Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promos

Series produced by John Floridis

Caption: John Floridis, host of Musician's Spotlight
John Floridis, host of Musician's Spotlight 

Promos for Musician's Spotlight on Montana Public Radio hosted by John Floridis.

From folk to rock, from classical to jazz and beyond, a mix of eclectic music and conversation with today’s most talented and compelling musicians. Hosted by John Floridis and produced for Montana Public Radio.


74 Pieces

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One of the most respected bass guitarists in popular music, Nathan East is also a producer and writer who has collaborated with an all-star caliber...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2019
  • Length: :45
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Born in Azerbaijan and now based in New York, pianist and composer Amina Figarova brings her exotic and exquisitely written explorations in jazz to...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2019
  • Length: :45
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A native of Connecticut, multi-instrumentalist, teacher and entrepreneur Erica von Kleist began her career as a saxophonist and flautist in the New...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2019
  • Length: :45
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From the time he left his home of Beaumont, Texas in the 1960’s up to present day 2019, singer, saxophonist and keyboardist and rock and roll legen...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2019
  • Length: :45
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Missoula Symphony Orchestra director Darko Butorac was praised by the Westdeutsche Zeitung for his “exceptional combination of passion, elegance an...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: :45
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Once compared to a man who wears many suits, in thirty-two short years Justin Townes Earle has experienced more than most, both personally and prof...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2019
  • Length: :46
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Pianist, composer and electronic musician Wayne Horovitz has a career of performing and recording as diverse as his Seattle, Washington home. His c...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: :45
  • Purchases: 1
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Singer songwriter Amy Ray has always been toward the “rockier” side of the folk-rock description that usually follows her work as one half of the G...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2018
  • Length: :45
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New York based drummer/composer/bandleader Allison Miller has been creating a buzz for her work over the last decade having been named “Rising Star...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: :45
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Though born in Michigan, pianist/guitarist and composer George Winston was formed as a man and as a musician growing up in Miles City, Montana insp...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2018
  • Length: :45
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The Lucky Valentines are Fort Benton, Montana native songwriters Shaun and Jamie Carrier. Their music has been described as “stirring” Americana, ...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2018
  • Length: :45
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Betsayda Machado is the voice of Venezuela. Raised in the small village of El Clavo in the region of Barlovento, her recent rural recordings with...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 11, 2018
  • Length: :45
  • Purchases: 1
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Victor Wooten is generally regarded as the most accomplished bass guitarist of his generation and is one of the founding member of the multiple Gra...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2018
  • Length: :45
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Suzanne Santo, the front-woman, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist for the popular Americana/Roots-rock duo HoneyHoney sets out on her own in suppo...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: :46
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A “songwriter’s songwriter” by any standard and a musical voice of the verdant Southeastern United States, Malcolm Holcomb stopped by the studios o...

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: :45
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Brothers Oliver and Chris Wood pursued their successful musical journeys separately until their mother’s battle with and subsequent death from ALS ...

  • Added: May 09, 2018
  • Length: :45
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Sarah Watkins, Aoife O’Donovan and Sara Jarosz all had successful solo careers on their own before forming the acoustic music supergroup I’m With H...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: :45
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In 2014 Scottish born singer songwriter and live looping artist KT Tunstall had had enough of “fame” and was on the verge of pulling the plug on he...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: :45
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It has always been a political act, a practice in strength and defiance, to be a woman and a bandleader, a female electric guitarist and composer, ...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2018
  • Length: :45
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Whitefish, Montana based multi-instumentalist and songwriter of a blend of indie rock, pop and soul Luke Dowler returns to Musician’s Spotlight for...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2018
  • Length: :45