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Violinist, composer and singer songwriter Gaelynn Lea produces 21st century music in a style rooted in classical, Celtic and traditional folk. The ...
- Added: Jun 21, 2017
- Length: :46
WFHB’s Hondo Thompson discusses the legendary musician John Hartford with Michael Glab on this week’s episode of Big Talk!
- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 08:54
The Choir of Radio France is one of four ensembles maintained by the national radio program, and employs over 75 singers. This piece investigates w...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 29, 2017
- Length: 05:11
- Purchases: 1
We’re joined by guitarist, producer, composer and author Dave Randall. His book, Sound System, newly out from Pluto Press, is an insider’s view of ...
- Added: May 23, 2017
- Length: 01:28:01
Interview by Gary Kanter: Hali explains her new Progressive Majority Creative Network Website and Facebook page that connects musicians with events...
- Added: May 12, 2017
- Length: 28:12
The National Mall in Washington D.C. is America's home to its memorials, monuments, statues, museums, and gardens. It also serves as "center stage"...
- Added: Mar 13, 2017
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 3
Our topic this week is creativity behind bars. We showcase poetry from prisoners working with the Indiana Prisoners' Writing Project, a piece by Sh...
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 28:19
Christmas at a Bagram Air Base hospital, Afghanistan; a tour of the Holy Land, Hannukah military history; a visit to a toy store; and musical Chris...
Bought by WRVO Public Media and KUHF
- Added: Nov 27, 2016
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump mixing it up during the first presidential debate, with plenty of music providing passion and emotional manipulati...
- Added: Sep 28, 2016
- Length: 01:56:01
In honor of Suicide Prevention Day, Rock School discusses suicide throughout the music industry.
Bought by KSKQ, WOUB, 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, WYAP, and KSRQ
- Added: Sep 08, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Gary gives his history with the Farm Workers in Skagit County.
- Added: Jul 22, 2016
- Length: 27:38
Guitarist Freddie Stone, author Jeff Kaliss, and funk legend George Clinton look back at the 1969 album from Sly and the Family Stone, which was in...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Radio Newark, and KGLT
- Added: Nov 28, 2015
- Length: 06:36
- Purchases: 3
In today’s feature, Bob Kissel talks with Gavin Bieber, a leader for the bird watching tour company Wings, on St Lawrence Island at the Western fro...
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: 28:51
The legendary Rickie Lee Jones invited her New Orleans surroundings to become part of her band on The Other Side of Desire, her 13th disc. The peop...
Bought by KHSU, KUCB, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 07:06
- Purchases: 4
Doug Storm talks to singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Zac Little of Saintseneca, an American folk rock band from Columbus, Ohio, about Ap...
- Added: Oct 22, 2015
- Length: 47:34
Hosted by Dave Seastrom, Pam Raider, Vera Grubbs, Rick Fettig, Jeff Foster, with guest host Cari Ray.
First aired Sunday, August 2, 2015 at 9 AM o...
- Added: Aug 03, 2015
- Length: 59:01
Schuller, who died last week at 89, was a prodigious, captivated, sometimes cantankerous prisoner of every kind of modern music: between Beethoven ...
Bought by KMUW and WFMT Station Account
- Added: Jul 04, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
This week we explore why roadies are possibly the most valuable members of a rock career.
- Added: Jun 09, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Joe Vitale, legendary session and touring drummer for Crosby, Stills & Nash, Joe Walsh, Ringo Starr, and others, has been witness to the destructiv...
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 01:02
Mike Finnigan is a successful studio and touring musician who has been clean and sober for decades. He's a recovery coach and sponsor who first had...
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 01:02
How do neighborhoods develop distinct identities? Why was San Francisco’s North Beach an enclave for poetry, for example? Or the Castro a haven for...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 07:06
Paul Barrere, of Little Feat, overcame his fear that by getting clean and sober, he would lose is creativity and talent.
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 01:02
World renown musician Jorma Kaukonan shares his music and sobriety with other musicians at his Fur Peace Ranch resort.
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 01:02
Recovering rock musician Kasim Sultan helps others with his organization Recovery Branches.
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 01:00
Joseph Arthur is a musician and artist who has been trying to live clean and sober for more than 20 years.
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 01:00