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NPR Tiny Desk Concerts Season 6

January. 07,2013

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NPR Tiny Desk Concerts Season 6 Full Episode Guide

Episode 68 - Preservation Hall Jazz Band

First Aired: December. 21,2013

The hot and historic New Orleans band brings a tuba-wielding Santa and some original holiday cheer.

Episode 67 - La Santa Cecilia

First Aired: December. 16,2013

The video here provides just a hint of the L.A. band's dynamic live shows, albeit a spectacular one.

Episode 66 - Christine Salem

First Aired: December. 14,2013

Salem sings work songs and chants from the maloya tradition on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean.

Episode 65 - Dessa

First Aired: December. 09,2013

The whip-smart rapper, singer, poet and songwriter performs three tracks from Parts of Speech.

Episode 64 - Sarah Jarosz

First Aired: December. 07,2013

Jarosz and her small backing band craft a careful mix of technical proficiency and poppy warmth.

Episode 63 - The Dismemberment Plan

First Aired: December. 02,2013

The band exudes playfulness and wry charm throughout these three songs from Uncanney Valley.

Episode 62 - Kronos Quartet

First Aired: November. 25,2013

The intrepid champions of new music bring a lullaby, rare blues and a work by Bryce Dessner to NPR.

Episode 61 - Waxahatchee

First Aired: November. 23,2013

This is Katie Crutchfield as Waxahatchee, playing intimate music for an intimate setting.

Episode 60 - John Legend

First Aired: November. 16,2013

The soul singer retains the easygoing grace of a performer fit for any stage — even a tiny one.

Episode 59 - Debashish Bhattacharya

First Aired: November. 12,2013

Bhattacharya draws on North Indian classical music, but blues also pours out of his stunning work.

Episode 58 - Gary Burton

First Aired: November. 09,2013

The jazz vibraphone pioneer is 70 now, but that hasn't slowed his flying four-mallet technique.

Episode 57 - Ashley Monroe

First Aired: November. 03,2013

This three-song set in the NPR Music offices captures a nice cross-section of Monroe's appeal.

Episode 56 - Neko Case

First Aired: October. 31,2013

Watch a Halloween Tiny Desk Concert in which Case performs with Kelly Hogan and Eric Bachmann.

Episode 55 - San Fermin

First Aired: October. 28,2013

The orchestral folk-pop band's little song-worlds burst with ambition, talent and extreme joy.

Episode 54 - Typhoon

First Aired: October. 26,2013

The dozen members of this Portland, Ore. band crammed behind the Tiny Desk for a transcendent set.

Episode 53 - Daughter

First Aired: October. 21,2013

Pretty and melancholy, the Londoners' music conjures a perfect mix of gloom, desire and hostility.

Episode 52 - Matt Ulery's Loom

First Aired: October. 19,2013

The bassist composes beautiful, unpretentious music for an unusual jazz band with accordion.

Episode 51 - Okkervil River

First Aired: October. 15,2013

The band performs three songs from a record inspired by the childhood of singer Will Sheff.

Episode 50 - Valerie June

First Aired: October. 12,2013

Short of seeing her live and in person, this is the best way to encounter June's heartfelt sound.

Episode 49 - Superchunk

First Aired: October. 07,2013

Watch the venerable band translate its electric sound to acoustic instruments in an intimate way.

Episode 48 - Lawrence Brownlee

First Aired: October. 05,2013

The operatic tenor, acclaimed for his Rossini, circles back to his roots as a singer of spirituals.

Episode 47 - Oliver 'Tuku' Mtukudzi

First Aired: September. 30,2013

The Zimbabwean legend performs songs from the mournful but celebratory Sarawoga for NPR Music.

Episode 46 - Hem

First Aired: September. 28,2013

Hem makes a homey, fireside kind of music, with songs that feel as if they've always been there.

Episode 45 - The Cristina Pato Trio

First Aired: September. 21,2013

A Galician bagpiper and her trio take Celtic sounds in an entirely wild and wonderful direction.

Episode 44 - Shovels & Rope

First Aired: September. 16,2013

The husband-and-wife duo mixes rowdy folk-rock and rootsy ballads, with the help of a canine friend.

Episode 43 - Arturo O'Farrill

First Aired: September. 14,2013

With an eye on both the past and the future, O'Farrill has jazz and Afro-Cuban music in his DNA.

Episode 42 - The 1975

First Aired: September. 10,2013

Performing solo, singer Matthew Healy doesn't hesitate to transform both his songs and himself.

Episode 41 - Bombino

First Aired: September. 07,2013

For our 300th Tiny Desk Concert, we showcase a Tuareg guitarist's fierce, hypnotic, alluring jams.

Episode 40 - Baths

First Aired: September. 04,2013

Watch Baths' Will Wiesenfeld perform mysterious, textured electronic music in the NPR offices.

Episode 39 - Steve Gunn

First Aired: August. 31,2013

Watch Gunn's trio perform a set of hypnotic long-form jams that are perfect for taking it easy.

Episode 38 - Buika

First Aired: August. 26,2013

Concha Buika's voice comes from Africa and the past. Watch her perform in the NPR Music offices.

Episode 37 - The Front Bottoms

First Aired: August. 19,2013

The community that's formed around The Front Bottoms speaks to the band's passion and compassion.

Episode 36 - Mother Falcon

First Aired: August. 17,2013

The 17-member chamber-rock collective uses its size in the service of great, snappy, stirring songs.

