Musician's Spotlight

Musician's Spotlight

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Musician's Spotlight episodes

  • Susan Gibson's Songs Take A Tour Of 'The Hard Stuff'
    After penning "Wide Open Spaces," a song that blew the doors off country music for The Dixie Chicks, former Montanan (and faithful annual visitor) Susan Gibson hit the open road with a van full of happy dogs and a heart full of songs to share. But the trip hasn’t only traversed la-la land. Gibson's latest album, The Hard Stuff , takes an uplifting look at the stuff that hurts.
    59 min
  • Russ Nasset And Martha Scanlan In The 'Musician's Spotlight'
    If you attended college in Missoula in the last 25 years, you probably closed down the Union Club dancing to Russ Nasset and the Revelators. Nasset takes his inspiration from songs, genres and stories passed down to him from a childhood spent in Shelby, on Montana’s Hi-Line. "The River and the Light," "The Shape of Things Gone Missing, The Shape of Things to Come:" the titles of Martha Scanlan 's recordings reflect time spent in southeast Montana with generations of Tongue River Valley ranchers
    59 min
  • Rodrigo Y Gabriela And Loren Stillman In The 'Musician's Spotlight'
    The flamenco-tinged rock sound of Mexican acoustic guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela , John Floridis’s first guests this week, melds Tomatito with Metallica and Carlos Santana with Pink Floyd. Gabriela Quintera tells John about the making of their recent album, Mettavolution . Next, saxophone virtuoso Loren Stillman stops by to chat about the life of an in-demand “A-list" player in New York City’s jazz scene.
    59 min
  • Howard Levy, Moira Smiley In The 'Musician's Spotlight'
    From intricate jazz solos to his "Concerto for Diatonic Harmonica and Orchestra,” he has stretched the harmonica beyond its ostensible limits. She sings “old modal folk songs” with Solas one week and performs with the indie band tUnE-yArDs the next. This week, "Musician's Spotlight" features encores with Howard Levy and Moira Smiley , two musicians for whom visionary boundary-pushing is just an ordinary Tuesday.
    59 min
  • The Garifuna Collective's 'Irresistible Groove' Captivates Audiences Around The World
    In July 2019, Al Obando of The Garifuna Collective transported host John Floridis from Butte's Montana Folk Festival to the small coastal Caribbean towns where the Garifuna community (also known as the Garinagu) speaks an endangered language and sings and dances what UNESCO calls "a masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity." The Collective, an intergenerational group of musicians from Belize, galvanizes audiences around the world with lyrical call-and-response melodies and
    59 min
  • John Butler's Latest Album Sticks Close To Home
    Australian-American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist John Butler returns to "Musician’s Spotlight" to visit with host John Floridis about his most recent and most personal recording to date, “Home.” Butler also opens up about his battles with clinical anxiety, and a poignant moment with his wife musician Mama Kin that helped him break through.
    59 min
  • Ani DiFranco's Musical Feminism Is More Prescient Than Ever
    With her twentieth studio album, Binary , singer/songwriter/activist/poet/DIY trendsetter Ani DiFranco returns to territory that brought her to the world’s attention more than twenty-five years ago. One of the first artists to create her own label in 1990, she has been recognized among the feminist pantheon for her entrepreneurship, social activism, and outspoken political lyrics. At a time of global chaos and confusion, DiFranco's punk edge remains sharp, her writing clear.
    59 min

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Today's most talented and compelling musicians visit Musicians' Spotlight to "talk shop" and give you a deeper insight into their music. Host and producer John Floridis brings his own musical…