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Sofia Rei
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts - S7 - E10
For about 20 minutes one sunny afternoon, Rei turned a desk into a small Latin American folk club.
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts: Season 7 - 60 Episode s
7x1 - Van-Anh Vanessa Vo
January 4, 2014
The musician unpacks an array of traditional Vietnamese instruments — and 1,000 years of culture.
7x2 - Lily & Madeleine
January 7, 2014
The teenagers play a restrained, homespun mix of folk and pop with undeniably sweet harmonies.
7x3 - Afro Blue
January 13, 2014
The Howard University vocal jazz ensemble performs beautiful African-American spirituals.
7x4 - Robert Glasper Experiment
January 20, 2014
Members of the Grammy-winning, organic R&B Experiment band jam with singer Marsha Ambrosius.
7x5 - Angel Olsen
January 27, 2014
The expressive, powerful singer previews songs from her new album, Burn Your Fire for No Witness.
7x6 - Pixies
February 3, 2014
Hear the legendary band perform 1989's "Monkey Gone to Heaven" and two new songs — one unreleased.
7x7 - Fanfare Ciocarlia
February 8, 2014
The joyous Balkan brass band plays at a pace that would make the Ramones burst into a sweat.
7x8 - Suzanne Vega
February 10, 2014
The inventive folk-music veteran book-ends a four-song set with her hits "Luka" and "Tom's Diner."
7x9 - Cate Le Bon
February 18, 2014
The Welsh singer's set conveys loneliness and doubt with just two guitars and an inviting whisper.
7x10 - Sofia Rei
February 22, 2014
For about 20 minutes one sunny afternoon, Rei turned a desk into a small Latin American folk club.
7x11 - Brass Bed
February 24, 2014
See the band re-create some of its stellar studio effects with a pedal steel and some novelty mics.
7x12 - Asaf Avidan
March 2, 2014
Avidan has an album and no U.S. record label to put it out. But he's on a solo tour that's stunning.
7x13 - Lowland Hum
March 6, 2014
It's hard to convey the sound of two people in love, but Lowland Hum does that effortlessly.
7x14 - Jake Bugg
March 10, 2014
Watch the 20-year-old English singer-songwriter, who has worked with superproducer Rick Rubin.
7x15 - Diane Cluck
March 17, 2014
On record, Cluck's elastic voice and fingerpicking are impressive. Live, they jam the senses.
7x16 - Joseph Calleja
March 24, 2014
All the world's top opera houses want the young tenor with the old-school approach.
7x17 - The Haden Triplets
March 31, 2014
When the sisters cover classic country music together, the result is a treat and a trip in time.
7x18 - The Both
April 7, 2014
Singer-songwriters Aimee Mann and Ted Leo unite from opposite ends of the volume knob.
7x19 - Tom Brosseau
April 12, 2014
The North Dakota singer-songwriter possesses one of the most arresting voices in folk music today.
7x20 - Courtney Barnett
April 14, 2014
Barnett tells stories like your best friend, provided your best friend is a funny Australian poet.
7x21 - Usman Riaz
April 19, 2014
A young Pakistani musician treats the guitar as percussion — with surprisingly shimmering results.
7x22 - Federico Aubele
April 21, 2014
The Argentine singer uses his dark, husky voice to produce a specific effect in these three songs.
7x23 - Quilt
April 26, 2014
Interweaving harmonies and guitar lines set the tone for these soft, benevolent, dreamy songs.
7x24 - Johnnyswim
April 28, 2014
Impossibly telegenic and charming, the band mixes booming intensity with polish and sparkle.
7x25 - Cian Nugent
May 3, 2014
The Dublin guitarist runs through a ragtime jaunt, a basement-bar choogle and a sad-sack closer.
7x26 - Public Service Broadcasting
May 5, 2014
The duo's sample-laden instrumental music is entertainment as education for the head and feet alike.
7x27 - Timber Timbre
May 10, 2014
See the swamp-folk band play a characteristically eerie and mysterious set in the NPR Music offices.
7x28 - Chvrches
May 12, 2014
The Scottish synth-pop band turns up with a small arsenal of synthesizers to perform three songs.
7x29 - Iestyn Davies
May 17, 2014
See the countertenor and lutenist Thomas Dunford perform John Dowland's melancholy songs.
