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Featured Album and Artist: Inca Son
El Regreso Del Inca (Volume 10)
Inca Son transports audiences to the Andes Mountains with their ancient melodies, dances and colorful attire. The internationally acclaimed group shares their comprehensive knowledge of Inca culture. Sounds of the pan flutes, ranging from lively and happy to plaintive and haunting, is pure magic.
Past Boston Music Award recipients, their venues range from the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United Nations, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center and Boston's Symphony Hall, where they performed with the Pops. Inca Son is the first Peruvian group to win the coveted Independent Music Award.
Inca Son delights in playing for students of all ages and have produced a great Teacher's Resource Guide. Their vibrant sound has entertained audiences throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and Latin America.
In the words of Boston Herald music critic Bob Young, "Inca Son, resplendent in feathers and singing the songs of their Inca ancestors, is a sight to behold."
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Featured Album and Artist: Encore Presentation of Hidden Everywhere by Chris Rosser
Chris Rosser is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer who won songwriting contests at the Rocky Mountain Folks and Merle Watson festivals and has been showcased twice at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. Chris was a finalist at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival.
Chris plays a variety of instruments including the Indian dotar, Turkish cumbus oud, guitars, melodica and piano. With a 1999 WNC Regional Artists grant, Chris Rosser studied Hindustani classical music and the sarod (a 25-string fretless Indian lute) with world-renowed Indian musician, Ali Akbar Khan.
Chris also performs as a member of the world/jazz fusion trio Free Planet Radio, and tours as a keyboardist in the ensemble of master Turkish musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek. As a producer, he has produced about forty recordings for various artists in his Asheville, NC based studio Hollow Reed Studio.
Chris Rosser is perhaps best known as a songwriter:
"Chris' songs are good medicine. Kind and heartfelt and beautifully written." --David Wilcox
"... his songs are lovely homages to the experience of being alive and human." -- Dirty Linen
"Rosser possesses a guileless generosity of spirit, and an implicit kindness that places life - and all it's sweet, little victories - on a pedestal, and that uncovers light and hope in dark places."
--Frank Rabey, Mountain Xpress, Asheville, NC
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Featured Album & Artist:
Rhythms of Awakening by Glen Velez
Twelve Sound Journeys to Activate Your Life Force
On Rhythms of Awakening, Grammy®-winning master percussionist Glen Velez takes listeners on an odyssey of rhythm to tap that sleeping power within. Focusing on the body's lower two chakras, each composition invokes the beats and vibrations ideally suited to bringing these vital energy centers alive. With healing secrets drawn from the drumming traditions of India, Asia and Egypt, Rhythms of Awakening stirs together an exotic blend of music that inspires, energizes and awakens.
Glen Velez is an internationally recognized master drummer, composer, scholar, and teacher who has merged his background in Western percussion with the study of frame drum performance styles. In creating his own music, Velez draws on drumming techniques from South India, Asia, Egypt and elsewhere.
Glen Velez developed and teaches the Handance system of frame drumming, which integrates rhythm, movement and vocalization for mental and physical toning. A member of the Paul Winter Consort from 1983 to 1998, he has also recorded with Steve Reich, Pat Metheny, Suzanne Vega, Richard Stoltzman, and others on various major record labels.
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Grammy Award winners Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel have performed, recorded and toured together for over 22 years with 19 albums to their credit. Traveling to as many as 70 concert venues a year, they are friends who enjoy each other's company and truly love musical collaboration.
Eric and Nancy began their collaboration in 1985. Their debut album, The Gift, quickly became a holiday classic. The next 20 years saw countless reviews including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Billboard and number one debuts on radio charts. In 1998, American Acoustic was honored as "Acoustic Instrumental Album of the Year." A Carnegie Hall appearance in 2000. And in 2003 they received a Grammy Award for "Acoustic Garden."
Nancy grew up in San Antonio and continued her musical education at Northwestern University where she was introduced to new influences, styles and intrigued by ethnomusicology which led to her joining the Paul Winter Consort. Eric grew up in Seattle and attended Western Washington University where he was trained in the Segovian classic guitar tradition.
