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Text logo. 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 music over the crowd noise.
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 ...
Bob B Boilen (born April 10, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American musician and media personality.He was the host and creator of NPR's online music show All Songs Considered and the co-creator of NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts, a series originally conceived of by NPR's Stephen Thompson.
Palak Jayswal noticed the songs has similarities to hymns. [3] As winners of the Tiny Desk Concert, they toured in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago, and Houston in 2023. [12] Before their Tiny Desk tour, they opened for Lord Huron and headlined for Fork Fest in June 2023. [13] [14]
The Smile’s maiden North American tour may be over, but the group has today (Jan. 3) provided fans a New Year’s treat in the form of a three-song performance for NPR’s famed Tiny Desk ...
“Chaka Khan’s Tiny Desk performance was phenomenal! The way she is still singing in the original key of songs she recorded 40 to 50 years ago never ceases to amaze me!
All Songs Considered is also the spiritual and physical home of Tiny Desk Concerts, as the concert series is recorded live at the former office desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen at NPR's headquarters in Washington D.C. All Songs Considered was a nominee for the 2002 Webby Awards in the "Websites and Mobile Sites" category. [6]
An April social media suggestion that he perform for the National Public Radio series — amplified by his “Wtf is a tiny desk” reply – sent social media into a frenzy. Details were ironed ...