Podcasts by Song Of The Soul
Song of the Soul invites you to a soul-level encounter. Music has the ability to proclaim the soul's language beyond what mere words can speak. That's what we seek as we invite our guests to share their Song of the Soul. You will hear the music that has charted the steps of their spiritual journey, that has provided a touchstone in the soul's dark night, and sung the hearts awe and joy when come to the Light. As you listen to Song of the Soul, you are both witness and companion to our guest's spiritual path and sacred testimony. Song of the Soul guests provide about 25 minutes of the music that speaks of their spiritual path, beliefs or journey, and Mark Helpsmeet explores with them the relevance and meaning of this music to their experience. Some guests are musicians, perhaps sharing their own music, but most guests are simply sharing music they've been impacted by, written and performed by others. The theme song for this program is by Cris Williamson and is called Song of the Soul. Please check out the wealth of great music Cris has gifted to the world.
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Voices United from 2021-07-31T12:00
Jerry Hui is an amazing choral director, both composing and bringing out of singers intricate & moving performances. Jerry is Director of Choral Activities at UW-Stout, and directs a number of othe...
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Harmonizing With Lamed Vavniks, Hafiz, & The Gita from 2021-07-24T12:00
Together Ira Levin and Julia Bordenaro Levin (sometimes with other artists) are The Levins, a weaving of beautiful music, harmonies, & lyrics. Ira comes from rich Jewish ground and avidly draws on ...
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Painting the Sky with Music from 2021-07-17T12:00
Kora Feder paints the sky, beautifully, with her words and melodies. Drawing on years living around the world, notably in Asia, and nurtured by musically-gifted parents like Rita Hosking & Sean Fed...
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Singing the Living Legacy from 2021-07-10T12:00
Reggie Harris has always been full of music & inspiration, but never more so than as he finishes his 7th decade on the planet. He's shared music all over the folk music map, including with his form...
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Home In Your Heart With SW Gem Jaspar Lepak from 2021-07-03T12:00
Prepare to have your heart stolen by today's guest, Jaspar Lepak. Jaspar did not really get into music till post-college, but she burst into it full-bore, including producing 5 CDs in a very short ...
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Gracefully Walking Though Fire With Vanessa Lively from 2021-06-26T12:00
On the website of Vanessa Lively you'll see noted that she creates folk & world music that beautifully joins heartfelt lyrics with soulful vocals. This is true - deeply true - and time with Vanessa...
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Light, Heart, & A Glorious Morning With Bob Reid from 2021-06-19T12:00
Music is deep in Bob Reid's genetics, both from his father's record store and his mother's performing. The gift was also nurtured in him by the folk music community around San Francisco, including ...
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Pain, Dark, Heart, Land, Protest, & Belief - Songs of Social Change Vol. 5 from 2021-06-12T12:00
Andy Douglas was a judge for the 2020, Song for Social Change, Volume 5, a product of the Renaissance Artists & Writers Association. Included in the top 10 were Alastair Moock, Jason Horowitz & The...
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Life, Loss, & Lyrical Longing With Judi Jaeger from 2021-06-05T12:00
Judi Jaeger grew up in Canada, but moved to the USA decades ago and became a US citizen. Considering her early passion for and proficiency in music, it's surprising that she completely abandoned th...
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No Regrets From Friction Farm - Aidan Quinn from 2021-05-29T12:00
Aidan Quinn is half of Friction Farm, and together with Christine Stay (listen to her Nov 2020 interview) they make beautiful, fun, and inspirational folk-Americana-roots music. Aiden was part of m...
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Mustard Seed to Dancing Star - Cici Artemisia from 2021-05-22T12:00
Cici Artemisia is always swimming on the deep side of the pool, even as she enchants & delights. In addition to the 2 decades she performed as part of Bordertown, she discovered a calling to music ...
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Music Medicine With Tricia Alexander from 2021-05-15T12:00
Tricia Alexander's songs are Music Medicine. She is also a poet, a minister, a mentor, a healing artist, and, on top of that, she is a wonderful, vivacious, captivating storyteller. With a spiritua...
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Stardust Saltwater to Devil's Darner: Jonathan Foster from 2021-05-08T12:00
Jonathan Foster's music has magic, melody and even some mirth. He's got a deep connection with the Earth, grown out his origins in the shadow of the Adirondacks of the Eastern US, now thriving in t...
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Blessing to All My Relations from 2021-05-01T12:00
Who do you know who speaks at least 3 languages, has lived in several countries, performed between Renaissance Fairs year-round for 10 years, writes & sings profoundly deep & moving songs, and can ...
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Living Music, Sacred Flute from 2021-04-24T12:00
Peter Phippen is best known, perhaps, as a master of the flute - actually many different types of flutes, including those of Native American origin. That is, in fact, what earned him a Grammy nomin...
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Wings, Trains, & Gold in Salado, Texas from 2021-04-17T12:00
For about 10 years Richard Paul Thomas (or on FB) made music around Milwaukee, WI, as part of The Counts, The Polaras, Ron & The Continentals, The Gamblers, The Too Young to Know Anything about Pai...
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Old Finger-Picking Dog With New Tricks: Rolly Brown from 2021-04-10T12:00
Rolly Brown delivers quality, whether it's his 4x-a-week on-line Curve Flattening Concerts, his guitar instruction, his Bucks County Tai Chi, or his humane dog training info. With a blues name like...
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Love & Family Harmony with David Heitler-Klevans from 2021-04-03T12:00
David and Jenny Heitler-Klevans have been doing music together as Two of a Kind for around 3 decades. Rooted mostly in the Folk-Americana genre, they have focused on children & family music, 9 albu...
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Surfing The Undertow With Marci Geller from 2021-03-27T12:00
Marci Geller can be sweet, has a gift of poetry & melody, sings and writes beautifully, but most of all she weaves a web of magic and inclusion through her music, taking us on a journey of both dep...
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Lou & Peter Berryman, No Joke! from 2021-03-20T12:00
Lou & Peter Berryman are known for their unstoppable humor & wordplay, and for their distinctive guitar & accordion instrumentation. Based in Madison, WI, they've churned out many hundreds of songs...
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Saturday Singalong With Laura Goetz from 2021-03-13T12:00
Laura Goetz shares the Saturday Singalong at 6 pm CDT. She shares a wide assortment of group singing tunes, leading with her wonderful voice and accompanying herself on uke, banjo, piano, and even ...
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Hip-Hop Taking Over Ghana from 2021-03-06T12:00
Ellis Torku is SEIZE FIRE, bringing powerful, peace-oriented Hip-Hop music from Ghana, in West Africa, to the world. From his High Fire Empire Music Production Company he delivers music with meanin...
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Punk, Meditation & Healing: Erin Incoherent from 2021-02-27T12:00
Erin Incoherent's music comes straight out of the punk-rock world, though it maybe has drifted also into the folk-punk genre. Whatever the name, whatever the genre, the music is beautiful, the lyri...
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Better Days: Winter 2019 Revisited from 2021-02-20T12:00
A visit to this program the last 2 months before COVID-19, with brief selections from the 2019 interviews with Susan Salidor, The Fairest and Best, Particle Kid (J. Micah Nelson), Sigrid Christians...
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Free By Undo Influence - Ryan Summers from 2021-02-13T12:00
Ryan Summers started making music with a garage band in Chippewa Falls, WI, moved into DJ-ing and producing rave-style music under the name Plastic Portal. In the past 10 years he's produced 2 CDs ...
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Solace In The Wild with Erin Ivey from 2021-02-06T12:00
Erin Ivey is a french-speaking, Queen-of-the-Austin singer-songwriters artist who creates some of the best Folk-Americana music around. Erin is also generous with her talents, acting as a songwriti...
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This Too Shall Pass with Chris Wilhelm from 2021-01-30T12:00
Chris Wilhelm's 5-year journey of healing & growth has birthed his seventh album, This Too Shall Pass, a message & inspiration perfect for the year of COVID-19. Chris' teenage years were a journey ...
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Music Before COVID - Fall 2019 SOS from 2021-01-23T12:00
A sampler of the fine Song of the Soul guests in the fall of 2019, before COVID-19 quarantines. With guests east, west, and from the Heartland, we share glimpses of our visits with Phil Hoose, Susa...
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The Woman In Me - Susan Marie Gallion from 2021-01-16T12:00
Susan Marie Gallion's song, The Woman In Me has won many a heart, and was even nominated for a Grammy Award. Though Susan wrote it, most folks got to know it through the voice of Crystal Gayle. It'...
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Flute & Longing with Lisa Wildman from 2021-01-09T12:00
Regular Song of the Soul listeners know how much I love singer-songwriter/folk & music, and it was some of that sort of music that first attracted me to Lisa Wildman, but that only scratches the su...
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76 Years On Stage - Josh White Jr. from 2021-01-02T12:00
Josh White Jr on Facebook has a 5-star musical pedigree, having performed competently at the age of 4, continuing to delight audiences across the entire country for another 76 years (so far). The m...
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Mile-high Rock & Folking Roll from 2020-12-26T12:00
Born in the 80s, Jeffrey Dallet draws deep energy & inspiration from the folk music of earlier generations, and faithfully harnesses the folk movement, embellishing, transmuting, & evolving it in s...
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Late Bloomer In Full Bloom - Jesse Palidofsky from 2020-12-12T12:00
Jesse Palidofsky turned to writing & performing music later in life in spite of an early passion for the music. Along the way, Jesse ran folk coffeehouses and did radio shows of multiple genres of ...
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Uncovered Music Of Tim Purcell from 2020-12-05T12:00
Tim Purcell had been around the musical block a number of times, all the way from his first band, American Apple, and including (but not limited to) Lou's Blues Revue, Perfect World, The Riley Hawk...
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Chaucer's Spiritual Progeny - David Arn from 2020-11-28T12:00
David Arn is a story-teller, or, better yet, a verbal story-painter who came to songwriting late in life, but in time to produce 3 CDs of his music by the age of 70. He self-describes as making mus...
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Never One Thing - Annie Patterson Rises Again from 2020-11-21T12:00
She's never just one (musical) thing. As the co-creator of the immensely popular group-singing songbook, Rise Up Singing, and its sequel, Rise Again, Annie Patterson has one foot securely rooted in...
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Fruits of Friction Farm & Christine Stay from 2020-11-14T12:00
Christine Stay & Aidan Quinn are the modern-folk duo known as Friction Farm. Starting, both, from science-geek jobs, they followed their hearts from work they were very competent at into work that ...
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No Turning Back! from 2020-11-07T12:00
Kristin Lems is insightful, determined, compassionate, and talented, and sees our world with eyes honed by the experience of living in Iran, Algeria, & Mongolia, the last 2 as a Fulbright scholar. ...
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Pittsburgh's Chameleon Rocker/R&B/Americana Folker, John Vento from 2020-10-31T12:00
John Vento self-describes as making Americana Classic Rock with Indie Folk Pop surprises, which you can find when he performs solo, with Nied's Hotel Band, or, in the past, with Xposure and Bmen. H...
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Sweetest & Meanest, Deep & Shallow, Truest Blue from 2020-10-24T12:00
Tom Kimmel spent more than 3 decades in Nashville sharing his songs with folks like Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Linda Ronstadt, Nanci Griffith, Dolly Parton, Shawn Colvin, Art Garfunkel, and many...
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Song of the Water from 2020-10-17T12:00
Clare Norelle is all about healing & wholeness, and that quality pours through her music. Her voice & lyrics are soothing, dancing, flowing, & beautiful. Clare also enchants the world with things l...
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Magic Medicine Mountain Singer from 2020-10-10T12:00
So much to love about Ash Devine - her songs, her singing, her humanitarian clowning, her Magic Penny instrument gifting, her Earth connection, her social activism, & much more. Combining indie-fol...
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Kickin' A Stone, Rafting Safe Home from 2020-10-03T12:00
Johnsmith includes exactly the right mix of heart, wonder, & whimsy in the songs he writes, combined with a flawless voice and impeccable guitar. He has produced 8 solo CDs, was a Kerrville New Fol...
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Going Forward With Mary Lou Fulton from 2020-09-26T12:00
Each year there's a contest sponsored by the Renaissance Artists and Writers Association called Songs for Social Change, and today we have here the winner of last year's contest. Mary Lou Fulton ra...
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Fishin' with John Prine from 2020-09-19T12:00
A tribute to John Prine, with 6 guests, some singing songs by John, others singing songs about and inspired by John, all paying tribute to a great, truly unique, country-folk singer who died this p...
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Camping with Dads & Peter Alsop from 2020-09-12T12:00
Peter Alsop's latest release is Camping With Dads, and it includes all the fun & profundity you expect from Peter, providing learning about all kinds of stuff, from racism to listening to violence ...
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The Light Has Won from 2020-09-05T12:00
Shawn Gallaway is a minstrel of health, wholeness, hope, & love, a message and mission that opened its stride to cover more of the Earth with his anthem, I Choose Love. His music is soul-deep, a po...
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Queer Sacred Music in the Time of COVID-19 from 2020-08-29T12:00
Amanda Udis-Kessler is a music-creation fountain whose recent project is QueerSacredMusic.com, 60-plus songs beginning with sacred music relative to LGBTQ concerns, but enriched by the spiritual ex...
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Going Forward With Songs of Social Change from 2020-08-22T12:00
A look at some of the finalists of the Songs for Social Change contest in 2019, artists with a variety of styles & themes, all about change for the better. With reggae, electronica, rock, & folk, 6...
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Sparky Rucker's Good Old Way from 2020-08-15T12:00
Sparky Rucker was introduced to the music of the civil rights movement when his mother took him to his first march at the age of 14, but he was already steeped in the music of the era in the black ...
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Singing As We Rise - Joe Newberry from 2020-08-08T12:00
Joe Newberry has a wonderful voice, and writes tunes & lyrics to enrich that wonderful voice to the point of sublime. Writing music that tends toward old-timey, bluegrass, spirtuals, torch songs, &...
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Not Just Some Pretty Guitar - Rick Ruskin from 2020-08-01T12:00
Though Rick Ruskin has a voice sometimes reminiscent of James Taylor, with all the enchantment that implies, and though he's got a lot of wonderful lyrics & tunes, the way that Rick most distinctiv...
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Wonder Woman in our Dreams from 2020-07-25T12:00
Leslie Evers has been singing and writing songs forever, but she waited decades to release them to the world. With her beautiful voice, lyrical skill, and trusty guitar and banjo, she casts magical...
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Compassionate, Deep & Sometimes Snarky from 2020-07-18T12:00
Lisa Ann Wright (or on Facebook) makes compassionate, thoughtful, creative music, even as she performs as one of the Snarky Sisterz with Diana Quinn. Her song, My Daily Bread, was included in the S...
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Smiling, Loving, Foolish, World-changing Eyes: Robinlee Garber from 2020-07-11T12:00
Robinlee Garber started out from New York, explored other cities & states while also exploring careers in creating art, stage production, and clinical art therapy, but she found home in Chicago, wh...
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Wolf's Howl, Moth's Flutter: Laura Farley from 2020-07-04T12:00
Laura Farley, along with her husband, Jym, are High and Rising, a duo from La Crosse, Wisconsin, getting ready to release their first CD. For some years now they, and up to 4 other people, are know...
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Not Really Sane, Not Really Sorry: Larry Heagle from 2020-06-27T12:00
Larry Heagle is an Eau Claire-centric, Midwest-roaming musician with a specially in comedy stand-up, who just published a memoire, of sorts, loaded with all the kinds of comedy & quirky world-view ...
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Self-Realization & Songs for Social Change from 2020-06-20T12:00
The mission of Ananda Marga is self-realization & service to humanity, and one of the ways they do this is the work of RAWA (Renaissance Artists and Writers Association). They hold an annual contes...
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Summer 2019 Gems & Jewels from 2020-06-13T12:00
Remembering the Gems & Jewels of Summer 2019 shows, with Jerry Hui (Voices United) and Jennifer Evans (Just Folk in Boston) and Randall Adams (Wind, Waves, Dreams, & Music) and Regla Garcia-Schmidt...
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Pre-Corona Souls - Spring 2019 Retrospective from 2020-06-06T12:00
Song of the Soul broadcast retrospective of a simpler, less COVID-19, time, one year ago, in 2019, with Victoria Shoemaker (Bewitching) and Kora Feder (Painting the Sky with Music) and Peter Phippe...
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Frog In A New Hampshire Pond: Tom Pirozolli from 2020-05-30T12:00
When Tom Pirozzoli isn't making or playing folk music, you can pretty much find him painting in his New Hampshire studio. Having rambled widely over many continents, Tom has gathered lots of "grist...
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Thy Music - India to California from 2020-05-23T12:00
Kirk Mann weaves so much together - passion for the guitar, deeply spiritual lyrics & tunes, a seeking, listening soul, and healing work via Chinese Medicine. Find him on Facebook, on Reverbnation,...
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Songs for All the Best: Jude Johnstone from 2020-05-16T12:00
Jude Johnstone touches hearts & souls with her songs, whether sung by her or by the likes of Johnny Cash, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Nicks, Bette Midler, or so many others. From Maine, to LA to Nashville...
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Deidre's Theme from 2020-05-09T12:00
Deidre McCalla showed a flair for the limelight even when she was 7, so it was no surprise to find her performing folk music with her high school trio, Friendship, which brought them to the edge of...
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California Is Her Country: Rita Hosking from 2020-05-02T12:00
The musical genius gene came to Rita Hosking from her mother, and Rita has passed it faithfully on to her daughter, Kora Feder. Rita grew up in rural Shasta County, California, and caught the music...
