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Got 'Grass?Tony TrischkaSend us a textTony Trischka, banjo legend, innovator, composer and teacher, playing lately with young stars Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle, as well as his old pals Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, Michael Cleveland and Jerry Douglas. He won 2024 IBMA Song of the Year for "Brown's Ferry Blues" w/ Billy Strings. He talked about his wide-ranging music al influences, from Pete Seeger and jazz to Earl Scruggs and Charles Ives, and about getting turned down for Bill Monroe's band. Recently he has been putting poems of Emily Dickinson to music. I wish we had more time to c...
2024-10-301h 02
: lower black pain.Songs About RainbowsI’m not really from a “reading the instructions first” kind of family. We changed light switches, tried out new appliances, even opened up a coconut for the first time by winging it, mostly. I mean we turned the electricity off, or looked at all the pieces, or laid out some newspaper first, but we didn’t begin with directions, just basic knowledge broadly combined, confident, as if we were frosting a cake with a paper knife.I gained a great passion for learning the basic building blocks of everything very early on; I love how colors combine...
2022-08-1204 min
Music Therapy ConversationsEp 63 Karan CaseyKaran Casey Does Singing Songs Make a Difference? This episode is a recording of Karan Casey's keynote presentation at the close of the conference of the European Music Therapy Confederation in Edinburgh, 8-12 June 2022. Karan talked about songs and social justice, arts practice research, and about her own life and experiences as a performer and campaigner on social issues. She performed a number of songs as part of the presentation, and then had a conversation with Luke Annesley to explore these issues further. It was an inspiring ending to a varied and exciting conference.
2022-06-221h 12
Middle Class Rock Star51. Dango RoseBIG NEWS FOR MIDDLE CLASS ROCK STAR! We're now reaching 25 FM frequencies throughout Colorado via Chris K's radio show, The Colorado Playlist.
My guest this week is Elephant Revival founding member, Dango Rose. For seventeen years, Dango traveled nationally and internationally in touring bands. In 2006, he co-founded Elephant Revival and spent eleven years performing and recording with this influential outfit that pioneered the genre, “Transcendental Folk.” Rose penned band favorites like, When I Fall, The Pasture, Jet Lag Blues and others. Since Elephant Revival decided to go on hiatus in May 2018, Dango has taken refuge in the recording studio while focu...
2020-12-1058 min
Outside the MusicBoxLotte Betts-DeanMezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean chats about Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs, Caroline Shaw’s Cant voi l’aube, and how 70s disco shaped her musical taste.
Useful links:
Spotify playlist for Lotte’s pieces
Spotify playlist for main pieces
Spotify playlist for final question pieces
Other useful links:
Composer Luciano Berio
Australian National Academy of Music
Ensemble Q
Mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian
Luciano Berio’s Sequenza III for solo female voice, premiered by Berio’s wife, Cathy Berberian
Vid...
2020-08-0954 min
Ozark Highlands RadioOHR Presents: Richie & Rosie (Full Interview)This week, New York singer-songwriter, Americana and folk duo Richie & Rosie recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, interviews with these two fascinating talents.
“Richie Stearns and Rosie Newton grew up 150 miles and a few decades apart. While both were raised by professional cellists, Richie started playing banjo at age 14 and Rosie began classical piano lessons at eight, eventually moving to classical viola as a teen. Both shared incredibly unique, musically-immersed childhoods. Richie’s family founded the iconic GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance (of which he is now President) and by her junior year of h...
2020-08-0223 minOzark Highlands RadioOHR Presents: Richie & RosieThis week, New York singer-songwriter, Americana and folk duo Richie & Rosie recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, interviews with these two fascinating talents.
“Richie Stearns and Rosie Newton grew up 150 miles and a few decades apart. While both were raised by professional cellists, Richie started playing banjo at age 14 and Rosie began classical piano lessons at eight, eventually moving to classical viola as a teen. Both shared incredibly unique, musically-immersed childhoods. Richie’s family founded the iconic GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance (of which he is now President) and by her junior year of h...
2020-08-0158 min
Material Analysis PodcastEpisode 21 - PropagandaIn this first episode for 2020, Dhileep, Chandu, Bela, Pinky, with new member Shiuli, discuss what propaganda is, how it is perceived, how it is constructed.
Music: What did you learn in school? by Pete Seeger
2020-02-2049 min
re:publica 19 - Research & EducationMit dem Turing-Bus durch die KleinstadtgalaxieIn einer weit entfernt Galaxie leben ein Drittel der Einwohner Deutschlands: gemeint sind die ländlichen Regionen und kleineren Städte. Der Turing-Bus befährt diese in seinem zweiten Jahr und berichtet über hackende Schüler*innen, Digitalworkshops, Fablabs und Landluft.
Bela SeegerAndrea KnautDas Turing-Bus-Projekt ist ein Bildungsmobil, das in verschiedenen Regionen Deutschlands junge Menschen in Workshops zu einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit der Digitalisierung der Gesellschaft bringt.Der Bus ist kein Informatiklabor auf Rädern, bringt dafür aber regionale Akteure und Akteurinnen aus Fablabs, OK-Labs, Hackspaces und anderen Orten des kreativen und kooperativen Lernens an die Sch...
2019-05-0731 min
Music Is My Life027: Tony TrischkaTony Trischka's list of collaborators includes Pete Seeger, Bela Fleck, Earl Scruggs, and Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers, so it's no surprise that he has been called “perhaps the most influential banjo player in the roots music world.” His 2007 album Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular earned him his first Grammy nomination, as well as awards for Banjo Player of the Year, Recorded Event of the Year, and Instrumental Album of the Year from the International Bluegrass Music Association. In this edition, of Music Is My Life, he discusses his communist father, his love of "MTA," and auditioning for Bruce...
2019-02-1150 min
Tollans musikaliskaTonsättaren Ruth Crawford Seeger – pionjär inom musikalisk modernismNär den amerikanska tonsättaren Ruth Crawford Seeger är mellan 29 och 31 år komponerar hon de verk som långt senare ger henne en rättmätig plats i musikhistorien som en nyskapande tonsättare. Ruth Crawford föds i Ohio 1901 och utvecklar en kompositionsstil som ingen annan i världen har gjort tidigare. Efter ett Guggenheim-stipendium i Europa reser hon hem och gifter sig med den 14 år äldre musikvetaren Charles Seeger. Hon föder fyra barn: Mike, Peggy, Penny och Barbara och tar även hand om tre barn från Charles Seegers första äktenskap, bl a den legendar...
2017-01-1032 min
Well-Rounded RadioKen Irwin of Rounder Records: The Well-Rounded Radio InterviewAt a moment where what being a record label means is certainly in flux, Rounder Records is celebrating its 40th anniversary and, in many ways, showing what it means for artists who share a label and what that means to its customer and fans. (News on 4/14/10: Concord Records acquires Rounder Records) Rounder Records was started in March 1970 by Ken Irwin, Marian Leighton-Levy, and Bill Nowlin (left to right). In our interview, Irwin tells us how the label came to be, and how they began with blues and bluegrass, and evolved the label to include folk, Cajun, Celtic...
2010-04-1400 min