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Christine Salem
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts - S6 - E66
Salem sings work songs and chants from the maloya tradition on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts: Season 6 - 53 Episode s
6x16 - Mohammad Reza Shajarian
May 20, 2013
The 73-year-old Iranian icon unleashes torrents of swooping, soaring sound that elicit goosebumps.
6x17 - Imani Winds
May 29, 2013
Imani Winds' members shrink Igor Stravinsky down to size in a quintet take on The Rite of Spring.
6x18 - OK Go
June 3, 2013
OK Go helps us transport the Tiny Desk from NPR Music's old headquarters to our new facility.
6x19 - The National
June 10, 2013
Watch the band perform acoustic arrangements of four songs from its new album, Trouble Will Find Me.
6x20 - NO BS! Brass Band
June 15, 2013
An 11-piece brass band turns up the funk and flies the flag high for its native Richmond, Va.
6x21 - Billy Bragg
June 17, 2013
One of the world's finest folksingers channels the spirit of Woody Guthrie at the NPR Music offices.
6x22 - Patty Griffin
June 24, 2013
Watch the singer-songwriter and her band perform three songs from her fine new album, American Kid.
6x23 - Maya Beiser
June 29, 2013
A brilliant cellist with a stunning command of her instrument, Beiser performs at the NPR offices.
6x24 - Laura Mvula
July 1, 2013
The U.K. singer performs some of her most intimate material in a short set at the NPR Music offices.
6x25 - Cheick Hamala Diabate
July 6, 2013
The Malian musician and his band craft melodies and rhythms that cut across age and ethnicity.
6x26 - Skinny Lister
July 8, 2013
The rowdy English folk-punk band brings its barely controlled mayhem to the NPR Music offices.
6x27 - Frank Turner
July 13, 2013
Two men with unplugged instruments convey the bawdy rowdiness of a full band.
6x28 - Alice Russell
July 15, 2013
When the British singer performs, her emotionally fiery music just gets hotter and grittier.
6x29 - Cheyenne Mize
July 20, 2013
The singer, instrumentalist and music therapist plays slinky, forceful songs at NPR Music.
6x30 - Guards
July 22, 2013
Hear three sturdy pop songs from In Guards We Trust, performed live at the NPR Music offices.
6x31 - Time For Three
July 27, 2013
Hear the "classically trained garage band" perform with staggering technique and contagious energy.
6x32 - Dana Falconberry
July 29, 2013
Watch Falconberry and five bandmates perform three delicate songs from her recent album Leelanau.
6x33 - Keaton Henson
August 3, 2013
Henson's voice is so fragile and hushed, if you were 10 feet away from him you'd barely hear a peep.
6x34 - Jim Guthrie
August 10, 2013
Guthrie and his band drove 18 hours round-trip from Ontario to perform three songs for NPR Music.
6x35 - Alpine
August 12, 2013
The Australian sextet crafts busily impeccable, harmony-intensive pop music with a danceable sway.
6x36 - Mother Falcon
August 17, 2013
The 17-member chamber-rock collective uses its size in the service of great, snappy, stirring songs.
6x37 - The Front Bottoms
August 19, 2013
The community that's formed around The Front Bottoms speaks to the band's passion and compassion.
6x38 - Buika
August 26, 2013
Concha Buika's voice comes from Africa and the past. Watch her perform in the NPR Music offices.
6x39 - Steve Gunn
August 31, 2013
Watch Gunn's trio perform a set of hypnotic long-form jams that are perfect for taking it easy.
6x40 - Baths
September 4, 2013
Watch Baths' Will Wiesenfeld perform mysterious, textured electronic music in the NPR offices.
6x41 - Bombino
September 7, 2013
For our 300th Tiny Desk Concert, we showcase a Tuareg guitarist's fierce, hypnotic, alluring jams.
6x42 - The 1975
September 10, 2013
Performing solo, singer Matthew Healy doesn't hesitate to transform both his songs and himself.
6x43 - Arturo O'Farrill
September 14, 2013
With an eye on both the past and the future, O'Farrill has jazz and Afro-Cuban music in his DNA.
6x44 - Shovels & Rope
September 16, 2013
The husband-and-wife duo mixes rowdy folk-rock and rootsy ballads, with the help of a canine friend.
6x45 - The Cristina Pato Trio
September 21, 2013
A Galician bagpiper and her trio take Celtic sounds in an entirely wild and wonderful direction.
6x46 - Hem
September 28, 2013
Hem makes a homey, fireside kind of music, with songs that feel as if they've always been there.
6x47 - Oliver 'Tuku' Mtukudzi
September 30, 2013
The Zimbabwean legend performs songs from the mournful but celebratory Sarawoga for NPR Music.
6x48 - Lawrence Brownlee
October 5, 2013
The operatic tenor, acclaimed for his Rossini, circles back to his roots as a singer of spirituals.
6x49 - Superchunk
October 7, 2013
Watch the venerable band translate its electric sound to acoustic instruments in an intimate way.
6x50 - Valerie June
October 12, 2013
Short of seeing her live and in person, this is the best way to encounter June's heartfelt sound.
6x51 - Okkervil River
October 15, 2013
The band performs three songs from a record inspired by the childhood of singer Will Sheff.
6x52 - Matt Ulery's Loom
October 19, 2013
The bassist composes beautiful, unpretentious music for an unusual jazz band with accordion.
6x53 - Daughter
October 21, 2013
Pretty and melancholy, the Londoners' music conjures a perfect mix of gloom, desire and hostility.
6x54 - Typhoon
October 26, 2013
The dozen members of this Portland, Ore. band crammed behind the Tiny Desk for a transcendent set.
6x55 - San Fermin
October 28, 2013
The orchestral folk-pop band's little song-worlds burst with ambition, talent and extreme joy.
6x56 - Neko Case
October 31, 2013
Watch a Halloween Tiny Desk Concert in which Case performs with Kelly Hogan and Eric Bachmann.
6x57 - Ashley Monroe
November 3, 2013
This three-song set in the NPR Music offices captures a nice cross-section of Monroe's appeal.
6x58 - Gary Burton
November 9, 2013
The jazz vibraphone pioneer is 70 now, but that hasn't slowed his flying four-mallet technique.
6x59 - Debashish Bhattacharya
November 12, 2013
Bhattacharya draws on North Indian classical music, but blues also pours out of his stunning work.
6x60 - John Legend
November 16, 2013
The soul singer retains the easygoing grace of a performer fit for any stage — even a tiny one.
6x61 - Waxahatchee
November 23, 2013
This is Katie Crutchfield as Waxahatchee, playing intimate music for an intimate setting.
6x62 - Kronos Quartet
November 25, 2013
The intrepid champions of new music bring a lullaby, rare blues and a work by Bryce Dessner to NPR.
6x63 - The Dismemberment Plan
December 2, 2013
The band exudes playfulness and wry charm throughout these three songs from Uncanney Valley.
6x64 - Sarah Jarosz
December 7, 2013
Jarosz and her small backing band craft a careful mix of technical proficiency and poppy warmth.
6x65 - Dessa
December 9, 2013
The whip-smart rapper, singer, poet and songwriter performs three tracks from Parts of Speech.
6x66 - Christine Salem
December 14, 2013
Salem sings work songs and chants from the maloya tradition on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
6x67 - La Santa Cecilia
December 16, 2013
The video here provides just a hint of the L.A. band's dynamic live shows, albeit a spectacular one.
6x68 - Preservation Hall Jazz Band
December 21, 2013
The hot and historic New Orleans band brings a tuba-wielding Santa and some original holiday cheer.
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