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Walking Massachusetts on Rising Roads: Mark Mandeville from 2020-04-25T12:00
Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards make beautiful, deep, real music, delivered with rich vocals supported & enhanced by a variety of instruments. Locally known for their annual Massachusetts Walkin...
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A Porch Party Mama: Ksenia Mack from 2020-04-18T12:00
Ksenia Mack is great writing and performing on her own, but is part of a quintuple threat with the Porch Party Mamas. Her songs and music are evocative, warm, & touching, guiding the listener throu...
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Being Love: Laura Marie from 2020-04-11T12:00
Laura Marie brings to her music exactly the talents & inspirations that make for exquisite, soul-moving, life-affirming, path-changing songs. With the honesty, vulnerability, clarity, and power of ...
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Nashville's Peaceful Tornado: Andi Renfree from 2020-04-04T12:00
Andi Renfree stormed into Nashville, scoring almost immediately with one of her songs recorded by Chris LeDoux. She's collaborated with a number of songwriter/performers, and has performed with sev...
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St. Nick & the Promised Land: Spook Handy from 2020-03-28T12:00
Spook Handy saw 2 images in the mirror, did not choose the actuarial path, and it has made all the difference. Taking the stage with Pete Seeger more than 50 times didn't hurt his street cred, but ...
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Hills, Stars, Weather, & Nothing - Claudia Schmidt from 2020-03-21T12:00
There is a power & depth, a vibrant, evocative rootedness in the music of Claudia Schmidt. Over the 24 recordings Claudia has created has run the reflection of the earth & water of the Midwest, but...
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Banjo Grace of Donna Lynn Caskey from 2020-03-14T12:00
Donna Lynn Caskey is a Banjo Gal on Facebook and in person. From a musical family, headed to art studies, she got hijacked by a banjo, and pays for her music addition by her job as a social worker....
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Perfect Guy, Perfect World from 2020-03-07T12:00
Kerry Patrick Clark in no way claims to be a perfect guy, but he aims his music to inspire the world in that direction. His folk-singer/songwriter pedigre is deep & long, and it overlaps seamlessly...
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Heaven in Boston - Terry Kitchen from 2020-02-29T12:00
Terry Kitchen has been making fine folk music since 1991, mostly solo, after his initial career as a rock star with Loose Ties. Terry's songs mostly emerge from the deep, introspective places, acco...
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Music Collage of Early 2019 from 2020-02-22T12:00
A collage of song & interview from first quarter 2019! Some of the rich tapestry of Song of the Soul leading up to 2019's spring weather, from the guests who graced our airwaves at that time, and w...
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Angel Wings & Peter Pan from 2020-02-15T12:00
Terry Holder came to her career as a musician & performer relatively late in life, but the pay-off is well worth the wait. She writes songs of great emotional depth and they come to life through he...
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Heavenly Honky Tonkin' Bar from 2020-02-08T12:00
Patrice Webb brings music flavored with folk, swing, country, & the blues, marinaded in sunshine with a side of 4-footed critters. Influenced by music from pre-rock USA, Patrice's music is western ...
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Light Hands, Feet of Clay (Street) - Richard Wiegel from 2020-02-01T12:00
Richard Wiegel has spent a full lifetime earning a living through making music, which might be the dream, but seldom the actuality of the dreams of a small-town boy. Roots rock is his central thing...
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El Poderoso Sueo de Eljuri from 2020-01-25T12:00
Eljuri writes & performs music from a rich & diverse palette of musical & cultural influences. Born in Equador of a Lebanese pianist-composer mother & a Spanish actor father, and having grown up in...
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Blues Preacher from Motown from 2020-01-18T12:00
A deep dish of appetizing Blues from the Rev. Robert B. Jones, Sr. He's made music and shared the stage with many of the greats, like B.B. King, because he's a gifted musician, writer & storyteller...
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Claudia Schmidt & Sally Rogers, Welcomed from 2020-01-11T12:00
Claudia Schmidt & Sally Rogers are a soul-deep musical combination. Sally is perhaps more closely associated with the folk music genre, and while Claudia has done a lot of folk, she's also well-kno...
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Open Door & Simple Heart of Dean Stevens from 2020-01-04T12:00
Dean Stevens writes & shares the music of compassion & connection. Raised in Costa Rica, living in Boston, Dean's life is overflowingly rich with international & local roots & work. Check out his f...
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In The Name Of All Of Our Children - Sally Rogers from 2019-12-28T12:00
Sally Rogers has been a fountain of folk music for 4 decades (check out her 40 Years, 40 Songs collection), now sung all around the country & world. Her classics include Lovely Agnes, Touch of the ...
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Not Your Standard Irish Lass (From Ann Arbor) from 2019-12-21T12:00
Kitty Donohoe is of Irish extraction, genetically, and she sometimes writes & plays very Irish-sounding songs, including the Irish instruments she plays, but she is deeply & inspirationally America...
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Holiday Songs You Won't Hear At The Mall from 2019-12-14T12:00
Dean Stevens brought together recordings of Christmas-related songs which are well out of the US mainstream. He calles the collection Holiday Songs you Wont Hear at the Mall, and they range from fu...
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Dreams, Animals & Free Folk from 2019-12-07T12:00
Sigrid Christiansen weaves a mystical spell with her music. Self-described on CDBaby as 'free folk' music, her voice, music, & lyrics are charming & enchanting. Animals, dreams, and whimsy feed her...
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Wondrous Particle of the Nelson Muse from 2019-11-30T12:00
Particle Kid (J. Micah Nelson) is a fountain of insight, creativity, vision, & inspiration - through music. The recipient of a wondrous musical muse passed from his father, Willie Nelson, and throu...
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Artists Changing the World from 2019-11-23T12:00
Music by 6 of the top 13 finalists of the 2018 Songs of Social Change contest, rich in world-changing energy and genres, with influences from Canada, Equador, Japan, New Mexico, and everywhere. Dec...
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Making a Circle of Song: Susan Salidor from 2019-11-16T12:00
Susan Salidor is a voice you will not forget. Starting in musical theater, progressing through activist music with Voices, having co-hosted a show on WLUM-FM, at Loyola, and with decades of enrichi...
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Glass City Class: Kyle White Is Wholly Toledo Americana from 2019-11-09T12:00
Some performers just steal your heart, and that's what Kyle White does as a genuine Toledo, Ohio, hometown Americana singer/songwriter. Her authenticity and talent shine through. Find Kyle's schedu...
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A Muslim, a Jew, & a Christian walk into a concert hall .... from 2019-11-02T12:00
Abraham Jam is the confluence of David LaMotte, Billy Jonas, & Dawud Wharnsby, channeling their gifts together for an honest & resplendent harmony. This is what happens when a Muslim, a Jew, & a Ch...
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Guitar or the Gun from 2019-10-26T12:00
Justin Jay Arnold is himself and nobody else, happy to wrestle with the full range of beliefs, heading toward preacher-hood complete with his tatoos, scraggly beard, & shaved head, and making his o...
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Loving Beyond Knowing from 2019-10-19T12:00
With her music, Carrie Newcomer shines light, raises up hope, and brings us home to that perfect center in our hearts, the place where the Divine and our very best both reside.With 3 new CDs and 3 ...
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The Green Trees of Ithaca from 2019-10-12T12:00
Will Fudeman's musical muse is very strongly connected to his hopes, prayers, & vision for the world. Having worked as a social worker & therapist, he is currently doing healing work with Eastern a...
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Calling All Civilizations from 2019-10-05T12:00
A very special visit with composer & conductor Christopher Tin, creater of music for films, for computer games like Civilization IV & IV, and for albums that bring all the choral music of the world...
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Singing Freedom in NYC - Joel Landy from 2019-09-28T12:00
Joel Landy (or on Facebook) is a mild-mannered NYC HS teacher by day, but after hours he dons his Treason t-shirt and performs his original and parody songs around the city and beyond. You can hear...
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Willie Nelson's Progeny - Farm Aid 2019 from 2019-09-21T12:00
A taste of Farm Aid 2019, the work & music, of the event & the organization. We have 2 amazing musicians from the 18 acts from this year's mainstage: Particle Kid (Micah Nelson, Willie's youngest s...
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Live Fully, Love Wastefully, Sing Passionately from 2019-09-14T12:00
Susan Urban is half of February Sky, along with Phil Cooper, a duo originally from the Chicago area now well-installed in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. They play a wide range of traditional, mod...
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Squishing Ants & Missing Miller Time from 2019-09-07T12:00
Phil Hoose writes songs that we all love and that other performers love to perform. His best-known, Hey, Little Ant, is a song, but also a book that has sold over 1 million copies in 10 languages. ...
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Old-Fashioned Folk Singer from 2019-08-31T12:00
Steve Suffet has the heart & the pedigree of a 100% authentic old-fashioned folk singer. Growing up near ground zero of the folk music explosion of NYC in the early 1960's, Steve has witnessed & sh...
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Ireland's Darkness & Light from 2019-08-24T12:00
Though he's of & lives in South Armagh, Ireland, the music of Ben Reel is variously described as Rock/Americana, Roots Rock, Alternative Folk, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock and even Jazz Pop. Thing is...
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One Love, World, Literature, & Trumpet from 2019-08-17T12:00
Mild-mannered, big-hearted Joel Pace finds expression for his wide-ranging passions and intellect both in the English Dept at UW-EC and in writing and performing as part of Irie Sol, with its authe...
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Music Mobile from 2019-08-10T12:00
Ruth Pelham has decades of experience with People's Music Network and in helping found Children's Music Network, and has 4 decades of using music to connect the people of Albany, NY, and the world,...
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Long Island's Exceptional Common Man from 2019-08-03T12:00
Joe Iadanza is an exceptional Common Man from Long Island, who, in addition to his music tinged with Harry Chapin and Bruce Springsteen flavors, has a serious spirituality and healing avocation, wh...
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Rooted in Starlight & Rain from 2019-07-27T12:00
Kori Riesenweber has an angelic voice & a love for harmonies that has been lived out many ways, from the bluegrass band of her extended families, in the intricate arrangements of her time as part o...
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John McCutcheon In Person! from 2019-07-20T12:00
John McCutcheon is classic & cutting-edge folk music. An amazing singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, he has now produced 40 albums, performed with all kinds of musical greats, like Pete ...
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Sweet Angel Warrior from 2019-07-13T12:00
Regla Garcia-Schmidt is half of The Hollywood Rockstarz. Regla's powerful voice & keyboards are born of Cuban immigrants, cultured in Connecticutt, expanded in Los Angeles, and have reached full fr...
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Folkgoddess of Mystic Acoustic Rock from 2019-07-06T12:00
Diane Patterson takes us on an odyssey of spirit-based music, close to the Earth. From moon lodge to addiction healing to holy rains to long roads, Diane sings evocatively of the power to change an...
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Wind, Waves, Dreams, & Music from 2019-06-29T12:00
Randall Adams has a passion for and connection to the the sacred Earth, especially the slice of heaven known as Lake Superior. From a very talented musical family and devoted to music from an early...
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Just Folk in Boston from 2019-06-22T12:00
Jennifer Evans is the real folk deal. Covering traditional folk songs & adding songs composed by her brother, Griff Evans, Jennifer finger picks the tender chords of your heart. With decades of exp...
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Pete Seeger's Last Songs from 2019-06-08T12:00
Pat Humphries of Emma's Revolution was at Pete Seeger's bedside as he died, singing to him. Pat and Sandy O of Emma's Revolution, along with Sally Rogers, Charlie King, Annie Patterson, and Peter B...
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Happy 100th Birthday Pete Seeger from 2019-06-01T12:00
1st part of a concert to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Pete Seeger's birth, held April 27th in Northampton, MA, at the Unitarian Society, as a benefit for Climate Action Now MA, part of a weal...
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Northern Hobo from 2019-05-25T12:00
Charlie Parr is a singer/songwriter dynamo, touring constantly & widely, sharing his down-home music of the American country blues genres. For a person who battles constantly with depression, his m...
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Pete Seeger's Generations of Music from 2019-05-11T12:00
Part 3 of musicians who performed with & whose music was grown by Pete Seeger. We'll end with his sister, Peggy Seeger, after visits with & music from Ruth Pelham of Music Mobile Online, DC Cultura...
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More Pete Seeger Fruits: Reggie Harris, Annie Patterson, Sarah Pirtle, & Peter Alsop from 2019-05-04T12:00
More fruits of the musical seeds planted by Pete Seeger over his 94 years, with guests like Reggie Harris, Annie Patterson & Peter Blood, Peter Alsop, and Sarah Pirtle (and several more folks in 2 ...
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Bewitching from 2019-04-13T12:00
Victoria Shoemaker is a multi-instrumentalist with a deep affinity & talent for the flute. Classically trained, but having discovered her deep passion in improvisational flute, and having been ment...
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Repairing Hearts With Light from 2019-04-06T12:00
Sarah Morris is so much and so good, a sweet, kind voice of power in a woman with a spine of steel and a gift for words that make addressing Mansplaining a joy for all. With 4 CDs and her Toilet Tu...
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Ukulele Songbird from 2019-03-30T12:00
Katy Vernon is a rare combination of deep, joyful, heart-rending, creative, and spritely. Wielding her trusty ukulele and backed up by a rich assortment of instruments, her voice, tunes, & lyrics w...
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Return of the Banjo from 2019-03-23T12:00
Mother Banjo (Ellen Stanley) is wonderful. In addition to her musical career, she is executive director of the Minnesota Music Coalition, and does a weekly show on station KFAI called Womenfolk. Sh...
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Earth-planted, Water-flowing from 2019-03-16T12:00
The music of Jennifer Levenhagen stirs deep currents and invites soul rejuvenation. While shes shared her guitar, piano, violin, and exquisite voice in many settings, including playing bluegrass mu...
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A New York Cowgirl's Tale from 2019-03-09T12:00
Let Elizabeth Erin Kemler ride into your heart with her passionate songs related to The Weight of Mortal Skin. Elizabeth champions an array of organizations like Kids for Peace, Songs for a Cause, ...
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Singing in a Time of War from 2019-03-02T12:00
Xanthe Alexis is a captivating and enchanting musician from Colorado Springs who so clearly captures power, meaning and charm through her music. She self-describes her music as sepia-toned American...
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Rocking Real, Loving More from 2019-02-23T12:00
Ali Handal's launch into music was via the kind of rock music done by Led Zeppelin and Guns N' Roses, and has blossumed into a variety of singer/songwriter styles. She can rock out with a powerful ...
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Lena Elizabeth Got It Right! from 2019-02-16T12:00
Lena Elizabeth writes and sings music straight from the heart, using her songs to transform experiences like depression, crippling anxiety, & an eating disorder into health and wholeness. While cle...
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When Daddies Aren't Heroes from 2019-02-02T12:00
Wendy Martin is part country, folk, Americana, and rock, but she is completely a golden throat and a golden heart. She wrote her first song, a really viable song complete with harmonies & instrumen...
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Music In My Mother's House - And Everywhere from 2019-01-26T12:00
Stuart Stotts is a powerful singer/songwriter, storyteller, & writer. Although he's made a living for around 30 years focusing mostly on youth & schools, many of his most popular and requested song...
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Backsliding on Rock from 2019-01-19T12:00
David Van Dyke is deeply passionate about the music he writes & plays, even more so than the science he teaches to middle school students. Obsessive about chord progressions, authors, and Evel Knie...
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Soul of Minnesota 2018 from 2019-01-12T12:00
A retrospective of many, but not all, of the Minnesota-based Song of the Soul guests of 2018. There's gospel, folk/Americana, country, blues, rock, and more from: Mother Banjo (Ellen Stanley), Sara...
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Soul-food from Kitchener & the Qur'an from 2019-01-05T12:00
For great folk music north-of-the-border, Dawud Wharnsby is the one. Homeboy of Kitchener, Ontario, with roots also in Syria and Pakistan, Dawud weaves nature, vulnerability, faith, truth, and univ...
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Laura Joy's Actual Miles from 2018-12-29T12:00
Laura Joy won the Songwriter Contest at the Great River Folk Fest 2017, and it's no mystery why. The young Phoenix-to-Chicago transplant has talent for beyond her actual miles. And what's more, "La...
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A Single Bright Lamp from 2018-12-22T12:00
Barb Tilsen People's Music Network became a devotee of folk music in the early '60s, and has spent a life mixing music, activism, and enrichment of children. Her circles of music & work have includ...
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Way More Than Good Enough from 2018-12-15T12:00
Vicky Emerson touches the heart with Americana-rooted music with country tinges telling stories of relationship & connection. A mentor in the Minnesota Music Coalition and a touring partner of Sara...
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The Miracle of New Yeller from 2018-12-08T12:00
Launa Schweizer is lead voice & writer for New Yeller, based in Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY, dazzling musically through indie pop, prog rock, folk-rock, bluesy and jamband sounds. Previously with Bliss P...
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Not Young, Not Old, Just Tracy from 2018-12-01T12:00
Unfortunately, Tracy Newman has far less renown for her music than her other work, but that's not so surprising given her amazing success as a writer for TV shows like Cheers and Ellen, for which s...
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Savasana Grunge Nature Gorgeous Music from 2018-11-24T12:00
Mary Bues music has reverberations of all the rich and wonderful things shes done and places shes lived. Sure, shes an Indie musician and yoga studio owner, but she also was a psychology major, a g...
