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Violinist, guitarist, mandolinist and composer Mark O'Connor returns to Musician's Spotlight to visit with host John Floridis and reflect on his forty plus year career which includes dozens of albums under his own name, countless collaborations with acclaimed musicians across many genres and multiple Grammy Award nominations and wins.

In this conversation we talk about some of the benefits of social media in politics, the tradeoffs that come with using social media and the effect of constant engagement on our media environment.

Held every July in a cow pasture just outside of White Sulphur Springs, the Red Ants Pants Music Festival celebrates music, local food, beer, community, agriculture, and the rural Montana landscape.

This week’s guest is Sarah Aswell. In this conversation we learn about Sarah’s journey from biology to comedy, the open mic night that rekindled her creativity, comedy’s #1 rule and the importance of encouraging underrepresented voices in comedy.

Lauren Korn sits down with Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, Executive Director of the James Welch Native Lit Festival, to talk about making space for Native writers to talk publicly about their work.

In this episode, singer/songwriter Spencer Kellum performs some ‘modern spirituals’ as Separate Circles, with piano accompaniment by Cole Grant.

Guitarist, singer/songwriter Peter Mulvey returns to Musician's Spotlight to visit with host John Floridis. The prolific recording artist has released two dozen recordings over his career and toured extensively around the world. Peter talks about his most recent projects with the duo SistaStrings as well as how he avoids "investigating" too closely where his songs come from.

Today's guest is Brendan Leonard, the man behind SEMI-RAD and other creative pursuits.

Incentives & Instincts is a monthly series on A New Angle in which host Justin Angle speaks with economist Bryce Ward about some of the broader challenges facing our society. This month the two consider income and wealth inequality. Is it a problem? And if so, what can we do about it?

Incentives & Instincts is a monthly series on A New Angle in which Justin Angle, marketing professor at the University of Montana College of Business, chats with prominent economist Bryce Ward about some of the broader issues facing our society. This month, we try to make sense of the labor markets, both nationally and here in Montana, and attempt to separate signal from noise.