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What a way to wrap up Tiny Desk Fest. Raphael Saadiq, one of the most respected voices in soul music, performs a live concert with rising R&B star Lucky Daye.

The chart-topping Washington, D.C., rapper brings his songs to life at the Tiny Desk with the help of a six-piece go-go band.

If the celebrated cellist could soundtrack his life, the music would be J.S. Bach's six Cello Suites. Yo-Yo Ma explains why they mean the world to him while he played the music at the NPR offices.

The resourceful singer is unafraid to bring opera — and his high-flying top notes — to unlikely places, from sixth-grade classrooms to the offices of NPR.

Our first night of live performances features music from Algeria, Argentina, Ukraine and North Carolina.

Wednesday night's showcases blends the sounds of Haiti, India, Italy and the Indigenous people of North America.

Kayvan Mashayekh's new film is his first -- and it took the Iranian-born lawyer from Houston five years to make. It's called The Keeper and it parallels his own life story with the tale of Persian poet Omar Kyayyam. Vanessa Redgrave appears in the epic, along with a cast of hundreds. Jacki Lyden talks with the filmmaker and with Mehdi Amin-Razavi, author of The Wine of Wisdom, a new biography of Kyayyam.

In the first aspiring Hollywood blockbuster of the year, Firewall, Harrison Ford stars as a man whose identity theft leads to something more sinister than an overcharged credit card. Critic Kenneth Turan says the thriller's plot outlines and script are depressingly familiar.

Ed Gordon talks with actor Nia Long about her career, and her role in the new film Big Momma's House 2.

Our final night of globalFEST 2021 features salsa, First Nations music, Appalachian folk and a West African superstar.