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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 ...
The Philharmonik — Sacramento’s Christian Gates — is the winner of the 2024 Tiny Desk Contest announced Wednesday, May 15, 2024, by NPR. The producer, singer, rapper and multi ...
The Philharmonik — Sacramento’s Christian Gates, seated center, and his band — are the winners of the 2024 Tiny Desk Contest announced Wednesday, May 15, 2024, by NPR.
Gaelynn Lea, a folk violinist who won 2016’s Tiny Desk Contest, a competition for unsigned artists launched two years prior, never performed internationally — or outside her state.
In 2018, Amador submitted to NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest for the first time. WBUR stated, "It was clear from the young singer’s deft musicianship that she was an artist to watch." [3] In 2019, Amador performed at the Cambridge Arts Council River Festival and at Club Passim's 60th anniversary celebration at the Shubert Theatre in Boston.
In 2019, Christopherson won NPR's Tiny Desk Contest. His submission, "Erase Me," explores his experience as a transgender man, specifically his relationship with male privilege following his transition. He describes decades of low self-esteem caused by dysphoria as well as sexism, such as others interrupting him, second-guessing his opinions ...
NPR held a “Tiny Desk” contest, asking for votes for a band to play on the series. Tank & The Bangas, a New Orleans genre fluid band, was 2017’s clear-cut winner, and they made the most of ...
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 .