Put aside your notion of Irish music as a bunch of familiar jigs and reels, and just listen. Martin Hayes plays his fiddle with an exquisite touch and tone, as well as a magnificent sense of melody and rhythm that never ceases to astonish. Guitarist Dennis Cahill provides delicate support.
http://www.npr.org/event/music/173842530/martin-hayes-dennis-cahill-tiny-desk-concert
With his honest songs about politics and love, always dispensed with hard-biting wit, Thompson has been a consistently vital artist for decades. Watch the singer, songwriter and guitarist perform music from his 20th solo album, Dream Attic, at the NPR Music offices.
http://www.npr.org/event/music/132899157/richard-thompson-tiny-desk-concert
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Low continues to find new ways to sound alternately (and even simultaneously) swoony and unnerving. Here, singers Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker perform three songs from their gorgeous new album, C’mon.
http://www.npr.org/event/music/136498043/low-tiny-desk-concert
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Composed of two young Swedish sisters whose charming, folk-infused pop music lulls and enchants, First Aid Kit nods to late-’60s and early-’70s bands like Crosby, Stills & Nash. Watch the pair perform three songs from The Lion’s Roar.
http://www.npr.org/event/music/149220386/first-aid-kit-tiny-desk-concert
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Boyd’s name popped up on countless records in the 1960s and ’70s: Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention, Nick Drake. Joined by singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock, Boyd reads from his book, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, while Hitchcock performs songs from or inspired by the era.
http://www.npr.org/event/music/137702245/joe-boyd-and-robyn-hitchcock-tiny-desk-concert
Earle has lived through the sort of horrors that have launched a million country songs: addiction, affliction, heartbreak, even prison. He wears them in his voice, but what’s most appealing about him is the wide-eyed, unmistakable fearlessness with which he goes about his life these days.
http://www.npr.org/event/music/135633490/steve-earle-tiny-desk-concert
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The music and voice of singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten are engineered to turn each listener into a weepy, vulnerable heap. In this lovely performance at the NPR Music offices, Van Etten plays a beguiling set of songs from her latest album, Epic.
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/08/131163999/sharon-van-etten-tiny-desk-concert
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A few years ago, Noah and the Whale would have seemed like the last band to bring a drum machine to a Tiny Desk Concert. But here, the London band plugs in â and sweet simplicity still reigns.
http://www.npr.org/event/music/138615666/noah-and-the-whale-tiny-desk-concert
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Beirut arrived at the NPR Music offices dusty and exhausted following a weekend at Bonnaroo in Tennessee. But after some much-needed showers, the band brought infectious joy to its short set behind the Tiny Desk.
http://www.npr.org/event/music/140599451/beirut-tiny-desk-concert
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Ring in Rosh Hashanah with three globe-trotting tunes from one of the world’s greatest Jewish bands.
http://www.npr.org/event/music/140818209/the-klezmatics-tiny-desk-concert
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