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On this episode of Savannah Music Festival LIVE we listen to selections from two concerts at our 2025 festival, beginning with the world renowned Danish String Quartet and finishing with a collaboration between Swedish traditional music duo Väsen and American acoustic music ensemble Hawktail.

On this episode of Savannah Music Festival LIVE, we listen to selections from two amazing solo piano concerts given during the 2025 season: Simon Mulligan’s transcriptions and improvisations over the indelible melodies of Leonard Bernstein, followed by highlights from the second half of an Emmet Cohen solo piano concert.

On this episode we’ll listen to portions of two concerts from our 2025 season: the second half of the Taj Mahal Quintet’s show featured on a previous episode, followed by a portion of Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s concert at the Trustees Theater.

On this episode we’ll listen to portions of two concerts from our 2025 season: a celebrated string quartet from the Philip Dukes & Friends chamber series, and then the rest of a program of Irish traditional music played by Cillian Vallely, David Doocey, and Alan Murray. We begin with Antonin Dvorak’s American quartet, the String Quartet No. 12, Opus 96, performed at the opening of an all-Dvorak program entitled “The Locomotive Man.”

This two-part episode begins with the duo of Senegalese kora player and vocalist Ablaye Cissoko and French diatonic accordionist Cyrille Brotto, followed by a segment of a Taj Mahal Quintet concert, both from the 2025 Savannah Music Festival.

This two-part episode includes an evening performance by Emmet Cohen & New Jazz Underground, followed by a solo lunchtime concert given by Cohen, both at the 2025 Savannah Music Festival.

This two-part episode of 2025 festival performances includes the Irish traditional music trio of Cillian Vallely, David Doocey, and Alan Murray, and Jenny Scheinman's All Species Parade with Scheinman, Bill Frisell, Carmen Staaf, Tony Scherr, and Kenny Wolleson.

From a lunchtime performance during the 2024 Savannah Music Festival, this episode spotlights pianist Isaiah J. Thompson and saxophonist Julian Lee.

The second half of a 2022 Savannah Music Festival concert with Béla Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart, including Fleck on banjo, Stuart Duncon on fiddle, Sierra Hull on mandolin and vocals, Justin Moses on vocals, fiddle, banjo and dobro, and Mark Schatz on bass.

From a 2024 Savannah Music Festival co-bill at Ships of the Sea North Garden Assembly room, AJ Lee & Blue Summit and The Po' Ramblin' Boys are featured on this episode in their SMF debuts.

In the first half, we listen to a 2024 Savannah Music Festival performance given by Tisra, featuring Zakir Hussain, Debopriya Chatterjee and Sabir Khan. After the break, we feature a 2011 festival concert with Zakir, Béla Fleck, and Edgar Meyer.

On this episode, we listen to highlights from the 2024 SMF return of Mississippi blues guitarist and singer Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, where he headlined at the Lucas Theatre for the Arts.

On this episode, we listen to highlights from a 2024 Savannah Music Festival co-bill: the Isaiah J. Thompson Quartet and Warren Wolf, who traced the history of the vibraphone in jazz with his ensemble, the Wolfpack.

In this episode, we listen to highlights from a 2023 concert featuring the Sam Bush Band playing music from Sam's release Radio John, an album featuring songs by the late John Hartford. Joining at the end is dobro master Jerry Douglas, whose band shared this co-bill at the 2023 Savannah Music Festival.

On this episode, we’ll listen to highlights from concerts given at our 2022 and 2023 festivals. The first half will feature Trinidadian composer, trumpeter and percussionist Etienne Charles’ “Traces” from the closing weekend in 2023, and that will be followed by a portion of a 2022 performance given by the Haitian roots music collective Lakou Mizik.

On this episode, we’ll listen to highlights from two high-energy performances given during our 2024 season: one by jazz keyboard virtuoso Matthew Whitaker, and the other by Cuban music powerhouse Orquesta Akokán.

On this episode, we listen to highlights from the opening weekend of our 2023 festival, when we presented the great Buddy Guy across two nights with a variety of blues artists playing before he took the stage. We’ll hear blues rock guitarist Eric Gales, followed by Harlem native King Solomon Hicks, and then the West Georgia country blues of Jontavious Willis.

