NPR Music Tiny Desk Concerts

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Turnstile
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From basements to bandshells, Turnstile shows are a life-affirming mosh-pit ballet. You sweat, you smile, you stage dive, you shake what ya mama gave ya. At the band's Tiny Desk (home) .. show full overview
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esperanza spalding
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Enter into esperanza spalding's safe space for healing through music and song with a Tiny Desk (home) concert of selections from her Songwrights Apothecary Lab, (S.A.L.) project. A .. show full overview
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Mon Laferte
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It’s fair to say Mon Laferte is a musical chameleon. The Chilean vocalist’s output of late has covered a vast swath of musical styles from Latin America, from big-band mambo to .. show full overview
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Cordae
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Midway through his Tiny Desk (home) concert, Cordae shares the backstory behind "RNP" from his 2019 debut album, The Lost Boy, and the early stresses he endured as a successful young .. show full overview
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globalFEST: Suistamon Sähkö, Bedouin Burger, ADG7
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For each of the three nights, Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST will present artists in intimate settings (often behind their own globe-topped tiny desks), some of whom are making their .. show full overview
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globalFEST: Kombilesa Mí, Northern Cree, Son Rompe Pera
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For each of the three nights, Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST will present artists in intimate settings (often behind their own globe-topped tiny desks), some of whom are making their .. show full overview
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globalFEST: Al Bilali Soudan, Kiran Ahluwalia, Tufan Derince
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For each of the three nights, Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST will present artists in intimate settings (often behind their own globe-topped tiny desks), some of whom are making their .. show full overview
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Jake Xerxes Fussell
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Jake Xerxes Fussell's Tiny Desk (home) concert opens with the eyebrow raising lyric, "I've got fresh fish this morning, ladies. They are gilded with gold and you may find a diamond in .. show full overview
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Amber Mark
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In her Tiny Desk (home) concert, singer-songwriter and producer Amber Mark expresses more than once that performing for the series is a "bucket list" moment for her. Upon our first .. show full overview
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Tori Amos
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Tori Amos' Tiny Desk (home) concert debut takes place in what looks like close quarters. The singer-songwriter whose music has served as a beacon for so many listeners during her .. show full overview
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Fatoumata Diawara
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Fatoumata Diawara is a true multi-hyphenate – an esteemed Malian singer, songwriter and actress who left her home country at 19 to pursue her artistry in France. By way of Como, Italy, .. show full overview
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El DeBarge
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Around this time last year, singer-songwriter and R&B royalty El DeBarge took to Instagram to take some requests and play a few hits. "I'd never done anything like that before, and the .. show full overview
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Catherine Russell
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Look around the GB's Juke Joint studio in Long Island City, N.Y. and you will see adornments from jazz singer Catherine Russell's home: a vintage Royal typewriter, a black dial phone, a .. show full overview
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Anthony Roth Costanzo and Justin Vivian Bond
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The opera star Anthony Roth Costanzo and the cabaret diva Justin Vivian Bond hail from opposite sides of the tracks, vocally speaking. But when the two unite in their stage show, "Only .. show full overview
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Too $hort
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In his Tiny Desk (home) concert, Too $hort asks: "How many artists you know that got relevant records in five decades?" The Oakland rapper answers by performing seven songs from his own .. show full overview
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Buffalo Nichols
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In a sparse, dimly lit Austin office building, Carl “Buffalo” Nichols stands in front of the mic stand with his steel guitar. As he finger picks into the first song “Living Hell,” the .. show full overview
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Patti LaBelle
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The first song in Patti LaBelle's Tiny Desk (home) concert sets the tone and quickly sums up the entire 15-minute performance. "Something Special (Is Gonna Happen Tonight)" from her 1986 .. show full overview
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Shirley Caesar
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During a moment of testimony in her Tiny Desk (home) Concert, Pastor Shirley Caesar declares, "I'm beginning to feel something moving on the inside." It is impossible to witness a .. show full overview
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Fireboy DML
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Dearly beloved: we are gathered here today to get through this thing called "Afro-life." Surrounded by lush greenery and soft lavender lighting, Fireboy DML makes his Tiny Desk (home) .. show full overview
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja
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Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and pianist Joonas Ahonen, like most of us right now, are concerned about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Kopatchinskaja hails from Moldova, which .. show full overview
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Abdullah Ibrahim
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It’s less a concert and more witnessing a master thoughtfully creating an atmosphere, a vibe. And for 13 short minutes, I feel seated in Abdullah Ibrahim’s home in Chiemgau, Germany, .. show full overview
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Camilo
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When catching glimpses of his meteoric rise to global stardom and his picturesque life with partner and artist Evaluna Montaner, fans are often left to speculate on the romance of .. show full overview
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Bonobo
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The first shot of Bonobo's Tiny Desk (home) concert is a little disorienting. What looks like the official Tiny Desk at NPR's Washington, D.C. headquarters is actually an eerily accurate .. show full overview
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Daniel Hope
