Folktales

Series produced by Northeast Indiana Public Radio

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Join us for a topical tour around the musical folkworld.

For one hour every week, Julia takes listeners around the world as she explores a theme that touches the human spirit. From steel drum bands to didgeridoos, from Americana to Arabesque, Julia and her listeners consider how the traditions, customs, heritage, and myths of our world have been expressed through music.

Meticulously researched but presented with minimal commentary or interpretation, Julia allows the folktale theme of the week to unfold itself in the mastery of the musicians and their music.


Additional Files

35 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
Caption: Host Julia Meek
From drought, to drizzle, to deluge precipitation is an ancient key - or curse - to a folkworld's prosperity. "Rainfall" features old and new tradi...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:06
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The Folktale of Confusion

  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:01
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As they say in Danish folktales, if envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. That's the medical malady we're tracking on this week's folktale...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
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Suspend your disbelief and join us for the folktale of imagination.

Bought by WFYI


  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:01
  • Purchases: 1
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The folk tale of after dark.

Bought by WFYI


  • Added: Aug 29, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:01
  • Purchases: 1
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A musical journey of friendship around the globe.

Bought by WFYI


  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Folktale of Tomorrow

Bought by WFYI


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Folktale of Curses

  • Added: Oct 29, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
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This episode of Folktales paves the way to enlightenment with musical offerings of encouragement from around the world.

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
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Folktale of Peak Experience

  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
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Folktale of Ballads

  • Added: Nov 21, 2012
  • Length: 59:59
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Folktale of Heart Strings

Bought by KMXT and WFYI


  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:59
  • Purchases: 2
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A world of blessings and thankfulness in this episode of gratitude.

  • Added: Nov 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
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As they say in many a folk world, winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. In this episode of Folktales, Julia Meek tracks this...

Bought by WFYI


  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 1
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This edition of Folktales, it's 'game on' as it tracks treasured toys, play songs and play time traditions around the musical globe!

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 59:59
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This folktale celebrates the dark stretch of the year with musical customs meant to brighten winter's darkest hours.

Bought by WFYI


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 1
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The Folktale of New Beginnings: Get ready to 'ring it--sing it--burn it--or break it in: 2013 is on its way, and as Oprah likes to say: "Cheers to ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
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"Always be in readiness for favorable winds"--that's an ancient Chinese proverb, and it fills the sails of this week's folktale w/ 'musical air cur...

Bought by WFYI


  • Added: Jan 09, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
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According to Chick Heath: “The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.” If we may have yours, this episode 'transmits' a samp...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 59:59
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According to Elizabethan poet, Thomas Dekker, "Sleep is the golden chain that ties our health and our bodies together"...we follow the sandman arou...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00