Savannah Music Festival LIVE

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Savannah Music Festival LIVE weekly radio show produced for Georgia Public Radio, featuring highlights from the last six years of the Savannah Music Festival. Hosted and written by Executive & Artistic Director Rob Gibson, SMF LIVE radio includes 59-minute episodes utilizing the archives of the Savannah Music Festival. Program examples include "Brazilian Duets" with Mike Marshall, Hamilton de Holanda, Toots Thielemans, Gabriel Grossi and Daniel Santiago, "Piano Showdown" with Hank Jones, Eric Reed, Marcus Roberts and Carl "Sonny" Leyland, "Mendelssohn at 200" with Sebastian Knauer, and live edited concert performances featuring Mariza, the Punch Brothers with Chris Thile, Marcus Roberts Trio and Sensations chamber music with Daniel Hope.

The show is produced by Ryan McMaken using concert recordings engineered by Rich Mays of Sonare Recordings and Kevin Rose of Elevated Basement Studio.

The Savannah Music Festival is Georgia's largest musical arts festival and one of the most distinctive cross-genre music festivals in the world, presenting premieres, one-time only productions and unique collaborations by world-class artists in jazz, classical, blues, bluegrass, gospel and various other styles of American and international roots music. SMF was recently picked by the London Times as one of the "best events around the world in 2009."

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Tune in to hear one of Mali's most renowned musicians, Bassekou Kouyate, performing with his group Ngoni Ba.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:03
Caption: Roby Lakatos at SMF 2010, Credit: Frank Stewart
When the family band Cherryholmes burst onto the scene seemingly out of nowhere during the first few years of the new millennium, they quickly deve...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
Caption: Roby Lakatos at SMF 2010, Credit: Frank Stewart
Tune in to this episode for a 2010 SMF performance by the unmistakable multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Shannon Whitworth.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
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Tune in to this episode to hear one of the most exciting young pianist in jazz, Gerald Clayton, performing with Hareesh Ragovan on bass and Justin ...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:03
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Tune in for part two of a two-part special featuring the 2010 Savannah Music Festival performance by a piano, guitar and reed trio featuring Dick H...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2012
  • Length: 00:54:14
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Tune in for part one of a two-part special featuring the 2010 Savannah Music Festival performance by a piano, guitar and reed trio featuring Dick H...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:02
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Tune in to this episode for highlights of a 2010 Savannah Music Festival performance by French bassist Renaud Garcia-Fons, an artist influenced by ...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:32
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This episode of the Savannah Music Festival Live features highlights from a specially conceived concert in which the esteemed faculty of our Swing ...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:03
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Tune in for a 2010 Savannah Music Festival performance by one of bluegrass music's most accomplished ensembles, the Del McCoury Band.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:02
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At the quarter century mark in age, jazz pianist Gerald Clayton has staked a claim in the music by sticking to his mantra that tradition and innova...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:03
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In this episode, we listen to Sebastian Knauer, Daniel Hope, Philip Dukes, Wu Han, David Finkel, and Josephine Knight perform works by Dvorak, Brit...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
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In this episode, we listen to Daniel Hope, Philip Dukes, Patrick Messina, and Tim Jones, among others, perform Schubert's Octet in F Major, D 803 f...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:02
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In this episode, we listen to more great American classics in the second installment of the Bill Charlap Trio, recorded in 2006.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:01
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In this episode, we listen to the 2006 SMF performance of many American classics by pianist Bill Charlap and his trio, along with a few guests.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:03
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In this episode, we listen to the music of Felix Mendelssohn performed by the Emerson String Quartet and the Beaux Arts Trio from these 2006 SMF re...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
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Some of Schubert's most majestic work, performed at the 2007 and 2009 Savannah Music Festivals: the Death and the Maiden Quartet played by Daniel H...

Bought by WFIU and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Tune into highlights from Ruthie Foster's two-night run at the 2011 Savannah Music Festival.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jun 15, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:03
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode, we listen to solo, duo and quartet performances on two nine-foot Steinways featuring Marcus Roberts, Dick Hyman, Henry Butler and ...

Bought by Red River Radio Network


  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 00:59:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Some of the world's finest classical musicians gather to rehearse and perform masterworks of the idiom in historic and intimate spaces. Tune in to ...

Bought by Red River Radio Network and KPVL


  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 00:59:03
  • Purchases: 2
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Listen to 2010 performances of Mozart's Piano Quartet in G Minor and Dvorak's String Sextet in A Major, played by Daniel Hope and friends during th...

Bought by Red River Radio Network and KPVL


  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 00:59:02
  • Purchases: 2