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The Big River Radio Wave Best Christmas Show Ever... Again

December 24, 2018 - 8:00am

Recorded before a live audience at the Big River Theatre in historic Alma, Wisconsin, we hear from Wisconsin Poet Laureate Emeritus Max Garland, author B.J. Hollars and comedian Mary Mack, with a special performance by Native American singer-songwriter and Grammy award-winner Bill Miller. The house band is La Crosse-based bluegrass band String Ties.

Tinsel Tales 4: So Much More NPR Christmas Favorites

December 24, 2018 - 7:00am

Christmas decorations on display at Christmas World in Germany

The fourth in a collection of NPR Christmas stories, we revisit interviews with musicians about their Christmas albums. This one-hour special includes voices from NPR's past and present telling stories of the season. Some tales are funny; some are touching; some are insightful or irreverent or nostalgic or surprising.

Robert Gehrenbeck

December 12, 2018 - 12:00pm

Norman talks to Robert Gehrenbeck, Artistic Director for the Wisconsin Chamber Choir. The choir will be performing Bach's Christmas Oratorio with the orchestra on December 14, 2018 at Luther Memorial Church in Madison and in the Young Auditorium in Whitewater on December 16.

Photo of Robert Gehrenbeck in WPR Studio

Robert Gehrenbeck - Studio photo by Allen Rieland

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Glaring Omissions: The Music We Missed In 2018

December 12, 2018 - 4:00am

Year-end lists are a way to uncover hidden gems, not simply to validate tastes. I'm sure many lists you've looked at didn't have that one favorite you hold near and dear. This episode of All Songs is about our hidden gems, the ones that, in the give-and-take of making a...

Justin Vernon's Eaux Claires Music Festival Canceled For 2019, Will Return In 2020

December 11, 2018 - 12:10pm

The Eaux Claires Festival will not be held in 2019 with organizers saying they'll use the year to re-imagine and relaunch the festival in 2020.

Listener-Request Show

December 9, 2018 - 5:00pm

You asked for it, and this week on Simply Folk’s listener-request show, hear tunes from the Indigo Girls, Neil Young, Kris Delmhorst, the Whiskey Farm, Bruce Springsteen, and Mark Dvorak, along with some music for Christmas.

The Art of Throat Singing - A New Movement

December 8, 2018 - 10:00am

Prologue: The art and practice of throat-singing, a guttural style of vocalization or chanting, is one of the world's oldest musical expressions in which the human voice produces more than one note at a time...

Earl Sweatshirt On Resentment, Growth And Giving Yourself A Chance

December 7, 2018 - 8:15am

Earl Sweatshirt has a lot to process. The Los Angeles rapper has just returned from a three-year break to release his third studio album, Some Rap Songs , last month and he's been taking it all in. All across downtown LA, promo posters of the album read: 'Thebe Kgositsile, professionally...

'Fight The Power': A Tale Of 2 Anthems (With The Same Name)

December 7, 2018 - 4:03am

This story is part of American Anthem, a yearlong series on songs that rouse, unite, celebrate and call to action. Find more at NPR.org/Anthem . Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, said, "The young always inherit the revolution." That couldn't be more true of two songs, released...

#1275 12.8.18 Live Broadcast

December 6, 2018 - 1:00pm

Jonathan's live broadcast of world music features: Benjarmin Britten, Yasmine Hamdan, Grasslands Ensemble, Grazyna Auguscik, Chancha Via Circuito, Maharajah Flamenco Trio, Marta Gomez, East Pointers, Katherine Hoover, King Oliver, Solaris Quartet, Soweto Gospel Choir, Hassan Hakmoun, and a mix of Cuban and Brazilian grooves. Soundbed: Tk 6 Ines Pupo &...

Madison Bach Musicians

December 6, 2018 - 12:40pm

Photo of Arash Noori playing the Theorbo

Trevor Stephenson, artistic director of the Madison Bach Musicians, introduces Arash Noori who performs several pieces on the Theorbo, a type of large lute. The Madison Bach Musicians will hold their Baroque Holiday Concert on Saturday, December 8th at the First Congregational Church in Madison.

