This evening we will be sampling a few of the 17,400 digital audio files, beginning with Lomax’s 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 Lomax’s audio archive has been omitted: meaning that microphone checks, partial performances, and false starts are also included.

This material from Alan Lomax’s 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 Lomax’s 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.

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Jeff Boudreau
Producer/Host
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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 I’ve 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 Else’s 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 he’s 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 today’s 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 College’s 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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Click http://www.wcuw.org/uploads/2012_SpringProgramMeetingMinutes.doc to download the minutes from the series of Music Department Meetings held this past spring.

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 America’s 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 (Huntington’s 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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Read descriptions of other WCUW program specials at http://www.wcuw.org/modules/news/

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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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