The Tiny Desk team had huge plans for 2020 â including what should have been the taping of our 1000th Tiny Desk concert â only to pivot madly as COVID-19 forced the closure of NPR headquarters in mid-March. By the end of that month, we d launched a new companion series: Tiny Desk (home) concerts, which gathered intimate, Tiny Desk-style performances from all over the world. It s been a feat of forced innovation, made possible through inspired performances and our incomparable Tiny Desk team of producers, videographers and engineers. So we asked that team to pull off one more feat as 2020 draws to a close: narrowing nine months of great Tiny Desk (home) concerts down to a single playlist of highlights.
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The Tiny Desk team had huge plans for 2020 including what should have been the taping of our 1000th Tiny Desk concert only to pivot madly as COVID-19 forced the closure of NPR headquarters in mid-March. By the end of that month, we d launched a new companion series: Tiny Desk (home) concerts, which gathered intimate, Tiny Desk-style performances from all over the world. It s been a feat of forced innovation, made possible through inspired performances and our incomparable Tiny Desk team of producers, videographers and engineers. So we asked that team to pull off one more feat as 2020 draws to a close: narrowing nine months of great Tiny Desk (home) concerts down to a single playlist of highlights.