Spectrum West, December 6, 2018

December 6, 2018 - 10:00am

The Master Singers, Art Exhibit, Poetry Reading and Dance Class- The Master Singers and their annual Christmas concert was discussed on Spectrum West. The program also featured information about upcoming events such as a UW-Eau Claire Theatre production, an ArtsWest exhibit at the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, a singalong and poetry reading at the River Falls Public Library and a conversation with a Minneapolis dancer offering classes in Hudson.

"We All Need More Kindness in This World" by We Banjo 3

December 6, 2018 - 9:55am

We Banjo 3 is a four-piece string band from Galway, Ireland, that plays a blend of music they call "Celtgrass." This recording is from an in-studio interview they did with Stephanie Elkins on May 5, 2016.

All Songs Considered: The Year In Music 2018

December 3, 2018 - 4:00am

Well, kids, it's been another year of holograms, headlines and big human messes here in Orbit City. At least music brought us together again and again in 2018, whether in the crowd to see Mitski, Janelle Monáe or Brandi Carlile, or surrounded by strangers in bed at Max Richter's SLEEP...

Music for Chanukah and Winter

December 2, 2018 - 5:00pm

On Simply Folk this week, we’ll have music for Chanukah by Woody Guthrie and the Jay Ungar and Molly Mason Family Band, as well as new music for winter by the Okee Dokee Brothers, and tunes from Harry Chapin, Eva Cassidy, and Darlingside.

Eau Claire Master Singers Lessons and Carols, 2017

December 2, 2018 - 1:00pm

Selections from the 2017 Lessons and Carols concert by the Eau Claire Master Singers

Suzzy Roche Pays Tribute To Her Late Sister Maggie With Album, 'Where Do I Come From'

December 1, 2018 - 11:00am

Maggie Roche in New York in 1979, the year The Roches released their debut album

In honor of her sister Maggie Roche's memory and music, Suzzy has put together a collection of songs by Maggie called "Where Do I Come From."

#1274 12.1.18 Live Broadcast

November 30, 2018 - 1:00pm

Jonathan's live broadcast of world music features: Femi Kuti, Yale Strom, Natacha Atlas, Peter Rowan, Elements, Hanggai, Hosam Hayek, Chris stout and Catriona McKay, Aaron Copland, Blind Boys of Alabama, Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Meriam Alter, Tinariwen, Miles Davis, and much more. Soundbed: Tk 3 Federick De Grandpre, “Noel Avec Toi”,...

South Africa's Legendary Ladysmith Black Mamabazo

November 30, 2018 - 10:00am

Ladysmith Black Mambazo founded by Joseph Shabala in the early 1960s, has recorded over 60 albums that showcase their unique vocal style, expressed in the South African Zulu language.

Soundbed: Tk 1 LadysmithBlack Mambazo ‘Isimanga Solomhlaba’ CmplCD2 5.16
World 2002, Narada World, 2002 (‘That’s Amazing’)

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The Big River Radio Wave Best Christmas Show Ever... Again

Tinsel Tales 4: So Much More NPR Christmas Favorites

Robert Gehrenbeck

Glaring Omissions: The Music We Missed In 2018

Justin Vernon's Eaux Claires Music Festival Canceled For 2019, Will Return In 2020

Listener-Request Show

The Art of Throat Singing - A New Movement

Earl Sweatshirt On Resentment, Growth And Giving Yourself A Chance

'Fight The Power': A Tale Of 2 Anthems (With The Same Name)

#1275 12.8.18 Live Broadcast

Madison Bach Musicians

Spectrum West, December 6, 2018

"We All Need More Kindness in This World" by We Banjo 3

All Songs Considered: The Year In Music 2018

Music for Chanukah and Winter

Eau Claire Master Singers Lessons and Carols, 2017

Suzzy Roche Pays Tribute To Her Late Sister Maggie With Album, 'Where Do I Come From'

#1274 12.1.18 Live Broadcast

South Africa's Legendary Ladysmith Black Mamabazo

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