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All My Runnin' from 2018-10-27T12:00
It looks like maybe Anna Elizabeth Laube has at least temporarily stopped running. Starting from Iowa City, and including sojourns in Madison WI, San Francisco, and Lige, Belgium, Anna brings her A...
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Whiskey & Resistance from 2018-10-13T12:00
Jason Horowitz of The Whiskey Farm penned the tune that beat out 100's of competitors to win the Songs for Social Change 2017 contest. Weekdays he's mild-mannered child psychologist Dr. Horowitz, b...
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Road to Arise! Arise! from 2018-10-06T12:00
Jean Rohe has created an alternate (and much better) National Anthem: Arise! Arise! and she shares the songs from the US, Cuba, Brazil, & Republic of Georgia that got her there. She'll share much m...
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A Blessing From Everysoul from 2018-09-29T12:00
Amanda Udis-Kessler is part of EverySoul, and their music has a message, often a counterpoint to narrow, doctrinaire, theology and thought. Having explored the highways & byways of the religious & ...
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Mysticism Meets Folk, Country, & World Music from 2018-09-22T12:00
Dada Veda uses a couple different taglines. One is Meditation, Music and Social Vision, and the other is Eastern Mysticism meets folk, country, and world music. He is a monk at the Ananda Liina Spi...
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Neo-tribal Hootenanny from 2018-09-15T12:00
Billy Jonas is more fun and spiritual depth than you can hardly imagine. Sometimes described as doing neo-tribal hootenanny, industrial re-percussion, and soul-spelunking, he started as part of the...
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Grown With Vitamin L from 2018-09-08T12:00
Jan Nigro has been growing healthy kids for 30 years with his musical group and project called Vitamin L. If you're daunted by their intention to produce positive character development through musi...
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Violin & Universal Mystery from 2018-08-25T12:00
Accompanied by the amazing violin & talent of Katie O'Neill, Idris Phillips weaves heart-enlivening music, both his own & that of others, live at the 2018 FGC gathering in Toledo. Inspired by music...
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Ahead of the Storm - Nici Peper from 2018-08-18T12:00
Listen to Nici Peper and you'll know why she won the title of Minneapolis's most authentic artist at the Wholly Guacamole contest. Whether performing solo, as part of Firefly, with The Big Smooch, ...
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(Extra-)Ordinary Folks from 2018-08-11T12:00
Jan Krist and Jim Bizer make music that is fun, profound, quirky, insightful, and moving. As a duo their creative name is Jan Krist & Jim Bizer, but they also perform in a number of other groups & ...
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Enchanting Voice for Sustainability from 2018-07-14T12:00
Encinitas is home to Ashley Mazanec whose passion for earthcare merits her the title of "A Voice for Sustainability". Living in a tiny house on an urban post-organic farm, attending San Diego 350 a...
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Peace of Pakistan from 2018-07-07T12:00
Irfan Ali Taj left the business world to follow his passion, making music full of peace, understanding, & spirit. Originally fom Chitral in the north of Pakistan, living in Karachi, Taj loves passi...
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Folk Music's Simple Faith from 2018-06-16T12:00
David Tamulevich's life is folk music, in various configurations. He's been performing for more than 40 years with Michael Hough as Mustard's Retreat, been writing songs and performing with a group...
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Standing & Swingin' in the Light from 2018-06-09T12:00
Cathy Reitz is a musicpaloosa and it's a gift she shares abundantly. Sometimes she's front-and-center like with her Cathy Reitz & 7 Swing, or when performing the blues, but she also brings out the ...
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With Tarzan, Jesus, & Jim from 2018-05-26T12:00
Jan Krist creates stunning songs of the human condition, sometimes with deep pathos, sometimes with a wry eye, always with superb lyrics and voice. She often takes the stage solo, but also commonly...
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Sublime Thunder from 2018-05-19T12:00
Braden Canfield loves inner exploration & conveying the power of the experience through his music. He pays attention to the details and the transformation. While after-hours he's a singer/songwrite...
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Grounded Like the Trees, Flying Like the Breeze from 2018-05-12T12:00
Annie Fitzgerald is a beautiful voice & songwriter from among the riches of the Twin Cities of MN. Her songs are deeply-rooted and high-flying, centered on connection, relationships, belonging, and...
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Playing With Wolves from 2018-04-28T12:00
Collectively, Kai Ulrica & Nikk Wolfe are Wolves At The Door. Their collective music combines Nikk's lyrics and musical framework with Kai's melodies and arrangements. With a frequent strong rock e...
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Musical Goulash with Eggplant from 2018-04-21T12:00
By day Daniel Zerr is a mild-mannered Natural Resource Educator with the UW Extension here in Eau Claire, but other times Dan makes music in a variety of configurations, including his solo act. One...
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Tiny Tim Meets Mother Jones Meets Jean Redpath from 2018-03-31T12:00
Maria Dunn is a passionate and inspired storyteller and songwriter with a voice to charm us all. Born in Scotland but having lived almost all of her life near Edmonton, Alberta, Maria combines old ...
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Chicago Farmer from 2018-03-24T12:00
Cody Diekhoff is Chicago Farmer, a consummate story-teller combined with heartfelt tunes & evocative voice. Coming of age when punk/grunge rock was the alternative thing, he got hooked on an altern...
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Alt-country from Liverpool & Berlin from 2018-03-17T12:00
Gem Andrews is born & raised in Northeast England, around Liverpool, so it was a bit of a surprise to find that the beautiful music she makes owes much to Americana and Alt-country influences. All ...
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Like Nashville But North-er from 2018-03-10T12:00
The Minnesota Music Coalition is a statewide network of artists, industry professionals and music supporters who care about creating and sustaining a vibrant popular music community. Ellen Stanley,...
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Musical Alchemist & Lunchroom Royalty from 2018-02-24T12:00
Mindy Dillard is so many things, besides being an enchanting singer/songwriter. She's a Musical Alchemist, Body Image Activist, and sometimes she's Princess Fearless. And that's just a start. She c...
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2017's Musical Finale from 2018-02-03T12:00
A revisit to 6 powerful performers from the end of 2017, sampling some of the musical styles we heard, including kirtan, pop, folk, rap/hip-hop, and country, and you'll encounter stories and songs ...
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Tunes in the Belly of the Year from 2018-01-20T12:00
A Song of the Soul collage from mid-2017 full of folkies, young & old, with tributes to Pete Seeger by Charlie King, a Quaker ballad by Paul Tinkerhess, a sing-along song with Peter & Annie, Anishi...
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Soul of 2017 Starter Kit from 2018-01-13T12:00
A rich sampling of the wonderful songs & guests of the first half of 2017, including Radmilla Cody, Irfan Ali Taj, Ashley Mazanec, Nici Peper, Billy Jonas, and Jean Rohe. An incredibly rich potluck...
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Roaring for a Revolution from 2018-01-06T12:00
Erika Kulnys is out to change the world, sometimes by tackling the "big issues", but also by inspiring the listener to heal themselves and therefore get out of the way of change. Operating from Nov...
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We're All In Heaven from 2017-12-30T12:00
Sarah Vos is a founder and lead vocalist of Dead Horses. With poise, depth, and beauty, she and the band take listeners on a sensuous and soulful glide through layers of experience and meaning. Wit...
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Manifestive, Musical Food for the Community Table from 2017-12-23T12:00
Manifestive: The Holiday Album is a fund-raising gift to The Community Table from a generous flock of musicians in the Chippewa Valley of Wisconsin. Masterminded and led by Anastasia Vishnevsky and...
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Star By Moon from 2017-12-16T12:00
Idris Phillips has been making superb music with wonderful artists for close to 40 years, and finally he's released his first CD, Star By Moon, this one emphasizing his folk roots, but promising hi...
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Manifest Buddhist Amen from 2017-12-02T12:00
Anastasia Vishnevsky shares her Buddhist soul locally as Manifest Eau Claire and as part of RavenWolf (with Kai Ulrica). Stasia does alchemy, mixing pain, errors, injury, blessings, & vision into g...
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Seattle's Busker King from 2017-11-18T12:00
Jim Page has been a fixture of Seattle's folk music scene since the early 1970's, including his successful campaign to legalize street performing through the city in 1974, and as one of the founder...
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My Rap Name is Alex from 2017-11-11T12:00
Alex Mead is My Rap Name Is Alex, and he makes world-healing rap/hip-hop music in Buffalo, NY. A year-round bicyclist in a snowy land, a member of Bloodthirsty Vegans, and a reformed computer progr...
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America's Troubadour, Larry Long from 2017-11-04T12:00
Larry Long is the kind of great musician who brings musicians together, hence his collaborations known as the American Roots Revue. Studs Terkel called Larry America's Troubadour. With flavors of f...
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Angelic Desperado from 2017-10-28T12:00
Jen Hazen has deep honesty and an awesome laugh, and both come through in the way she lights up the stage as part of the many constellations of music she occupies: Jenny & the Lost Boys, Jenny & th...
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Sailing on a Slow Movin' Train to Nowhere from 2017-10-21T12:00
Weekdays, Jim Phillips is a mild-mannered Chemistry prof at UW-EC, but after hours to transforms into a singer/songwriter, well-favored bass guitarist who has found a reborn calling to music after ...
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Renegade Revelations Revolution from 2017-10-14T12:00
Jeff White wants musical revolutions constantly, and some non-musical revolutioning too. His style, self-dubbed, is Alt Country and Western Folk, but that's the tip of the iceberg. He's toured in 4...
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Taste the Light from 2017-09-30T12:00
David LaMotte is rich in music, and bountiful in living out what he sings about. With 12 recordings, 3 books, founding credits for Abraham Jam and a Rotory World Peace Fellowship, there is so much ...
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Indigie Femme & Navajo Nation from 2017-09-23T12:00
Tash Terry is half of Indigie Femme, a confluence of two powerful, spiritually-rooted, women of native tribes of the global north and south. Tash is from the Dine/Navajo Nation, roots she draws on ...
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Worldwide in Nova Scotia from 2017-09-17T12:00
Art and music suffuse the work & play of Heidi Kalyani. Her musical collaborations are wide-ranging, including Turko-Balkan music with ORO! Orkestra, kirtan with Blue Lotus Trio and her Heart Wide ...
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Old Turtle & Earthsongs from 2017-09-10T12:00
Douglas Wood has produced at least 8 CDs & is author of Old Turtle and at least 31 other books, often on themes of deep connection & respect for the Earth. These passions also guide his work as a w...
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Life, Death, Rock & Roll from 2017-09-03T12:00
A self-proclaimed "Budd Lite" (as in Buddhism), Catholic-raised, Americana musician, Joe Fahey lives the questions through his music. Today the questions include life & death, but there are no defi...
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Simple Aussie Folk from 2017-08-27T12:00
Mandy Breeze and Doug Kelly take traditional folk tunes, mostly, and transform them into vibrant, living stories and culture. With rich, beautiful vocals and creative, engaging instrumentals, you'l...
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American Hunger from 2017-08-20T12:00
Liam Robinson & Jean Rohe largely birthed their Hunger EP at the Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology in Bellaire, Michigan, and a creative threshhold was crossed into the duo called Robinson & Rohe...
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The Red Road (to Nashville?) from 2017-08-13T12:00
Bill Miller is a 3-time Grammy Awards winner, a Mohican Indian from Northern Wisconsin, and a Nashville-based singer-songwritter of incredible & diverse musical talents. He'll be the headliner at L...
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Hope & Change Rise Again from 2017-08-06T12:00
Annie Patterson & Peter Blood support hope & change through their world-famous group singing books, Rise Up Singing and Rise Again. For close to 40 years they have been nurturing & leading group si...
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Whistling In The Womb from 2017-07-30T12:00
Juliana MacDowell is sure that she was making music before she ever saw the light of day, and her music will make you believe it. A soul-deep voice and wide-open heart, you'll want her for your new...
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Ann Arbor's Banjo-toting Shoemaker from 2017-07-23T12:00
In the hours when Paul Tinkerhess is not repairing Birkenstock footwear for the people of Ann Arbor, he finds other ways to nurture his town - by organizing the Water Hill Music Fest, by keeping wi...
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Charlie King - Reprise from 2017-07-09T12:00
An old friend of Northern Spirit Radio, Charlie King, returns for the first time in nine years. Join us as this talented troubador shares his songs, stories, and trenchant wit with us and our liste...
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Pete Seeger's Bountiful Harvest, Part 1 from 2017-06-25T12:00
Pete Seeger planted seeds of music & change everywhere he went, and some of that harvest is shared today (& next week) by a visit with Leda Schubert, author of Listen: How Pete Seeger Got America S...
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Hobo & Deserter, Jersey & Heartland from 2017-06-18T12:00
A long-ago migrant from the Jersey Shore to the Heartland, Ian Alexy and his brother have been the Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank, while his own band is Ian Alexy & The Deserters. It's driving rock, i...
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Punk-Jazz-Haiku Bodywork from 2017-06-11T12:00
Let him near a guitar and Ned Brown transmutes the punk rock of his youth, mixed with ingredients of jazz and word play, into something new for the planet, though most days he's just a mild-mannere...
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Whisper Behind the Light from 2017-06-04T12:00
Michael Smith is the face and guitar of Whisper Behind the Light, drawing on the deep place to speak messages of power and transformation. Michael has found a life of rootedness and simplicity - as...
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Humble Stumble Hymnbook from 2017-05-28T12:00
J. Brent Bill is the author of Life Lessons From a Bad Quaker: A Humble Stumble Toward Simplicity and Grace, which has been reviewed in Friends Journal. He's also been an avid consumer and creator ...
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White Buffalo Quest from 2017-05-21T12:00
Rod MacDonald spins deeply emotional tapestry with his songs, a sort of emotional journalism, powerfully capturing the aspirations and angst of the listener. He was a principle in the 1980s folk re...
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Well Met Howling Moon from 2017-05-07T12:00
Michael Hough has been making music with Mustard's Retreat since 1974, and as part of The Yellow Room Gang for the past decade. Michael is honest. He's straightforward. He's got a good heart. And h...
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World of Music in Detroit from 2017-04-23T12:00
For the past 3 years, Joe Kidd & Sheila Burke have been awarded the Detroit Music Awards for Outstanding World Music. With 60's folk music roots mixed with Appalachian/Celtic/Bluegrass/Country/Midd...
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Ballet & Shanty, Folk Troubadour from 2017-04-09T12:00
David HB Drake has deep Wisconsin roots, and deep knowledge of Wisconsin's music, wonderfully exhibited in his Wiscon-Sing history of the state's music. His decades of endeavors have included his y...
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One Wild Thing from 2017-04-02T12:00
Many people find an important piece of themselves in nature, but Deirdre Jenkins knows herself in oneness with nature at a whole new depth. Through her journeys with trauma, devotion, and rememberi...
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Lumberjacks & Irishmen from 2017-03-26T12:00
Brian Miller has a great passion for the Irish music and traditional songs of Great Lakes workers. He knows the legends, people, & places, to a science, steeped in art. Raised in Northern Minnesota...
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Called By Our Names from 2017-03-19T12:00
J.E. Sunde is a sensitive, creative, inspired singer/songwriter who combines the influences of the folk greats of earlier generations with the broad indie canvass of his own. Currently a resident o...
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The Buddha Would Dig It from 2017-03-12T12:00
Eve Decker weaves health and healing through her music, with a mixture all her own of Buddhist teaching and insights, plus Jewish wisdom and mysticism, and even modern psychological understandings....
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You Cannot Hold The Flame from 2017-03-05T12:00
The music of Joe Jencks burns in the heart of the listener, both with his lyrics and his powerful voice. The stories and poetry of his songs lift up a vision of love, compassion and solidarity with...
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Iraq & Kevin Rocks from 2017-02-19T12:00
Kevin Basl had 2 tours of duty in Iraq and in the course of the 2nd he wrote & recorded a CD capturing his frustration, doubts, & anger at the role he played in what he judges to be an illegal war....
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Kinship, Hope, & Beautiful Mother Earth from 2017-02-12T12:00
Radmilla Cody is firmly rooted in the Dine' musical & cultural tradition, and her songs come straight from the plateaus of the Navajo Nation, where she was the 46th Miss Navajo Nation. From her you...
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Knowing What The River Knows from 2017-01-29T12:00
Jim Bizer is a profound, engaging, talented lyricist, singer, & musician whose songs speak of our connection and the mind-blowing reality we live in. It's folk with some jazz touches, joyfull with ...
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Ozark Timber from 2017-01-22T12:00
Living well off the beaten path in hillbilly shack in the Ozark Mountains, Carolyn Carter has been singing for her supper as long as she can remember. With a voice that is soft and wild, 100% Arkan...
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Alternative Christmas In January from 2017-01-15T12:00
Christmas songs you probably didn't hear leading up to December 25th - but which would have made the season so much more rewarding and meaningful. Instead of the old standards, how about new standa...
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Heavy Meadow Music from 2017-01-08T12:00
Dean Magraw is some kind of awesome on the guitar, not just technically, but spiritually. Dean defies labels and limites - musically & spiritually - with one review saying, quite accurately that De...
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Peace On Earth, Good Will To All from 2017-01-01T12:00
Many may be sick of the interminable string of Christmas music, but they might feel quite differently if they had been hearing these songs - seasonal music by relatively popular, mostly folk, artis...
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Rise Again - The People's Songbook from 2016-12-25T12:00
Annie Paterson & Peter Blood have been encouraging group singing for the people, a la Pete Seeger, for almost 40 years, first with Winds of the People, then with Rise Up Singing, and now with 1200 ...
