NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Moondog on 15 August 2017. Moondog has been played on NTS over 210 times, featured on 160 episodes and was first played on 12 May 2013.

Moondog was the pseudonym of Louis T. Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999). Hardin was a blind New York City street musician, influential composer and former beat poet. From the late 1940s until 1974, he was a permanent fixture on 54th Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan, wearing a cloak and Viking-style helmet, sometimes busking or selling music, but often just standing silent and still. He was known…