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We'll hear Zabur by Mohammed Fairouz and Cello Concerto by Nico Muhly, recordings with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra on a special Indiana Bic...
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 7
Bluegrass is American. Bluegrass and America are obviously connected. But there are few songs about the connections. The strongest connections lie ...
- Added: Jun 06, 2017
- Length: 07:07
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Gus Garcia YMLA 2017 Stories
Series: Gus Garcia YMLA 2017 Stories
Eazy Boi talks with students in Austin about staying true to your roots.
- Added: Jun 05, 2017
- Length: 09:40
We know that bluegrass is not a ritual, nor a catalog of rules that have to be followed. But still bluegrass fans, business people, players and sch...
- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 07:59
Our area’s first outdoor bluegrass festival is is coming this weekend. Matt Johnson helped organize the Spring Kickoff, and he tells Phil Nusbaum a...
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 05:00
There is always a group of fans and music industry people who proclaim that the future will be won by bluegrass groups that become more like Progre...
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 08:47
Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture, conceived broadly. Each Gem ...
- Added: May 23, 2017
- Length: 04:36
The Phil Hey Quartet plays at Jazz Central on May 19. It’s a group of 4 committed jazz musicians who got started playing together almost by acciden...
- Added: May 11, 2017
- Length: 05:00
Bill Monroe’s bluegrass is often viewed as a musical big bang. But while it was different than the string band music preceding Monroe’s Blue Grass...
- Added: May 11, 2017
- Length: 07:23
The Blues has been around a long time because it’s a way of telling it like it is. And that is how Nikki and the RueMates operates. Nikki told Phil...
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 08:12
The Minnesota jazz Legends Concert is coming up this Weekend. It is a time to pay homage to the state’s legacy of great Jazz Artists, but also to l...
- Added: Apr 28, 2017
- Length: 05:00
Most musical idioms in the United States are touched by the blues. That includes bluegrass of course, Many consider the combining of African Americ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2017
- Length: 05:12
Julian Manzara loves the musical possibilities that define jazz. That jazz encourages exploring musical possibilities is what makes him comfortable...
- Added: Mar 23, 2017
- Length: 05:00
Jerry Lawson is a singing legend who fronted the world famous Persuasions for 40 plus years. As their lead singer he produced and arranged 22 album...
Bought by Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), Spokane Public Radio, KRPS, KSRQ and more
- Added: Mar 17, 2017
- Length: 58:03
- Purchases: 6
What is traditional about bluegrass lyrics? The definition of tradition usually has to do with continuing something over time. Some bluegrass songs...
- Added: Mar 13, 2017
- Length: 07:47
Speaking backstage with the “King of the Chitlin’ Circuit”, the Living Legend, Bobby Rush. One of the last of his era, Rush estimates that he has c...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Public Radio East, KDLG, WEAA, Prairie Public and more
- Added: Feb 17, 2017
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 11
Who enjoys work? Old-time farmers? That was a work all the time existence on the family farm. It had its satisfactions such as working with nature ...
- Added: Feb 09, 2017
- Length: 07:18
Back in the 1930 era, farm work engaged most members of the old time music audience, and it of course was hard work, and it could be 24/7. The sin...
- Added: Jan 31, 2017
- Length: 07:57
Some view traditional music styles as singular, insulated from other styles. And that has been true at certain times in certain places. But owing t...
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 06:03
We'll hear music by Steven Stucky, Elena Ruehr, Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Paul Moravec, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and Elliott Carter on this ep...
Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), 'The Sea', WETS and more
- Added: Jan 19, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 9
The New Primitives. The group is a 4-time winner of the Minnesota Music Academy award winners for best reggae and world band. And the group perform...
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 05:01
Cedric Fuller and Global Sound. It’s a group from the Twin Cities that picks up from the combinations of soul, rhythm and blues,l funk and jazz th...
- Added: Dec 17, 2016
- Length: 06:02
Sonny Knight and the Lakers. Sonny has roots in blues funk and r and b, and has been performing virtually his whole life. Today, focused on music a...
- Added: Dec 17, 2016
- Length: 07:40
Old time music has the reputation of looking at it’s own history for inspiration. But it has also has a cutting edge. In general, cutting edges in ...
- Added: Nov 26, 2016
- Length: 05:15
Much of the heated dialog among bluegrass fans concerns new approaches that are evolving. But when new approaches evolve, it does not mean that the...
- Added: Nov 11, 2016
- Length: 05:38
