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A free podcast will be released each Thursday featuring one-on-one interviews with everyone from NEA Jazz Masters to leading arts experts to National Medal of Arts winners and more.

» Next week, Gypsy jazz violinist, Daisy Castro.

Photo courtesy of Ms. Jackson	Mary Jackson NEA National Heritage Fellow NEA National Heritage fellow Mary Jackson talks about the art and tradition of sweetgrass basketmaking. [22:52] transcript \| download mp3 Posted February 24, 2011
Photo courtesy of Mr. Rafferty	Mike Rafferty NEA National Heritage Fellow Mike Rafferty talks about growing up in East Galway, Ireland, and learning flute playing from his father, as well as coming to America and eventually returning to Irish music in his 50s as both a performer and teacher. [26:37] transcript \| download mp3 Posted September 16, 2010
Photo by Irene Young	Queen Ida Guillory Zydeco Musician (NEA National Heritage Fellow) Queen Ida Guillory discusses the Zydeco tradition and how she became a part of the band. [25:22] transcript \| download mp3 Posted March 12, 2010
Photo by Mel Higashi	Roy and PJ Hirabayashi 2011 National Heritage Fellows Co-founders of San Jose Taiko, Roy and PJ Hirabayashi talk about the importance of this traditional art in the Asian American community. [28:34] transcript \| download mp3 Posted August 25, 2011
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Phoebe Jacobs, former Executive Director of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, discusses hearing the inimitable Louis Armstrong for the first time. [2:05]

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Musician Neko Case reads and comments on “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh. [2:00]

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2009 Poetry Out Loud National Champion Will Farley recites “The Flea” by John Donne [2:06]

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