Since 1985, Tingstad & Rumbel have been among the top selling duos in
comtemporary instrumental music.
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July 13: Featured Album and Artist:
Moon on the Water by Stan Richardson - Part II
What is the sound of the moon on the water?
It is the music of utter stillness and complete spaciousness — the perfect reflection of self within the universe,and the universe within the self. No finer instrument exists for capturing this music of Zen than the shakuhachi bamboo flute, the instrument which Stan Richardson has dedicated his life to master.
With Moon on the Water, Richardson offers two musical experiences. On the first CD, listeners enjoy the pure ancient tones of the solo shakuhachi as it has been played for centuries. For the second CD, Stan Richardson combines natural sounds recorded during his travels across the Japanese countryside — the rushing of water, the wind over waves, the singing of cranes — with the beauty of the bamboo flute.
Pure and elegant, intricate and subtle — Moon on the Water invokes the Zen mind and makes for the perfect musical complement to any moment of peaceful contemplation.
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Featured Album and Artist:
Kerala Dream by Shaman's Dream Project, Craig Kohland & Rara Avis
“The music of Shaman’s Dream reveals the depths of the heart.”— Krishna Das
The music of Shaman’s Dream has become the soundtrack of L.A.’s exploding yoga scene for almost a decade, heard in studios and homes across the country. Seeking the perfect sound for her new DVD series Yoga Shakti, world-renowned teacher Shiva Rea invited friends Craig Kohland and Rara Avis to accompany her across the globe, to blend the spiritual traditions of India with down-tempo urban beats in a visionary offering of rhythm and sacred sound.
Building on the momentum of Shaman’s Dream’s four previous albums, Kerala Dream infuses Indian antiquity with introspective ambient textures ideal for yoga, dance, meditation, healing arts and more.
The Shaman’s Dream Music Collective is a group of musicians,artists,and producers dedicated to creating peace and unity through music, dance and ritual art. Their Los Angeles-based monthly ritual concert event, ZEN DANCING, has kept them in service of this dream for over ten years.
Craig Kohland is a sacred world music composer/producer/performer and multi-percussionist and the musical director of the Shaman’s Dream World Groove Ensemble. Rara Avis has brought a background in blues, jazz, classical, and ethnic music to compositions for theater, dance, yoga, and more.
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Featured Album and Artist:
Moon on the Water by Stan Richardson - Part I
What is the sound of the moon on the water?
It is the music of utter stillness and complete spaciousness — the perfect reflection of self within the universe,and the universe within the self. No finer instrument exists for capturing this music of Zen than the shakuhachi bamboo flute, the instrument which Stan Richardson has dedicated his life to master.
With Moon on the Water, Richardson offers two musical experiences. On the first CD, listeners enjoy the pure ancient tones of the solo shakuhachi as it has been played for centuries. For the second CD, Stan Richardson combines natural sounds recorded during his travels across the Japanese countryside — the rushing of water, the wind over waves, the singing of cranes — with the beauty of the bamboo flute.
Pure and elegant, intricate and subtle — Moon on the Water invokes the Zen mind and makes for the perfect musical complement to any moment of peaceful contemplation.
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Featured Album and Artist:
Invocation by Ty Burhoe
On Invocation, Ty Burhoe offers a number of original compositions and incantations that create a melodic wave of devotion to wash over you during your sacred, inner peace times.
This album features Krishna Das, Manorama, John Friend and Amy Ippoliti. Includes beautiful vocals, tabla, sarode, drones, cello, violin, double bass, tambura and harmonium.
This album brings us traditional Sanskrit mantras whose specific combination of words and seed syllables are said to hold great mystical power. Ty Burhoe has composed stirring music to accompany this sacred chant. Krishna Das, Manorama, John Friend and Amy Ippoliti contribute to this album.
Ty Burhoe is a tabla player (disciple of Ustad Zakir Hussain) who has toured and recorded with Bela Fleck, Krishna Das and Kitaro. Featured on soundtracks,including the Oscar-winning documentary film Born into Brothels.