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Under a Shining Owl Moon from 2016-12-18T12:00
One of the best companions you could have at a protest, around a campfire or in a song circle is Bruce O'Brien. With his banjo and guitar (and sometimes mandolin or even violin), Bruce is completel...
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Lean Into the Light from 2016-12-11T12:00
Our third visit with musician/poet/artist extraordinaire, Carrie Newcomer, during her visit to the 2015 FGC gathering at Western Carolina University. Along with the release of her 15th album, A Per...
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Just Be Nice, But Demand! from 2016-12-04T12:00
Kristen Graves is a dynamo of wonderful music and good work in the world. With the talent of Tracy Chapman or Janis Joplin, and with seemingly boundless energy, Kristen was recently the Connecticut...
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One Shining, Commercially Successful, Folkie from 2016-11-27T12:00
It's rather seldom that a predominantly folk-oriented musician can be a commercial success, but such a one is David Barrett. Of course, it helps if you write a song like One Shining Moment that get...
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Country Flow from 2016-11-20T12:00
Time for some country-rooted music today with Fizz Kizer. Actually, he's been told that he's "too country for the cafes and too folkie for the taverns". When playing with his trio, they're called F...
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Calling Angels from 2016-11-13T12:00
Judy Kass took a long hiatus from sharing her music with the world, but was reignited in her zeal to share by the loss of almost 300 colleagues on 9/11. Judy's music draws on a deep exploration of ...
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Brain Rats & A Full Voice from 2016-10-30T12:00
In her mission to model and teach the content, Barbara McAfee has produced 7 CDs plus a book, Full Voice: The Art and Practice of Vocal Presence. She also leads two other groups, The Morning Star S...
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Heartland, Coast-to-Coast from 2016-10-23T12:00
Music shared via video feed from all across the USA for Northern Spirit Radio's fun-raising event, Broadcasting From the Heartland, including Si Kahn, Peter Alsop, Magic Mama, Ken Lonnquist, and To...
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Not Dead Yet from 2016-10-16T12:00
Brett Kemnitz does the booking for Milwaukee's The Coffee House. In addition to his solo singer/songwriter career, he has performed as part of the Plum Creek String Band and Pebble Creek Crossing -...
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Western Soul Landscapes from 2016-10-09T12:00
Kate MacLeod was East Coast born, but Utah settled, capturing the beauty & stories of the Western landscape in her songs. With her powerful fiddle and magical voice, Kate transports everyone into t...
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The Blue Garden of Midwest Urban Folk from 2016-09-11T12:00
The voice of Annie Capps transports the listener on a tour of her Midwest Urban Folk Blue Garden, filled with twang, jazz, soul,& hoochy coo flora, and more. With exquisite instrumentation by Rod C...
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We Become Not War from 2016-09-04T12:00
Mark Dvorak, in addition to his livelihood as a singer/songwriter, is a frequent teacher at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. With beautiful, soothing vocals, talented guitar or banjo f...
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Camp A Little While In The Wilderness from 2016-08-28T12:00
Rhonda Rucker is most often heard performing as part of Sparky & Rhonda, with a strong flavor of Southern Appalachian music, but also Civil Rights folk music, old hymns, and a number of songs by Rh...
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Everything You Need from 2016-08-21T12:00
Tonia Hughes brings us music of and for the soul, taking us through a journey of faith and fruits in the face of true hardships, like the early death of her husband. Raised in St Louis, for the pas...
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No Dust Bowl on Vashon Island from 2016-08-14T12:00
Though the music of Kat Eggleston shines its light widely, it strongly reflects the light & love passed on from her parents, particularly her Dust-Bowl-raised father. He bequeathed to Kat loads of ...
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God Is Still Speaking from 2016-07-31T12:00
After 27 years devotion as a grade school teacher, Heather Jerrie has now freed up more of her time for her musical passion. As a cancer survivor, 12-step fan, and very engaged UCC member, Heather'...
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Simply Flying On Dakota Breezes from 2016-07-24T12:00
Chuck Suchy balances a life stretched between two callings, one as a singer/songwriter, and the other as a farmer, tied to the land of the Northern Great Plains - specifically, North Dakota. His mu...
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My Child, Accordion, & Goat Songs from 2016-07-17T12:00
Micah Sommersmith follows his nose into great music, letting the lyrics lead him into deep meaning. Although accordion is his weapon of choice, he also plays/has played piano, trumpet, euphonium, g...
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At Whole In the Universe: From Sweden, Brazil, & Nashville from 2016-07-10T12:00
Ida Kristin's latest release, along with David Llewellyn, is Songs Around the Kitchen Table. Hailing from Sweden, with maternal Brazilian influences, and living part-time in Nashville, Ida leads he...
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Standing Ovation for Freebo from 2016-07-03T12:00
Freebo has an impressive musical pedigree, having recorded, performed & toured with oodles of luminaries, including Ringo Starr, John Mayall, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Maria Muldaur, and including 10 ...
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Poet Laureate & Eggplant Heroes from 2016-06-26T12:00
Max Garland is a professional backslider, was Wisconsin's Poet Laureate 2013-2015, and makes music as part of Eggplant Heroes. With deep roots in Western Kentucky and a 'lover's quarrel' with the r...
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Critter in the Choir - Bill Staines from 2016-06-19T12:00
After 4 decades, Bill Staines continues to produce some of the best folk music of our times, some well-known like All God's Critters and River, hundreds more less-known. With inspirational, heartfe...
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Worldly Australian Rant & Romp from 2016-06-12T12:00
Consider the names of Doug Kelly's bands over the past 35 years: Tansey's Fancy, Churinga, Sirocco, and Simple Folk, and you've got to suspect that there's something different going on here. Austra...
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World Famous in Bloomsburg from 2016-05-29T12:00
Paul Loomis spreads his time between teaching Math at Bloomsburg (PA) University, traveling in South America, raising 2 kids, and making music. His latest CD is World Famous in Bloomsburg, just lik...
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The Great Mystery from 2016-05-08T12:00
Arthur Davenport currently hails from Hilo, Hawaii, where he found Northern Spirit Radio through the Friends Journal and tracked us down to share his rich, diverse, profound, and fun music, not to ...
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Into Beauty from 2016-05-01T12:00
Laurie Childers lives out a stunning world of art and activism in Corvalis, Oregon. She performs both solo and with her band, the River Rocks, and her activism takes a number of forms, including he...
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Folks Like Us - Matt Watroba from 2016-04-24T12:00
Matt Watroba has been deeply immersed in folk music since 9th grade, including hosting the Folks Like Us show on WDET in Detroit and Folk Alley on WKSU at Kent State University, for a combined 26 y...
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Milwaukee's Singing Lawyer from 2016-04-17T12:00
Mike Plaisted lives out multiple passions, in part through his work as a lawyer performing a vital role in the lives of his clients, especially with folks in Drug Court, but also through his perfor...
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Folk House Musician from 2016-04-10T12:00
Doug MacKenzie has a long pedigree - as a jet engine mechanic and as a folk musician. Currently in collaboration with Sue West as Rural Roots Music, they are churning out music at an incredible rat...
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Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Man from Berkeley from 2016-04-03T12:00
Patrick Landeza is passionate about the music of his Hawaiian roots, though he's Berkeley, CA, born & raised, and a special man. He was awarded the Musician of the Heart award as part of the Listen...
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Barreling Down a One Lane Bridge from 2016-03-27T12:00
A.L. Williams leads Milwaukee's One Lane Bridge and broadcasts his music Friday night ever 5 weeks on Riverwest Radio. Enjoy some creative themes, diverse music styles, and stanch advocacy of coope...
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34 Years of Cooperative Music from 2016-03-13T12:00
The Milwaukee Musicians Co-op is celebrating 34 years of upholding one-another as of 3/12/2016, at the 19th Street Coffeehouse. We talk to 5 long-time Co-op members to explore some of the soul of t...
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Northwest Passage Revisited from 2016-03-06T12:00
Evalyn Parry mixes music, spoken word, with writing, directing and performing theater. With beautiful vocals, wide-ranging thoughts and creativity, and lots of engaging attitude, Evalyn makes magic...
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A Hell of a Time from 2016-02-21T12:00
Steve Carlson doesn't really think that PleasantVille is all that pleasant and he associates Christmas with A Hell of a Time, so this is a world view with some spice in it. With country roots and u...
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Kirtan From the Temple of Light from 2016-02-14T12:00
Frank Florin began with hard rock music, but along the way he found his spiritual and musical appetite filled exclusively by the Hindu devotional practice called kirtan. Frank now passes on his lov...
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Goat Songs from 2016-01-31T12:00
Micah Sommersmith has a real range to the music he's involved in. Part of his work is as a church music director, but he's also the kind of creative, quirky, musician you'd expect of someone who ha...
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White Pines Open Mic from 2016-01-17T12:00
A different format for Song of the Soul - we sit in on the quarterly open-mic experience known as White Pines. In a low-tech, high-personality event, folks come out to share their down-home skills ...
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Strokin' Them Strangs from 2016-01-10T12:00
Darrell Smith's day job is with Purple Cow Organics, which tells you something significant about one of Darrell's passions, and in his other hours he plays with Embedded Reporter and The Pardee Boy...
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The Only Good Thing is an Old Dog from 2015-12-27T12:00
Jon Brooks takes us on an odyssey with his music - through passion, compassion, history, politics, and identity. With powerful & evocative lyrics that unlock inner meaning, Jon takes on the big que...
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Heart of the Earth from 2015-12-13T12:00
Heart of the Earth is the recently released CD by Judith Gottlieb & Liz Kohlenberg, calling the listener to a deep musical & spiritual encounter with the land, the water, the place of people in our...
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Uphill All The Way from 2015-12-06T12:00
Ellen B. Ochs is a prolific songwriter and perenial participant of all sorts folk musical - song circles, Stringalong weekends, White Pines quarterly open stage, and jams. An English major pouring ...
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Light, Learning, Hip-Hop, and the Darkside from 2015-11-29T12:00
Rabbi Darkside's website tells us to "Use the force to enter" - enter the world of Hip Hop culture and rap music and alternative ways of connecting the world. Sam Sellers is Rabbi Darkside, a creat...
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Small Steps Big Life: It's About We from 2015-11-22T12:00
Nathen Aswell is a purveyor of conscious, positive music, his own & that of others. Among the many ways that he shares his music and inspiration is Blabcast-format interviews with people leading in...
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Positively Unfolding! from 2015-11-08T12:00
Possibilities always surround us, and we can use lemons to make a sour face, or to serve a lemonade feast to all our acquaintances. In spite of a challenging start to life including bad role models...
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The Balkan Babes from 2015-11-01T12:00
Jo Schlesinger finds the fullness of her soul in international folk dance, and it comes out of her mouth when she sings as part of a group of women singers called The Balkan Babes. The members of t...
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King of Cafe Carpe from 2015-10-25T12:00
Bill Camplin co-presides at the Fort Atkinson, WI, cafe, bar, and listening room called Cafe Carpe. Occasionally you'll see him performing there (as well as other places, and in addition to a load ...
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Croatian Keyboards, Privileged Pain from 2015-10-18T12:00
Radoslav Lorkovic grew out of a supremely musical family from the region of the former Yugoslavia, Croatia specifically for him, and he's amazingly cross-bred with blues, folk, jazz & country music...
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Serve the Song from 2015-09-27T12:00
Walter Craft has been spreading his message of Serve the Song for close to 50 years, on a trajectory between Minnesota down to Florida, eager to provide a force that feeds hearts & souls and nudges...
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Drawing on the Well of Music from 2015-09-20T12:00
Sherry Minnick is rich in music, having been a Twin Cities mainstay in the Bluegrass genre, but she has a special passion for old timey songs. And though she's very skillful on the guitar, a capell...
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North Country Man from 2015-09-13T12:00
Alex Smith has a deep voice & deep roots in the Allegheny Mountains of northern New York. He was a punk rocker in high school, but at 23 makes music of the folk/Americana vein, about the people & p...
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New Music, Traditional Roots - The Rustic Riders from 2015-09-06T12:00
Inspired by the likes of Odetta & Pete Seeger, Lisa Meissner makes music with the feel of traditional folk music, but with new tunes and themes, concerns like Climate Change and much more. With her...
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Another Trip Around the Sun from 2015-08-30T12:00
From Tillamook to Nashville, to Bend, Lindy Gravelle has always been all about music. And Friendz. And Love. Growing up part of a family band, having 9 CDs of her own, and with her enduring local f...
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A North Wind from Qubec from 2015-08-16T12:00
Nicolas Boulerice was a founding member of Le Vent du Nord, a group from Qubec playing progressive folk music, mixing a traditional repertoire with their own originals. Reinterpreting, energizing, ...
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Music Genre ADD from 2015-08-02T12:00
Jillian Rae says that she's got music genre ADD, unable to stay focused on any one genre of music. Trained in classical music on the violin, she's likely to be on stage singing and playing pop, cos...
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Milwaukee's Queen of Folk from 2015-07-26T12:00
Sandy Weisto has been a part of Milwaukee's folk music scene for 30 years, in front of and behind the spotlights. Having done organizing and sound for Milwaukee's The Coffee House and at The Mirama...
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Freedom Dance & Slick Savage Love from 2015-07-12T12:00
Kevin Slick has Pennsylvanian roots, New York growth, and a Coloradan canopy. Sure, since he was 5, that music was where he was going, Kevin has been inspired by folks like Pete Seeger and the Beat...
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My Roots Go Down - Sarah Pirtle from 2015-07-05T12:00
Sarah Pirtle has deep roots which feed the abundant branches and fruits of her work for peace, wholeness, and care for the planet. Like the Olive Branch Award she received for her book, An Outbreak...
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How Could Anyone Ever Tell You from 2015-06-28T12:00
Libby Roderick is a world-healing singer/songwriter, best known for her song How Could Anyone. Firmly rooted in Alaska and inspired by Native Alaskan ways of thinking, Libby combines deep concern f...
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Spirited Tribe from 2015-06-21T12:00
Tribe1 is a growing, morphing, evolving, group of musicians, orchestrated by Niyonu Spann, who express their testimony and aspirations for the world through the songs they co-create - it's a pretty...
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Studying Music & Violence, Singing & Harping Peace from 2015-06-14T12:00
Heidi Hart was dramatically changed by her first encounter with the reality of German actions of WWII, and she has dived deep into the subject of music and violence. With her harp and voice, Heidi ...
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Hello Death - Marielle Allschwang from 2015-06-07T12:00
Marielle Allschwang makes music in several configurations - with Group of the Altos, Hello Death (also on Bandcamp.com, and with Adam Krause (Ethan Krause's brother). And solo as well now. Creative...
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Gypsy Bells from 2015-05-31T12:00
Brianna Lea Pruett sends an evocative message through her music and her art. With all kinds of deep musical influences - classical, jazz, rock, pop, and country - Brianna does breathtaking folk (an...
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Unmetropolitan Music from 2015-05-24T12:00
Chris Vallillo's music is roots music. Occasionally it's on themes of things like the music Abraham Lincoln's time, the poetry of Carl Sandburg, and the music of Stephen Foster, but there are also ...
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What Song Thru Lighted Window Shines? from 2015-05-17T12:00
Blair Hull has founded 2 venues to feature outstanding music, first the Stained Glass Coffee House in Deerfield, Illinois, running 2006-2014, and the Lighted Window Concert series in Campbell, Cali...
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100% Sterling in Gift Rappin' from 2015-05-10T12:00
With a masters in poetry and feet planted faithfully in West Philly, Sterling Duns caught the hip-hop passion and has been churning out music with Hardwork Movement for years, and recently as part ...
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Wanderin' Fool - Megan Smith from 2015-05-03T12:00
Megan Smith is half of Misner & Smith, a really special folk/roots/country music duo. Megan plays the upright bass and mandolin, but it's her phenomenal vocals that won my soul. A native of Davis, ...
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Larry Penn Rides Again, Part 2 from 2015-03-29T12:00
Larry Penn was a prolific folk musician/song-writer in the footsteps of folks like Woody Guthrie and Utah Phillips, until his death in October, 2014. Using themes like trains, workers, and powerful...
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A Little Cookie from Milwaukee - Part One of Remembering Larry Penn from 2015-03-22T12:00
Larry Penn was a prolific folk musician/song-writer in the footsteps of folks like Woody Guthrie and Utah Phillips, until his death in October, 2014. Using themes like trains, workers, and powerful...
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Doing Alright from 2015-03-15T12:00
Craig Siemsen was a wandering musician till he came back home to Milwaukee and a duet of a life with Patty Stevenson. Sometimes Craig is solo act, sometimes a duo with his wife Patty Stevenson, and...
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Seven Hour Storm - Sam Misner from 2015-03-01T12:00
Sam Misner is half of Misner & Smith, and their lastest CD is Seven Hour Storm, chock full of great glimpses into the human condition, but even more full of awesome vocals & harmonies. This is Folk...
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Clear Water Meets Mud River Lee from 2015-02-15T12:00
Mud River Lee & the Bluegrass Orchestra (or sometimes the Bluegrass Bells) has been a fixture of the Milwaukee Folk Music scene for decades. Lee is also a co-founder and mainstay for the Milwaukee ...
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A Mother of Sons from 2015-01-25T12:00
Si Kahn turned me on to Mary Beth Cross, a member of Musicians United to Protect Bristol Bay, and I discovered a treasure trove of new folk/country/bluegrass/Americana with a great voice and wonder...
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Harmonious Wailing We Will Go - Maggie Delaney-Potthoff from 2015-01-11T12:00
Harmonious Wail & their music defy simple categorization, but you're sure to find some Gypsy Jazz in their sets. Maggie Delaney-Potthoff is the voice most often at the front, and the vocal spotligh...
