Catie Curtis on Capital Americana, 10/21/2010

Back in October, Catie Curtis was my guest on Capital Americana. I've been listening to Catie's music since I was in high school and it was a real big honor to interview her.

Listen to Catie's performance

Capital Americana is heard weekly (Sat. 2pm, Wed. 8pm) on WAMU's Bluegrass Country: On HD radio at 88.5, Channel 2, on FM at 105.5 FM around DC and online at BluegrassCountry.org

Photos from the Hitt House Concert, 10/28/10

Thanks to all who made it out to hear John Craigie & Jen Hitt last Thursday.
Photo by Meeshypants, all of her photos

Photo by Danny Lesh, all of his photos

Let me know if you want to be added to the invite list for the next one!

Music that Matters to Larry Keel, 10/27/10

Here's a post from WAMU's Bluegrass Country, featuring my creative editing. 

Music that Matters to Larry Keel

Listen to the music that matters to guitar player Larry Keel
1. The Carter Family (Maybelle Carter)
Wildwood Flower
2. Jimi Hendrix
Catfish Blues
from Blues

3. Old & In the Way (Jerry Garcia)
Wild Horses
4. Paul Brady
Follow That Star
from Hooba Dooba
5. Larry Keel & Natural Bridge
Swarmin’ Bees
from Backwoods
Support for this week’s Music that Matters comes from Strathmore, presenting The Punch Brothers, featuring Chris Thile, Friday, November 12th, 2010.
Photo by © G. Milo Farineau/MiloFarineauPhotography.com

Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion, 9/18/10

Here's my brief review of Friday & Saturday morning at the 2010 Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion, as published on WAMU's Bluegrass Country from mid-September.

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Echo, Bill Miller, and I headed down to the 10th annual Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion in Virginia/Tennessee this weekend.With 20 indoor and outdoor stages surrounding the festival grounds of State Street the choices of good music have so far been innumerable. Here’s a quick recap of some of the music we’ve enjoyed so far.

Friday
We started our Reunion out with a set from Dale Ann Bradley, Kim Fox and Steve Gulley… their cover of the U2 song, “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” got the crowd going. Although as Kim pointed out, technically Dale Ann is singing “ferr”.

Several of the stages are in restaurants. Here’s Boss Hawg performing at Machiavelli’s.

We heard the Infamous Stringdusters, in the completely packed Paramount Theatre. A beautifully restored 1931 theatre with all the details including a Wurlitzer Organ. Below is a shot of the “Ladies Lounge”.  The venue itself was too big for my camera to get a nice picture. Safe to say though the Dusters played a set of crowd-pleasing, technically skilled bluegrass. Particularly nice was the brand-new instrumental written by banjo player Chris Pandolfi named Connecticut Caretaker. It was interesting to see the band actually thinking about what they were going to play on the new tune.

We also caught Cadillac Sky at the Paramount and bits of The New Familiars on the State Street stage as the night wore on.
Saturday
…started off well with a very good piece of quiche from the Troutdale Bistro on State Street.
The first music we heard was The Steel Wheels on the Piedmont stage. They had the noon time crowd singing along to most tunes, including they’re unusual cover of Paula Adbul’s Straight Up.

On our way to check out the Blackbird Bakery (with homemade doughnuts!) we ran across Farm & Fun Time Alley – Farm & Fun Time is the WCYB Bristol radio show that gave The Stanley Brothers their start.

Lots more music to come, stay tuned…
Cheers,
Jen

Rebecca Loebe on Capital Americana, 8/14/10

For the inaugural edition of my hour long radio show,
Capital Americana, Rebecca Loebe was my guest.

Listen to Rebecca’s performance.

Capital Americana is heard weekly (Sat. 2pm, Wed. 8pm) on WAMU's Bluegrass Country: On HD radio at 88.5, Channel 2, on FM at 105.5 FM around DC and online at BluegrassCountry.org

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