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Featured Album and Artist:
Celtic Meditation Music by Aine Minogue
If prayers were music, what would they sound like? Irish harpist Áine Minogue offers her artful answer on Celtic Meditation Music — a collection of original songs based on ancient Celtic prayers, specifically composed for meditation and relaxation.
“The Irish harp has always been associated with spirituality, ” says Minogue, and this is especially evident on her newest album. Using traditional poetry as divine inspiration, she crafts a set of instrumental “slow airs” — feminine, expressive, and dynamic songs that transpose the silent spaces between the lines of Celtic prayer into melody.
Áine Minogue was born in Borrisokane,County Tipperary and began playing the harp at age twelve. She developed her talent as a harpist studying and performing in Ireland and now lives in the United States. In addition to recording six solo albums,she has contributed to numerous soundtracks and compilations,including recordings for PBS, BMG and Virgin Records.
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Featured Album and Artist:
Universal Love by Nawang Khechog
Nawang Khechog takes listeners on a musical pilgrimage into the experience of compassion through music. Nine original compositions meld the ancient ritual sounds of Nawang’s Tibetan homeland with traditions from across the globe to invoke within us the uplifting power of Universal Love.
Born in Tibet, Nawang Khechog spent his earliest years as the child of nomads. In his boyhood he first learned to play the bamboo flute,an ancient instrument popular in rural villages throughout Tibet.
After the brutal subjugation of Tibet by Chinese Communists in 1949, Nawang and his family escaped to India. There he studied meditation and Buddhist philosophy,a path he followed as a monk for eleven years - four of them as a hermit.
In 1986, he emigrated to Australia where he first performed, and his recordings achieved bestseller status. Nawang is best known for his collaborations with Kitaro, including a world tour and performances on Kitaro's Grammy-nominated Enchanted Evening and Mandala albums. His live performances with Philip Glass, Paul Winter, Laurie Anderson, Paul Simon, Natalie Merchant and Baba Olatunji have received international acclaim.
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 Encore Presentation of Dancin' in the Moonlight by Orleans
This week's featured music is from the band Orleans. Hear the signature "Orleans harmony" on the eagerly awaited studio album released in 2005, Dancin' in the Moonlight.
After signing with Asylum Records in 1974, Orleans brought us chart-topping hits including Dance With Me, Love Takes Time and the American classic Still The One. These radio staples have a certified combined airplay total of over seven million.
Now celebrating their 35th year together, this group has never strayed far from what it does best - writing and recording good songs built on strong melodies, insightful lyrics and the well-loved "Orleans harmony".
Orleans members have sung and/or played on records by Jackson Browne, Ricky Skaggs, Bonnie Raitt, Robbie Dupree, Blues Traveler and many other artists.
Orleans currently performs around the globe. Larry Hoppen and Lance Hoppen are now joined by the youngest Hoppen brother, Lane, on keyboards and drummer Charlie Morgan, best known for his many years with Elton John. Dennis "Fly" Amero is on guitar, filling the space left by John Hall's 2006 election to the US Congress.
Visit ctrmusic.net for the featured album Dancing in the Moonlight
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Encore Presentation of Southwest by Eric Tingstad
 Grammy Award-Winning Guitarist Eric Tingstad creates yet another distinctive sense of place with his latest musical offering, Southwest.
As a fingerstyle guitarist classically trained in the Segovian tradition, Tingstad is well known for his impressionistic style and an uncanny ability to unearth the soul of musical landscapes. Southwest creates a sound that evokes the spirit of the land. Vocalization touches some of the songs, beautifully brushing into the instrumentation.
It's been said that upon hearing just five to six notes, one can categorically determine sight unseen that it is Eric Tingstad playing guitar. Tingstad along with co-collaborator, Nancy Rumbel, won a Grammy in 2003 for Acoustic Garden.
Hear and enjoy Tingstad's inimitable style on this week's CTR Music Hour.
