy Wenner reports on an experimental music genre making a comeback of s...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 04:13
- Purchases: 2
Tributes to Sid Caesar, Ralph Waite and Shirley Temple with introductions from Eleanor Roosevelt, Rodney Dangerfield and Maggie Estep.
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 29:34
Visionary David C. Hunt is a Successful Winemaker, Contractor, Entrepreneur, Inventor, Carpenter, Composer, Musician, Recording Artist, Author and ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 18:11
Not only was Washington, D.C., the site of The Beatles' first full North American concert in 1964... It was also the first North American city to a...
- Added: Feb 07, 2014
- Length: 09:45
Heartbreak is a universal disease with no cure. Three men share the musical prescriptions that got them over the one who got away.
- Added: Feb 06, 2014
- Length: 02:46
Mindless Chanting is a documentary tracing the DIY history of an obscure and unheard band called Catfish Courtesy.
- Added: Jan 26, 2014
- Length: 36:04
Scott Britton has never been to Trinidad, but he really loves calypso.
Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jan 05, 2014
- Length: 06:36
- Purchases: 2
The Mummers Day Parade is as quintessentially South Philadelphia as Ben Franklin or Willy Penn, a Philly cheese steak or Italian water ice.
It’s un...
- Added: Dec 13, 2013
- Length: 23:29
Nathan Felix of Austin, Texas accomplishes something that's seemingly impossible. He wrote a symphony without ever taking a class in composing or ...
- Added: Nov 12, 2013
- Length: 03:01
Ben Weisz discovers the vibrant street tradition of Candombe drumming, and explores its origins among Montevideo's Afro-Uruguayan community.
- Added: Oct 08, 2013
- Length: 08:28
Chris Ballew knows what it's like to be a rock star. (His band Presidents of the United States of America made it big in the 1990s.) But he's gone ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 14, 2013
- Length: 05:57
- Purchases: 2
The music of Pittsburgh's own rockers, The Harlan Twins, rings true, "I can't be blue in Bloomfield."
- Added: May 09, 2013
- Length: 07:33
Most people know Sufism as the religion practiced by the whirling dervishes. But this mystical form of Islam has taken root in America, too.
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 06:41
In this montage of story and song, we hear Blues musicians speaking about their lives, the meaning of the Blues, growing up in hard times, and maki...
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 59:00
This short audio doc about Giancarlo Arcieri, 35, a young violin maker based in Midtown Manhattan, was produced for WorkingNow.org.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 1
Jimmy LaValle of The Album Leaf talks about the band's EP "Forward/Return."
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 04:17
A growing group of musicians are returning to old analog keyboards, sometimes refurbishing and playing instruments older than they are.
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 03:46
Singer-songwriter and fiddler Sara Watkins has been tearing up the U.S. tour circuit this year, with plans to hit the overseas stage in January. W...
- Added: Nov 16, 2012
- Length: 04:44
Andrew White may very well be the most famous jazz legend... you've never heard of.
- Added: Sep 24, 2012
- Length: 07:00
In this episode of The Loop, Chris Medders talks about his transition from rapper to "beat" artist, his musical roots, and how his music is a perso...
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 06:00
The volunteer choral group, Evensong, specializes in singing the last music their audience will ever hear.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 18, 2012
- Length: 09:23
- Purchases: 3
Buck Dietz is a figure model. That means he has to stand naked and completely still for long sessions while artists sketch him. But for Buck, it's ...
Bought by HowSound, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: May 28, 2012
- Length: 04:45
- Purchases: 7
Love of music prompted Homer Parce to sign up for an army band. Military service whisked the small town South Dakota boy across the Pacific just a...
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 06:18
