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Seattle Labor Chorus, Janet Stecher, Director/Conductor, and Bob Barnes, Founding Member

From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work

Interview: Janet and Bob talk about the how the Seattle Labor Chorus started, their music, and how to join as well as playing three of the choir’s...

Added: Oct 23, 2015
Length: 28:54

Labor, Climate & The Music Behind Movements

From: Context Partners
Series: Movement Making

Caption: Pete Seeger entertaining Eleanor Roosevelt, honored guest at a racially integrated Valentine's Day party marking the opening of a new chapter of United Federal Labor in then-segregated Washington, D.C., Credit: Joseph A. Horne via Library of Congress, 1944

A conversation with Andrew Revkin, who's best known as a longtime New York Times environmental journalist but is also a songwriter and was for 20 y...

Bought by KRZA

Added: Sep 04, 2015
Length: 15:58
Purchases: 1

Study With The Best: Steinway & Sons

From: LaGuardia and Wagner Archives

Professor Richard K. Lieberman, director of the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, describes the rich history of the Steinway & Sons piano company from...

Added: Aug 11, 2015
Length: 10:10

Jimmy Kelly, Founder of the Annual Western Worker Labor Heritage Festival

From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work

Interview: Jimmy gives us real and fun insights about the festival’s history, which includes artists, activists, organizers, educators, hell raise...

Added: Jun 26, 2015
Length: 28:13

Avotjca and Nina Fendel, Annual Western Worker Labor Heritage Festival

From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work

Interview: Nina Fendel—singer and founder of the Labor Heritage Festival—gives more information about the festival, and Avotjca—singer, poet/playw...

Added: Jun 26, 2015
Length: 29:00

#29 MIW - Sandor Moss - Latin & Jazz Drummer

From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio

Caption: Sandor Moss on MIW, Credit: Oddua Productions

With Akeisha Johnson, your host, on this episode of Making it Work, Sandor will share his experiences of being a working musician within The Bay.

Added: Jun 22, 2015
Length: 20:11

Day Job 10: The Window Washer

From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)

Caption: Mike Notter of the Seattle bands Motopony and Hannalee cleans windows for a living, Credit: Joshua McNichols / Day Job

Mike Notter (currently with the bands Motopony and Hannalee) used to be in a band with a bunch of other window washers (Shim). Back then, cleaning ...

Bought by KUOW

Added: Dec 05, 2014
Length: 16:10
Purchases: 1

Teodoro Cuevas, Mariachi

From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life

Every day, Teodoro Cuevas dresses in his black flared pants with silver buttons down the side. He sits against a tree across from the bustling sub...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Jul 29, 2014
Length: 03:11
Purchases: 1

Day Job 5: Fear And The Flying Trapeze

From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)

Caption: A trapeze student, Credit: Joshua McNichols

Kari Kirkland stands on a narrow platform high above the ground. As a trapeze instructor, her job is to convince students to jump off that platform...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Delmarva Public Media, and KUOW

Added: May 20, 2014
Length: 16:18
Purchases: 3

Day Job 4: Fight The Man

From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)

Caption: Chris Cunningham of Ravenna Woods has a day job as a paralegal, Credit: Joshua McNichols

Chris Cunningham fronts the Seattle band Ravenna Woods. He looks the part, too, with a lip ring, skinny jeans and facial hair. What he doesn't look...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Delmarva Public Media

Added: May 20, 2014
Length: 10:42
Purchases: 2

Anne Feeney, Union made, Hell raiser, and the Best Labor singer-writer in North America!

From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work

Caption: Anne Feeney, Singer-Song Writer

Anne talks about her life as an activist, agitator, mom, and much more and the show will highlight three of Anne’s favorite songs.

Bought by KVNF

Added: Apr 18, 2014
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 1

The Winona Works Project: The Musician

From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique

Welcome to Culture Clique, and our series on the Winona State University Winona Works Project. With interviews conducted by students from the depar...

Bought by KSRQ

Added: Sep 04, 2013
Length: 20:44
Purchases: 1

Bluegrass Review #1236 Program for Sept 1-7, 2012

From: Philip Nusbaum

Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman

We begin this show playing recent bluegrass. The Gem of Bluegrass takes a look at bluegrass music and social class, and the Gem sets the tone for t...

Bought by WOUB, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KRZA, KUCB, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more

Added: Aug 27, 2012
Length: 59:01
Purchases: 7

Gems of Bluegrass #1236 A New Look at Social Class and Bluegrass. For regular users, piece for Sept 1-7, 2012. Others use anytime.

From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass

American ethos is that we’re all equal. We’re all middle class. But we know that there’s them’s that’s got. And them’s that not. In the old folk mu...

Added: Aug 07, 2012
Length: 07:33

OCCUPY THIS HOUR

From: Joyride Media

Jackson Browne, David Crosby and Ani DiFranco and others discuss how Occupy and other movements inspire their socially conscious music. Hosted by ...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPVL, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, KSUT and more

Added: May 23, 2012
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 8

Working: What a Waste

From: Janean Jorgensen
Series: Broadway Matinee - Songs from the Stage & Screen

Even Broadway characters are under-employed and unsatisfied with their jobs.

Bought by KPIK-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WDET Detroit Public Radio, 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more

Added: Aug 26, 2011
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 9

Jonathan Cooper -- Violinmaker (Portland, ME)

From: Scott Bliss (wsblissjr)

Jonathan Cooper - Violinmaker and fiddle player (Portland, ME)

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: May 30, 2011
Length: 04:54
Purchases: 1

The Life and Death of the Infernal Noise Brigade

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

The Infernal Noise Brigade debuted at the Seattle WTO protests in 1999. Jill Friedberg from KBCS in Seattle has their story.

Bought by WXDU

Added: Sep 08, 2010
Length: 08:26
Purchases: 1

Marching for Change: Street Bands in the U.S.

From: Making Contact

Caption: The Infernal Noise Brigade in downtown Seattle., Credit: http://www.andrewstern.net/

We look at how political marching bands are stirring up public spaces; from the streets, to supermarkets to your facebook feed.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KVSC

Added: Sep 08, 2010
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 3

Labor Day - White Collar vs Blue Collar

From: Janean Jorgensen
Series: Broadway Matinee - Songs from the Stage & Screen

Laborious songs, including from the Stephen Schwartz musical Working

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRPS, WDET Detroit Public Radio, 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more

Added: Sep 03, 2010
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 8

Labor Day 2010 - The Labor of Movies 10-35

From: All Classical Public Media
Series: The Score with Edmund Stone

This week on The Score – The Labor of Movies – Music from films about working men and women.

Bought by KRCU Public Radio, WVIA, WABE, Interlochen Public Radio, KPVL and more

Added: Aug 31, 2010
Length: 59:01
Purchases: 6

Labor Day "Concert In The Park"

From: WTIP

Enjoy a “concert in the park” wherever you are this Labor Day. This hour-long celebratory concert features U.S. Marine, Navy, Army, Air Force and C...

Bought by WVIA, Interlochen Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM and more

Added: Aug 23, 2010
Length: 55:15
Purchases: 8

Gems of Bluegrass #1037 Here's to the Working Man

From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass

Caption: OPhil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun

The old bluegrass comes from people who did hard, manual labor such as mining coal and farming. In bluegrass songs you hear about the danger of the...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WAMU, and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920

Added: Aug 19, 2010
Length: 06:28
Purchases: 4

Story of a Song

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History

John Berquist of Eveleth has been telling stories and performing traditional music of Scandanavian-Americans for almost 40 years. Here’s a story fr...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WTIP