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Broadcast Schedule July 2019 streaming live at ktna.org Time Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 12: -2:00 AM BBC World Service 2:00-4:00 AM World Cafe 4:00-7:00 AM BBC World Service 07:00 AM NPR Morning Edition Local Morning News & APRN Morning News 07:40 AM Trisha Costello Frances Reynolds Geri Denkewalter Maureen Gualtieri Sue Deyoe 08:00 AM NPR Morning Edition NPR Weekend NPR Weekend 09:00:00 AM Edition Sunday Edition Saturday Performance Today From the Top 10:00:00 AM Line One, Your City Arts and Lectures Travel with Rick Big Picture Science Radiolab Talk of Alaska Health Connection or Su Valley Voice Steves Phillip Manning Science Friday 11:00 AM Wait, Wait, Don't Here and Now Says You! / Tell Me! The Media Project 12:00 PM Kathleen Fleming Shoo Salasky Gregor Rakoski Christie Seay Holly Stinson Left, Right, & On the Media Local News Center 12:30 PM Susitna Writer’s Voice Informazine The Ecology of Glacial Rivers 01:00 PM The Patchwork Thistle and Tuesday Afternoon Putumayo World By the Fireside Hour Shamrock The World Cafe Music Acoustic Accents Music Radio Hour Serena Holly Stinson 02:00 PM Steff Browne Music That Makes Sound Vision American Routes Random Radio Me Happy Corinne Smith or Mountain Stage The Brazilian Hour Becky Peterson Renamary Kelly Thomas Rauchenstein 03:00 PM Fresh Air 04:00 PM NPR's A ll Things Considered 05:00 PM On Being This American Life 06:00 PM Announcements Local News Susitna Writer’s Voice Kelly Thomas Butchy Fuego Cassie Westnedge DeAnn Autrey Ag Matters Cary Birdsall Phillip Manning 06:30 PM CounterSpin Alaska News Nightly Valley Edition 07:00 PM We're Not All Su Valley Voice Talk of Alaska Freakonomics The Moth Radio There TED Radio Hour Reveal (rebroadcast) or (rebroadcast) Radio Hour Cary Birdsall Thursday’s Pick 08:00 PM Nrdy Hrdy Grdy Sounds of the All My Jazz Cruisin with Cass Honky Tonk Variety Show Hits and Misses Show South Paul Button Cassie Westnedge Jukebox Kevin & Josue Paul Button Becky Hrdy Forrest Cook Cary Birdsall Nancy Crowden 09:00 PM World Cafe Variety Show Hats Wavelength Where is George (open for local host) Kevin & Josue Butchy Fuego Foreman Honky Tonk Jamie & Abby 10:00 PM Jukebox The Midnight Undercurrents The Bay Whalin’ Jazz Night in Mary Vukson Nancy Crowden Special (open for local host) Hour America Live from Here 11:00 PM Hearts of Space Acoustic Accents Beale Street UnderCurrents World Cafe Caravan.

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: a Sufi Music Master Revived
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: A Sufi Music Master Revived : NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12201563 Generated by Foxit PDF Creator © Foxit Software http://www.foxitsoftware.com For evaluation only. NPR Home | News | Arts & Life | NPR Programs DONATE | NPR Shop | NPR Social Media | Login | Register SEARCH FIND A STATION Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: A Sufi Music Master Revived by Anil Mundra Listen on All Things Considered add to playlist | download August 7, 2007 - Resurrecting the dead is nothing new in music. Remember Natalie Cole singing and dancing with her late father, Nat King Cole? The latest luminary to be revived is the Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. August 16 marks the tenth anniversary of his death. In his short life, Nusrat was the world's greatest singer of qawwali, a boisterous and passionate music of mystical Photo: Ishida Masataka Islam. He embraced western pop music, teaming up with Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Peter Gabriel and Eddie Vedder. Now, Nusrat returns with (1948-1997) was considered the finest qawwali singer of his generation. the help of Italian dub reggae producer Gaudi. Their new CD is called Dub Qawwali. SONGS FROM 'DUB QAWWALI' Gaudi is a veteran producer with 11 solo albums over the past two decades. He specializes in dub reggae, a style that Hear old Nusrat recordings dressed up in dub reggae beats by producer often reworks existing material, mixing booming bass and Gaudi. drums with electronic effects. 'Ena Akhiyan Noo' After dabbling in punk music, Gaudi began experimenting add with synthesizers, and was fully steeped in reggae when he first heard one of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's records in the 'Bethe Bethe Kese Kese' mid-1980s.
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