Tue., Aug. 22
Music while waiting for class to start featured a local group, Orkesta Mendoza, playing at the Yuca Cafe in Cologne Germany in Dec. 2015.  You heard "La Cucharita" (6:43) and "Las Calles de Tucson" (6:52).

Thu., Aug. 24
Mandolin Orange (Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz) were featured before class today.  You'll hear some (maybe all) of the following: "House of Stone" (3:22), "Train Song" (2:21), "Boots of Spanish Leather" (6:48), "There Was a Time" (3:51).

Tue., Aug. 29
Lucius "Madness" (4:30), "Two of Us on the Run" (4:51), "Turn it Around" (3:48), "Goodbye" (2:42), "Free As a Bird" (3:20), "How Loud Your Heart Gets" (6:58).

Thu., Aug. 31
Calexico "All the Pretty Horses" (4:04), "Ocean of Noise" (4:50), "Moon Never Rises (feat. Gaby Moreno)" (1:45 - 6:05 = 4:20), Gaby Moreno (with guitarist Adam Levy) "Sing Me Life" (7:15 - 12:36 = 5:15).

Tue., Sep. 5
Music from Lissie: "Record Collector" (4:14) (recorded in the studios of KCMP FM, Minnesota Public Radio), "Love in the City" (3:46) & "In Sleep" (5:23) part of a set at the end of the Guitar Center's Singer/Songwriter 2 Competition Finals at Hotel Café in Hollywood (Mar., 2013), "They All Want You" (4:14), and "Further Away" (4:14) from the Bing Lounge at 101.9 KINK FM (Portland, OR), "The Habit" Live at Hotel San Jose, SXSW 2013 (4:26).

Thu., Sep. 7
Monsieur Perine (from Colombia): "Nuestra Cancion" (first song 3 set NPR Tiny Desk Concert) (6:30), "La Muerte" (3:30), "Llore" (6:32).

Tue., Sep. 12
Selections from an American Songbook concert at Lincoln Center featuring Alynda Segarra and Hurray for the Riff Raff: "Cajun Instrumental" (2:35), "I Know it's Wrong (But that's Alright)" (3:15), "Lake of Fire" (4:40), "End of the Line" (5:00), "Daniella" (4:45)

Thu., Sep. 14
Junius Meyvant "Color Decay" (4:28), "Be a Man" (3:05), "Pearl in Sandbox" (6:29), "Gold Laces" (3:51), "Signals" (4:10)
Hjalmar "Hljoðlega af stað" (5:31), "Í gegnum móðuna" (4:57),  "Hvert sem ég fer" (3:50)
Ylja "Út" (3:33)

Tue., Sep. 19
Dessa (accompanied by Aby Wolf in many of the songs) "551" (4:14), "Skeleton Key" (3:38), Mineshaft (4:39), "Dixon's Girl" (2:57), "Mineshaft 2" (4:42)

Thu., Sep. 21
George Gershwin "Rhapsody in Blue" (17:17) Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (directed by Leonard Bernstein)

Tue., Sep. 26
Brandi Carlile "Someday Never Comes" (2:44), "It's Over" (3:58), "Touching the Ground" (3:37), "The Story" (4:23), "Losing Heart" (3:35)

Thu., Sep. 28  Quiz #1
Buena Vista Social Club "La Negra Tomasa" [8:29], Preservation Hall Jazz Band "El Manicero" [9:03]

Tue., Oct. 3
Sia: "California Dreamin' " (3:37), "Chandelier" (4:14), "Chandelier" (4:05), "Midnight Decisions" (3:44), "Breathe Me" (4:55), "Soon We'll Be Found" (4:49), "The Girl You Lost to Cocaine" (3:58)

Thu., Oct. 5
Andrea Bocelli with Elisa "La Voce del Silenzio" (5:22), Elisa "Dancing" (5:15), Andrea Bocelli with Laura Pausini "Dare to Live" (5:09),
Elisa "Rock Your Soul" (5:05), Luciano Pavarotti & Sting "Panis Angelicus" (3:45)