Click on the buttons below to listen to the 3/2/07 interview with Eric Tingstad.
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Guest: Richard Shulman
Featured Album: Camelot Reawakened: A Vision Fulfilled
 This week's musical guest is Keyboardist and composer Richard Shulman, featuring his award winning album Camelot Reawakened: A Vision Fulfilled.
Trained in the classical field, Richard Shulman first worked as a rock musician and then a jazz pianist before turning to music for healing and inspiration. Shulman's recorded musical journey includes 18 of his own albums and more than a dozen recordings for others in which he has composed and performed the music. Shulman has performed at Carnegie Hall, Art Park, the United Nations, the Kool Jazz Festival, The Amenia Peace Festival and a wide variety of other venues throughout North America and in Europe.
This show's featured album, Camelot Reawakened: A Vision Fulfilled, musically portrays a rebirth of the Camelot ideals. "The theme is the fulfillment of dreams of the heart for individuals and society", Shulman explains. "The most beautiful world imaginable can happen and I trust this music will contribute to its manifestation."
Composed and orchestrated by Shulman over a five-year period, Camelot Reawakened is a contemporary-classical, nine-movement symphonic work featuring Shulman on acoustic piano with a 35-piece orchestra, a choir, and vocal and instrumental soloists.
"Shulman's masterful compositions on this CD make the dream feel like it can become real. The recording is flawless! We hope to hear more of Mr. Shulman's works... "Camelot" gets our higly recommended rating for lovers of sonic beauty everywhere in the world." - Rotcod Zzaj, IMPROVIJAZZATION NATION
Click here for information on the Camelot Reawakened DVD!
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 Guest: Encore Presentation of Cool to the Touch by Greg Adams
Greg Adams' career has included success as an arranger, composer, conductor, and performer. Adams has earned both Grammy and Emmy nominations as well as an International Broadcasting Award from The Hollywood Radio and Television Society.
Adams has created a musical travelogue that has spanned nearly four decades, taking him on worldwide tours and contributing to some of the most important recordings in pop culture.
Adams has arranged for, performed and recorded with countless artists as diverse as his career, including The Eurythmics, Rod Stewart, Elton John, Lyle Lovett, Linda Ronstadt, Luther Vandross, Aaron Neville, Santana, Huey Lewis and the News, Heart, Josh Groban, Madonna and The Rolling Stones, to name just a few.
The journey continues with the ambitious release of Cool To The Touch. Enjoy the ride that will take you down a path of unforgettable melodies infused with an energetic mix of jazz, pop and funk powered by Greg's soulful trumpet.
His 1995 solo debut Hidden Agenda went all the way to #1 for five weeks at the top of the Smooth Jazz charts, fueled by Adams sublime muted trumpet. The album received wide critical acclaim and established him as a major architect of the emerging "smooth jazz" sound.
With his fourth solo disc, Cool to the Touch, Adams captures magic on nine original tracks and a classic remake in tribute to Sting's smash hit "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You."
Listen in to hear "Cool to the Touch" that showcases Adams' amazing signature horn section sound.
Click on the buttons below to listen to the Greg Adams interview.
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 Guest: Nancy Rumbel
Featured Albums: Notes from the Tree of Life
(and) A Moment's Peace
Nancy Rumbel's career has covered a variety of sound experiences -- from performing, touring, composing and recording to film scoring and arranging.
Rumbel's passion for unique sound colors and tone has led her down interesting and varied paths. Her eclectic instruments oboe, English horn, and double ocarina have always opened aural doors for the curious listener and her ability to create fluid tonal melody endures her to audiences around the world.
 Pursuing a classic career, Rumbel attended Northwestern University to study with Ray Still of the Chicago Symphony. Through a serendipitous series of chance meetings, work as a dance accompanist and cross country moves, Nancy on a coveted spot as a member of the legendary Paul Winter Consort.
Nancy currently resides in the Pacific Northwest where she met her musical partner of 22 years guitarist Eric Tingstad. Tingstad and Rumbel continue to record and tour --- with over 18 recordings, including the Grammy award winning Acoustic Garden.
