Joined by three excellent collaborators, Mohammad Reza Shajarian gives what amounts to a brief master class in the art of singing. Watch the Iranian icon — and one of NPR’s 50 Great Voices — unleash torrents of swooping, soaring, goosebump-inducing sound that’s still perfectly controlled at age 73.

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Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale mix corny humor, musical merrymaking and timeless vocal harmonies. Watch the country music veterans perform an endearing set at the Tiny Desk.

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Watch the young violinist Nicola Benedetti spin out music by John Williams and Bach in sweet and soulful tendrils of sound at the Tiny Desk. 

Zany, brainy and danceable, the members of Father Figures mix rock and jazz like King Crimson at its fiercest.

Watch Father Figures play the Tiny Desk.

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You don’t really listen to an Omar Sosa concert so much as experience it. Watch the Cuban-born pianist in a duet with trumpeter Paolo Fresu in quietly energetic performance at the Tiny Desk.

Almost 30 years in, Yo La Tengo recently released its most contemplative album, yet, called Fade. Watch the band perform an acoustic set at the Tiny Desk.

Before playing Bob Boilen’s desk, Efterklang ransacked the NPR Music offices looking for sound-making material. Watch the Danish band flesh out its gorgeous sound in unexpected ways at the Tiny Desk.

Yes, the Tiny Desk — and NPR, for that matter — is moving to a new building. Yes, OK Go is helping. Yes, we are documenting the whole thing for a ridiculous Tiny Desk Concert in the works for next month.

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Watch the Lone Bellow sing beautiful, heartfelt, impeccably harmonized folk-pop songs at its Tiny Desk Concert.

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A guitarist with a decidedly non-standard approach to jazz’s standard practices, Mary Halvorson balances golden-era hard-bop order and free improvising entropy.

Watch the Mary Halvorson Quintet’s Tiny Desk Concert.

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