Musician's Spotlight

Musician's Spotlight

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Musician's Spotlight episodes

  • Amy Ray's Music Hollers 'Subversiveness With A Smile'
    Amy Ray , who is one-half of the Indigo Girls duo, has always leaned toward the rockier side of folk-rock, but neither "folk" nor "rock" fully describes the breadth of her solo work. It's infused with a Southern punk feel she likes to call "subversiveness with a smile." On the next “Musician’s Spotlight,” Amy Ray returns to chat with host John Floridis about her most recent recording Holler , and to reflect on her decades-long career.
    30 min
  • Caitlin Canty's Grit And Ache Cohabit The 'Motel Bouquet'
    Caitlin Canty is an American singer and songwriter whose music carves a line through folk, blues, and country ballads. "Motel Bouquet," Canty’s third record, was produced by Grammy-nominated Noam Pikelny (Punch Brothers) and recorded live over three days in Nashville. Rolling Stone hails "Motel Bouquet" as “dreamy and daring” with “poetic lyrics and haunting melodies.”
    30 min
  • Allison Miller Plays Drums Like A Girl
    For more than three decades, New York jazz drummer, composer, bandleader and teacher Allison Miller has been merrily improvising her way into new musical genres and projects. Miller, whom the DownBeat Magazine Critics' Poll named "Rising Star Drummer" and "Top 20 Jazz Drummer," is the driving force behind albums by Natalie Merchant, Brandi Carlile, Ani DiFranco, Joey Arias, Pino Daniele, Erin McKeown and many others.
    30 min
  • Nathan East: You've Been Listening To Him For Years Without Knowing It
    Just two years after he'd taken up the bass guitar, sixteen-year-old Nathan East found himself on the road with Barry White. The next time the phone rang, Quincy Jones was on the line. The calls kept coming, and for more than forty years, East has been holding down the bass on hit songs with Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, Whitney Houston, Beyoncé, Barbra Streisand, Stevie Wonder, and Daft Punk.
    30 min
  • Suzanne Santo's Americana-Noir Debut Purrs And Broods
    Suzanne Santo , the fiddling, banjo-playing frontwoman for the duo HoneyHoney, lays out genre-crossing, self-penned songs on her first solo recording, “Ruby Red.” A reviewer described HoneyHoney’s first album as “taking its cue from Appalachian folk, country ballads, jazz and Quentin Tarantino films.”
    30 min
  • 2018 Crown Of The Continent Guitar Festival Round-Up
    John Floridis profiles the roster of musicians playing the 2018 Crown of the Continent Guitar Festival in Bigfork, Montana, August 28 - September 1. Listen to Montana Public Radio at 8:00 p.m. Friday, August 31st for highlights from the festival's Thursday performance featuring Poco with Rusty Young, Justin Townes Earle, and Guthrie Brown.
    59 min
  • Erica von Kleist Plays Jazz And Builds The Flathead Valley's 'Music Biodome'
    Erica von Kleist graduated from Julliard in 2004 with a jazz degree, and spent the next ten years in New York City working as a pianist, saxophonist and flautist, a bandleader, a theater music director, a composer, and an arranger. She collaborated with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Chris Potter, Broadway star Eric Michael Krop, the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Rufus Reid, and Anne Hampton Callaway, among many others.
    30 min
  • I'm With Her: A Band Of Harmonizing Soloists
    Solo musicians Sara Watkins, Aoife O’Donovan and Sarah Jarosz discovered a strong musical bond while jamming onstage at the 2014 Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and after follow-up group appearances, they formed a band called I’m With Her .
    18 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…