Tue., Oct. 10
Haim "Right Now" (4:30), "Better Off" (3:30), "Forever" (4:12), "Want You Back" (3:59), "Little of Your Love" (3:39), "If I Could Change Your Mind" (3:59), "Hazy Shade of Winter" (3:03)

Thu., Oct. 12
A mixture of old and newer selections from the Playing For Change project:  "Stand By Me" (5:27),  Manu Chao "Clandestino" (3:47),  "Where There is Love" (5:31), Nena Daconte "Tenia Tanto Que Darte" (4:31), "Satchita" (4:16) and "La Garriga is Playing For Change Too (Somewhere Over the Rainbow)" (5:57).  Playing for Change is an effort to "inspire, connect, and bring peace" to people of the world through music.

Tue., Oct. 17
La Santa Cecilia "Losing Game" (3:15), "La Negra" (3:16), "I Won't Cry for You" (3:40), "Odiame" (3:40) and a selection or two
from the first all female mariachi band in New York City Mariachi Flor de Toloache "Rhythm in Motion" (3:26), "Dulces Recuerdos" (3:37)

Thu., Oct. 19 - Quiz #2
Radiohead "Little By Little" (4:44), "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" (5:36), "Where I End and You Begin" (4:22), "Creep" (4;15), "Reckoner" (5:13)

Tue., Oct. 24
Isabelle Boulay & Eric Lapointe "La Boehme" (4:07), Salome Leclerc "Tourne Encore" (5:33), Zaz "Je Veux" (3:35), Vanessa Paradis & Benjamin Biolay "Le Rempart" (3:46), Kids United "Sur Ma Route" (4:10)

Thu., Oct. 26
Margo Price "This Town Gets Around", (3:48), Emmylou Harris & Margo Price "Two More Bottles of Wine", (3:19), First Aid Kit "On the Road Again" (2:29), Willie Nelson "Nothing I Can Do About It Now" (2:49), Dixie Chicks "Long Time Gone" (4:06)

Tue., Oct. 31
Black Prairie "Let It Out" (3:14), "Song Remains the Same" (5:42), "Taraffa" (4:34), "Nowhere Massachusetts" (3:32), "How Do You Ruin Me" (3:47), "Little Song Bird" (4:10)

Thu., Nov. 2
Cafe Accordion Orchestra "L'Indifference" (5:22), Mona's Hot Four "Tuesdays at Mona's" (first 3:30 from a longer documentary), Marcus Roberts "Bolivar Blues" (3:15)  if you have some extra time you really should watch this 60 Minutes segment on Marcus Roberts, Hans Otahal "Bumble Boogie" (4:36), Hot Club of San Francisco "Don't Panic" (5:51), Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra "Djelem Djelem" (5:36)

Tue., Nov. 7
Janis Joplin "Kozmic Blues" (4:23), "Little Girl Blue" (3:51), Bob Dylan "Like a Rolling Stone" (5:56), "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" (3:25), "Thunder on the Mountain" (4:00), Roy Orbison (with Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, James Burton, Glen D. Hardin, Tom Waits, kd lang, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, JD Souther, T Bone Burnett, Steven Soles, and Jennifer Warnes) "Oh, Pretty Woman" (6:18)

Thu., Nov. 9 - Quiz #3
Neko Case "Hold On" (2:47), Suzanne Vega "Luka" (3:59), "I Never Wear White" (3:22), Laura Marling "Blackberry Stone" (3:31), Patty Griffin "When It Don't Come Easy" (4:50), "Heavenly Day" (3:51)

Tue., Nov. 14
Manu Chao "Clandestino", "Desaparecido", "Rumba de Barcelona" (15:06) live from Bayonne Arena (France)

Thu., Nov. 16
Chris Isaak "Wicked Game" (4:47), Amy Winehouse "Back to Black" (3:54), Gotye "Somebody I Used to Know" (4:07), Koop "Koop Island Blues" (4:33), Nouvelle Vague "In a Manner of Speaking" (4:00)