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Check out this week's playlist from The Scene with Chelsea O, and learn about the artists and their music, including The James Clark Institute from Toronto, Desmond Stoll from Lockport, and Sara Elizabeth from Buffalo.

Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware called out prayers when she was trapped in the balcony on Jan. 6 as rioters stormed the Capitol.

The New York City band Golem describes its music as punk-klezmer. On Tanz, they mange to find new ways to balance urban irreverence with folk tradition.

Horace Tapscott led a big band in 1969, but his debut was for a quintet drawn from its ranks. Fresh Air jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews a reissue of The Giant is Awakened.

Bernie Dalton, the fledgling songwriter whose battle with ALS inspired the band Bernie and the Believers has died.

a biologist who's been studying a band of gray wolves in Glacier National Park in Montana for the past 17 years. Boyd talks about the relationship between the wolves and the people who live nearby.

Anima, a group from Brazil, mixes its classical training and early music experience with an interest in Brazilian folk music and instruments. The band will tour the United States later this month. Susan Kaplan, of member station WFCR, reports. (7:45) Anima's CD's, entitled Especiarias and Espiral Do Tempo (Time Spiral) are available from MCD World Music. Websites in Spanish:Especiarias and Espiral Do Tempo

In Russia, questions are growing over how a large band of armed Chechen extremists could have seized a theater in the capital's downtown, just miles from the Kremlin. More than 100 people died in the siege and some lawmakers are calling for a parliamentary investigation into the incident. NPR's Lawrence Sheets has more from Moscow.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead begins a new six-part series we call Avant-Garde Made Easy, highlighting some of the important modern jazz mavericks of the so-called Avant Garde. We begin the series with pianist, composer, and band leader Sun Ra.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Things We Lost in the Fire (on the independent label Kranky) by the rock band Low.