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 Guest: Robert Thomas
Featured Album: View from the Parkway
View from the Parkway takes inspiration from the scenic vistas of the Appalachian Mountains. This album makes a perfect third companion — gentle enough not to intrude upon the gathering, yet interesting enough to listen to intently during those quiet moments between words. The addition of a few added instruments gives the individual tracks on View from the Parkway depth and character beyond mere piano compositions.
At the core of the album is Thomas' precise yet casual keyboard sound. Thomas has an innate sense for when to use electronic keyboards and when to go for a more intimate approach with a traditional acoustic piano.
At age 17, Robert Thomas began his musical career, playing covers and original compositions with a popular local rock band located in Florida called Nexus. By the age of 20, Thomas was working as a solo pianist, playing the classic Broadway tunes his father had taught him.
Thomas went to Nashville to be a songwriter. This turned out to be a valuable learning experience that brought him back to Vero Beach to his career as a golf professional. In 1993, Thomas moved to the mountains of North Carolina and, shortly thereafter, he returned to his first love ... the piano.
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 April 13th - Guest: Glenn Kidd
Featured Album: Satori
New York City born and bred, Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist; Glenn Kidd has just released his second music effort "Satori"
"Satori" is a true masterpiece of alternative brit-pop rock and dramatic spiritual music. The songs are richly melodious and memorable, full of passion and life. Whether you relate to it for the shear musical artistic value, or for the spiritual messages, you will feel as if you transcended to think outside the box.
Glenn says, "The messages in my songs all come from a higher source, channeled directly through me. I've let each song come to life in it's own natural state as it should be, and not to what I think it should be. What I have created with my music is real life by simply reminding all of us who we truly are, that none of us are separate, and that love is really all we need."
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 April 6, 2007 - Guest: Wah!
Featured Album: The Best of Wah!
Wah! and her band create a seductive blend of devotional chant, pop and world music on this "Best of" collection. The Best of Wah! is an invitation to be carried away on the pure sounds and graceful spirit of this remarkable musician.
 Hear the profoundly alluring voice of Wah! on the first collection from her underground bestsellers. With a voice that rings with a powerful innocence and beauty, it's clear why so many devotees of kirtan and trance are hungering to hear more of Wah's soul infused groove.
Wah! is from Los Angeles and has spent a lifetime immersed in music, studying in the U.S., India and Africa. IN 1995, she began touring with her band, building a devoted fan base.
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 March 30, 2007 - Guest: The Red
Featured Album: Burn
Burn is a very focused album exploring the yin and yang of love; exploring the feeling of being burnt by love and the burn of passion.
The Red knew from the get go that their album, Burn, was going to be free. Though it is available for purchase on their website thered.com, The Red encourages fans to "Burn it Forward". Also, Burn is the first album ever to be offered as a Flash Drive Album!
Today's program will explore The Red's progressive music distribution and innovative ways to reach and stay connected to fans.
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March 23, 2007 - Guest: Greg Adams
Featured Album: Cool to the Touch
Greg Adams' career has included success as an arranger, composer, conductor, and performer. Adams has earned both Grammy and Emmy nominations as well as an International Broadcasting Award from The Hollywood Radio and Television Society.
Adams has created a musical travelogue that has spanned nearly four decades, taking him on worldwide tours and contributing to some of the most important recordings in pop culture. Listen in to hear Cool To The Touch that showcases Adams' amazing signature horn section sound.
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March 16, 2007 - Featured Album is Thina Simunye: Traditional Zulu songs performed by children from the AGAPE orphanage in South Africa
Agape (a-ga-pi) n. unconditional love
The AGAPE orphanage is a care center for 25+ children who have lost their parents, many of them to AIDS or poverty. The children range in age from 15 months to 17 years old.
At AGAPE, the children receive food, education, guidance and love. In 2005, tragedy struck the AGAPE orphanage when it was destroyed by an accidental electrical fire. The children were left homeless.
