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As a New York freelance musician, today’s guest has played more gigs and, in more situations, than he could possibly ever list, but moving to New York in the early 80's a lot of young players started gigging in the Latin circuit which was huge at that time. A player could work with multiple Latin groups and multiple gigs in one night, often not finishing before the sun came up. It was through thes...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/08/arts/music/phil-schaap-dead.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20210909&instance_id=39958&nl=todaysheadlines&regi_id=13091549&segment_id=68457&user_id=ed9a06ca65538cc83bce8255ddb90265 Today’s guest has won six Grammy awards and eight Grammy nominations including an award for , “Best Album Notes for Bird - The Complete Charlie Parker On Verve. Frank Foster has called...

Todays guest is from from Wilton, New Hampshire and has been playing and sharing her love of the Appalachian dulcimer for over 25 years. Over the years she has led many workshops at festivals in New England and New York. Today’s guest is also a contra dancer, caller, and dance organizer but her greatest joy comes from bringing people together around music. For her dulcimer students, whom she is no...

Kip Ferguson is a singer of traditional songs and writes and performs original acoustic music as a member of the duo Coyote Bleux. He lives in New Hampshire and together with long-time musical collaborators and friends Kevin Meyers and Sandy Lafleur is a founder of the Celtic Camping Ceilidh. Kevin Meyers was the Duty Piper for all the Celtic Camping Ceilidh and Sandy Lafleur was the "Seisiun Mum"...

What do Goofy, Baloo, Bre’r Bear, Tigger, Foul Fellow, Captain Hook and The Genie all have in common? Today’s guest has portrayed them all. An educator and All-State Artist Mentor at the University of Massachusetts as well as a 3D Instructor for the Massachusetts College of Art and Design he has been a sculptor for National Fiber Technology as well as a Puppeteer for Walt Disney World, in Orlando,...

The New York Times’, Anthony Tommasini describes today’s guest as “the shimmering soprano”. She enjoys singing everything from opera’s light lyric roles to oratorio to pops classics. A partial list of roles to her credit includes Juliette in Roméo et Juliette, Kathy in the Student Prince as well as roles in musical theater favorites like Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls, Maria in West Side Story, Car...

Today’s guest is the Artistic Director of Art of Motion, Inc. a non-profit and home to The Art of Motion Dance Theatre. She has toured six out of seven continents and almost all of the United States. A former soloist with the Nikolais Dance Theatre she is the recipient of an international Andrew W. Mellon Cultural Exchange Fund Award and a National Dance Magazine Award for Choreography. Her work h...

Today’s guest is an American singer-songwriter, novelist, and educator. He was a big part of the 1980s folk revival in Greenwich Village clubs, performing at the Speakeasy, The Bottom Line and Folk City, he also co-founded the Greenwich Village Folk Festival. His songs have been covered by Dave Van Ronk, Shawn Colvin, Four Bitchin’ Babes, Jonathan Edwards, Garnet Rogers, Joe Jencks, and others. He...

Called "ardent and assured" and a first-class pianist by the New York Times, he has appeared in partnership with many of the worlds leading singers and instrumentalists, including over five dozen artists on the roster of the Metropolitan Opera. Passionately committed to the performance of chamber music, he is a founding member of the Palisades Virtuosi, the Janus Consort, the Hudson Trio, Kaleidos...

The Virtual Burns Supper with our guests Steve and Mary Ferguson and Jim O’Rourke.

When the New York Times book critic Dennis Lehane writes about the opening of James Ellroy’s novel, “Perfidia” he states. “There — Whalen’s Drugstore, Sixth and Spring Streets. The site of four recent felonies. 211 PC — Armed Robbery.” For better and often for worse, that style — jumpy, feverish and anarchic — mirrors the world we enter.” So too does our opening track reflect this jumpy, feverish...

Pitchfork’s Paul Thompson describes today's guest's band as “wistful country-tinged rock, somewhere in the neighborhood of the Grateful Dead's American Beauty or maybe Neil Young's Old Ways”. My guests band has released several critically acclaimed albums; including, 2014's "Atlas," which reached No. 34 on the U.S. Billboard Album chart and received a Best New Music designation from the taste-maki...

