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Production Assistant Landon Mattison speaks with Hawk Henries (Nipmuc), a gifted flutist and flute maker.
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 14:36
Production Assistant Landon Mattison speaks with Jack Gladstone (Blackfeet), a storysmith sharing his unique brand of music inspired by the stories...
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 18:56
Production Assistant Landon Mattison speaks with Swil Kanim (Lummi Nation), an award-winning, world-class virtuoso violinist and inspirational spea...
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 19:47
Executive Director Shirley Sneve speaks with Brent Michael Davids (Stockbridge Munsee Band of the Mohican Nation), a classically trained musician a...
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 17:40
"Smells Like Teen Spirit," in particular sounds like a modal jazz tune. That's one of the funniest things to me. It says so much about people's att...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 16:32
Interactive Media Specialist Eric Martin speaks with Raven Chacon (Navajo) an experimental musician, composer and educator.
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 13:28
Our show opens with new bluegrass. We muse that few songs are focused on individuals set in one place. But we found a few. And what is the place? “...
Bought by Prairie Public, WAMU, and WRGY
- Added: May 12, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
"When I started to play jazz... I started in the middle. I wanted to play
Coltrane, Charlie Parker, and all of that stuff first... When I started
c...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 07:39
- Purchases: 1
Today, recorded musical textures are getting denser and denser. Why? Because we can make them that way, I guess. But turn back the clock and textur...
Bought by KDRP Community Radio and WXXI
- Added: Apr 28, 2013
- Length: 05:46
- Purchases: 2
Early on the show, listen to some funny bluegrass parodies. Then, on the Gem of Bluegrass, we consider old recordings before the “wall of sound” wa...
- Added: Apr 28, 2013
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 11
"I want to have clarity of ideas and I want to be able to execute ideas. So if I'm going to play something really sloppy, I want it to be sloppy on...
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 18:32
We open with new and recent bluegrass, including a modernistic piece featuring Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. Our Gem of Bluegrass feature tells a...
Bought by WRGY, WOUB, KKRN, KDRP Community Radio, KUCB and more
- Added: Apr 20, 2013
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 12
Steel Bands at Brooklyn, New York.
A look at struggling steel bands in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn, New York.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 18, 2013
- Length: 06:41
- Purchases: 1
Today’s program opens with new bluegrass. Then we introduce a running thread on today’s show: We’re declaring Spring. This sort of pronouncement ma...
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 13
Billie Holiday once said, "No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." As we look back on her life a...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 03:04
- Purchases: 1
We open the show with a current ‘grass selection, and then proceed to play three bluegrass songs that use the name John Deere Tractors symbolically...
Bought by WRGY, WOUB, KKRN, WTIP, KDRP Community Radio and more
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
"We have a mixture of many elements from the world. The classical music
from Europe- the sense of melody and deep harmonic sense- and on the other ...
- Added: Apr 01, 2013
- Length: 14:45
"I always thought of the acoustic bass as the quintessential jazz instrument... I knew that jazz meant cool, and hip, and on the cutting edge, and ...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 16:39
- Purchases: 1
Shannon Selberg was the downright frightening frontman, vocalist, and part-time bugle player for eleven years for the legendary Minneapolis punk/n...
- Added: Mar 19, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
The program opens up with recent bluegrass. Then the Gem of Bluegrass considers the ways children have been depicted over the years in bluegrass so...
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
"They name it -- they just come up with all kinds of names..."'Funk'...
'jazz' or... 'acid jazz.' Or they named it 'boogaloo.' We don't know
anyth...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 10:19
- Purchases: 1
We break out of the gates with new bluegrass by Dale Ann Bradley, Tina Adair and the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys. Then, on our Gem of Bluegrass, we note ...
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 11
Playing instruments as kids, being cool and returning to music as an adult
- Added: Mar 03, 2013
- Length: 30:00
Right at the show’s beginning, we play new bluegrass. Then we consider the Celtic / bluegrass connection. Accordionist Paddy O’Brien and singer Eri...
- Added: Feb 24, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
Part 1 of an interview with indie- hip-hop artist, One Be Lo.
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 03:36