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Our Tiny Desk (home) concert series has brought us to some very special places, but few can match the distinction of being inside Ludwig Van Beethoven’s house. Violinist Daniel Hope .. show full overview
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Yard Act
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Before the English band Yard Act set foot on stage at the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge, England, the band set up its instruments in the green room and performed this Tiny Desk (home) .. show full overview
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KAINA
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Setting the scene with a winding tour of the jam-packed gathering of musicians in a mystical recreation of her childhood casita, Chicago-based singer KAINA offers her Tiny Desk (home) .. show full overview
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Pom Pom Squad
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Pom Pom Squad's Tiny Desk (home) concert starts with a well-placed sense of irony. The opening chords of "Drunk Voicemail" – brash and heavy – tease the band's lead-in, letting .. show full overview
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Maxo Kream
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“I ain’t about to be on all that preaching s***, but Imma tell you this,” Maxo Kream says during his Tiny Desk (home) concert. “I came from nothing! The mud. Anything you wanna do, put .. show full overview
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Madi Diaz
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Fitting many people into a small space has been key to the Tiny Desk formula since its beginning, so it only makes sense that Madi Diaz would perpetuate the tradition as she presides .. show full overview
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Los Rivera Destino
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“Mi padre dice asustado / Que me salga de su lado / ‘Ellos son marijuanos,’” (“My father warned me / That I shouldn’t hang out with you all / ‘They are a bunch of potheads,’”) Los Rivera .. show full overview
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Maren Morris
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Maren Morris is the country artist most gracefully poised at the spot where future thinking meets time-honored ways. Consider the setting for her second Tiny Desk performance — this time .. show full overview
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Leif Ove Andsnes
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The Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is binging Mozart. He's just released his second double album in a row of the composer's piano music, and for this very special Tiny Desk .. show full overview
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The Linda Lindas
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A library might not be the first place that comes to mind when you picture a suitable venue for a punk band — unless, of course, you're thinking about The Linda Lindas, who shot to viral .. show full overview
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Brittany Davis
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It's a testament to Brittany Davis that this Tiny Desk home show feels like a true live concert — one with real live energy, as if it's playing out in front of a massive crowd you can't .. show full overview
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mehro
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I find mehro's voice to be simply stunning; it reminds me of the moment I first heard Jeff Buckley. My favorite new artist of last year opens this Tiny Desk (home) concert with "chance .. show full overview
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Samora Pinderhughes
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The opening piano notes are barely sufficient warning to brace for the sweet and powerful voices that transport us to Samora Pinderhughes' Tiny Desk (home) concert, shot on film. "The .. show full overview
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Curren$y
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Curren$y's Tiny Desk (home) concert features three key elements that make him who he is: cars, weed and, of course, music. One of the prominent champions of cannabis plays from the .. show full overview
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S. Carey
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Sean Carey's music often evokes the comforts of home, so it only makes sense that he'd gravitate to the quiet confines of a modest kitchen in his hometown of Eau Claire, Wis. This is a .. show full overview
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Feid
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From the line up of traditional Colombian instruments to the card playing interlude, every second of Feid's Medellín, Colombia pool hall performance invokes the feeling of charlando and .. show full overview
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A Strange Loop
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Rather than use the stage at Feinstein's/54 Below, the cast of A Strange Loop cram into a booth for their Tiny Desk (home) concert. The protagonist of the musical is an usher, so .. show full overview
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Roger Eno
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Roger Eno's home is part of what once formed an 11th-century abbey called St. Wilmott's, situated on the border of Norfolk and Suffolk near England's southeastern coast. The bucolic .. show full overview
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Thee Sinseers
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To appreciate the magic of a performance from Thee Sinseers, you have to understand the co-mingling of Chicano and African American communities in post-World War II, Southern California. .. show full overview
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Ron Carter
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The velvety sapphire of what may be the most recognizable curtains in jazz are the backdrop for this special Tiny Desk (home) concert. Dapper and distinguished in matching ties, .. show full overview
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Little Shop of Horrors
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Composer Alan Menken beams with pride as he introduces the Little Shop of Horrors Tiny Desk (home) concert. May 6, 2022 marks the 40th anniversary of the show's first production. Menken .. show full overview
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Aoife O'Donovan
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Ideally, musicians recording Tiny Desk (home) concerts adhere to the series’ core concept and perform behind some sort of desk, tiny or otherwise. But, barring that, it helps to make .. show full overview
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ARC Ensemble
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The conflicts between Russia and Ukraine reach far and wide, even deep into this Tiny Desk (home) concert performed by the ARC Ensemble — artists from Canada's Royal Conservatory in .. show full overview
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Buffy Sainte-Marie
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"Tiny Desk at home? I kinda live on the road!" the legendary Buffy Sainte-Marie exclaims one song into her high-spirited set recorded a few miles outside Toronto at the beginning of the .. show full overview
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Fontaines D.C.