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Descendant of a Condemned Witch from 2014-12-28T12:00
Anne Hills is a folk music gem, prominent and still too little known. She has recorded & toured with Tom Paxton, David Roth, Priscilla Herdman & other greats, and she writes with wonderful depth & ...
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Round Dance/Pow-wow/Christmas/Weasel Music - Randall Paskemin's Song of the Soul from 2014-12-07T12:00
Randall Paskemin is a member of the Plains Cree & a prolific and creative Round Dance & Pow-wow songwriter. Firmly rooted in native culture, but enriched by the music of the Beatles, U2, Shania Twa...
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Life Is Beautiful - Michael Rambo's Song of the Soul from 2014-11-30T12:00
Michael Rambo first assembled his latest music as a project and it became a phenomenon. What to expect? Soul, jazz, R&B, gospel, and messages of gratitude and connection to God. All the songs in th...
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Silver Linings in the Blues from 2014-11-23T12:00
The Charles Walker Band and the R&B/Blues/Jazz/Etc music that they play lead us to the shiny center of all things. Charles writes love-and-hope-oriented sunny blues, the fruit of his spiritual grow...
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Songs From The Well - Two-Spirit Deep Waters from 2014-11-16T12:00
Marca Cassity shares wonderful acoustic soul spirit songs on her latest CD, Songs From the Well. Raised within the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, seasoned by 10 years in the Bay Area in CA, and now loca...
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Embedded Reporter - In the Human Race from 2014-11-02T12:00
Howard Lewis Hinterthuer is primary songwriter & co-anchor of the folk duo (plus friends) Embedded Reporter, featuring stories, local & global, of the human condition. Homey and real, the lyrics an...
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Moxieville is Top Heavy - Dooley Noted! from 2014-10-26T12:00
Megan Dooley is a home-town, Kalamazoo, woman with sultry, bluesy, vocals and great guitar that she's contributed to the groups she's been part of - Dooley Noted, Top Heavy and, now, Moxieville (on...
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Native Flutes & Singing Bowls from 2014-10-19T12:00
An concert of improvisational music with the native & international flutes of Peter Phippen and the Tibetan singing bowls played by musical mystic, Rahbi Crawford, for the 1st annual Northern Spiri...
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Hot Music & Warm Heart from a Cold Clime from 2014-10-12T12:00
George McCorkell is central to & primary songwriter for The May North, a band that self-proclaims that they perform "bluegrass without boundaries, folk without pretense, honest storytelling without...
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A NYC Seed Blooming in Vermont from 2014-09-21T12:00
Kris Gruen started out in NYC, but has been fed and thrived in the natural world, including Vermont with his farmer wife and as station director of WGDR/WGDH, Plainfield, VT. Kris has a style all h...
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A Chanteuse Friend of Mother Nature - Victoria Vox from 2014-09-14T12:00
Victoria Vox is more than a beautiful voice, she's a creative font of folk/pop music, occasionally in French, always in style & beauty. Write a song each week for 52 weeks? She's done it. Writing s...
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New Depth to Old Time Music - Sue West from 2014-09-07T12:00
Sue West (AKA RuralRootsMusic.com) is all about traditional folk music, including the traditional songs that she writes. With a strong environmental & spiritual bent, Sue's music conveys simplicity...
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Compassionate Voice from 2014-08-31T12:00
Musician & writer Gretchen Wing is an emerging talent at songwriting, with music & lyrics that are profound and moving. A growing presence of the music scene on Lopez Island, WA, you can only hope ...
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Among 800 Irish Orphans - Danny Ellis from 2014-08-24T12:00
Danny Ellis spent 8 often-traumatic yrs in an orphanage in Ireland, healed from it by meditation, music, & love, and through his newly released book, A Boy at the Gate, shares the pain, humor, love...
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Strangely Wrapped Gift - Red Grammer from 2014-08-17T12:00
Red Grammer, while known especially for his children's/family music, also caters to adult listeners. Mixed with an irrepressible inner child is his spirit-deep Baha'i adult, bebopping and crooning,...
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Open Heart, Open Hand & Open Tunings from 2014-08-10T12:00
David Wilcox is a musician, a poet, and a spiritual seeker. As he says, "Music is sacred ground and it shouldn't be reduced to that kind of simplified demographic target-marketing." This is music a...
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There is a River - Phil Circle's Song of the Soul from 2014-07-06T12:00
Phil Circle, now in Wisconsin's Chippewa Valley, spent most of 2 decades in Chicago. Trained in classical, influenced in jazz directions by a visit to New Orleans when he was 7, and walking in Eric...
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Psychedelic Folk Revival in the Country - Joanne Rand, Part 2 from 2014-06-29T12:00
Joanne Rand melds elements of folk/rock/country/classical and more in her songs, all of them infused with a root-deep connection to nature, peace, and roving ways. A lover of trees, whales, peace, ...
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Leftover Dreams & Peace of the Present - Patrice Haan from 2014-06-22T12:00
Patrice Haan has been part of the leadership of the Bay Area Folk Harp Society, producing music with an instrument wonderfully compatible with her voice & lyrics. She has 2 CDs on her own, and anot...
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Musical Mystic - Rahbi Crawford's Song of the Soul from 2014-06-15T12:00
Rahbi Crawford does amazing music with a unique focus, stimulating the energy & health of our chakras and the system they are part of. With crystal bowls, wood flutes, wooden frogs and more, Rahbi ...
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Hope Reasserted - David Roth from 2014-05-25T12:00
David Roth is great! Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul & Mary) said, and we agree, "David has reached our hearts. With voices like his still singing, there's a certainty that the candle will remain lit,...
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Blood Type Kona AA from 2014-05-18T12:00
Stephen Lee Rich is a musician with a joke (or a comedian with a song), a yodeler, and a leading figure in the work of Musicians United to Protect Bristol Bay. Based in Madison, WI, and performing ...
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Treehouse Living, Stars Are Singing - Joanne Rand from 2014-05-11T12:00
Joanne Rand overcame her shyness because of her need to sing people together in care for the Earth. Having lived way off the grid, in a tree house, she's walked the walk, from growing up in Georgia...
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Gonna Take it with Me - Sue Kranz from 2014-04-27T12:00
Sue Kranz is a musical gift, and humble on top of that. Rooted in mindfulness meditation, thriving in nature, changing the world through activism and teaching, Sue shares a beautiful soul, voice, g...
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Healing Banjo from Arkansas - Jacob George's Song of the Soul from 2014-04-20T12:00
Jacob George did 3 tours of duty in Afghanistan, and it changed him completely, including the healing process in the aftermath leading to his involvement with Vets for Peace. With tools like this b...
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Stardreamer - Priscilla Herdman's Song of the Soul from 2014-04-13T12:00
Priscilla Herdman is a shy person with the gift of a singing voice that carries the listener to laughter, tears, and wonder. With 13 CD, some solo, some family albums, and some as part of a trio, P...
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Come into the Light -- of Alaska from 2014-04-06T12:00
Though Susan Grace Stoltz was Michigan raised, she's all about her home in Alaska - the people who are really there for you, the rivers, protecting the land and creatures, and, again, the people. A...
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Message From a Red-tailed Hawk from 2014-03-30T12:00
Jody Soland's spiritual gifts were refined and deepened through a period of painful adversity, a series of years which included West Nile Virus, mono, complications, traumatic brain injury, and mor...
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What You Put Down Now from 2014-03-23T12:00
Niyonu Spann is the leader of Tribe1, a Philadelphia group singing for peace and unity. Niyonu is used to wrestling with the deep things, walking carefully through the tender places, and bravely go...
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Gentle Heretic: Lon Milo DuQuette from 2014-02-23T12:00
Lon Milo DuQuette and his fan page are excellent sources of amazing music and spirituality. prolific. A practitioner and teacher of Thelema, founded by Aleister Crowley in the early 1900's, Lon has...
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It's the Same Love - Ben Tousley's Song of the Soul from 2014-02-16T12:00
Ben Tousley is a folksinger with a great mix of song and spirit, with 6 CDs to his personal credit, plus one more recently released with Sue Kranz. His degree from Harvard Divinity School prepared ...
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Out of the Depths - Nancy Bowker from 2014-02-02T12:00
Nancy Bowker has been forced, and led, into a life of profound solitude, due to illness. From working in blueberry fields as a child, to the jazz stage, to the inner retirement of improvised, sung ...
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Brazil, Tijuana, and Chicago - Lani Hall Alpert's Song of the Soul from 2014-01-19T12:00
Lani Hall Alpert started out in Chicago and made her fame with Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 and continued with Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. In addition to her incredible, Grammy-award winning voic...
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Cain's Blood - Michael Johnson's Song of the Soul from 2014-01-05T12:00
Michael Johnson journeys between folk, rock, & country charts, reaching the tops of the respect charts over the decades, with probing lyrics and excellent guitar. Recently returned from Nashville t...
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Forever At the Door - Ann Mayo Muir's Song of the Soul from 2013-12-29T12:00
Ann Mayo Muir has a long pedigree as a folk singer/songwriter, including many years as part of the near-legendary trio, Bok,Trickett, & Muir. Talented on a number of instruments and with a beautifu...
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Mudcat by the Mississippi from 2013-12-22T12:00
James Mudcat Grant is the Mudcat in Mudcat & the Bottomfeeders, an appropriate name for someone who has lived his life on the banks of the Mississippi. With 50 years of music making of rock, folk,c...
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Moonchild - Christina Muir's Song of the Soul from 2013-12-08T12:00
Christina Muir is a singer/songwriter/musician/artist, and one-third of the trio known as Hot Soup. Daughter of folk luminary Ann Mayo Muir, Christina has music in her genes & in her heart. With he...
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See Beyond - Chris Van Cleave's Song of the Soul from 2013-12-01T12:00
Chris Van Cleave has a long and many-textured career with music - as part of the folk-rock band Meadow, writing & performing a lot of his own music, but also performing in several musicals, includi...
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Pagan Ways of Green & Grey - Part 2 of Damh the Bard's Song of the Soul from 2013-11-03T12:00
Damh the Bard is the stage name of Dave Smith, singer, songwriter, and Pendragon in the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids. Taking inspiration from those connected deeply with the Earth & the wild,...
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Druids, Corn Riggs & Standing Stones - Part 1 of Dahm the Bard's Song of the Soul from 2013-10-27T12:00
Damh the Bard is the stage name of Dave Smith, singer, songwriter, and Pendragon in the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids. Taking inspiration from those connected deeply with the Earth & the wild,...
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From the 3rd Planet and Beyond - Don D Harvey's Song of the Soul from 2013-10-20T12:00
You can get a good idea of what kind of music singer/songwriter Don D. Harvey makes by the list of groups he's been part of (in addition to his solo work): Shakin Loose, Tennessee, The Acoustic Con...
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The Sun Goes On Rising - Sarah McQuaid's Song of the Soul from 2013-10-13T12:00
Sarah McQuaid carries a world of music with her, born in Spain, raised in the USA, and having lived 18 years in Ireland & England. A singer/songwriter who started in the folk world, Sarah will win ...
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The Verdant Mile - Tracy Grammer's Song of the Soul from 2013-10-06T12:00
Tracy Grammer is, via her website, a poetry-loving, type A ex-head cheerleader, graphic designer, classically trained violinist and karaoke queen with Florida roots and California cool. And for a h...
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We Will Survive - Pat Lamanna's Song of the Soul from 2013-08-25T12:00
Pat Lamanna is part of the People's Music Network for Songs of Freedom & Struggle, has performed for 15 years as part of the folk trio, The Raggedy Crew, and run a coffee house music venue starting...
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Blue Pills & Butterflies - Annie Lanzillotto's Song of the Soul from 2013-08-18T12:00
Annie Lanzillotto rocks it! Soulful, quirky, sweet, brash, indomitable, she produces a variety of art - 3 rock/blues/spoken word CDs (Blue Pill, Carry My Coffee, and Eleven Recitations), a memoir, ...
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Standing At The Sunrise - Ellen Whyte's Song of the Soul from 2013-08-11T12:00
Ellen Whyte mostly hangs out in Portland, but recently toured Wisconsin's Chippewa Valley with Sue Orfield. She combines her beautiful voice & great musicians with a powerful personal understanding...
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Broken Racers - Chris Moore's Song of the Soul from 2013-07-28T12:00
Chris Moore is unique singer/songwriter on a very conscious spiritual path, often explored in and through music, currently as part of the trio, Kindling Stone. Chris' journey forward in Spirit has ...
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This Is Our Place & Time - Ken Lonnquist's Song of the Soul from 2013-07-07T12:00
Ken Lonnquist is change-making, environmental activist, humorous & serious type of singer/songwriter. Ken produces a wide array of musical styles, though folkish is sort of home base for him. You'l...
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Indiana Meets India - Carrie Newcomer's Song of the Soul from 2013-06-30T12:00
Carrie Newcomer added some rich music, experience and Spirit to her repertoire by her recent visits to India, including collaboration with legendary sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and his sons ...
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Ain't I A Woman - Kim Harris' Song of the Soul from 2013-05-26T12:00
Kim Harris and her husband, Reggie, have been conveying passion, history, and spirit through great music for decades. In addition to the folk venues and schools where they've performed and taught, ...
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Simple, Soulful, Sacred Singing - Milwaukee Friends Meeting from 2013-05-19T12:00
While traditional Quaker worship, based on silence, has no scheduled singing as part of worship, Quakers are among the singing-est and dancing-est of folks around. Don Pardee did a simple recording...
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Change Is Gonna Come - Kiya Heartwood's Song of the Soul from 2013-04-28T12:00
Kiya Heartwood has an amazing assemblage of musical influences, from folk to hard rock and punk rock, plus her degree in composing. She was with Radio Cafe, then on Arista records with Stealin Hors...
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World Stretching - Richard Bruxvoort Colligan's Song of the Soul from 2013-04-07T12:00
Richard Bruxvoort Colligan is a passionate singer/songwriter with a difference - his degree from United Theological Seminary in the Twin Cities. Whether making acoustic music on his own, singing wi...
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All Will Be Well - Meg Barnhouse's Song of the Soul from 2013-03-31T12:00
Meg Barnhouse is a singer/songwriter/storyteller, plus she is minister of Austin UU Church. Raised in southern evangelical Christian circles, ordained Presbyterian, Meg's faith was lost and reborn ...
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One For The Loons - David Massengill's Song of the Soul from 2013-03-24T12:00
David Massengill mixes singing, songwriting, storytelling, mountain dulcimer, guitar, and the taste of home-grown Tennessee, painting auditory pictures that pluck heart strings and induce smiles. H...
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Simple Living - Fred Small's Song of the Soul from 2013-03-17T12:00
Fred Small animates stories through his songs, with a heart and a spirit of gold. He weaves a world-wide family with his songs of healing and hope. Fred started out as a lawyer in the environmental...
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Turning Toward the Morning - Gordon Bok's Song of the Soul from 2013-03-03T12:00
Gordon Bok is one of the greats of folk music, with many songs coming from the sea, or the edge of the sea, where he lives. He delivers them with a depth and a resonance that echos deep in the soul...
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Carp Camp Passionate Folk - Dave Para's Song of the Soul from 2013-02-24T12:00
Dave Para & Cathy Barton are passionate about folk music and folk history, living that out by performing folk music, old and new, by creating historical albums, like about Lewis & Clark, anchoring ...
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Rise Up and Be Loney - David Huckfelt Song of the Soul from 2013-02-17T12:00
David Huckfelt is co-founder of The Pines, a Twin Cities band making Midwest music which is sometimes haunted, eloquent, gripping, starkly poetic, and which is always very, very, good. With all kin...
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Unbelief, Rejoicing, & Tears Through Hip Hop/Rap - AGAPE/David Scherer's Song of the Soul from 2013-02-10T12:00
AGAPE* (David Scherer) does deep, searching, inspirational, hip-hop/rap music calling listeners to a closer connection to God. Son of hippie-Lutheran parents, the lone white kid in an inner city sc...
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Pointing at the Sun - Cheryl Wheeler's Song of the Soul from 2013-01-27T12:00
Cheryl Wheeler does music and life her own way - openly, honestly, and comfortably - and the result is a lot of stunning music and messages. Her songs have been covered by folks like Peter, Paul & ...
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Hauntress - Denise Jordan Finley's Song of the Soul from 2013-01-20T12:00
Denise Jordan Finley performs in a duo with Daniel Pagdon as Finley and Pagdon. Denise has decades of experience with other duos and configuration, but the real suprise is that she's only really go...
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Inner Pippi - Sue Orfield's Song of the Soul from 2012-12-30T12:00
Sue Orfield is a dynamo of music in the Chippewa Valley and far beyond, performing with a double-digit number of groups. Her musical tastes and skills are equally wide-ranging, although her instrum...
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Lying Down With Sinners - Mother Banjo's Song of the Soul from 2012-12-23T12:00
Mother Banjo is Ellen Stanley, an incredible voice and talented songwriter of the folk/gospel/Americana/down-homey variety. When Ellen is not promoting other great musicians for Red House Records o...
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Libertine - Andra Suchy's Song of the Soul from 2012-12-09T12:00
Andra Suchy comes from an impressively musical family, including her father, Chuck Suchy, so you know that she good schoolin' in music on the North Dakata plains. A down-home woman currently living...
