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In the Tradition 5/29 - The Sound Recordings of Alan Lomax

Mon, 07 May 2012 19:19:41 -0500

This evening we will be sampling a few of the 17,400 digital audio files, beginning with Lomaxs first recordings onto (newly invented) tape in 1946 and tracing his career into the 1990s that collectively are known as "The Sound Recordings" catalog.

In addition to a wide spectrum of musical performances from around the world, it includes stories, jokes, sermons, personal narratives, interviews conducted by Lomax and his associates, and unique ambient artifacts captured in transit from radio broadcasts, sometimes inadvertently, when Alan left the tape machine running.

Not a single piece of recorded sound in Lomaxs audio archive has been omitted: meaning that microphone checks, partial performances, and false starts are also included.

This material from Alan Lomaxs independent archive, begun in 1946, which has been digitized and preserved by the Association for Cultural Equity, is distinct from the thousands of earlier recordings on acetate and aluminum discs he made from 1933 to 1942 under the auspices of the Library of Congress. This earlier collection which includes the famous Jelly Roll Morton, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Muddy Waters sessions, as well as Lomaxs prodigious collections made in Haiti and Eastern Kentucky (1937) is the provenance of theAmerican Folklife Center at the Library. Attempts are being made, however, to digitize some of this rarer material, such as the Haitian recordings, and to make it available in the Sound Recordings catalog.

Best Regards,
Jeff Boudreau
Producer/Host
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In the Tradition 5/15: Third Annual Tribute to Woody Guthrie

Fri, 04 May 2012 10:50:00 -0500

This evening's program is our third annual tribute to Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14, 1912 October 3, 1967), his legacy and family.

At the center of the show is "Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection", Smithsonian-Folkways Records SFW40200, set to be released July 10, 2012. My fingers are crossed, on May 2, Smithsonian-Folkways promised to send an advance copy to WCUW, but did not commit to a ship date.

"In honor of the Woody Guthrie Centennial, Smithsonian Folkways presents an in-depth commemorative collection of songs, photos and essays on one of Americas most treasured 20th-century icons.
Read complete album description at
http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=3367

The show will start with a phone interview with Woody Sez cast member Andy Teirstein.
http://www.americanrepertorytheater.org/events/show/woody-sez

For the third year running, a representative (tba) from the Guthrie Center - https://guthriecenter.org/ - in Great Barrington will be calling to talk about Arlo Guthrie's 12th annual "Historic Garbage Trail" Walk to Massacree HD (Huntingtons Disease)
Page - https://www.facebook.com/pages/HD-Walk/299773305469
Event - https://www.facebook.com/events/298259360245406/
Official website - www.freewebs.com/hdwalk"

Best Regards,
Jeff Boudreau
Producer/Host
Requests/comments/compliments/complaints to jeffboudreau@wcuw.org

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In the Tradition 5/1 ~ Scott Alarik live in studio

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:43:03 -0500

Pete Seeger describes Scott Alarik as "One of the best writers in America", and who am I to argue with Pete? Tune in to 91.3fm or the stream at wcuw.org for a full two hours of conversation, readings, live music and recorded music selections.

For the past 25 years, Scott Alarik has been arguably the most prolific and influential folk music writer in the country. He covered folk for the Boston Globe, contributed regularly to public radio, including seven years as correspondent for the national news show Here and Now, and wrote for many national magazines, including Sing Out, Billboard, and Performing Songwriter. From 1991-97, he was editor and principal writer for the New England Folk Almanac. In 2003, his first book, Deep Community: Adventures in the Modern Folk Underground, was published. Never before had the landscape of modern folk music been so comprehensively documented, prompting the Library Journal to call it an essential primer to the continuing folk revival.

Now, Alarik has written Revival, the first novel set entirely in the folk world of the 21st century. Even before publication, the love story was earning raves from Booklist (A joyous celebration of folk musicians and their world), and from folk stars like Tom Paxton, Ellis Paul, Catie Curtis, John Gorka, Alison Brown, Mary Gauthier, and Gordon Bok, who called it just about the warmest, most nourishing book Ive read. Music lifts us up, wrote songwriter, organizer, activist, and author Si Kahn. So does Revival.