On this episode, we listen to highlights from a co-bill recorded at our 2024 festival including Swedish fiddle player Lena Jonsson’s trio alongside the duo of songwriter Kieran Kane and old-time fiddle player and singer-songwriter Rayna Gellert.

On this episode, we listen to performances of Elgar and Vaughan Williams compositions by the incredible Zurich Chamber Orchestra under former SMF Associate Artistic Director Daniel Hope, followed by the Bach cantata Ich Habe Genug featuring baritone Mark Delavan.

On this episode, we listen to highlights from a co-bill recorded at our 2024 festival including ensemble leaders Marta Pereira da Costa and Bridget Kibbey.

On this episode, we listen to two hugely influential Malian musicians, the late Toumani Diabate from a 2009 festival performance, and Oumou Sangare from her Savannah Music Festival debut on opening night of 2024.

On this episode, we listen to a portion of the 2024 Savannah Music Festival performance given by the Chucho Valdes Royal Quartet.

On this episode, we listen to a portion of an opening weekend concert given at our 2024 festival by the Dubhe Ensemble featuring Joseph Conyers.

On this episode, we listen to a portion of the 2024 season kickoff concert featuring powerhouse jazz vocalist Samara Joy. In the two year span since her first Savannah Music Festival appearances at house concerts in the surrounding area, Samara Joy has won three Grammy Awards and delighted audiences around the globe, all before reaching 25 years of age. This time, Samara brought an ensemble made up of her musical peers, with a standard trio augmented by trombone, trumpet, and tenor and alto saxophones.

On this episode, we listen to excerpts from two concerts at our 2023 festival: one from the Philip Dukes & Friends chamber series, and the other from a set played by Christian Sands’ High Wire Trio featuring the music of Erroll Garner. we’ll begin with Brahms’ Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B minor Opus 115, composed in 1891.

On this episode, we listen back to two 2023 performances given by young titans of the piano: the 22 year-old classical pianist Alexander Malofeev and 34 year-old jazz pianist and composer Christian Sands.

On this episode we listen to selections from a co-bill of Irish bands from our 2023 festival, The Alt and Teada.

On this episode we listen to selections from two unforgettable 2023 festival concerts, starting with the incredible Irish traditional band Teada and a Celtic-Appalachian duo consisting of Maeve Gilchrist & Bruce Molsky.

On this episode we feature two standout performances from the opening weekend of our 2023 festival: Gambian kora virtuoso Sona Jobarteh and the electrifying Mississippi blues guitarist and singer Christone “Kingfish” Ingram.

On this episode we’ll feature most of the second dance party set performed in 2023 by the celebrated Eddie Palmieri Latin Jazz Band, and conclude three excerpts from Chopin’s Etudes, Opus 25, performed by Drew Petersen.

On this episode, we’ll listen to a portion of the recital program performed by Drew Petersen at during our 2023 festival, including Gaspard de la Nuit by Maurice Ravel and Robert Schumann’s Fantasy in C Major, Opus 17.

On this episode, we’ll listen to segments of two very different 2023 festival programs for strings: the Zurich Chamber Orchestra with Daniel Hope, followed by music for fiddle and Celtic lever harp performed by Bruce Molsky and Maeve Gilchrist.

On this episode, we listen to a cheerful, energetic work that showcases the melodic genius of Franz Schubert: his Octet in F Major D. 803. From the the Philip Dukes and Friends chamber music series during the 2023 Savannah Music Festival, this is Michael Collins on clarinet, Tim Jones on french horn, Jonathan Davies on bassoon, Adam Barnett-Hart and Brendan Speltz on violins, Robin Ashwell on viola, Eric Kim on cello, and Joseph Conyers on bass.

On this episode, we listen to a co-bill presented at our 2023 festival that paired Malian master ngoni player Bassekou Kouyate with a trio of young American folk and traditional musicians including Jake Blount, Nic Gareiss and Laurel Premo.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.

Audio tracks for the 2023-24 Musical Explorers curriculum presented by Savannah Music Festival.