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Love Alone - Dorothy Zerbe's Song of the Soul from 2012-12-02T12:00
Dorothy Zerbe is a wonderful singer/songwriter, person & voice to know. A latecomer to performing her songs, she shares music in many ways, including at the Shawano Folk Festival, plus she hosts ho...
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Enough is a Feast - Bill Harley's Song of the Soul from 2012-11-25T12:00
Bill Harley is a singer/songwriter with something more - powerful/funny/insightful storytelling capturing glimpses of the human condition. Whether singing of our greed and hunger, of tossing a TV o...
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Sings a Bright Blue Bird - Joe Maurer's Song of the Soul from 2012-11-18T12:00
Joe Maurer is the Coconut half of the musical duo Coconut & the Duke. They produce music which is creative, eclectic, and engaging. Joe is multi-talented, working as a solar & landscape designer wi...
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Blues for Peace - Davey J's Song of the Soul from 2012-11-11T12:00
David M. Jones, English Professor is the not-so-secret identity of Davey J, bluesman & singer/songwriter. With his band, the Jonestones, he makes music to move you and, hopefully, to move you to in...
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Hearing the Angels Sing - Peter Sterling's Song of the Soul from 2012-11-04T12:00
Peter Sterling has released 12 CDs and now a book, Hearing the Angels Sing - A True Story of Angelic Assistance. While sitting meditation is the Sedona back country, Peter received direction from t...
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Rapping Yoga/We R God - Andres Gonzolas' Song of the Soul from 2012-10-21T12:00
Andres Gonzales is a yogi/world-healer with The Holistic Life Foundation, Inc and a hip-hop/rapper with For The People Entertainment (or here). Based in Baltimore, Maryland, fuses music, messages a...
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Man from Cackalack - Jonathan Byrd's Song of the Soul from 2012-09-30T12:00
Jonathan Byrd hails from North Carolina, AKA North Cackalacki, and his music has home and depth and hurt and celebration. He doesn't shy from the facts but he's skillful with an image or metaphor a...
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A Voice for Women - Cris Williamson's Song of the Soul from 2012-09-23T12:00
Cris Williamson has played an important role as one of the prominent voices of feminism and lesbians, including her part in founding the first women's record label. With more than 20 CDs, Cris has ...
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SPROUTS - I Wish I Were Krishna - Lon Milo DuQuette's Song of the Soul from 2012-09-12T12:00
Lon Milo DuQuette is a stunning combination of sweet music, profundity, hilarity, and love. With a career as a folk/rock musician from the precocious age of 14, through many employment variants inc...
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Raising Consciousness One Eyebrow At A Time - Vonn New's Song of the Soul from 2012-09-09T12:00
Vonn New creates innovative music, modeling deep listening in the process. Using things like flutes, percussion, found sounds and field recordings, Vonn creates sonic playgrounds over which she imp...
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A Stained Glass Serpentine Cycle of Money - Danny Schmidt's Song of the Soul from 2012-08-26T12:00
Danny Schmidt is one of many talented artists with the Americana Agency. Danny is profound and downhome, and he has an amazing gift for stunning lyrics, with influences like Bob Dylan & Leonard Coh...
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Coasting Home - Tracy Feldman's Song of the Soul from 2012-08-05T12:00
Singer/songwriter Tracy Feldman is one of the many rewards I got for going to this year's MREA Clean Energy & Sustainable Living Fair. While there's a clear and powerful passion in his guitar, viol...
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Giftsongs & Blessings - Sally Campbell Song of the Soul from 2012-07-29T12:00
Sally Campbell does not refer to herself as a musician so much as a "song catcher". Having been judged unacceptable for choir as a youth, she had to work on developing her singing & playing ability...
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Rigaudons, Leaven & The Beatles - John Sheldon's Song of the Soul from 2012-07-22T12:00
John Sheldon of Warwick, England, has been teaching, leading, performing & directing music, across the spectrum, for around 4 decades. A longtime participant & leader for The Leaveners, John was pr...
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Baptist Buddhist - SuZ Ogden's Song of the Soul from 2012-07-08T12:00
SuZ Ogden is an angeltonk Baptist Buddhist living in Oklahoma, with visits to California, Russia and Israel. In other words, she's all over the map, from nightclub singer to minister in the United ...
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Tree Meditation - Joe Reilly's Song of the Soul from 2012-06-24T12:00
Joe Reilly is a singer, a songwriter, an environmental educator, and a man on a spiritual quest. His spirit journey has taken him from Catholic to Native American to Buddhist and back to Catholic, ...
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Walkin' Jim Stoltz Memorial Song of the Soul from 2012-06-17T12:00
A memorial Song of the Soul for Walkin' Jim Stoltz, the great hiker and minstrel of the open places, who left us 9/3/2010. Jim's passions and music are here guided by his wife, Leslie Stoltz, siste...
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Watchmen from Castles In Air - Chris Picco's Song of the Soul from 2012-06-10T12:00
Chris Picco is lead singer of Castles In Air, a Christian Indie band in Southern California. He's originally from Canada and part of his path to settling here with his American wife included a peri...
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Heaven Below - Peter Mayer's Song of the Soul from 2012-06-03T12:00
Peter Mayer is a Minnesotan singer/songwriter - but also a storyteller, dreamweaver and earth-based theologian, mixing science, spirituality & wonder. Raised Catholic, having spent important years ...
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River of the Big Canoe - Ed Trickett's Song of the Soul from 2012-05-27T12:00
Ed Trickett has a long and fruitful connection with folk music, on his own and as part of the nearly legendary trio, Bok, Muir & Trickett, all recording with Folk Legacy Records. When he's not on t...
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The Movement Is My Home - Si Kahn's Song of the Soul from 2012-05-13T12:00
Si Kahn is a powerful singer/songwriter whose music tells intimate stories of people at the same time it provides valuble lessons for societal change. His newest book is Creative Community Organizi...
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I Wish I Were Krishna - Lon Milo DuQuette's Song of the Soul from 2012-04-15T12:00
Lon Milo DuQuette is a stunning combination of sweet music, profundity, hilarity, and love. With a career as a folk/rock musician from the precocious age of 14, through many employment variants inc...
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What Would Love Do? - Rich Baumann's Song of the Soul from 2012-04-01T12:00
Rich Baumann has a heart of gold that he shared through his music, especially with schools, retirement homes and churches, as well as at folk festivals and the like. As founder of The Million Close...
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Mathematician Mystic - Michelle Lynn's 2nd Song of the Soul from 2012-03-25T12:00
Michelle Lynn packs more profundity per square inch of her 25 years on this planet than anyone I've every met. With a musical voyage which is an exploration of the mind, body and spirit, Michelle g...
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Faithful in Dubai - ZEFFeREEN from 2012-03-18T12:00
ZEFFeREEN is a singer/songwriter, originally from India, living in Dubai for the past 16 years. His website proclaims, "Oh! To fill the eyes of orphans with hope... To bring joy to the widow's hear...
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Seeing Stars - Meg Hutchinson's Song of the Soul from 2012-03-11T12:00
Meg Hutchinson is a singer/songwriter whose music is vibrant, deep, poetry, exploring inner spaces while she travels wide open spaces. Raised by non-conforming hippies, her spiritual path has led h...
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More Light (BROADCAST VERSION) - Christopher Grundy's Song of the Soul from 2012-02-26T12:00
Christopher Grundy is a UCC minister and teaches at Eden Theological Seminary in St Louis and he's one of the founders of a group called the Progressive Christian Artists Network. His songs are fil...
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More Light (UNCUT) - Christopher Grundy's Song of the Soul from 2012-02-25T12:00
Christopher Grundy is a UCC minister and teaches at Eden Theological Seminary in St Louis and he's one of the founders of a group called the Progressive Christian Artists Network. His songs are fil...
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Choose the Sky - Blue O'Connell's Song of the Soul from 2012-02-19T12:00
Blue O'Connell uses her music to heal with her training in Therapeutic Music and as a Certified Music Practitioner, this in addition to her stagework and other singing/songwriting. Perhaps the most...
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Find a Peaceful Thought - Mary Miche's Song of the Soul from 2012-02-12T12:00
Mary Miche has been sharing values-rooted music with children for decades, connecting them to the plants, animals and people of the entire globe. In addition to her degrees and experience with musi...
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Threshold Singers of Eau Claire - Songs for Souls at the Edge from 2012-01-22T12:00
A visit with the Threshold Singers of Eau Claire, a group of women who, like other Threshold Choirs across the USA, sing people at the edge of life on their way, offering comfort and peace through ...
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There At Kent State - Terry (Magpie) Leonino's Song of the Soul from 2012-01-15T12:00
Terry Leonino & Greg Artzner are Magpie with 37 years of singing songs of peace, civil rights & connection with the planet. Terry was a freshman at Kent State on May 4, 1970 when 4 of her fellow st...
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Not a Disciple of Perfection - Peter Alsop's Song of the Soul from 2012-01-01T12:00
Peter Alsop combines his skill as a folk musician with his profession of educational psychologist, along with an awesome sense of humor to produce musical gems. His latest adult album is Disciples ...
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Fires on the Shore - Pine Wilson's Song of the Soul from 2011-12-18T12:00
Pine Wilson leads Maritza, a band that touts itself as producing "Balkan Boogie, Romany Romp, Klezmer Kut-Ups". Living off the grid and connecting best with the mystery through contact with nature,...
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The Fun Side of Life - Matt Wahl's Song of the Soul from 2011-12-11T12:00
Matt Wahl's deep voice and gentle spirit carry the listener to a soothing, joyous, place, replacing the tempting distractions of the world with the things of true value - family, connection, peace ...
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Lawyer to Social Activist Musician - Anne Feeney's Song of the Soul from 2011-12-04T12:00
Anne Feeney went from 12 years as a lawyer to full-time as a social activist musician. With 8 CD's plus other recordings, she's given us a wealth of music and messages. All the songs in this progra...
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Patricia Morrison's Song of the Soul from 2011-11-27T12:00
Patricia Morrison first trained as a classical vocalist, but a combination of factors, including her experience around 9-11 led her to a degree in Peace and Global Studies, peace activism, communal...
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1845 - Joshua Brown's Song of the Soul from 2011-11-20T12:00
2 passions of Joshua Brown's life are traditional folk music and West Richmond Friends Meeting, where he is pastor. Raised with a wealth of songs from Irish uncles and the rest of his family, he sh...
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Broken Ground - Neal Swanger's Song of the Soul from 2011-11-13T12:00
Neal Swanger makes fine music with simple, earthy, lyrics & melodies, connecting listeners to the land & the heart. When mixed in with his work with Folk 'n' Thieves and with the kids of the ReUse ...
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Todos Juntos - Ali Youssefi's Song of the Soul from 2011-11-06T12:00
Ali Youssefi produces music that is ethereal, flowing, moving, and profoundly spiritual. Raised in Chile by Baha'i parents, his father from Iran, and currently living in Haifa, Israel, Ali shares e...
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The Burden of Vision Part Two - Jon Watts Song of the Soul from 2011-10-30T12:00
We continue as Jon Watts digs deep with talk about nakedness, righteousness, our global body, and more, in his distinctive, quirky, style: Spirited music-enhanced spoken word poetry. Come on! All t...
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Naked! Part One - Jon Watts Song of the Soul from 2011-10-23T12:00
Jon Watts digs deep with talk about nakedness, righteousness, our global body, and more, in his distinctive, quirky, style: Spirited music-enhanced spoken word poetry. Come on! All the songs in thi...
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Barbara Stephan's Song of the Soul from 2011-10-16T12:00
Barbara Stephan loves R&B and Jazz best, but performs powerfully across the musical spectrum. She hales from Millwaukee and teaches music at the Waukesha County Conservatory of Music. With a passio...
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Karen Taylor-Good's Song of the Soul from 2011-10-09T12:00
Karen Taylor-Good is from Nashville and over the years she's made important splashes in that sizeable music pool. Her songs have been nominated for Grammy's and she's recorded with a number of well...
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Sacred Alchemy - Devaa Haley's Song of the Soul from 2011-10-02T12:00
Devaa Haley evokes the many faces of the Divine Feminine on her new release, Sacred Alchemy. As an Interfaith Minister through The Chaplaincy Institute for Arts & Interfaith Ministries, with her de...
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Peter Frey's Song of the Soul from 2011-09-25T12:00
Peter Frey is 1/3rd of Kazyak, a new band that, like Peter, is rich in musical and creative diversity. Combine folk, jazz, rock and classical music with diverse ingredients like whimsy and politica...
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Tom Goss' Song of the Soul from 2011-09-18T12:00
Tom Goss is a big-hearted singer/songwriter from Washington D.C. Motivated by his passion for social justice issues, Tom spent 6 months in seminary to become a Catholic priest before deciding it wa...
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Let the Goodness In - Tret Fure's Song of the Soul from 2011-09-11T12:00
Tret Fure has a rich and lengthy career as a singer/songwriter, starting at 16 in Midwest coffehouses, moving to Berkeley and performing with Spencer Davis, as a force in the blossoming field of Wo...
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Beit Shira/House of Song - Part 2 Jewish Music in America from 2011-09-04T12:00
Howard Shalowitz is the hazzan (cantor) for Beit Shira Synagogue. His experience with music, both Jewish & non-Jewish, is impressive, including the singing telegram he delivered to the renowned ope...
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Beit Shira/House of Song - Part 1 Jewish Music in America from 2011-08-28T12:00
Howard Shalowitz is the hazzan (cantor) for Beit Shira Synagogue. His experience with music, both Jewish & non-Jewish, is impressive, including the singing telegram he delivered to the renowned ope...
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Drumming The Soul Awake - Jaime Meyer's Song of the Soul from 2011-08-21T12:00
Jaime Meyer is the author of Drumming the Soul Awake. He's an average Joe, a wild-eyed visionary, and leads "drumming things" in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. Songs included in this program: T...
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Made Out of Water - Alice Di Micele's Song of the Soul from 2011-08-14T12:00
Singer/songwriter/guitarist Alice Di Micele has a deep connection to Spirit in nature, especially through the element of water. With 12 recordings to her name, she's been prolific and profound. Rai...
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An Irish Heart & Wood Ticks - Larry Heagle from 2011-08-07T12:00
Larry Heagle has created serious & humerous music for the Midwest for 33 years. He's mostly Irish, with all the sentiment and humor that frequently comes with those origins, though I doubt that he'...
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Singing the Goddess: Stasa Morgan-Appel from 2011-07-31T12:00
Stasa Morgan-Appel is a Pagan Quaker with the gift of leading & sharing music and her feminist-pagan identity puts her at a particular spot on the wide Pagan spectrum. She co-authored A Winter Sols...
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Reluctant Daughter - Sally Barris' Song of the Soul from 2011-07-24T12:00
Sally Barris is pure Minnesota-raised, but she found her musical home in Nashville, first as a music writer, and now as a singer/songwriter. With a beautiful voice and a loving spirit, her music is...
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A Face of Hope - Don Pardee's Song of the Soul from 2011-07-17T12:00
Don Pardee has a life-long love affair with music, from the symphony trumpet of his earlier years, to the finger-picking guitar of the past decades. Though music is not his day job, much of his lif...
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Ari Herstand's Song of the Soul from 2011-07-10T12:00
Ari Herstand is a Midwestern singer/songwriter, soon to be in LA. Much of his studio work is mellow, painting images from an inner palette and, raised as a cultural & religious Jew, Ari provides a ...
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Lisa Wildman's Song of the Soul from 2011-07-03T12:00
Lisa Wildman performs kids music with Peanut Butter Jellyfish, folk music with Group W, as well as performing country, opera and symphonic music. She plays flute, guitar and sings, and her current ...
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Swimming to the Other Side - Pat Humphries from 2011-06-26T12:00
Pat Humphries is half of Emma's Revolution, a powerful, moving and fun collaboration aimed at making our world better. Inspired by all sorts of music, including hymns, gospel, folk and more, Pat ha...
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Rod Kinny's Song of the Soul from 2011-06-19T12:00
Rod Kinny is a singer/songwriter on a heart-led spiritual journey. As his web site proclaims, "Rod Kinny, Music with a deeper meaning ...". Rod was raised Methodist, and now attends Unity Unitarian...
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Carrie Newcomer's Song of the Soul from 2011-06-05T12:00
Carrie Newcomer is a musical beacon of light & soul from Indiana. She is consciously reaching inward, gently sharing what she finds, delighting in people and flashes of the Divine everywhere. She's...
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Nathen Aswell's Song of the Soul from 2011-05-22T12:00
Nathen Aswell is a Canadian singer/songwriter who believes his purpose in this life is to inspire and heal through his music. His debut CD "Little By Little" is a mix of excellent music with deep S...
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SPROUTS: A Voice for Women - Cris Williamson's Song of the Soul from 2011-05-11T12:00
Cris Williamson has played an important role as one of the prominent voices of feminism and lesbians, including her part in founding the first women's record label. With more than 20 CDs, Cris has ...
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I Learned It In Sunday School - Andy Murray's Song of the Soul from 2011-05-01T12:00
Andy Murray's music has been featured regularly on our Spirit In Action program because his music is steeped in a combination of deep spirit and healing work for the world. Andy has long worked as ...
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Earth Day Collage - Artists for the Earth from 2011-04-24T12:00
A collage of interview & music from the past year's Song of the Soul guests with particular connection to the Earth. Featuring Gina Citoli, Magpie, Peter Mayer, Joe Reilly, and Walkin' Jim Stoltz. ...
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SPROUTS: Si Kahn - Songs of Growing in the Movement from 2011-04-20T12:00
Si Kahn is a powerful singer/songwriter whose music tells intimate stories of people at the same time it provides valuble lessons for societal change. His newest book is Creative Community Organizi...