Alarik was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and became a folksinger immediately after graduating from high school in 1969. He made his professional debut as a weekend regular at an oh-so-60s coffeehouse called Heads Together. He also actively opposed the Vietnam War, joining the Resistance Movement while still in high school by publicly refusing to register for the draft. He was convicted of resisting the draft and served 19 months in federal prison. After his release in 1972, he became a fixture on the national folk circuit, performing regularly on A Prairie Home Companion, releasing three vinyl albums, and appearing at such legendary venues as the Coffeehouse Extemporé in Minneapolis, Somebody Elses Troubles and Earl of Old Town in Chicago, Caffé Lena in Saratoga Springs, Godfrey Daniels and the Cherry Tree in Pennsylvania, the Speakeasy in Greenwich Village, and the Idler, Old Vienna, Iron Horse, and Passim in Massachusetts. Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor wrote of Alarik, I have rarely seen an audience in such a good mood as when hes just been there.

After moving to Boston in 1984, Alarik was invited to write for the Boston Globe and soon became its principal folk music writer, covering that vibrant beat for nearly 25 years. He was the first Boston critic to write about many of todays biggest folk stars, including Ani DiFranco, Alison Krauss, Solas, Dar Williams, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kate Rusby, Shemekia Copeland, Susan Werner, Eileen Ivers, Vance Gilbert, Catie Curtis, Ellis Paul, Eilen Jewell, Meg Hutchinson, and Crooked Still. Wall Street Journal critic Earle Hitchner calls him one of America's most astute music critics and chroniclers.

He is also a popular presenter of talks on folk music topics at colleges, museums, folk societies, and other venues. He was invited to deliver the inaugural Botkin Folklife Lecture at the Library of Congress, and teaches an annual course called Understanding Folk Music at McDaniel Colleges Common Ground music camp.

Alarik has maintained his performing career, appearing at coffeehouses near his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and releasing two CDs, -30- and All That Is True. In singing the praises of Revival, Si Kahn wrote, Scott Alarik has long been one of the wisest and most literate voices on the folk scene, from his articles and books to his own passionate songwriting, storytelling and performances.

http://scottalarik.com/

And of course we will be paying tribute to International Workers' day -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day#International_Workers.27_Day - with some appropriate songs.

Best Regards,
Jeff Boudreau
Producer/Host
Requests/comments/compliments/complaints to jeffboudreau@wcuw.org

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Artists of the 68th annual New England Folk Festival (NEFFA part 3)

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:59:44 -0500

Artists of the 68th annual New England Folk Festival (NEFFA part 3)

"In the Tradition"
7-9pm Tuesday, April 17
WCUW, 91.3fm and streaming at wcuw.org

The New England Folk Festival Association is a non-profit educational and cultural organization, incorporated under the General Laws of Massachusetts to encourage, sponsor, and preserve high standards of performance of the folk arts and traditions in New England and elsewhere.

This yearly event attracts thousands from New England, the country, and the rest of the world to its wonderful mix of particpatory dance (folk, square and contra), folk music and song, international food, crafts, performances, family-oriented activities, and much, much more.

Festival History - http://neffa.org/history.html

The 68th annual New England Folk Festival takes places in Mansfield April 20-22. More information at http://neffa.org/What_is_Festival.html

The entire program will be music of artists performing at the festival (see http://www.neffa.org/cgi-bin/public/showperf.pl?INDEX=ALL)

Featuring (by phone unless otherwise indicated)
7:05pm - Alan Friend - http://www.alanfriendmusic.com/
7:15pm - Nan Gibbons - https://sites.google.com/site/artistteacherscholar/ - live in studio
7:35pm - Evy Mayer - Triboro - http://www.ukelady.com/
7:50pm - Sylvia Miskoe - Strathspey & Reel Society -http://www.srsnh.org/
8:20pm - Jordan Cannady - http://www.jordancannady.com/

Best Regards,
Jeff Boudreau
Producer/Host

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Music Departments Spring Meetings

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:10:00 -0500

Click http://www.wcuw.org/uploads/2012_SpringProgramMeetingMinutes.doc to download the minutes from the series of Music Department Meetings held this past spring.

In the Tradition, 4/3 - NEFFA preview, part 2, Matt Robert in Studio & a new song from Peggy Seeger

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:40:00 -0500

During the first 30 minutes, Matt Robert will be live in studio, performing his orignal songs and covers. We'll also play recordings of some of the artists who have influenced him. Matt Robert is a collector, who for three decades has built up an eclectic boxful of songs that at least to him hangs together by theme or genre or era. Like any collector, Matt has acquired, lost, and swapped out lots of material over the years, and now has a peculiar set of tunes that he thinks express a lot of common ideas and reflects a lot of influences and mutations among far-flung artists, like Jelly Roll Morton, Levon Helm, Don Nix, Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter, Louis Armstrong, Wilco, and The Decemberists, which he performs on guitar, mandolin, banjo, and harmonica. These, combined with a growing batch of originals that stem from these influences and a few odd pieces that could have been written in the imaginations version of an earlier era, make for a fun and varied listening experience for the audience.

