Featured on public television since February 2010, the travel-based music series MUSIC VOYAGER features host Jacob Edgar exploring thriving, exotic global music scenes to discover emerging talent. Edgar — an ethnomusicologist, cultural musician and music critic — travels all over the world to hear cutting-edge musicians and immerse himself in their cultures. In the series' first episode, Edgar ventures to Mumbai, Delhi to create a hit Bollywood song with vocalist Sona Mohapatra and meet Kailash Kher, one of India's most prolific performers, producers and musical stars. Kher also brings the members of his hit band Kalisa into the studio for a private, intimate performance with Edgar. Other episodes include journeys to Jamaica, New Orleans, New York and Chicago. Produced by TantraWW, Inc. Distributed by American Public Television.
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Featured on public television since February 2010, the travel-based music series MUSIC VOYAGER features host Jacob Edgar exploring thriving, exotic global music scenes to discover emerging talent. Edgar — an ethnomusicologist, cultural musician and music critic — travels all over the world to hear cutting-edge musicians and immerse himself in their cultures. In the series' first episode, Edgar ventures to Mumbai, Delhi to create a hit Bollywood song with vocalist Sona Mohapatra and meet Kailash Kher, one of India's most prolific performers, producers and musical stars. Kher also brings the members of his hit band Kalisa into the studio for a private, intimate performance with Edgar. Other episodes include journeys to Jamaica, New Orleans, New York and Chicago. Produced by TantraWW, Inc. Distributed by American Public Television.
The Magnolia Sisters talk about their
GRAMMY nomination and Ann Savoy
talks about being nominated against
her son Wilson Savoy of the Pine Leaf
Boys while another son is nominated
for producing Cedric Watson's album.
Hear some great music from the
Magnolia Sisters and the Pine Leaf
Boys that got them nominated in the
zydeco/cajun category.
Find out what it takes to repair a
GRAMMY, how Hillary Clinton took off
with a GRAMMY, and how much pride
The GRAMMY Man gets anytime he
sees someone receive the award.
India.Aria and Dobet Gnahore perform
"Palea" in Washington DC over MLK
Weekend. Idan Raichel performs with
them on the piano and Blue Miller on
the guitar.
Music Voyager is helping the
GRAMMYs tear down the walls between
artists and fans. Here, India.Arie talks
with our host Jacob Edgar about what
it means to be nominated for a
GRAMMY for her duet with Dobet
Gnahore from her "Testimony, Vol 2:
Love and Politics" album.
GRAMMY nominated Bela Fleck teaches
a class at Swallow Hill Music in Denver
on how to improvise on the banjo.
Find out what improvising means to
Bela and hear what it sounds like when
he improvises!
Music Voyager visited where the
GRAMMYs are made in Ridgeway,
Colorado. Handcrafted by John Billings,
the "GRAMMY Man", his wife, and two
employees, the GRAMMY award is a
labor of love. Learn the history of how
the GRAMMY is made!
The Zydeco/Cajun GRAMMY nominated artists talk about their music on their road to a GRAMMY.
We're following Cedric Watson on his road to the GRAMMY Awards, but along the way we also hooked
up with all of the zydeco/cajun category GRAMMY nominees including Buckwheat Zydeco, Michael Doucet, the Magnolia Sisters and a little Pine Leaf boys thrown in there too! Find out what the artists have to say about why they play and why they stay in Louisiana.
Fans were asked to submit questions
for Bela Fleck. Bela spent some time
answering the questions on the tour
bus from Denver to Beaver
Creek with Music Voyager host Jacob
Edgar.
Music Voyager's Road to a GRAMMY met up with Bela Fleck in Denver, Colorado. This is an exclusive unplugged performance of
"Throw Down Your Heart" from the Paramount Theatre.
Featured on public television since February 2010, the travel-based music series MUSIC VOYAGER features host Jacob Edgar exploring thriving, exotic global music scenes to discover emerging talent. Edgar — an ethnomusicologist, cultural musician and music critic — travels all over the world to hear cutting-edge musicians and immerse himself in their cultures. In the series' first episode, Edgar ventures to Mumbai, Delhi to create a hit Bollywood song with vocalist Sona Mohapatra and meet Kailash Kher, one of India's most prolific performers, producers and musical stars. Kher also brings the members of his hit band Kalisa into the studio for a private, intimate performance with Edgar. Other episodes include journeys to Jamaica, New Orleans, New York and Chicago. Produced by TantraWW, Inc. Distributed by American Public Television.
