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Singer-songwriter Xavier Rudd gained inspiration from Aboriginal culture while growing up in a small Australian town. He surrounds himself with guitars, percussion, and didgeridoos on his U.S. debut solo album, Solace, an eclectic mix of humanity, spirituality, and compassion.

Host Steve Inskeep speaks with Jazz musician, Eddie Palmieri, about his new CD Listen Here! which celebrates Palmieri's 50 years as a professional musician.

Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov's music brings together influences of his eastern European roots, Jewish heritage and native Argentina. His new song cycle, called Ayre, was written for soprano Dawn Upshaw.

In a concert with the Baltimore Symphony, cellist Yo-Yo Ma plays Bruch's arrangement of the "Kol Nidre," a Hebrew melody performed during Yom Kippur services. Yuri Temirkanov conducts.

Musicians Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis, two New Orleans natives, have been friends for years — back to the days when Connick took piano lessons from Marsalis's father, Ellis.

On this day in 1935, Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin's opera about black life in the South Carolina town of Charleston at the turn of the century, made its Broadway debut. Karen Grigsby Bates offers an appreciation.

In 1985, punkers John Doe and Exene Cervenka of X teamed with guitarist Dave Alvin of the Blasters to record country and rockabilly music. Twenty years later, they're back with The Modern Sounds of the Knitters.

Alan Curtis Green, well known in the advertising world for creating catchy jingles, has created one tune for a higher purpose -- he wrote "One In A Million," the official theme song for the Millions More Movement March happening this coming weekend in Washington, D.C.

Tom Moon has a review of the new album from the Kinshasa-based band Konono. It's called Congotronics. The group uses thumb piano and voices via megaphone.

Something good recently happened to the town of Brinkley, Ark. The ivory-billed woodpecker, last seen in 1944, was rediscovered nearby. Independent radio producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister and singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens collaborate on a tribute to Brinkley and its rare bird.