Episode 35 - Alpine

First Aired: August. 12,2013

The Australian sextet crafts busily impeccable, harmony-intensive pop music with a danceable sway.

Episode 34 - Jim Guthrie

First Aired: August. 10,2013

Guthrie and his band drove 18 hours round-trip from Ontario to perform three songs for NPR Music.

Episode 33 - Keaton Henson

First Aired: August. 03,2013

Henson's voice is so fragile and hushed, if you were 10 feet away from him you'd barely hear a peep.

Episode 32 - Dana Falconberry

First Aired: July. 29,2013

Watch Falconberry and five bandmates perform three delicate songs from her recent album Leelanau.

Episode 31 - Time For Three

First Aired: July. 27,2013

Hear the "classically trained garage band" perform with staggering technique and contagious energy.

Episode 30 - Guards

First Aired: July. 22,2013

Hear three sturdy pop songs from In Guards We Trust, performed live at the NPR Music offices.

Episode 29 - Cheyenne Mize

First Aired: July. 20,2013

The singer, instrumentalist and music therapist plays slinky, forceful songs at NPR Music.

Episode 28 - Alice Russell

First Aired: July. 15,2013

When the British singer performs, her emotionally fiery music just gets hotter and grittier.

Episode 27 - Frank Turner

First Aired: July. 13,2013

Two men with unplugged instruments convey the bawdy rowdiness of a full band.

Episode 26 - Skinny Lister

First Aired: July. 08,2013

The rowdy English folk-punk band brings its barely controlled mayhem to the NPR Music offices.

Episode 25 - Cheick Hamala Diabate

First Aired: July. 06,2013

The Malian musician and his band craft melodies and rhythms that cut across age and ethnicity.

Episode 24 - Laura Mvula

First Aired: July. 01,2013

The U.K. singer performs some of her most intimate material in a short set at the NPR Music offices.

Episode 23 - Maya Beiser

First Aired: June. 29,2013

A brilliant cellist with a stunning command of her instrument, Beiser performs at the NPR offices.

Episode 22 - Patty Griffin

First Aired: June. 24,2013

Watch the singer-songwriter and her band perform three songs from her fine new album, American Kid.

Episode 21 - Billy Bragg

First Aired: June. 17,2013

One of the world's finest folksingers channels the spirit of Woody Guthrie at the NPR Music offices.

Episode 20 - NO BS! Brass Band

First Aired: June. 15,2013

An 11-piece brass band turns up the funk and flies the flag high for its native Richmond, Va.

Episode 19 - The National

First Aired: June. 10,2013

Watch the band perform acoustic arrangements of four songs from its new album, Trouble Will Find Me.

Episode 18 - OK Go

First Aired: June. 03,2013

OK Go helps us transport the Tiny Desk from NPR Music's old headquarters to our new facility.

Episode 17 - Imani Winds

First Aired: May. 29,2013

Imani Winds' members shrink Igor Stravinsky down to size in a quintet take on The Rite of Spring.

Episode 16 - Mohammad Reza Shajarian

First Aired: May. 20,2013

The 73-year-old Iranian icon unleashes torrents of swooping, soaring sound that elicit goosebumps.

Episode 15 - Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale

First Aired: May. 13,2013

The veteran country players mix corny humor, musical merrymaking and timeless vocal harmonies.

Episode 14 - Nicola Benedetti

First Aired: May. 06,2013

Watch the violinist spin out music by John Williams and Bach in sweet, soulful tendrils of sound.

Episode 13 - Father Figures

First Aired: April. 29,2013

Zany, brainy and danceable, these guys' music mixes rock and jazz like King Crimson at its fiercest.

Episode 12 - Omar Sosa & Paolo Fresu

First Aired: April. 22,2013

The duo's quietly energetic performance hangs over the the NPR Music offices like a soft mist.

Episode 11 - Yo La Tengo

First Aired: April. 15,2013

To coincide with the release of the band's 13th album, Fade, Yo La Tengo performs an acoustic set.

Episode 10 - Efterklang

First Aired: April. 08,2013

The Danish band ransacks the NPR Music offices looking for sound-making material and new ideas.

Episode 9 - Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill

First Aired: March. 11,2013

Watch one of the best fiddlers on the planet and a subtle guitar master work their magic.

Episode 8 - The Lone Bellow

First Aired: March. 04,2013

The fast-rising Brooklyn trio sings beautiful, heartfelt, impeccably harmonized folk-pop songs.

Episode 7 - Mary Halvorson Quintet

First Aired: February. 25,2013

The guitarist brings a decidedly non-standard approach to jazz's standard practices.

Episode 6 - Night Beds

First Aired: February. 18,2013

Winston Yellen's arresting voice propels a lighthearted but deeply affecting set at the NPR office.

Episode 5 - The xx

First Aired: February. 11,2013

In The xx's songs, all the calm chilliness in the world can't quite contain an exposed heart.

Episode 4 - Cantus

First Aired: February. 04,2013

The a cappella ensemble sings widely divergent songs from American, European and Sufi traditions.

Episode 3 - Of Montreal

First Aired: January. 28,2013

Frontman Kevin Barnes uses the intimacy of the NPR Music offices to try out some quiet new material.

Episode 2 - Black Prairie

First Aired: January. 14,2013

With members of The Decemberists, the band lends a snappy, lilting quality to songs of alienation.

Episode 1 - Lucius

First Aired: January. 07,2013

One minute, Lucius sounds like a '60s girl group; the next might conjure images of Emmylou Harris.

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