Echoes Playlist

August 16-20, 2004

Following is a listing of the musical selections airing on Echoes for the week of August 16-20, 2004.  The dates on the playlists are the dates the programs are distributed to stations.  Please check the program ID number to verify the program if your station broadcasts the program on a different day than it is distributed.

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FEATURES FOR THE WEEK

Monday 08/16/04
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH DAVID PRITCHARD
David Pritchard creates minimalist orchestrations for a guitar chamber group. He's released several albums since his AIR PATTERNS disc in the early 90s, on which he stacked up to five guitars on a single track in meticulous melodic prisms of sound. In Pasadena, California, Pritchard brings 3 other guitarists and an acoustic bassist in to unfold the designs of his music, including selections from his latest CD, VELOCITY (Molecular Music).

Tuesday 08/17/04
MARY YOUNGBLOOD-NATIVE FLUTE FUSIONS
Mary Youngblood is a Native Flute player born of Seminole and Aleut descent raised in an adoptive anglo family. An imposing women, she has a big flute tone that's she's recorded from caverns to studios and she is the first flute player to win a Grammy Award. That was for her album, Beneath the Raven Moon (SilverWave). Now she has a new CD, Feed the Fire that includes a guest spot from one of her early heroes. It's not R. Carlos Nakai, but Ian Anderson from the British rock group, Jethro Tull. Mary Youngblood talks about flute traditions and new directions.

Wednesday 08/18/04
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH HUZUR NAWAZ (STEPHEN COUGHLIN)
Before adopting the Sufi name of Huzur Nawaz, he was known as Stephen Coughlin, releasing his first album, Song of the Reed under that name in the 1980s. Since then, he's been exploring a sound that travels from Gothic cathedrals to Sufi meditations, playing his Indian bansuri flute as well as his soprano saxophone. In his home in Central California, Huzur Nawaz gathers a group of singers and players to unfold the sound of his albums, Huzur The Presence (Coughlin) and his collaboration on Mysteries by Musica Divina (Musica Divina).

Friday 08/20/04
BANSHEE IN THE KITCHEN: FROM EMERALD ISLES TO SUN BAKED FIELDS
Banshee in the Kitchen is a trio of women from Bakersfield, California who've gotten together to create their own take on Celtic music. They've released a few albums, the latest under the name of hammer dulcimer player Brenda Hunter is CATCHING THE MOONCOIN (Speirbhean Records). Flutist and accordionist Jill Egland and guitarist and bouzouki player Mary Tulin round out Banshee in the Kitchen, firing through traditional Celtic tunes, and Celtic inflected originals. We talk with the Banshees about Celtic music in the flatlands of Bakersfield.

Echoes Programs for the week of August 16-20, 2004

 Monday 08/16/04

Tuesday 08/17/04

Wednesday 08/18/04

Thursday 08/19/04

Friday 08/20/04

 0423D

0433B

0433C

0421A

0425D

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