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Perennial Jazz Fest Performers, Preservation Hall Jazz Band perform live in NPR's Studio 4A. New Orleans' tiny Preservation Hall has presented traditional jazz for more than 40 years. The hall is more famous than the musicians who play there, but the Preservation Hall Jazz Band continues to attract music lovers at home and to its concerts around the world.

Jerry Douglas has played the dobro — a type of slide guitar — on over 1,000 albums. He tells of falling in love with the sound of the dobro even before he knew what it was.

playlist etc.We're spending a couple of days with an outstanding Canadian orchestra, Les Violons du Roy, which translates as The King's Violins. They stopped by NPR's Studio 4A to play the Symphony No. 5, by Franz Schubert. And Fred talks with conductor and founder Bernard Labadie.

Classically trained piano player Regina Spektor grew up in Moscow during the 1980s, but when she moved to the U.S. as a teenager, she began to sing and write pop music. Mikel Jollett reviews her third and latest pop CD, Soviet Kitsch, as well as her previous CD Songs.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with members of the classical vocal group Trio Medieval, and they perform selections from their latest CD in NPR's Studio 4A. The group specializes in authentic Gregorian chants with a modern twist.

Singer Hayley Westenra is fresh from success on the international classical charts, and hoping to win new fans in the U.S. NPR Senior Correspondent Juan Williams talks with the 17-year-old New Zealand soprano about her voice and her new album, Pure.

Eric Orner's book isn't just a great story, it's an enveloping visual experience crafted by a terrific artist; even if one paged through it without looking at the words, it would be a good read.

As the Fats Waller centennial approaches, Tom Vitale looks back at a remarkable career in both jazz and popular music. Waller — of "Ain't Misbehavin'" fame — was the first musician to be equally successful among black and white audiences.

Ann Patchett has written a memoir of her friendship with the late writer Lucy Grealy, who died from facial bone cancer in 2002. Grealy wrote about surviving the pain of her treatments -- surgeries and chemotherapy -- in Autobiography of a Face. Patchett writes about Grealy's courage and her love of life in Truth and Beauty: A Friendship. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Patchett.

American filmmaker Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 wins the Palme d'Or, the highest honor at the Cannes Film Festival. The film takes a critical view of the Bush administration's actions after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Hear NPR's Liane Hansen.