Other VOA programs on music

Listen to Doug Levine's report on the new CD released by the husband and wife duo, guitarist Tuck Andress and singer Patti Cathcart, who have been collaborating for nearly thirty years.

You can hear Kari Jensen's fascinating radio feature from Hong Kong on an innovative program that brings brings disabled individuals into the mainstream of arts expression, under the sponsorship of the Hong Kong Federation of Handicapped Youth and Arts with the Disabled Association, Hong Kong. Her report focuses on collaborations between wheel-chair-bound individuals and "abled" dancers who perform, in a compelling celebration of differential abilities, a range of dance styles: Chinese, ballet, jazz, social dance, the cha-cha, rumba, jive and Latin. Some of the dancers are slated to perform next month in Beijing.

February 3 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the tragic airplane crash in a small Iowa cornfield which claimed the lives of early rock pioneers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson, known as "The Big Bopper". Greg Flakus reports from Lubbock, Texas--Buddy Holly's home town--on commemorative activities at the Buddy Holly Center, including interviews of both fans and friends, as well as the Director of the Center. Holly was only 22 when he died, but his influence on American popular music was enormous. The 1978 Academy Award-winning film on his life, "The Buddy Holly Story", remains one of the most successful and popular cinema biographies of any American musician. Holly's iconic status, moreover, was reinforced by singer Don McLean's chart-topping elegiac tribute, "American Pie", with the haunting refrain, "the day the music died".

The Nashville-based band Old Crow Medicine Show has a repertoire that defies easy categorization, ranging from Bluegrass to Punk. Katherine Cole introduces us to the versatile group's latest CD, "Tennessee Pusher."

And finally, listen to Jim Stevenson's radio report from Tampa (written before the now-past cliff-hanger football game between the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers), on the appearance during halftime of the Superbowl by Rock mega-star Bruce Springsteen--an occasion much anticipated by most of his fans but criticized by others (see the Washington Post Magazine article by Liz Clark.)