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Thanks for listening!  In cooperation with Sound Century Academy, the University of Colorado and The Harry Tuft Collection. 

I am sending out the Sunday and Tuesday versions of Folk Heroes of the Sound Century which include scenes from our Folk Musical "Traveling Roads- Songs and Stories of Highway 50 through Colorado." In the coming weeks I will have a special guest, who is also on this distribution list. Author and Historian Stephen Petrus, co-author of "Folk City- New York and the American Folk Music R...

In cooperation with Sound Century Academy, the University of Colorado and The Harry Tuft Collection. 

Celtic Mountain Strings is performing at The Grape Creek Arts Festival in Westcliffe - at Bluff Park. October 3rd from 9 in the morning to 5 in the evening with Fresh Apples and the Pikes Peak Highlanders. email soundcenturyoriginals@gmail.com.  In cooperation with Sound Century Academy, the University of Colorado and The Harry Tuft Collection. 

Poncha Springs Queen City of the Plains Seeing Denver Leadville Blues Ghost Cities In cooperation with Sound Century Academy, the University of Colorado and The Harry Tuft Collection. 

An Audio Musical by Richard Arnold Beattie In working on the Highway 50 - Traveling Roads: The Sounds of the Highway through Colorado, I tell the stories of the many unknown musicians, journalists, vaudeville, circuit riders, farmers, and miners who pioneered the lesser-known highway (Route 66 and Highway 61 are better known), and I remembered writing and recording this music - as close as I could...

We have a new opening act- Crosstown Rivals, a trio that worked together in the 1990's to play original music for historic soundtracks like "They Came to Play, "Preserving Colorado" and for three seasons of Rocky Mountain Legacy. Beattie is the only member of this trio who is with us in 2026, but he has remixed the tracks and is booking the trio as an opening act for his concer...

The Fruit of Our Labor a special Folk Heroes Tribute program that starts out with a rare Louis Armstrong recording from the Musical "Mardi Gras" on Labor Day 1966. This is a Sound Century Exclusive Remix from our Studio Network. A tribute to Dolly Parton- a country folk legend in her own right and a nod to Agrarian Writer and Farmer Wendell Berry. All pointing to the fruits of their Labo...

Part 2 of Taj Mahal at Denver Folklore Center, February 4-8 1976. Prior to the concert I open with a song from a show that I am working on called They Came to Play with my trio from 1994 "Crosstown Rivals" It is a chronicle of life along Highway 50 in Colorado with stories from 1926 through 1956. The Highway was an early Roadhouse and Front Porch region where Folk and Blues crossed with...

There was a time when Legends roamed the earth. And now the music is preserved by radio archeologists at Sound Century Academy of Recording Arts and Broadcast Journalism. What they learned are the sounds of Folklore and music worth saving.  Remastering and digitizing concerts fromThe Denver Folklore Center.  1962 to 1977 - an era when Folk Heroes roamed the earth, somewhere around here. Join me Ri...

Part 1 of Taj Mahal at Ebbets Field February 4-8 1976. Harry, please correct me if I am wrong. Prior to the concert I open with a song from a show that I am working on called "New Shoes." It is a chronicle of life along Highway 50 in Colorado with stories from 1926 through 1956. The Highway was an early Roadhouse and Front Porch region where Folk and Blues crossed with Country Swing and...

Crossing a Time Zone of Folk Heroes- This Program captures what Sound Century Academy of Recording Arts and Broadcasting are doing in partnership with the Harry Tuft Collection and The University of Colorado. If I could book the first hour of a Folk Festival it might have:  Tom Rush Rambling Jack Elliot Hally Wood and Mike Seeger Doc and Meryl Watson Rosalie Sorrels  (Intermission and a word an in...

The Green Spider- Vince and Kathi De Francis  Songs and Stories- Breezy Island Songs and Stories - A Musical Life In cooperation with Sound Century Academy, the University of Colorado and The Harry Tuft Collection. 

Podcast- Pilot This is about Oakdale, New York- where I grew up. Inspired by the book I wrote music and narration of the history of Oakdale and The Connetquot River. This is a demo-introduction which I narrated.  Along the shore of Great South Bay, on Long Island, hidden in dense scrub oak, is a colony of exiles. Alexander Kidd, Country Homes on the Connequat River. April 1901. These colonists in...

In cooperation with Sound Century Academy, the University of Colorado and The Harry Tuft Collection. 

No artificial ingredients have been added to this column. Since 1972, I have created music and lyrics. I was motivated to write since I was learning to use two organic instruments — the six-string acoustic guitar and a new voice that I was given through the aging process. On Broadway, at a sheet music store, I picked up a portfolio of Don McLean's American Pie, with songs like "Winterwoo...

In the Big Inning God Created the Rally Cap! At Valley Parks and Recreation there is a season. A time to pitch, a time to fling, a time to drive down the lane and a time to sing. A time to plant, a time to bring, a time to live and let die and a time for everything. Yet in our big valley with the two little bookended towns there is a short season to plant, to grow, for the economy and tourism. The...

No matter where I travel, I can be portable and integrate my words, music, and style. My wife, Jill, started Music Mountain Instruments for Travel and Camping. Here we live, work, and are in community, and we extend that wherever we travel. As we do, I work with authors as a singer-songwriter and guitarist. As a writer, producer, and host of radio shows, and as the curator of the Sound Century Aca...

"You know, music is like when you're getting married. Something old — traditional, something new — original, something borrowed — songs worth saving, something blue — like a good man feeling bad!" Music is never meant to be where I am up on a stage and you are out in the darkened audience. Folk music is meant to be shared across kitchen tables, in a living room, parlor, or a front p...

Walking the Same Ground – A book and performance series where Dick Jones reads from his book and Beattie performs songs inspired by folk heroes and Denver’s cultural history. The Back 40 – A recent album spanning 1984–2024, reflecting his long career in music and storytelling undiscovered.music . Original Songs : Many are tied to folk traditions, Denver’s history, and personal narratives, often re...

You're on the air with Roger Ramsey- on the Long Island Sound. The question of the day is a Long Island historical one. Three kids from the South Shore suddenly in the limelight. They begin their musical lives at the Long Island 1970 CYO Talent contest, which begins at the parish level. Three kids from Oakdale, compete at St. Mary's in East Islip on January 24, 1970. In early 1970, Richa...

In cooperation with Sound Century Academy, the University of Colorado and The Harry Tuft Collection. 

In the Introduction to his book "Soul Work," Lowell Busenitz and Richard Beattie collaborate to present an introduction to "Soul Work" with two new Gospel Songs, "Wake up Lowell!" and "Journey On." This series live presentation brings the listener the concepts of "Finding the Creative Spirit in the Creator in your Entrepreneurial Pursuits." Busenit...

CORE presents the show of the hour hosted by Park Peter's with Richard Arnold Beattie. The Top 40 Time Machine!  In cooperation with Sound Century Academy, the University of Colorado and The Harry Tuft Collection. 

The Denver Folklore Center April 1978 In cooperation with Sound Century Academy, the University of Colorado and The Harry Tuft Collection.