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Desert Flood - Michelle Lynn's Song of the Soul from 2011-04-10T12:00
Michelle Lynn, at 23, has already made 3 CD's, Jumping in Chains, Hospital Radio and Pre-echos for the Postmodern. experiencing her own spiritual emergence in the process. She now lives in Decorah,...
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River Light - Andy Juhl's Song of the Soul from 2011-04-03T12:00
Andy Juhl is a young, quiet, Quaker farmer in rural Northwest Iowa with a passion for peace, love and music. With his twin brother on drums, his wife on French horn, and various friends and musicia...
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The Rustic Riders - Lisa Meissner's Song of the Soul from 2011-03-20T12:00
Lisa Meissner performs with The Rustic Riders with a definite spiritual/religious element, fueled by personal & cultural struggles and a with a healing vision of the possibilities. All the songs in...
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Love Call Me Home - Peggy Seeger's Song of the Soul from 2011-03-13T12:00
Peggy Seeger has a wealth of recordings from the 50+ years she's been performing, on her own, with her husband, Ewan MacColl, with her brothers, Mike & Pete Seeger, and other folks. Traditional fol...
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All Shall Be Well - Eileen McGann's Song of the Soul from 2011-03-06T12:00
Eileen McGann is a Canadian singer/songwriter who combines a stunning voice, deep passion for the natural world, wide-ranging education and thoughts with a rich Irish/Celtic upbringing to make top ...
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Real People's Music - Josh Dunson's Song of the Soul from 2011-01-30T12:00
Josh Dunson passionately promotes music and culture through Real People's Music where his clients have included American & Multicultural artists and activists like Peggy Seeger, Si Kahn, Laura Fuen...
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Brahman Shaman/Matt Olson's Song of the Soul from 2011-01-23T12:00
Brahman Shaman is Matt Olson and Brahman Shaman is what he's about. Raised Catholic, drawn to the spirituality of the East, led to connect with real-Earth living, Matt searches for answered to his ...
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Terry (Magpie) Leonino's Song of the Soul from 2011-01-16T12:00
Terry Leonino & Greg Artzner are Magpie with 37 years of singing songs of peace, civil rights & connection with the planet. Terry was a freshman at Kent State on May 4, 1970 when 4 of her fellow st...
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Rolling Wheelchair Blues - Mike Hamer's Song of the Soul from 2011-01-09T12:00
Mike Hamer is a singer/songwriter from Greenville, North Carolina, who performs a rich variety of music, often as part of Mike Hamer and the Rhinoceroses with the Angelic Choir. Until an accident l...
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My Father's Shoes - Mike Quick's Song of the Soul from 2011-01-02T12:00
Mike Quick has done a lot of types of music over a few decades, including blues, rock, country, etc, but his musical home is folk music, his church is the wide outdoors, and his tree is the Oak. Al...
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Friend of the Soul - Rabbi Marcia Prager's Song of the Soul from 2010-12-26T12:00
Marcia Prager is Rabbi at Philadelphia's P'nai Or community, an affiliate of ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal. Marcia is a teacher, a singer and a dynamic source of spiritual guidances vibrantly ...
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Trafficking with Cynics - Marge Eiseman's Song of the Soul from 2010-12-19T12:00
MargeTheMaven.com is the web home of Jewish singer/songwriter Marge Eiseman. Marge leads workshops and programs on Storahtelling, Comfort Shawls, Hip Spirituality and many other topics. All the son...
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Eco Boogie - Gina Citoli's Song of the Soul from 2010-12-12T12:00
Gina Citoli has a long pedigree singing and writing music. Gina has performed with several groups, including Alchemy VII, but is now typically on her own. She's been popular with those with an orga...
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Memories - Warren Petryk's Song of the Soul from 2010-11-28T12:00
Warren Petryk has done a lot of music, with a group called The Memories, as part of Taize-style worship, with the Chippewa Valley Symphony and, of course, on his tapes and CD's. He's deeply rooted ...
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Klingon Klezmer - Jack Kessler's Song of the Soul from 2010-11-21T12:00
Jack Kessler has many musical faces. He has decades of experience as a Cantor with Aleph, Alliance for Jewish Renewal. He's also the director and lead force behind Atzilut Concerts for Peace, a Jew...
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Terra Guitarra - Bruce Hecksel's Song of the Soul from 2010-11-07T12:00
Bruce & Julie Hecksel are Patchouli, 2 former city folks thriving on nature and music in rural Wisconsin, making deeply stirring vocal and instrumental songs to reconnect and deepen lives. Bruce an...
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Kenzie Joy's Song of the Soul from 2010-10-31T12:00
A vibrant voice and astonishing songwriting talent are a joy whenever they appear, but all the more wonderful when they appear by the age of 13. Kenzie Joy is a Chippewa Valley singer/songwriter de...
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Mary Shapiro's 2nd Song of the Soul from 2010-10-17T12:00
A re-visit with singer/songwriter and activist Mary Shapiro, organizer and host of the Sounds of Hope Concert Series in Washington DC, and niece to the Dominican priest who founded the Friends of G...
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Annabelle Wood's 2nd Song of the Soul from 2010-10-10T12:00
Annabella Wood has filled many roles: singer/songwriter, long-haul truck driver, handywoman and cancer survivor. A recent brush with death has focused her ever more firmly on what she loves - music...
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Brian Bethke's Song of the Soul from 2010-09-19T12:00
Brian Bethke emerged from 8 years of illness by capturing the vivid stories of his life in song. On his own since the age of 15, his folk/Americana/country style music conveys a powerful journey wi...
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Ed Feeny's Song of the Soul from 2010-09-12T12:00
Ed Feeny performs with 3 bands, Reptile Palace Orchestra, The Motor Primitives and Veseliyka which reflects, in part, his diverse appetite for music, in terms of both genre and country. Songs inclu...
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Greg Herriges' Song of the Soul from 2010-09-05T12:00
Greg Herriges (& Telluric Currents) is music that tastes of the vastness of the world and the universe. It is spirituality, most often without words, that is World Music and Minnesota music. It's a...
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Magic Mama's Song of the Soul from 2010-08-22T12:00
Magic Mama is Kjersten Hallin deGaia and she does what she calls eco-edu-tainment and "Organic Hip Hop & World Beats for the Whole Family", and she does it with spiritual depth and soaring joy. Rai...
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Steve Deasy's Song of the Soul from 2010-08-15T12:00
Steve Deasy has a wealth of musical experience, both instrumental & vocal, but only began writing songs relatively recently. He got some top honors at the Kerrville Folk Festival this year. His lat...
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Tom Allen's Song of the Soul from 2010-07-25T12:00
Tom Allen is very involved in Transcendental Mediation, Men's work, and working for world peace, especially on the spiritual plane. He's a talented guitarist of many styles - classical, jazz and mu...
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Paulette Meier's Song of the Soul from 2010-07-11T12:00
Paulette Meier is a singer/songwriter and a school-based trainer in violence prevention and social emotional learning. Based in Cincinnati, she performs as part of Just Earth, along with Jamie Fota...
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Earth Mama's Song of the Soul - Joyce Johnson Rouse from 2010-07-04T12:00
Joyce Johnson Rouse has been Earth Mama for the past 15 years. With a degree in Earth Literacy, she teaches about care for the Earth through her songs, spreading peace and justice as part of the me...
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Alivia Biko's Song of the Soul from 2010-06-20T12:00
Alivia Bright Maple Biko is a singer/songwriter with a ministerial component, raised in the Midwest but now a longtime Oregon resident. Part of her religious and spiritual journey was in the UCC an...
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Susan Werner's Song of the Soul from 2010-05-30T12:00
Susan Werner is a Chicago-based singer/songwriter, preferring a big, big, city still close to her Iowa roots. Susan is an innovator, and among her musical creations is "The Gospel Truth", a no-hold...
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David Serotkin's Song of the Soul from 2010-05-23T12:00
David Serotkin is a singer/songwriter/guitarist/pianist from Richmond, CA. David also has a masters in Consciousness Studies from John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, California, bringing t...
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Russ Downs' Song of the Soul from 2010-04-25T12:00
Singer/songwriter Russ Downs has been making music of many sorts for a couple decades - pop, rock, rockabilly, Christian, and more. Arlington, VA, is home with some time in Nashville, and his relig...
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Mary Shapiro's Song of the Soul from 2010-04-18T12:00
Self-proclaimed as a Jewish-Christian-Mystic-Pluralist, Mary Shapiro is clearly a rich spiritual pastiche. Her music is folk-rock-progressive, and she carries deep passion for work to heal and grow...
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Taiz Service - Forgiveness & Unity from 2010-04-04T12:00
A different format Song of the Soul - a recording of a Taiz style worship service filled with music, words and silence. We've abridged the silences for this radio broadcast, but encourage you to tr...
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Peter Phippen's Song of the Soul from 2010-02-21T12:00
Peter Phippen started his musical career playing bass in a country western band, making good money, at the age of only 12. His search for the instrument of his soul was fulfilled when he met the ba...
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Josh Polich's 2nd Song of the Soul from 2010-02-07T12:00
Josh Polich is back to share more of the music that speaks of his journey from Lutheran to Eastern religion, including Kirtan (Hindu chant), meditation and more. He currently hosts weekly Kirtan at...
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Tom Rawson's Song of the Soul from 2010-01-31T12:00
For about 30 years Tom Rawson has been a presence on Seattle's activist and music scene. Teaching or not, you'll find his banjo, dulcimer or other instruments nearby, ready to help inspire hope and...
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John Haigis' Song of the Soul from 2010-01-24T12:00
John Haigis and his wife, Jan, make exceptionally diverse music, music that is silly, serious, spiritual and much more. Out of dulcimer and voice they weave simple and way-faring music, from Ground...
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Todd Werner's Song of the Soul from 2010-01-17T12:00
Todd Werner is a singer/songwriter from Wausau, Wisconsin with a deep spiritual bent and practical skills in nurturing peace through his work with Peaceful Solutions Counseling. Raised Catholic, gr...
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Greg Gilbertson's Song of the Soul from 2009-12-27T12:00
Few of my Song of the Soul guest share all instrumental pieces, but Greg Gibertson has a special gift of speaking poetry through his guitar, without words. A finger style guitarist and vivid compos...
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Bryan Sirchio's Song of the Soul from 2009-12-20T12:00
Singer/songwriter Bryan Sirchio is an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ, and his passions include his frequent trips to and service in Haiti - and, of course, his music. Hes been my ...
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Wanaku's Song of the Soul from 2009-12-13T12:00
My guest is Wanaku and he's founder of a band, SUNplugd - Sweet Afrikan Kontry Muziki. Wanaku grew up in British Cameroon, West Africa and currently shares his music with the folks of Minneapolis, ...
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Kevin McMullin's Song of the Soul from 2009-11-29T12:00
Kevin McMullin is a multi-talented musician and storyteller, performing individually and with Duck for the Oyster, Randy Sabien and with other groups, Kevin is a found of fine music to feed your so...
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Drew Grunseth's Song of the Soul from 2009-11-22T12:00
Drew Grunseth is a multi-talented musician, and also one of the DJ's for "Smokin' Grass", a bluegrass show on Eau Claire's WHYS LP FM station - also streamed on-line, Saturdays noon-3 pm. Drew find...
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Kate MacLeod's Song of the Soul from 2009-11-15T12:00
Singer/songwriter Kate MacLeod was a Utah violin-maker, but became a performer when push came to shove. The fiddle/violin is her special instrument among the other instruments she plays, but my fav...
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Yata's Song of the Soul from 2009-11-08T12:00
Yata is a musician with tremendous talents and deep spirit, delighting in collaboration with other artists, including Bruce Black, Timothy Young, Dave Ja Vue, and his wife, water-colorist Jean Acco...
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Laura Dungan's Song of the Soul from 2009-11-01T12:00
Laura Dungan and her husband, Aaron Fowler, sing and lead music that speaks of the kind of work they do - community organizing and empowerment of the disempowered. Laura grew up Methodist, connecti...
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Regina Gallero's Song of the Soul from 2009-10-25T12:00
Regina Gallero was born and raised in Chile, coming to the USA for graduate school. Though she played guitar in her youth, she didn't start writing songs until her later 50's. Her spiritual path st...
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Julie (Hecksel) Patchouli's Song of the Soul from 2009-10-18T12:00
Julie and Bruce Hecksel are Patchouli and 'Fast Forward Folk' is what it says on their website. Julie caught the guitar bug seeing Taj Mahal while in her teens. You can sample some of their music o...
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Dhaivyd Hilgendorf's Song of the Soul from 2009-10-04T12:00
Dhaivyd Hilgendorf teaches at Friends School of Minnesota, a Quaker school which fits Dhaivyd's inclinations very well. He's made a wide variety of music in a wide variety of places and with a wide...
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Kevin Camp/Cabaretic's Song of the Soul from 2009-09-13T12:00
Kevin Camp is native to the Birmingham, Alabama area, raised somewhat Methodist, involved with Unitarian Universalists at 17, and attending Quaker meeting as of this past year. On a frustrating sea...
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Julie Rust's Song of the Soul from 2009-09-06T12:00
Julie Rust started out her life in Wisconsin, including college in Eau Claire, but she's lived out in Nashville for about 15 years now. Music has been our calling from her youth on, and the keyboar...
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Aaron Fowler's Song of the Soul from 2009-08-30T12:00
Aaron Fowler is a songwriter/musician from Wichita, Kansas whose calling for the past 2 decades has involved living and working in the inner city and founding an organization called Hope Street Stu...
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Peter Blood's Song of the Soul from 2009-08-16T12:00
Peter Blood and his wife, Annie, gave the world an immense gift of music with the Rise Up Singing. Peter has a passion for leading group sing-alongs, like Pete Seeger, with whom Peter Blood has wor...
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Susan Stark's Song of the Soul from 2009-08-02T12:00
Susan Stark is a spiritually deep and musically powerful musician. She has 4 albums behind her and one in the near future. She grew up a "preacher's kid", attended Earlham School of Religion, is th...
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Mark Holdaway's Song of the Soul - Part 2 of 2 from 2009-07-05T12:00
Mark Holdaway has many facets to his life including his work as a scientist and currently as a musician whose passion is centered on the Kalimba, the African Thumb Piana. From generic Christian to ...
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Mark Holdaway's Song of the Soul - Part 1 of 2 from 2009-06-28T12:00
Mark Holdaway has many facets to his life including his work as a scientist and currently as a musician whose passion is centered on the Kalimba, the African Thumb Piana. From generic Christian to ...
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Dennis Warner's Song of the Soul from 2009-06-21T12:00
Singer/songwriter Dennis Warner has 8 recordings under his belt and just one children's book, Beads On One String, named for one of his songs. Dennis joined us from Chicago's Dominican University w...
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Adam Kirby's Song of the Soul from 2009-06-14T12:00
Adam Kirby is my first Rastafari guest for Song of the Soul, and it's an educational session and well as a compelling story of growth for a spiritual, but not religious, seeker. From Phoenix, Arizo...
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Bryce Black's Song of the Soul from 2009-05-31T12:00
Bryce Black is a whimsical and profound singer/songwriter from the Chippewa Valley. His day job as LoTec Windmills provides him with time to turn the events of every day into verse and then into so...
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Derek Lamson's Song of the Soul from 2009-05-17T12:00
Derek Lamson is a bluesy, spiritual, free-wheelin' kind of guy with a sure sense of the ministry he's been called to. His music talks of the joy he's attained, but also of his struggles, like those...
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Charlie King's Song of the Soul from 2009-05-10T12:00
Charlie King has been performing music since he was four, eventually finding a home with folk music. A lifelong Roman (or roaming) Catholic, he morphed from a Goldwater supporter in 1964 to an anti...
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Earth Day 2009 - Music on Main Stage from 2009-05-03T12:00
The main stage music from Eau Claire's 2009 Earth Day celebration, including performances by Quinn Elizabeth, Jeff White, Billy Krause & Chuck Roll, Patchouli. Music included in this Song of the So...
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Jonathan Lutz' Song of the Soul from 2009-04-19T12:00
Jonathan Lutz is a musician and choir leader of diverse talents and with deep spiritual reflection. Born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, he's lived in Finland, at Europe's northern rim, for the past 30 y...
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Chris Pfeiffer's Song of the Soul from 2009-04-12T12:00
Chris Pfeiffer is a singer/songwriter from Southern Texas who found his career as a songwriter for the country music market interrupted by a spiritual awakening to the universal presence and blessi...
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David Rovics' Song of the Soul from 2009-04-05T12:00
David Rovics is a singer/songwriter with a cause - actually many of them. His music takes him wherever there are listeners for his activist selection, with concern for peace, social justice and muc...
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Scott Beck's Song of the Soul from 2009-03-29T12:00
Scott Beck has been in a wide assortment of bands since high school, from folk to rock to blues and cycling back, now to acoustic guitar. Raised Catholic, disaffected from religion for many years, ...
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Claudia Schmidt's Song of the Soul from 2009-03-22T12:00
Claudia Schmidt has been producing music, poetry and theater for over 30 years. Folk and jazz are some of her musical styles, the Midwest is her home, but the world is her audience! All the songs a...
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Justin Leeson's Song of the Soul from 2009-03-01T12:00
Justin Leeson thinks deeply, feels passionately and lives consciously, so you can look forward to some stimulating and challenging music. Bused from his St Louis neighborhood to a primarily white s...