The next hour+ of the show will continue our preview artists of the New England Folk Festival. NEFFA is "a non-profit educational and cultural organization, incorporated under the General Laws of Massachusetts to encourage, sponsor, and preserve high standards of performance of the folk arts and traditions in New England and elsewhere."

This yearly event attracts thousands from New England, the country, and the rest of the world to its wonderful mix of particpatory dance (folk, square and contra), folk music and song, international food, crafts, performances, family-oriented activities, and much, much more.

Festival History - http://neffa.org/history.html

The 68th annual New England Folk Festival takes places in Mansfield April 20-22. More information at http://neffa.org/What_is_Festival.htm
see the artist performance grad at http://www.neffa.org/cgi-bin/public/showperf.pl?INDEX=ALL)

Interview schedule:
7:30pm - Robert Tincher - http://www.reverbnation.com/RobertTincher
7:45pm - Hiroya Tsukamoto - http://www.hiroyatsukmoto.com
8:00pm - Max Neuman (Nor'Easter) - http://noreasterband.com/
8:15pm - Larry Unger (Notorious) -
http://www.larryunger.net/bands/notorious.shtml

Towards the end of the program we will play a brand new, unreleased song by Peggy Seeger - http://www.peggyseeger.com/ - then celebrate the birthdays of a pair of Richards, Richard John Thompson, OBE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Thompson_(musician)
& Richard George Manuel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Manuel

Best Regards,
Jeff Boudreau
Producer/Host
https://www.facebook.com/InTheTradition
Requests/comments/compliments/complaints to jeffboudreau@wcuw.org

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Playlists from the Tuesday edition of "In the Tradition" can be viewed during the show at http://www.spinitron.com/radio/playlist.php?station=wcuw and are submitted soon after the show's end to the Folk DJ list -http://lists.psu.edu/archives/folkdj-l.html

Read descriptions of other WCUW program specials at http://www.wcuw.org/modules/news/

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"NEFFA Preview, Part 1 & Kristin Andreassen", In the Tradition, 3/20

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:30:00 -0500

Kristin - http://www.kristinandreassen.com/ - joined the old-time band UNCLE EARL - http://www.uncleearl.net/ - in 2003, "...contributing her perceptive original songs in addition to vocals, rhythm guitar, fiddle, ukulele, and clog dancing. Two self-released EPs lead to a contract with venerable folk label Rounder Records, for whom they recorded She Waits For Night with producer Dirk Powell and Waterloo, Tennessee, produced by Led Zeppelins John Paul Jones, who called the album definitely one of the most enjoyable productions that I have ever been involved with. Their albums, combined with the groups infectious live shows, garnered rave reviews from such influential media outlets as the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Mojo, No Depression, The New Yorker, and Relix. Waterloo, Tenessee was named Folk Alliance Album of the Year in 2007.

Able to draw from a vast range of experiences, talents, and perspectives, the newest edition of Uncle Earl is versatile and powerful. Andreassen says "Everyone who plays with Uncle Earl has an exciting career in music outside the band as well. We come together to play because it's fun to keep this connection with friends and with the traditional music that's inspired us."

In the fall of 2009, Uncle Earl was selected by the prestigious Columbia Artist Management Inc. agency as the headlining band for their month-long American Revival tour. In 2010, the g'Earls toured Australia (March), Germany (May), and makes limited summer festival appearances in the United States.

With Aoife O'Donovan (Crooked Still) and Ruthy Merenda (Mammals, Mike and Ruthy), Kristin is a member of SOMETYMES WHY - http://www.sometymeswhy.com/

Kristin's latest project is THE JOLLY BANKERS, where she collaborates with Laura Cortese & Pierce Woodward on two EPs: Death & Taxes and Tax Return. This band is a labor of love for three musicians who are very busy with other projects. Their thing is playing solid old-time-inspired stringband chops framed by original lyrics, lo-tech/sound-great recording strategies, psychedelic arrangement experiences & political sense-of-purpose.
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Jolly+Bankers

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Lindsay Straw from "The Ivy Leaf" will be calling about 7:45pm; their brand new "The Ivy Leaf, Traditional Irish Music" (to be released March 29) album will be featured.

