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List of Tiny Desk Concerts. Tiny Desk Concerts is a video series of live concerts hosted by NPR Music at the desk of former All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen in Washington, D.C. The first Tiny Desk Concert came about in 2008 after Boilen and NPR Music editor Stephen Thompson left South by Southwest frustrated that they couldn't hear the ...
NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series, which began almost 15 years ago as a niche online platform mainly highlighting rock and folk musicians, has established itself as one of music’s premiere platforms.
The Philharmonik, a Sacramento musician backed by a large band, won NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest with a music video of the artists performing an original song dressed in business casual and slogging ...
With artists like Juvenile, Usher, and Babyface having career revivals on NPR’s “Tiny Desk” concerts, theGrio counts down the top 10 best performances of all time of the online concert series.
NPR Music. NPR Music is a project of National Public Radio, an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization, [ 1] that launched in November 2007 to present public radio music programming and original editorial content for music discovery. NPR Music offers current and archival podcasts, live concert webcasts ...
Genres. Folk, bluegrass, Celtic, experimental. Instrument (s) Violin, vocals. Website. www.violinscratches.com. Gaelynn Lea Tressler (born January 21, 1984) is an American folk singer, violinist, public speaker and disability advocate from Duluth, Minnesota. She won NPR 's 2016 Tiny Desk Contest .
On September 1, 2020, a Tiny Desk Concerts was released by NPR in which the group performed three songs from the album. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic , the musicians each recorded themselves individually from home for the set.
A year ago, “Tiny Desk” creator Bob Boilen, producer Bobby Carter and senior Director of NPR Music Lauren Onkey looked ahead to an uncertain future for the beloved online concert series. “I ...