The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines Renaissance man, also called Universal Man, as an ideal that developed in Renaissance Italy that “a man can do all things if he will.” The ideal embodied the basic tenets of Renaissance humanism, which considered man the center of the universe, limitless in his capacities for development, and led to the notion that men should try to embrace all knowledge and de...

To say that today’s guest’s latest album is making a statement about social justice and climate change would be an understatement. Tales from the earth incorporated is a concept album about greed and the havoc it spreads around the globe, while also telling the stories of people whose lives are affected by others' greed. My guests music has been broadcast on over 200 radio stations in North and So...

Professor Louie has emerged in the music industry as the torch bearer of the true spirit of American Roots music. A seasoned live performer, prolific recording artist and versatile multi-instrumentalist who plays the Hammond B3 organ, piano, keyboards, accordion and sings vocals. He also wears the hat of an award-winning recording producer and engineer, capturing the talents of some of the world's...

Greg Klyma is out to make the world a better place, one song at a time. Road-tested troubadour. Relentless songwriter. Multi-instrumentalist. He is keeping the American folk tradition alive with his enduring themes, articulate and amusing stories, and populist ideals. He rolls in off the road, pulls out a guitar, and proceeds to take us back to the basics: family, love, gratitude, and laughter.

Andy and the Rattlesnakes was dubbed “one of the great lost, eclectic underground rock n’ roll bands” by the L.A. Weekly and the band is still making some of the greatest music of their careers, combining their classic sound with the musical influences they have absorbed over the past three decades.

Paul Ostermayer, soprano & alto sax player for such legends in entertainment as the Dick Goodwin Jazz Quintet, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Passenger, Christopher Cross, Leonard Cohen, Jennifer Warnes, Bob Hope, Red Skelton, Danny Thomas, Rodney Dangerfield, Bette Midler, Mary Martin, Patti Page, Rich Little, Joel Grey, The Temptations, Lou Rawls, Ben Vereen, Cab Calloway, Doc Severinsen, and Queen Lat...

Jay Friedman, the very talented vocalist, song writer, guitar and fiddle player for “Blue Plate Special” shares her thoughts about music and the groups latest album “Back By Popular Demand”.

ULULATION 2 (play it loud) ©1991 John Lee Krasnow Published with permission of the Estate of John Lee Krasnow, all rights reserved. Side A 1 Twist of the Knife 2 Brouhaha* 3 Lion of Zion Side B 1 Cruel & Unusual 2 Blues About Nothing For Nobody* 3 Extermination 4 Nick's Boogie to Nowhere All songs written & arranged by John Lee Krasnow except * comp. Krasnow & arranged by Eric Goletz Valery Ponoma...

ULULATION 2 (play it loud) ©1991 John Lee Krasnow Published with permission of the Estate of John Lee Krasnow, all rights reserved. Side A 1 Twist of the Knife 2 Brouhaha* 3 Lion of Zion Side B 1 Cruel & Unusual 2 Blues About Nothing For Nobody* 3 Extermination 4 Nick's Boogie to Nowhere All songs written & arranged by John Lee Krasnow except * comp. Krasnow & arranged by Eric Goletz Valery Ponoma...

ULULATION 2 (play it loud) ©1991 John Lee Krasnow Published with permission of the Estate of John Lee Krasnow, all rights reserved. Side A 1 Twist of the Knife 2 Brouhaha* 3 Lion of Zion Side B 1 Cruel & Unusual 2 Blues About Nothing For Nobody* 3 Extermination 4 Nick's Boogie to Nowhere All songs written & arranged by John Lee Krasnow except * comp. Krasnow & arranged by Eric Goletz Valery Ponoma...

“Heart of Darkness” by Kurt Carpenter Recorded on analog tape Circa 1970 7 1/2 IPS 2-TRACK stereo BAND 2 : Heart of Darkness