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Intimate video performances, recorded live at the desk of Bob Boilen

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Jake Xerxes Fussell (Home) Concert

From a cozy home in Pittsboro, N.C., the singer and guitarist breathes new life into old, obscure folk songs.

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Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST: Al Bilali Soudan, Kiran Ahluwalia, Tufan Derince

January 20, 2022 • For the second consecutive year, NPR teams up with globalFEST for a thrilling online music festival we call Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST.

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Tiny Desk Playlists

November 8, 2021 • The best of NPR Music's Tiny Desk concert series.

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Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST: Kombilesa Mí, Northern Cree, Son Rompe Pera

January 19, 2022 • For the second consecutive year, NPR teams up with globalFEST for a thrilling online music festival we call Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST.

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Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST: Suistamon Sähkö, Bedouin Burger, ADG7

January 18, 2022 • For the second consecutive year, NPR teams up with globalFEST for a thrilling online music festival we call Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST.

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Cordae (Home) Concert

January 14, 2022 • The DMV-bred emcee's Tiny Desk home concert is a charismatic combo of fan favorites and cuts from his new album, From a Birds Eye View.

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Mon Laferte (Home) Concert

January 12, 2022 • The Chilean vocalist and her orchestra's combination of Mexican folkloric and European chamber music make for a musical and visual treat.

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esperanza spalding (Home) Concert

January 7, 2022 • spalding and the Loving presences play a spirit-nourishing Tiny Desk home concert featuring selections from her Songwrights Apothecary Lab, (S.A.L.) project.

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Turnstile (Home) Concert

January 5, 2022 • At the drummer's house in Baltimore, Turnstile's high-energy hardcore is surrounded by stuffed animals, presumably pogoing and windmilling in your imagination.

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Best Music Of 2021

The Best Tiny Desk Concerts Of 2021

December 27, 2021 • Watch some of the year's greatest Tiny Desk performances, featuring a small sample of the talented artists who delivered intimate sets from their homes around the world.

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Tiny Desk (Home) Concert: Jonathan McReynolds and Mali Music

December 20, 2021 • The two Grammy Award-winning gospel artists come together for an unapologetic expression of faith and gratefulness in this holiday Tiny Desk home concert.

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Tiny Desk (Home) Concerts

Insecure Takeover Part 2 (Home) Concert

December 17, 2021 • Three ladies featured on the latest Insecure soundtrack perform a Tiny Desk home concert from Hilltop Coffee + Kitchen in Inglewood, California.

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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss (Home) Concert

December 13, 2021 • 14 years after their last collaboration, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are back at Sound Emporium, where they recorded their new album Raise The Roof.

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Mick Jenkins (Home) Concert

December 10, 2021 • Backed by a four-piece band, the Chicago-bred MC plays a Tiny Desk home concert that simmers with soul.

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Arooj Aftab (Home) Concert

December 8, 2021 • Watch the Pakistan-born singer and her masterful band perform songs of love and loss in a decrepit, yet generously resonant, convent in Brooklyn.

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Olivia Rodrigo (Home) Concert

December 7, 2021 • From the DMV, the pop star and her band take on new arrangements of songs from her debut album, SOUR.

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Wet Leg (Home) Concert

December 1, 2021 • Rhian Teasdale, Hester Chambers, and their band perform a playfully wistful Tiny Desk (home) concert from a creative arts space on the Isle of Wight.