7x30 - Ages And Ages
May 20, 2014
The band makes the kind of music that can at least briefly restore your faith in humanity.
7x31 - Yasmine Hamdan
May 24, 2014
The Lebanese singer-songwriter is one of the most groundbreaking musicians in the Middle East.
7x32 - Hozier
May 27, 2014
Andrew Hozier-Byrne wraps his rich, vital, soulful voice around songs rooted in the blues.
7x33 - Juana Molina
May 31, 2014
Molina sounds as if she'd been raised by wolves and discovered the world of music on her own.
7x34 - Simone Dinnerstein
June 2, 2014
Watch the celebrated pianist make Bach's Two-part Inventions sing and zing.
7x35 - Marian McLaughlin
June 7, 2014
A quirky and wistful performer with a string section, McLaughlin makes music like few others.
7x36 - Eliot Fisk And Paco Peña
June 14, 2014
A classical virtuoso and an equally captivating flamenco player combine for a set of duets.
7x37 - Rodney Crowell
June 16, 2014
The country singer-songwriter performs with the ease and swagger of a man comfortable in his ways.
7x38 - Mali Music
June 21, 2014
The singer-songwriter and musician performs with unabashed positivity and an uplifting spirit.
7x39 - Conor Oberst
June 23, 2014
The Bright Eyes singer performs songs from Upside Down Mountain with help from members of Dawes.
7x40 - Tracy Silverman
June 28, 2014
See the innovative player create waves of sound with a six-string violin.
7x41 - Lydia Loveless
July 1, 2014
The 23-year-old singer-guitarist performs gritty, countrified blues-rock in the NPR Music offices.
7x42 - The Foreign Exchange
July 5, 2014
Watch the Tiny Desk turn into a church, comedy club and neo-soul spot.
7x43 - Moon Hooch
July 7, 2014
They call what they make "cave music" — but it's just as powerful at the Tiny Desk.
7x44 - John Grant
July 13, 2014
Grant's songs don't mess around, with lyrics that function as darts of retort and thought.
7x45 - Holly Williams
July 14, 2014
The singer has a magnificent way with phrasing, not to mention a remarkable country-music lineage.
7x46 - Marisa Anderson
July 19, 2014
The guitarist kicks up some dirt with a Rev. Gary Davis deconstruction and a Stratocaster hoedown.
7x47 - Hamilton Leithauser
July 21, 2014
In this three-song set, the Walkmen singer demonstrates that he's lost none of his vocal power.
7x48 - Highasakite
July 25, 2014
Watch an atmospheric Norwegian band with a yearning sound. Also: See a flugabone!
7x49 - Saintseneca
July 29, 2014
In the NPR offices, the Ohio band plays three alternately brooding and stomping songs from Dark Arc.
7x50 - Quetzal
August 2, 2014
The veteran East L.A. band's music penetrates the intellect even as it makes your hips sway.
7x51 - The Family Crest
August 4, 2014
The band's seven players are trained in classical and jazz, led by Liam McCormick's powerful voice.
7x52 - Irene Diaz
August 9, 2014
With Carolyn Cardoza, Diaz conjures a place where emotions run deep and beauty is unmistakable.
7x53 - Bob Mould
August 11, 2014
The former Hüsker Dü and Sugar frontman plugs in for a characteristically loud four-song set.
7x54 - Ernest Ranglin
August 16, 2014
Watch a talented, charming guitar legend make magic as his band Avila holds down the beat.
7x55 - Pacifica Quartet
August 18, 2014
Watch the group play selections from Shostakovich's cycle of introspective string quartets.
7x56 - Rodrigo Amarante
August 23, 2014
A veteran of Little Joy and Los Hermanos, Amarante makes warm, tender music as a solo artist.
7x57 - Nickel Creek
August 26, 2014
The band was made to sing and play around one microphone, so a Tiny Desk Concert seemed inevitable.
7x58 - Sturgill Simpson
August 30, 2014
The Kentucky native writes country songs about loneliness, failed dreams, drinking and drugs.
7x59 - Trampled By Turtles
September 3, 2014
Known for the speed of their playing, the Minnesotans are about more than just blistering bluegrass.
7x60 - Jessica Lea Mayfield
September 6, 2014
Mayfield's music has gotten more beguiling as she explores the many contrasts in her hypnotic sound.
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85 Episode s
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91 Episode s
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98 Episode s
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128 Episode s
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