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With compelling interpretations that draw deeply from one of the worlds great music traditions, Sanam Marvi is Pakistan's young and brilliant vocal interpreter of South Asian spiritual, folk and classical poetry. A vocal warrior for peace, this contemporary daughter of interior sindh believes that there is comfort to be found in the wisdom of Sufis and in the couplets on divine love and devotion o...

Individually, Ry Cooder, Ricky Skaggs and Sharon White are acclaimed veterans of the roots music scene. But when they decided to join forces in concert as Cooder-White-Skaggs, they became an Americana supergroup steeped in traditional roots music. In this episode, we listen to their 2017 Savannah Music Festival performance at the Lucas Theatre for the Arts.

For those who care deeply about jazz music and hope for future generations to keep the music alive and well, they recognize that to ensure the torch gets passed, there must be writing, education and performance continually made available to young audiences. Trumpeter Marcus Printup not only adheres to this philosophy, but he also believes in real world opportunity, which is why he sought out a gro...

Many pianists have played all 32 Beethoven sonatas over the course of their career, and some have played all of them over the course of a season in a concert hall. But almost no one has ever attempted to play all 32 in one day. In this episode, we listen to excerpts from Stewart Goodyear’s Sonatathon at SMF 2017, a Herculean feat in which he performed all the Beethoven sonatas in one day with exce...

Many pianists have played all 32 Beethoven sonatas over the course of their career, and some have played all of them over the course of a season in a concert hall. But almost no one has ever attempted to play all 32 in one day. In this episode, we listen to excerpts from Stewart Goodyear’s Sonatathon at SMF 2017, a Herculean feat in which he performed all the Beethoven sonatas in one day with exce...

29 - Take The A Train - Scat (trumpet With Rests) by savannahmusicfestival

In the words of Irish-American singer-songwriter Aoife O'Donovan, "performing alone is a very solitary experience. Aoife makes the claim that "when you're in a band and something amazing happens on stage, you look at each other, 'Yeah! We're so locked in.' Or if something goes wrong, you can look at each other and shrug and say, 'oh well.' But if you're doing it by yourself, you reflect on it in a...

Many pianists have played all 32 Beethoven sonatas over the course of their career, and some have played all of them over the course of a season in a concert hall. But almost no one has ever attempted to play all 32 in one day. In this episode, we listen to excerpts from Stewart Goodyear's Sonatathon at SMF 2017, a Herculean feat in which he performed all the Beethoven sonatas in one day with exce...

Leyla McCalla is an American musician of Haitian descent, who first became known for her work with the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Since leaving that group in 2012, she has been working to develop her own personal approach to music that encompasses her Haitian roots, American folk, Louisiana roots and gospel, along with jazz and classical music. Leyla sings, plays cello, tenor banjo and guitar, and...

German Lopez is an esteemed timple player from the Canary Islands, an archipelago off the northwest coast of Africa that belongs to the nation of Spain. In this episode, we listen to German Lopez's SMF debut in 2017 alongside his musical partner, guitarist Antonio Toledo.

42 Follow the Drinking Gourd (Chorus) by savannahmusicfestival

41 Follow the Drinking Gourd by savannahmusicfestival

20 Just a Dream by savannahmusicfestival

19 Little Red Rooster by savannahmusicfestival

40 This Train is Bound for Glory (First Verse) by savannahmusicfestival

39 This Train is Bound for Glory by savannahmusicfestival

38 In The Pines (chorus) by savannahmusicfestival

37 In the Pines by savannahmusicfestival

36 Bluegrass Jam by savannahmusicfestival

35 Guitar Demonstration by savannahmusicfestival

34 Banjo Demonstration by savannahmusicfestival

33 Mandolin Demonstration by savannahmusicfestival

32 Fiddle Demonstration by savannahmusicfestival

31 Uncle Pen (chorus) by savannahmusicfestival

30 Uncle Pen by savannahmusicfestival