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Filmed in Chicago’s beautiful brick Irish American Heritage Center during a recent tour, this four-song set begins with Fontaines D.C. singer Grian Chatten in the stacks at the center’s .. show full overview
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IDK
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I first saw IDK perform in 2017. An infectious ball of energy, he captivated the audience with every vigorous bar and step; his personality filled the large stage that he only shared .. show full overview
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pH-1, Mndsgn and Audrey Nuna: AAPI Heritage Month
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Korean-American rapper pH-1 radiates much of the same visual warmth of his setting. It disperses around him, highlighting his bandmates, who are planted in the fringes of an intense blue .. show full overview
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Ada Lea
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Ada Lea's Tiny Desk (home) concert opens just as her 2021 album, one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden, does: with the careening, beautiful track "damn." It's the .. show full overview
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Svaneborg Kardyb
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Svaneborg Kardyb’s Tiny Desk (home) concert was recorded in the countryside of Djursland, Denmark. “You have to drive for a while on a gravel road, and then you come to a lovely old .. show full overview
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Alisa Amador: 2022 Tiny Desk Contest Winner
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It surely was a day of joyful tears. And those joyful tears for Alisa Amador, the winner of the 2022 Tiny Desk Contest, came at a time when she had been considering putting her music .. show full overview
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Adekunle Gold
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Attention passengers: Please make sure your seat belts are fastened and tray tables are stored away as Adekunle Gold is ready for takeoff. The shape of the Nigerian singer-songwriter's .. show full overview
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James Francies
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A smile, laughter and a candle burning beside a delicate flower arrangement welcome us into the warm studio that is the set of James Francies’ Tiny Desk (home) concert. The young .. show full overview
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Naira Marley
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British-Nigerian pop star Naira Marley opens his set with a sly smile and softly says “Marlians,” the name for his stans, a loyal group of followers who call Marley their president. .. show full overview
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FKA twigs
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To see her is to appreciate a rare portrait. To watch her dance and hear her sing is to fall, entranced, into an uncanny haze. Both snake and its charmer, British Jamaican .. show full overview
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Larry June
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Larry June is the indie-rap hustle personified. His graduation from the streets has made way for his true purpose in rhyme: healthy living. The organic fruits and juices on the table in .. show full overview
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Ravyn Lenae
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Hearing Ravyn Lenae’s voice resonate from behind the Tiny Desk for one of our first concerts back in the building had me entranced. With her voice raw and unamplified, Lenae and her .. show full overview
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Maverick City Music
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Almost 30 musicians, choir members and staff of the contemporary worship music collective Maverick City Music entered the NPR lobby and crowded the security desk to undergo COVID .. show full overview
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Monica
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It's only right to think "New Monica!" when her Tiny Desk (home) concert begins. Surrounded by candlelight, dressed in pink, Monica stands ready to deliver a vibrant vocal .. show full overview
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J'Nai Bridges
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Mezzo-soprano J'Nai Bridges is a rising star who recently won a Grammy Award and other accolades too long to list here. We're glad she accepted our invitation to record this Tiny Desk .. show full overview
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Denzel Curry
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After taking a sip of his tea towards the end of his six-song set, Denzel Curry turns to his band and exclaims: “We lowkey breezed through this b****! That’s great for two rehearsals!” .. show full overview
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Usher
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"We celebrate Black Music Month. This has been Black magic." Truer words may have never been spoken behind the Tiny Desk as R&B goliath Usher caps off our month-long celebration of Black .. show full overview
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Essential Voices USA
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Maylee Todd
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FKJ
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Belle and Sebastian
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Animal Collective
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Curse Of Lono
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Ludovico Einaudi
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Mivos Quartet
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Big Thief
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Pigeon Pit
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Madison Cunningham
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Regina Spektor
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DOMi & JD Beck
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SFJAZZ Collective
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Andrew Bird and Iron & Wine
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ADG7
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Endea Owens and The Cookout
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Isaiah J. Thompson Quartet
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SIX The Musical
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SIX The Musical
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Juilliard Jazz Ensemble
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Juilliard Jazz Ensemble
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Randall Goosby
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Randall Goosby
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JID
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JID
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Angélique Kidjo
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Angélique Kidjo
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Allison Russell
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Allison Russell
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Omar Apollo
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Omar Apollo
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Carin León
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Carin León
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Girl Ultra
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Girl Ultra
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Trueno
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Trueno
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Jessie Reyez
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Jessie Reyez
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Susana Baca
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Susana Baca
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Carla Morrison
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Carla Morrison
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Tokischa
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Tokischa
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Farruko
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Farruko
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Joyce Wrice
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Joyce Wrice
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Leyla McCalla
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Leyla McCalla
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The Crossing
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The Crossing
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S.G. Goodman
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S.G. Goodman
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Symba
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Symba
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King Princess
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King Princess
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NoSo
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NoSo
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Lizzy McAlpine
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Lizzy McAlpine
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Ezra Collective
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Ezra Collective
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The Lion King
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The Lion King
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason
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Horace Andy
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Santigold
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beabadoobee
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The A's
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RM
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Stromae
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Alex G
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Eliane Elias
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The Mavericks
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Westside Boogie
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