Nancy Dupree has been played on NTS in shows including The Windmills of Your Mind w/ Taylor Rowley, featured first on 6 May 2015. Songs played include James Brown, Call Baby Jesus and Docta King.

Nancy Dupree initially found her elementary school music students in Rochester, NY resistant to participation in class. Once she dropped the standard literature (which asked "Mr. Bear" to "come and play") and began composing music that bore relevancy to contemporary society and to their very tuned-in and grownup interests, she found they immediately took to performing. Her songs addressed, for example, the contributions icons James Brown and Martin Luther King Jr. made to society, the intangible assets each child naturally possessed ("What do I have? Guts…heart…and soul") and fighting for civil rights ("I want my freedom; I want it now"). Not only did singing about meaningful issues in real musical styles reveal the immense talents the students had, but it gave all a critical lesson in empowerment.