Tiny Desk; Big Exposure

WUSF | By Lisa Peakes

Published January 28, 2016 at 12:20 PM EST

Mel Walsh, the guitarist from Clearwater's "Row Jomah" in the WUSF newsroom studio with Lisa Peakes

The deadline for NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest is next Tuesday, Feb. 2.

Tiny Desk Concerts are intimate concerts, featuring new videos of original music recorded at the desk of “All Songs Considered’s Bob Boilen. Last year, NPR Music published 84 Tiny Desk Concerts, and they seem to be catching on.

WUSF’s Lisa Peakes introduces us to two Tampa Bay entrants.

https://youtu.be/Qzs7c83JkYY">Eve Alman's Tiny Desk Entry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzs7c83JkYY&feature=youtu.be

Row Jomah's web site

Click here to enter the NPR Tiny Desk Contest

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Lisa Peakes

After more than 40 years learning and helping others understand more about so many aspects of our world and living in it, I still love making connections between national news stories and our community. It's exciting when I can find a thread between a national program or greater premise and what is happening at the local or personal level. This has been true whether I’ve spun the novelty tunes of Raymond Scott or Wilmoth Houdini from a tiny outpost in a Vermont field, or shared the voices of incarcerated women about what it’s like to be behind bars on Mother’s Day with the entire state of New Hampshire.

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