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This is the official Studs Terkel Radio Archive SoundCloud page.  The Studs Terkel Radio Archive is a collaboration between the WFMT Radio Network and the Chicago History Museum.

ქართული ხალხური სიმღერის აუდიოთეკა / Georgian folk songs audiotheque

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Bruce Molsky - fiddler, banjo player, guitarist, singer - embracing and growing traditional music.

Documentarian, folk musician, producer of The Archives #podcast at the Old Town School of Folk Music.

Singer-songwriter, more or less nice person.  Fearless scaredycat.  Front-person for Chicago indie band Shelley Miller and the BCC.  Charmingly awkward.

thor.sandgren is following