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Bob Franke's Song of the Soul from 2009-01-18T12:00
BobFranke.com has decades of experience writing songs that vividly capture the experience of the human heart and spirit, enough so that at least one of his songs made it into the Friends Hymnal tha...
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Ellen Bloom Ninneman's Song of the Soul from 2009-01-11T12:00
Ellen was raised in a conservative part of the Lutheran Church, and she completely embraced her childhood religion. In her 30's she found herself working through guilt and rules to find a spiritual...
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Sara Hickman's Song of the Soul from 2008-12-21T12:00
Sara Hickman is an artist with a passionate and activist soul. From the work that earned her an honorary degree as a music therapist to her work on behalf of Romanian orphans, whether performing in...
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Sara Thomsen's Song of the Soul from 2008-12-07T12:00
Sara Thomsen lives amongst the woods of Northwestern Wisconsin, making music and leading a choir. She's released 3 solo albums plus one with the group called Three Altos. Raised ELCA Lutheran and a...
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Carlton Schreiner's Song of the Soul from 2008-11-30T12:00
Carlton has spent the past 2 years at an ashram in California, finding his way forward in his spiritual life. He's produced a CD Love Is The Cure that shares music he's been given, freeing him to s...
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Nora Bates' Song of the Soul from 2008-11-16T12:00
Nora has tasted a lot of different churches in the course of her spiritual search, and an important part of her quest included coming to grips with the parts of her that felt unloved and unlovable,...
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Annabella Wood's Song of the Soul from 2008-11-09T12:00
During nearly 30 years of driving trucks Annabella was pulled into deep spiritual introspection. One of the outcroppings of this was prolific songwriting on spiritual matters. With her partner at t...
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Annie Patterson's Song of the Soul from 2008-11-02T12:00
Annie Patterson is a thorough music lover, maker and sharer. She and her husband, Peter Blood, are the creators of Rise Up Singing, the group singing songbook which has sold over 1 million copies. ...
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Sally Rogers' Song of the Soul from 2008-10-05T12:00
Sally Rogers has been sharing her music with the world for at least 3 decades, has more than a dozen recordings, and some of her songs have been included in both the Unitarian and Quaker hymnals. S...
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Dana Tock's Song of the Soul from 2008-09-21T12:00
Dana had a life-changing experience in 1991 when God gave her the first of her Christian songs, after years with secular bands. Since then she's been given more than 100 songs and will have a relea...
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Mark Morgan's Song of the Soul from 2008-09-07T12:00
Mark is many things - a father, a storyteller, a sustainable living activist - and he's passionate about music. His junior high school choir even recorded 3 records! Probably best known for his wor...
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Anna Fritz's Song of the Soul from 2008-08-31T12:00
Anna has played the cello since the age of 8, including issuing her cello-centric album Wake recently. She's been Quaker since around that same age, an activist with an attraction to earth-based sp...
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Helene Pollock's Song of the Soul from 2008-08-17T12:00
Helene was a Presbyterian, graduate of Beloit College in Wisconsin, but was drawn to Quakerism because of her deep attraction to an inward devotional life. She works with students as a staff member...
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Art Lyons' SECOND Song of the Soul from 2008-08-10T12:00
Art Lyons, host of the annual event known as Bobstock (as in Bob Dylan) is back to share the music that speaks of the important steps in his journey. Raised Catholic with a serious engagement with ...
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Jon Watt's Song of the Soul from 2008-07-06T12:00
Jon Watts is a 'Young Friend' - a Quaker in the 18-35 age range - and he's found a passion and a ministry through his music. He graduated from Guilford College a year ago and then spent a year at P...
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Katherine Kocs' Song of the Soul from 2008-06-29T12:00
Katherine Kocs was forced to retire prematurely from her job in social work because of a life-threatening medical condition, but not before creating Wisconsin's ground-breaking Bullying Prevention ...
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Joe Fahey's Song of the Soul from 2008-06-22T12:00
Joe has 2 CD's out as part of a band named Carp 18 and has one solo album of his own. He's Catholic-raised and has found a niche helping the teens of St Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Minneapolis w...
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Bryce, Young and Yata - Live Spirit Concert from 2008-05-25T12:00
Bryce Black, Timothy James Young and Yata teamed up in a concert bursting at the seams with Spirit on May 10, 2008, held at Unity Christ Center. There was humor, depth, harmony and love in song, wi...
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Earth Day 2008 - Mark Helpsmeet from 2008-04-20T12:00
In honor of Earth Day 2008, your host shares his own Song of the Soul as regards the music that speaks of his deepening connection and commitment to Care of Creation. Starting with music from the f...
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David Howard's Song of the Soul from 2008-04-06T12:00
Born and raised in the South, between Georgia & Texas, David's spiritual path has taken him from the traditional Christianity (Baptist/Methodist/Presbyterian) through 12 Step experiences to New Tho...
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Catherine Price's Song of the Soul from 2008-03-30T12:00
Catherine Price is southern born and raised with a hobo's heart and deep affection for many types of music, including, currently, country swing. She was raised Southern Baptist, served in the Peace...
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Diana Allen's Song of the Soul from 2008-03-09T12:00
Diana was "unchurched" growing up, but has found deep connection in spiritual community (with room for her wide horizons) among Unitarian Universalists. Recent years have led her to an extremely fu...
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Tom Neilson's Song of the Soul - Part 3 from 2008-03-02T12:00
Tom Neilson has been making folk music for a few decades now, combining his passion for music with his desire to make a positive difference in the world. His music confronts the problems of the wor...
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Tom Neilson's Song of the Soul - Part 2 from 2008-02-24T12:00
Tom Neilson has been making folk music for a few decades now, combining his passion for music with his desire to make a positive difference in the world. His music confronts the problems of the wor...
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Tom Neilson's Song of the Soul - Part 1 from 2008-02-17T12:00
Tom Neilson has been making folk music for a few decades now, combining his passion for music with his desire to make a positive difference in the world. His music confronts the problems of the wor...
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Jim Schacht's Song of the Soul from 2008-02-10T12:00
Jim Schacht is a music lover, grew up loving and sharing music with his parents and siblings, and has been accompanying the Quakers of Milwaukee Friends Meeting on his guitar as they sing together ...
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James Schattauer's Song of the Soul from 2008-02-03T12:00
James Schattauer has been writing and performing songs since 1979 or even before, and since 1987 has used the moniker Mister Jim for his performances for children and families. All the songs in thi...
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Peter Alsop's Song of the Soul, PART TWO from 2008-01-13T12:00
Peter Alsop has produced dozens of recordings over the past few decades, specializing in "Children's Music" - often aimed equally at adults - for more than 20 years. He's an educational psychologis...
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Dale Worley's Song of the Soul from 2008-01-06T12:00
Dale Worley's music is fun and it's deep and it's sacred and it's rockin'. Dale is a Lay Minister & Truth Student at Unity Village, and has been playing the piano since he was 8, influenced by Jerr...
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Peter Alsop's Song of the Soul, PART ONE from 2007-12-23T12:00
Peter Alsop has produced dozens of recordings over the past few decades, specializing in "Children's Music" - often aimed equally at adults - for more than 20 years. He's an educational psychologis...
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Sara Bryan's Song of the Soul from 2007-10-21T12:00
Sara's spiritual journey might be seen as an upward spiral of sorts. She grew up in a couple different very conservative Lutheran churches which, as it developed, did not fit her well. Her explorat...
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Justin Otto's SECOND Song of the Soul from 2007-09-02T12:00
Justin Otto shared his first "Song of the Soul" about a year ago, and since then he's graduated from UWEC, got a social work job, and gone through a spiritual crisis, leading him to a stage in his ...
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Carol Johnson's Song of the Soul from 2007-08-12T12:00
Carol Johnson has been producing music for adults and children for decades and her music has even been featured on Sesame Street and in national hymnals and curricula. Among the powerful, moving an...
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Nicole Miller's Song of the Soul from 2007-07-29T12:00
Nicole Miller is, among many things, a DJ on WHYS radio, with a program called The Positive Frequency. She a musician from childhood on and just completing her last year at college. She finds peace...
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Walter Craft's Song of the Soul from 2007-07-08T12:00
Walter Craft has been performing music for well over 40 years now, and he proudly shares his motto on his web site - ServeTheSong.com. Born in the southern USA into an extended family and community...
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Amy Chabot's Song of the Soul from 2007-07-01T12:00
Amy has a deep connection to Spirit and to living out her Catholic faith. She traveled for a year with National Evangelization Team (NET) Ministries following high school, spent 5 months living in ...
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Justin Otto's Song of the Soul from 2007-06-10T12:00
Justin Otto's Song of the Soul tells of his thought and journey leading him to Christian Science, where he was a member until the summer of 2006. Justin was a senior at the University of Wisconsin,...
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Earth Day 2007 Community Singalong from 2007-06-03T12:00
Back on April 22nd, also known as Earth Day 2007, the Eau Claire Friends Meeting organized, Unity Christ Center of Eau Claire hosted and the Sierra Club and the Shalom Mennonite Church co-sponsored...
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David Huber's Song of the Soul from 2007-05-27T12:00
David Huber has been serving as the pasteur at the Plymouth Congregational UCC in Eau Claire since August of 2004. His taste in music is wide and innovative, and serves to open and balance the pure...
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Bruce Judkins' Song of the Soul from 2007-04-01T12:00
Bruce Judkins was raised Catholic but didn't really "catch" religion till he was 35. In the meantime he served in the US Air Force, had 2 failed marriages and had serious drinking and drug issues. ...
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Debi McClain's Song of the Soul from 2007-03-25T12:00
Debi McClain's is a joyful person with what many people might consider to be a rough life. When she was quite young she fell ill and her young parents were unable to care for her, so she spent six ...
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Chester McCoy's Song of the Soul from 2007-03-18T12:00
Chester McCoy grew up Catholic in a working class neighborhood of St Louis when segregation was still the rule. His way out of the limitations and oppression of racism was through education, social...
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Savannah Rhae's Song of the Soul from 2007-03-11T12:00
Savannah Rhae chose the name she now carries, just as she has self-examined and chosen to be the person she is in other ways. Raised Methodist, she is currently a member of Unity Christ Center in E...
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Jeremy Kadinger's Song of the Soul from 2007-03-04T12:00
Jeremy Kadinger has a special relationship with music as a Christian DJ. He does weekly music radio shows with WRJF-LP in Menomonie and WHYS-LP in Eau Claire. A member of the Jesus Fellowship of Be...
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Cyndi Bradbury's Song of the Soul from 2007-02-04T12:00
Cyndi Bradbury has a passion for music that she lives out each weekday in her profession of music therapist, and each weekend as the music director for Plymouth Congregational UCC. Cindy loves anim...
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Julie Schmitt's Song of the Soul from 2006-12-24T12:00
Julie Schmitt loves music and instruments from all over the map. From Sanscrit chanting from India to rhythm and blues, from parodies of love songs to Native American flute and drums, Julie finds r...
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Daniel Winings' Song of the Soul from 2006-12-17T12:00
Daniel Winings was raised without any real religious faith, but discovered it himself in college, in his pursuit of truth and consistency. He was eventually baptised into a "mega-church", but the d...
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The Peace Sing-along - Eau Claire's Song of the Soul from 2006-12-10T12:00
A number of folks in Eau Claire started Advent with a Peace Sing-along. The event was organized by Eau Claire Friends Meeting (Quakers), hosted by Unity Christ Center, and co-sponsored by Eau Clair...
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Kristie Pellitteri-Reynold's Song of the Soul from 2006-12-03T12:00
Kristie Pellitteri-Reynolds' resolution for this year is to say "Yes", to open herself to experience. She'll be heading to Thailand this coming year for 3 months of training in Thai message, though...
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Norm Mathews' Song of the Soul from 2006-11-26T12:00
Norm Mathews grew up mostly in Pentacostal churches, but it was really as an adult that this became his chosen religious practice. He's rededicated his life to Christ at times when he faced real ch...
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Sandra Helpsmeet's Song of the Soul from 2006-11-12T12:00
Sandra Helpsmeet was raised Presbyterian in the Amana Colonies of central Iowa, becoming a Quaker in her 30's. Music, singing, Lake Superior, canoeing, mediative circle dance and Yoga are just a fe...
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Nancy O'Neill's Song of the Soul from 2006-11-05T12:00
Nancy O'Neill is a life-long American Baptist and a lover of music, including decades of bringing music to Eau Claire's First Baptist Church. Daughter of an American Baptist minister, she has grown...
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Traci Ohlman's Song of the Soul from 2006-10-29T12:00
Traci Ohlman grew up ELCA Lutheran, but in a somewhat conservative congregation. Very active until in her 20's, she came to a major upset in her life, leading her to search on, including some years...
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Ruthie Rosauer's Song of the Soul from 2006-10-22T12:00
Ruthie Rosauer is a member of Eau Claire's Unitarian Universalist Congregation and a Meditative Song leader. Ruthie Rosauer is a member of Eau Claire's Unitarian Universalist Congregation and, amon...
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Eric Nielsen's Song of the Soul from 2006-09-24T12:00
Interview and music with Eric Nielsen, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Eau Claire. Eric Nielsen's Song of the Soul includes lots of chorale music, given his long interest and participati...
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Kaia Simon Power's Song of the Soul from 2006-09-17T12:00
Kaia Simon Power is a lifelong Roman Catholic very attuned to religion as a continuous spiritual journey and mystery. Songs included in this program: <#Table> I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking...
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Art Lyons' Song of the Soul from 2006-08-13T12:00
Art Lyons, UW-EC student services staff, raised Catholic, but long-time Buddhist seeker, shares the music of his spiritual beliefs Songs included in this program: <#Table> (I Can't Get No) Satisfac...
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Jane Truscott's Song of the Soul from 2006-08-06T12:00
Jane Truscott, member of the First Baptist Church of Eau Claire, talks about her faith in Jesus, her travels from Australia to the USA, and the experience of her and her female partner Songs includ...
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Josh Polich's Song of the Soul from 2006-07-23T12:00
Josh Polich was raised ELCA Lutheran where he took particular joy in being part of the choir. With adulthood he was led to read up on Eastern religions, eventually finding real resonance with Hindu...
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Michael Neely's Song of the Soul from 2006-07-16T12:00
Michael Neely lives in Canberra, the federal capital city of Australia. His family hosted me as I traveled with a Quaker group called the Friendly FolkDancers and Michael agreed, on the spur of the...
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Sarah Pederson's SECOND Song of the Soul from 2006-07-09T12:00
Sarah Pederson shared her first Song of the Soul with us just over 4 months ago, but her spiritual life has been unfolding at an amazing clip in the interim. Since that first Song of the Soul she's...
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Jane Wolf's Song of the Soul from 2006-06-25T12:00
Jane Wolf in the proprieter of Silver Feather, a shop that sells Native American jewelry, music, crafts and products in downtown Eau Claire. Jane was raised Lutheran, was married as a Catholic, bec...
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Sharon Jensen-Olson's Song of the Soul from 2006-05-21T12:00
Sharon Jensen-Olson was raised Catholic, ran away from home definitely at the age of 14, and has not found a spiritual home that seems to fit for her yet. She loves singing along with the radio, wi...
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Tim Lane's Song of the Soul from 2006-05-14T12:00
Tim Lane has been teaching in the Music Department of the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, since 1989, flute being his instrument of choice. His taste in music ranges from chorales and classica...
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Greg Farley's Song of the Soul from 2006-04-23T12:00
Greg Farley started learning guitar around 10, and came back to it after several other instruments. Raised Catholic, he sought a better fitting spiritual home, studied with Jehovah's Witnesses, eve...
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Chris Powell's Song of the Soul from 2006-04-16T12:00
Chris Powell started piano lessons when 6 years old and added trombone to his repertoire in high school, and appreciates music of all stripes but has a special passion for classical music. Chris is...
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Connor Lynch's Song of the Soul from 2006-03-05T12:00
Conner Lynch is a senior at Eau Claire Memorial High School with a passion for punk rock music, and a dedication to living out his values - things like his opposition to war and violence, and his p...
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Jennifer Eddy's Song of the Soul from 2006-02-26T12:00
Jennifer Eddy is an Eau Claire physicians with a love of things French, including the language and the country. She and her husband were married there and own a small residence in the south of Fran...
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Sarah Pederson's Song of the Soul from 2006-02-19T12:00
Sarah Pederson is owner of Gaia Massage and has recently completed training as a yoga teacher. She combines the fruits of her Roman Catholic upbringing with her deep interest in Eastern spiritualit...
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Michelle Lyon's Song of the Soul from 2006-01-22T12:00
Michelle Lyons has a BA in Religious Studies with a minor in Legal Studies, and is currently pursuing a BFA in Interior Design. Having been raised by Buddhist parents and having attended Catholic h...
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Roger Anderson's Song of the Soul from 2005-11-27T12:00
Roger Anderson is a former English teacher and long-time professional musician teaching guitar, bass, banjo and other instruments. Folk music is his preferred music, a form that well-expresses the ...
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Ian Holzman's Song of the Soul from 2005-10-23T12:00
Interview with Ian Holzman, a 16-year-old member of Eau Claire's Unitarian Universalist Congregation. Songs included in this program: <#Table> Children of Abraham John McCutcheon Done Too Soon Neil...
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Sandy McKinney's Song of the Soul from 2005-09-11T12:00
A visit with Sandy McKinney, spiritual leader at Unity Christ Center in Eau Claire. Sandy's Song of the Soul includes the following music: <#table> Children of the Revolution T-Rex Summertime Randy...
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