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Full Moon Hacksaw #1924 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/14/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Stumbling but hopefully forward we find ourselves once again after-ground-under-hours. From trumpeter Miles Davis’ famous “Cookin’” collection, “It...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, Raven Radio, KRZA, KHNS, Northwest Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 10
2022-05-20 Coping with Climate through Music
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Music and social movements have historically gone hand in hand. Folk music played a unifying role for the labor movements in the United States. Mus...

Bought by KGUA, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
20220520: Coping with Climate through Music , 5/20/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Music and social movements have historically gone hand in hand. Folk music played a unifying role for the labor movements in the United States. Mus...

  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
003 Bert Jansch's Heartbreak
From: Tim Ayres
Series: Borderland Jukebox
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On this program we profile late legendary Scottish guitarist and songwriter Bert Jansch and the recording of the 1982 album Heartbreak. We'll hear ...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:29
From Community Dance to Dance Community: Recalling the Old Farmer's Ball
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: The original Farmer's Ball, and an OFB dance today, Credit: Phil Jameson/Carla Seidl
The Old Farmer's Ball is a regional folk dance organization in Asheville, North Carolina that is best known for its lively Thursday night contra da...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2021
  • Length: 49:50
Kaia Kater speaks with Steve Martin about her background in music and her soon to be released CD "Grenades" on Smithsonian Folkways
From: Steve Martin
Series: Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass
Caption: Steve Marti, host receiving the 2018 IBMA Broadcaster of the Year Award
Kaia Kater has received acclaim for all genres for her new folk sound, she spoke to Steve Martin about her background and the new release.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 26:32
Land at Last
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of The Live Feed, we visit with the combined acoustic and electric guitar duo Land at Last. The two musicians fill us in on their c...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 30:01
The Jam
From: Jerome Whittingham
Series: Moved - personal stories of artistic experiences.
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Gary, now in his 50s, recalls how Paul Weller and The Jam impacted upon his younger years.

  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 04:49
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #2 - Patti Smith
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: 10-Minute Writer's Workshop
Caption: Patti Smith chatting with Virginia Prescott backstage at The Music Hall in Portsmouth
National Book Award winner Patti Smith, also known as "the godmother of punk", dishes on what inspires her writing, what her editing process entail...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 10:47
NEA Jazz Moments with Saxophonist Pharoah Sanders
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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"You can play notes, but if you don't put anything in the notes, that's what it is...just notes." - Pharoah Sanders.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 11
Sly Watts in City Park
From: Sarah Holtz
Series: The Poetic City
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Sly Watts performs his poem "Passion" in City Park.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:35
RDD: An Introduction
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Haley Taylor introduces us to her new podcast series, The Rough Draft Diaries.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2015
  • Length: 05:32
Bay Area Beats: Zena
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Bay Area Beats
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Zena, from Oakland, is a singer songwriter, visual artist, storyteller – and one of the few women masters of the kora – a West African harp – taugh...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 06:21
Way Beyond the Blue
From: Hold That Thought
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Professor André de Quadros believes that music is for everyone, including prison inmates. Here, he shares his moving experiences teaching in two Ma...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 10:38
  • Purchases: 1
It Makes No Difference: A Celebration and Appreciation of The Band
From: Don McIver
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In 1999, The Band officially called it quits. In this hour long audio essay, Don McIver looks at the history of The Band to examine the nature of ...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 58:03
Louis Armstrong
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Louis Armstrong
Trumpeter Louis Armstrong is consider one of the most important musicians of the 20th century. With his innovations in ensemble playing and his dis...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
John Fullbright on Art of the Song
From: Art of the Song
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We sat down and talked with John Fullbright in front of a LIVE audience at the 2012 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival.

Bought by WRNC-LP


  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
JazzStories: Gretchen Parlato
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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Vocalist and songwriter Gretchen Parlato's music is introspective and crafted with a knowing touch. Winner of the 2004 Thelonious Monk Jazz Vocalis...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WNCU


  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 15:06
  • Purchases: 4
JazzStories: Benny Golson
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"...This country lookin' guy was standing there in the door, waiting for me to tell him what to do. So I said, 'play something!' He took out his ...

Bought by KMUW, WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jul 26, 2012
  • Length: 19:40
  • Purchases: 4
JazzStories: Todd Barkan Part II
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Todd Barkan
"One of the greatest joys I have had in my musical career has been providing employment for musicians, actually handing them [work]. Now I hand th...

Bought by KALW, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jun 19, 2012
  • Length: 19:52
  • Purchases: 3
JazzStories: Erica von Kleist
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Erica von Kleist
“Essentially Ellington…really made me feel like I could be part of something bigger, musically. Meeting all these other young people from around th...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jun 19, 2012
  • Length: 10:37
  • Purchases: 2
JazzStories: Gary Burton and Julian Lage
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"There’s an interesting thing that happens. You prepare a piece. You rehearse it. It sounds perfect...And you go out and play it on the first night...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WNCU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 20, 2012
  • Length: 16:42
  • Purchases: 4
JazzStories: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Doug Wamble
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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“The essential ingredient of jazz is listening. And then the response... and out of that something unexpected comes rather than some fulfillment of...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Oct 27, 2011
  • Length: 08:29
  • Purchases: 4
JazzStories: Henry Threadgill
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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“You always have to have boundaries. If you don’t have boundaries, you don’t have art. There has to be controls and boundaries. Otherwise when does...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WNCU


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 12:15
  • Purchases: 3
JazzStories: Electric Kulintang - Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Susie Ibarra
“I understand Filipino Kulintang, it's melodic phrasing, how it moves linearly, very similar to how perhaps bebop moves in jazz…there’s a lot of si...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, 90.5 WSNC, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 10:53
  • Purchases: 4