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Baby Soda Brings Old-Time Jazz off the Street and into the Studio
“Just don’t ask us about the band name,” said Peter Ford, bass player for Brooklyn-based trad-jazz outfit Baby Soda just moments before a live performance… -
'From Bach to Björk' with the Boston String Players
Talking about “classical music” might evoke images of stuffy auditoriums, suit-and-tie audiences of a certain age, and delicate music written by long-dead… -
New Kids on the Block: Five Brothers, a Million Sisters
Boston Public Radio’s Edgar Herwick talks with author Nikki Van Noy about her biography on Boston’s favorite boy band: New Kids on the Block. Were you a… -
Jared Bowen's Caught in the Act: Fiddle While Boston Dances
For the culturally and artistically eager, “Sequence 8” and the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s season led by Itzhak Perlman will surprise and… -
Watertown Bow Maker Wins 'Genius' Grant
On Oct. 2, the MacArthur Foundation awarded master bow maker Benoit Rolland a MacArthur “genius” grant . Rolland creates bows for violin, viola and cello… -
Concert Roundtable for the Musical Omnivore
This week on Boston Public Radio, we had our inaugural cross-genre concert roundtable. If you are a true musical omnivore, you can’t go wrong at any of… -
Summing up American Music in Two Words: Ray Charles
“American music” is a tough thing to get your hands around and define, isn’t it? There are the work songs and field calls of the South that would become… -
'Honky Tonk' Uncovers New England's Place in Country Music History
It probably does not surprise you that in the 1970’s there existed a somewhat disreputable honky-tonk called the Hillbilly Ranch where live music was… -
89.7 WGBH’s Eric Jackson wins 2012 Duke Dubois Humanitarian Award
Longtime 89.7 WGBH jazz host Eric Jackson has been named the 2012 Duke Dubois Humanitarian Award recipient at the JazzWeek awards in Detroit, Mich. This… -
Tanglewood: The Music Mecca of Western Mass.
It took a determined Russian, an insatiable audience and one very fierce storm to create the New England music festival that now ranks among the world’s…