Since January 2005, the children have been raising money to rebuild their home using the CD album that they recorded with the Simunye Project. The Simunye Project has produced a documentary feature, WE ARE TOGETHER (Thina Simunye), that follows the story of the children of AGAPE.
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  March 9, 2007 - Guest: Snatam Kaur
Featured Album: Anand
Snatam Kaur, a rising young devotional singer / songwriter, has been enchanting audiences since 2002 with her signature crystal clear vocals and uplifting presence. Snatam Kaur performs to sold out audiences worldwide in over 100 venues, reaching tens of thousands of people each year.
Snatam Kaur's latest release, Anand, means "bliss" and is layered with sounds of keyboard, harmonium, tabla, violin, sarod, bass and the dancing flute of Manose behind Santam Kaur's ethereal vocals.
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March 9, 2007 - Guest: Eric Tingstad
Featured Album: Southwest
Grammy Award-Winning Guitarist Eric Tingstad creates yet another distinctive sense of place with his latest musical offering, Southwest.
As a fingerstyle guitarist classically trained in the Segovian tradition, Tingstad is well known for his impressionistic style and an uncanny ability to unearth the soul of musical landscapes. Southwest creates a sound that evokes the spirit of the land. Vocalization touches some of the songs, beautifully brushing into the instrumentation.
It's been said that upon hearing just five to six notes, one can categorically determine sight unseen that it is Eric Tingstad playing guitar. Tingstad along with co-collaborator, Nancy Rumbel, won a Grammy in 2003 for Acoustic Garden.
Hear and enjoy Tingstad's inimitable style on this week's CTR Music Hour.
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February 23, 2007 - Guest: Orleans
Featured Album: Dancing in the Moonlight
This week's musical guest is the band Orleans, now celebrating their 35th year together. Hear selections from Orleans' eagerly awaited studio album released in 2005, Dancing in the Moonlight.
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 February 16, 2007 - Guest: Ron Warren
Featured Album: Dancing the Full Moon
Ron Warren is an award winning composer / arranger as well as a performer on both Native American flutes and keyboards. Warren began a journey with Native American flutes to honor his father's ancestors and to continue to learn more about the traditions. He has quickly emerged as one of the most versatile and dynamic Native American flute players in the country.
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 February 9, 2007 - Guest: Shane Alexander
Featured Album: Stargazer
Los Angeles based solo artist Shane Alexander is back with Stargazer, the follow up album to his critically acclaimed 2005 independent release, The Middle Way. The vocals and songwriting on Stargazer convey a real sense of honesty. Possessing a smooth and expressive voice, Alexander writes and performs songs ranging from dark and stirring to subtle and romantic. Stargazer, recorded in only four days, was tracked mostly live using vintage gear. The result is a rich, timeless sound.
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February 2, 2007 - Guest: Inca Son
Featured Album: El Regreso Del Inca (Volume X)
Inca Son transports audiences to the Andes Mountains with their ancient melodies, dances and colorful attire. The internationally acclaimed group shares their comprehensive knowledge of Inca culture.
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 Guest: Richard Shulman
Album Featured: Music of Peace
This recording of beautiful solo piano was recorded in the geodesic dome at the United Research Light Center, Black Mountain, NC, which has carried a focus for peace for twenty five years. Most of the music on this album was spontaneously composed. Shulman's inspiration for this improvisation was his choice of inner peace, and the spectrum of feelings that arose from this choice.
Trained in the classical field, Richard Shulman first worked as a rock musician and then a jazz pianist before turning to music for healing and inspiration. Shulman's recorded musical journey includes 18 of his own albums and more than a dozen recordings for others in which he has composed and performed the music.
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Guest: Shawn Gallaway
Album Featured: I Choose Love
As a guitarist, singer-songwriter, and visual artist, Shawn Gallaway weaves music, song and painting into a richly textured experience that calls for enlightened activism.
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Guest: Chris Rosser
Album Featured: Hidden Everywhere
Chris Rosser is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer who won songwriting contests at the Rocky Mountain Folks and Merle Watson festivals and has been showcased twice at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival.
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