The Ivy Leaf is a young traditional Irish quartet that came together through the Boston session scene. Featuring fiddles, flute & whistle, concertina, vocals and bouzouki and guitar accompaniment, the groups influences are a blend of the old and new, taking on centuries old dance music and giving it a modern vigor. Among those influences are many of the local musicians who define the sound of Irish music in Boston and Providence. Enriching that tradition is an intense curiosity for old, isolated, or obscure forms of music, arming the group with an array of tunes from jigs to polkas to hornpipes, along with songs of both Irish and American origin.

After a five-month hiatus, which saw half of the group studying and playing in Ireland, the Ivy Leaf has returned with renewed energy and focus, now intent on connecting with friends and fans on the West Coast of America. Following a short tour and recording session in California, the Ivy Leafs first EP is due out this fall.

http://www.ivyleafmusic.com/

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The last part of the program will focus of the New England Folk Festival showcase concert, Friday, March 23 at Unity in Somerville. NEFFA's statement of purpose: "a non-profit educational and cultural organization, incorporated under the General Laws of Massachusetts to encourage, sponsor, and preserve high standards of performance of the folk arts and traditions in New England and elsewhere."

Artists booked for the showcase who will be calling in:
Corvus (Celtic) - http://seansmithmusic.webs.com/corvus.html
Wear My Letter (old-time) - http://www.wearmyletter.com/
Marylou Ferrante (pre-war blues) - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Marylou-Ferrante/141951529188772
Lynn Noel - Voice - English traditional, Scottish, Irish, Canadian, French-Canadian, Quebecois, Icelandic, Scandinavian, world music - http://www.lynnoel.com/crosscurrents
More info is available at http://concerts.neffa.org/

Call-in schedule
8:00 Marylou Ferrante
8:15pm Lynn Noel
8:30pm Wear My Letter
8:45pm Corvus

The 68th annual all-volunteer New England Folk Festival will be presented in Mansfield, MA April 20-22.
NEFFA website at http://neffa.org/
Festival schedule at http://neffa.org/cgi-bin/public/showperf.pl?P=1466

Tune in to part 2 in two weeks.
https://www.facebook.com/events/245031675564625/

Best Regards,
Jeff Boudreau
Producer/Host
Requests/comments/compliments/complaints to jeffboudreau@wcuw.org

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All times are eastern USA.

Please "favorite" In the Tradition at http://soundtap.com/inthetradition/

Playlists from the Tuesday edition of "In the Tradition" can be viewed during the show at http://www.spinitron.com/radio/playlist.php?station=wcuw and are submitted soon after the show's end to the Folk DJ list -http://lists.psu.edu/archives/folkdj-l.html

Read descriptions of other WCUW program specials at http://www.wcuw.org/modules/news/

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"A Tribute to John Studebaker "Jack" Hardy", In the Tradition, Tuesday, 3/6

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:30:00 -0600

A Tribute to John Studebaker "Jack" Hardy

John Studebaker "Jack" Hardy departed this mortal plane one year ago, on March 11, 2011. Tonight we pay tribute to his life's works.

Guests by phone include Randy Burns (about 7:30) and David Massengill (during the 8pm hour).

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All times are eastern USA.

Playlists from the Tuesday edition of "In the Tradition" can be viewed during the show at http://www.spinitron.com/radio/playlist.php?station=wcuw and are submitted soon after the show's end to the Folk DJ list -http://lists.psu.edu/archives/folkdj-l.html

Listen to WCUW at 91.3fm or streaming at wcuw.org or live365 app for your mobile device.

https://www.facebook.com/events/308019329249199/

Board of Directors Meeting, 2/15/11

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:24:41 -0600

The WCUW Board of Directors meets at 7pm on the third Wednesday of each month at the station, 910 Main Street. All members are welcome to attend.

The next meeting is 2/15/12.

Jeff Boudreau
Secretary

In the Tradition 2/21: Bleeding Hearts w/ in-studio guest Marylou Ferrante

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:40:00 -0600

Traditional and old blues tunes of love good or bad, love lost, murder ballads...we promise there will be no sweet, sappy, sentimental or gushy romantic ballads!

Best Regards,
Jeff Boudreau
Producer/Host
Requests/comments/compliments/complaints to jeffboudreau@wcuw.org

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All times are eastern USA.

Playlists from the Tuesday edition of "In the Tradition" can be viewed during the show at http://www.spinitron.com/radio/playlist.php?station=wcuw and are submitted soon after the show's end to the Folk DJ list -http://lists.psu.edu/archives/folkdj-l.html

Read descriptions of other WCUW program specials at http://www.wcuw.org/modules/news/

Listen to WCUW at 91.3fm or streaming at wcuw.org or live365 app for your mobile device.