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Will Liverman's latest album, Show Me The Way, honors women's contributions to music.

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Baritone Will Liverman celebrates women in new album 'Show Me The Way'

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Grammy-winning baritone Will Liverman about his latest album — Show Me The Way — honoring women in classical music, past and present.

March 08, 2024
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  • Olivia Hampton
"I remember any time I traveled to Mexico and other countries in the continent, I felt like, 'I'm Latina, but I'm not exactly like the people here,' Arocena tells NPR. "When I came to Puerto Rico, it was like, 'okay, now I understand.' "

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How Daymé Arocena left Cuba and found a freeing new sound in Afro-Caribbean pop

The Cuban jazz artist says she's never felt welcome in Latin pop. That is, until she came to Puerto Rico to record her new album, Alkemi, which expands her sound into R&B, bossa nova and neo-soul.

March 01, 2024
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
<em>The Past Is Still Alive</em> is Alynda Segarra's latest and perhaps most autobiographical album as Hurray for the Riff Raff.

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Hurray for the Riff Raff, the rail-riding teen poet who lived to sing the tale

On The Past Is Still Alive, Alynda Segarra's latest album as Hurray for the Riff Raff, the shapeshifting folk artist dives into deeply personal stories from their own vagabond youth.

February 23, 2024
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  • Phil Harrell and
  • Steve Inskeep
James Brown, pictured here in the 1960s, was born in South Carolina not far from the Georgia line, moved to Augusta, Ga. at age five and later found superstardom. A new documentary series explores his journey to becoming the 'Godfather of Soul.'

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James Brown 'taught us about our Blackness.' A new TV documentary examines complex Godfather of Soul

James Brown: Say It Loud, a new documentary series debuting Feb. 19 and 20 at 8 p.m. on A+E delves into the legendary life of the  international superstar who proudly called Augusta, Ga., his home.

February 19, 2024
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  • Pamela Kirkland
Jennifer Lopez, from her film <em>This Is Me...Now</em> © Amazon Content Services LLC

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Jennifer Lopez: Then and now

Jennifer Lopez offers a companion to her 2002 album This Is Me...Then. On This Is Me...Now she is once again inspired by falling in love with Ben Affleck.

February 16, 2024
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  • Leila Fadel,
  • Lilly Quiroz,
  • and 1 more
Jan Vogler plays a 1707 Stradivari cello made during Bach's lifetime. He compares it to learning to swim in an Olympic pool: "the pressure on me is more to have imagination to match the instrument."

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  • Music Interviews

Amanda Gorman's poetry and Bach's music offer joint message of hope

Poet Amanda Gorman and German cellist Jan Vogler combine poetry and Bach's cello suites at New York's Carnegie Hall to share the "lows and highs" of human experience.

February 16, 2024
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  • Olivia Hampton
"It's like a combination of feeling like you're in a dream and feeling like you're finally living your dream," Noah Kahan says of his arena-sized fame.

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  • Music Interviews

Noah Kahan on TikTok fame, his sold-out arena tour and taking his mom to the Grammys

Noah Kahan went from writing a pandemic album on his parents' farm in rural Vermont to selling out an arena tour and being nominated for best new artist at the Grammys.

February 04, 2024
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  • Elissa Nadworny
Jonathan Scales

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The steel pan has a legacy. Jonathan Scales is redefining it.

Meet a steel pan artist that will knock you out of your shoes. Jonathan Scales provides new angles to hear and appreciate his enigmatic instrument.

January 25, 2024
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  • Sarah Geledi and
  • Simon Rentner
The Takács Quartet — left to right: Edward Dusinberre, Harumi Rhodes, Richard O'Neill and András Fejér — collaborated with composer Nokuthula Ngwenyama (center) to premiere her composition "Flow."

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What did the beginning of time sound like? A new string quartet offers an impression

Nokuthula Ngwenyama's Flow is on a 13-city tour of performances by the celebrated Takács Quartet.

January 19, 2024
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  • Olivia Hampton
The 30A Songwriters Festival, now in its 15th year, has become a regional tradition for touring musicians and  is a favorite of Georgia-based performers.

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Florida's 30A Songwriters Festival celebrates 15 years of national headliners — and Georgia roots

The annual music gathering at venues along the beaches of Walton County in Florida's panhandle was co-founded by Atlanta artist manager Russell Carter and this year features headliners including Elvis Costello, Rosanne Cash and Jeff Tweedy as well as Georgia favorites Shawn Mullins, David Lowery, David Ryan Harris, John Driscoll Hopkins and more.

January 11, 2024
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  • Kristi York Wooten
GPB News NPR

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Barbra Streisand shares her secret for keeping performances honest

When she was starring in Funny Girl on Broadway, Streisand says she'd alter the music slightly each night. Her new memoir is My Name is Barbra. Originally broadcast Nov. 8, 2023.

January 01, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
Clockwise from left: Brad Mehldau, Maryam Keshavarz, Samantha Irby, Lauren Fleshman, Ke Huy Quan and Christian Cooper.

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  • Arts & Life

'Fresh Air' staffers pick the 2023 interviews you shouldn't miss

Interviews with actor Ke Huy Quan, pianist Jason Moran, humorist Samantha Irby, and media critic Brian Stelter are among the conversations that stuck with the staff of Fresh Air this year.

December 29, 2023
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  • Molly Seavy-Nesper and
  • Seth Kelley
GPB News NPR

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  • Author Interviews

'Music was there for me when I needed it,' The Roots co-founder Tariq Trotter says

Trotter, aka Black Thought, reflects on his childhood in Philly, his decades-long friendship with Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson. Trotter's memoir is The Upcycled Self. Originally broadcast Nov. 7, 2023.

December 28, 2023
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  • Tonya Mosley
(L-R) Taraji P. Henson as Shug Avery, Fantasia Barrino as Celie and Danielle Brooks as Sofia in <em>The Color Purple</em>, a Warner Bros. Pictures release.

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  • Movies

'Everyone walked away with part of themselves healed' – 'The Color Purple' reimagined

Blitz Bazawule's musical re-imagining of the 1982 Alice Walker novel The Color Purple finds new joy among the pain.

December 23, 2023
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  • Phil Harrell,
  • Michel Martin,
  • and 1 more
In this July 6, 2005 file photo, James Brown performs on stage during the Live 8 concert at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland. The family of entertainer James Brown has reached a settlement ending a 15-year battle over late singer’s estate. David Black, an attorney representing Brown’s estate, confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday, July 23, 2021 that the agreement was reached July 9.

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  • Music Interviews

Whether you're merry or miserable, David Byrne's holiday playlist will resonate

The singer-songwriter and Talking Heads frontman presents some of his favorite holiday music — including songs by The Pogues, James Brown, LCD Soundsystem and Paul Simon.

December 20, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
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