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Columbia is a singer-songwriter of Americana music who comes from a small town in Maine. He is currently based in Murray, Utah. 

Songs featured: Run, Twenty-Five, Trouble, Life Changes, Hang My Hat, Save My Soul, Devil’s Music, Call You, Real Bad, Daddy’s Boots

Learn more about them here: https://columbiajonesmusic.com/ 

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Carl Cranmer is a world-famous pianist performing two differet excerpts from Gabriel Faure and Nikolai Medtner on Highway 89. 

Songs featured: Nine Préludes, Op. 103 (five of them) 1. D-flat major-Allegro 2. c-sharp minor-Allegro 4. F major-Allegro moderato 5. d minor-Allegro 8. c minor-Allegro; Forgotten Melodies II, Op. 39: 1. Meditazione 2. Romanza 3. Primavera 4. Canzona matinata 5. Sonata tragica

Learn more about him here: https://www.wcupa.edu/music/appliedmusic/cCranmer.aspx 

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The NEXT Ensemble performs live at Kaffe Mercantile. Their mission is to bring concert music to small coffee-shop venues like this one.

Songs featured: Suite No. 1 for Solo Cello in G Major, Prelude; Sonata No. 1 for Solo violin in G Minor, Adagio; Five; B.B. Wolf; PBD19; You Are Not Machines

Learn more about them here: http://nextensemble.org/web/home.aspx

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The Copper Hills High Madrigals Choir, directed by Marc Taylor, is the winner of the 2018 Classical 89 High School Choir Competition. In this episode of Highway 89 they perform a selection of their best music.

Songs featured: Walking on the Green Grass; Take Care of This House/My House; It Don't Mean a Thing; Pure Imagination; The Kiss; Suo Gan; Vestigia; Unicornis Captivatur; Leron, Leron Sinta

Learn more about them here: https://bit.ly/2WPN95X

Aspen Winds is a string quartet native to Utah. In this epsiode they present a selection of songs that celebrate the 150th anniversary of the completetion of the transcontinental railroad.

Songs featured: Surmounting Every Barrier; Irish Jig; Zhang Songs; Summerland;  City of Kindling; Thule Ultima; Fantasia and Cabaletta; Woodwind Quintet 3, Mvt. 2

Learn more about them here: http://www.aspenwinds.org/

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World-renowned pianist Jim Brickman joins Highway 89 at the beginning of his Joyful Christmas tour. 

Songs featured: Celebration; Thanksgiving; The Gift; Christmas Medley; That Silent Night; Simple Things; Rocket to the Moon; Timeless; Fly; If You Believe

Learn more about him here: https://www.jimbrickman.com/

Carl Cranmer is a world-famous pianist performing two differet excerpts from Gabriel Faure and Nikolai Medtner on Highway 89. 

Songs featured: Nine Préludes, Op. 103 (five of them) 1. D-flat major-Allegro 2. c-sharp minor-Allegro 4. F major-Allegro moderato 5. d minor-Allegro 8. c minor-Allegro; Forgotten Melodies II, Op. 39: 1. Meditazione 2. Romanza 3. Primavera 4. Canzona matinata 5. Sonata tragica

Learn more about him here: https://www.wcupa.edu/music/appliedmusic/cCranmer.aspx 

Watch selections from this episode on YouTube:

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Aimee Nolte is a jazz singer and pianist, visiting us from LA where she shines in the gigging scene as both a solo artist and the leader of a trio. While she’s primarily a jazz player, she brings her chops to music of all kinds – Aimee knows more than a thousand songs and can play them at the drop of a hat.

Some of those songs have been captured in a growing catalog of recordings that have been called “deeply personal, captivating works of art.” In 2016, Aimee started her YouTube channel, "Aimee Nolte Music" where she shares music and music conversation with a large and growing family of subscribers and fans. the world. There, in cyberspace, she teaches things like harmony, arranging, advanced jazz piano techniques, and even beginning piano and vocal skills.

Her visit to us on Highway 89 marks the release of a new album. About the album, she says she wants to create something that capitalizes on her jazz background, but “sees no limits, and stretches to include all flavors of music.”

Learn more about her here: https://www.aimeenolte.com/

Songs featured on the show: The Loveliest Girl, Falling Snow, I've Gotta Get, Looking For Answers, Save Me One Last Time

Folk-rock group Grizzly Goat describes their sound as 'Undomesticated Americana.' Listen to discover exactly what that means, what it's like to record in a rural Utah cabin, and why this band wants to write a song about all 50 states!

Songs featured: Time; Oh My Road; Virginia, Gentle, Wild Spaces; Oh Good Lord; Idaho; Don't Know How; Out of Sight Ain't Out of Mind; Southern Indiana; The Higher Ground 

Learn more about them here: https://www.grizzlygoatmusic.com/

Watch selections from this episode on YouTube: 

"Oh Good Lord": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM6tAVDPm50

"Southern Indiana": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztsWpSE3wtY

"Oh My Road": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2a0MFgvHjY

"Idaho": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqUmlOJXcbI

In 2005, a group of singers was en route to a festival in Italy. They had the repertoire, they were rehearsed – all ready to wow their waiting audience. All they needed now was a name. Paul Smith, one of those singers, said, "We needed a name to go on stage and there were eight of us and we were in Italy. We wanted something that feels like voices but had that Latin vibe to it, so we went with voces."

Thus was born VOCES8, a group that Gramophone calls “impeccable in its tone and balance.” The group brings to audiences a captivating blend of original and commissioned pieces, classical works, and even pop tunes. They’ve got a large and growing catalog of recordings, including their 2019 release Enchanted Isle, and maintains a touring and performing schedule that puts them before audiences in the most prestigious halls in the world.

As part of their visit to Brigham Young University as guests of the BRAVO! series, members of the group stopped by the Highway 89 studio to share conversation and album cuts with us. 

Learn more about them here: http://www.voces8.com/ 

Songs featured on the show: May it Be, Song for Athena, The Parting Glass, Hymn to the Fallen, O Magnum Mysterium, Stars, The Luckiest