This show originally aired today from 10am-Noon on WNUR 89.3 FM and HD1.
We remember November 22, 1963 to start off the show.
Our concert calendar segment highlights Muriel Anderson’s Thanksgiving weekend show as well as Claudia Schmidt’s appearance at Woodstock Wednesdays.
Here’s today’s playlist.
This show originally aired today from 10am-Noon on WNUR 89.3 FM and HD1.
Our concert calendar segment highlights Sue Fink’s Virtual Dream Cafe November 18th Show featuring Sue along with Katie Dahl and Anne Heaton, and Jenny Bienemann’s Haiku Milieu Virtu Concert to celebrate the release of Volume 2 of her Haiku Milieu book coming up on Friday November 20th at 7:00pm. We also feature an exclusive video Sam Baker made for St Tim’s Coffeehouse
Here’s today’s playlist.
This show originally aired today from 10am-Noon on WNUR 89.3 FM and HD1 and it streamed at wnur.org and at thisishell.com.
It’s our election special. Sue Kessell played a lot of tunes that have accompanying videos and here are links to all of them:
Steve Goodman – Election Year Rag (Album: self titled 1999 rerelease)
John McCutcheon – Vote Dammit – “Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine”-digital only https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSkwk6Z7HUk www.folkmusic.com
Mike K Brown – Vote for That https://youtu.be/L2e_fHj-FYY www.mikebrownsongs.com
Spook Handy with friends – Vote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60XqEpsZcpI www.SpookHandy.com
Margo Hennebach & Mark Saunders (Mad Agnes) – Lullaby for RBG https://youtu.be/GnQrZKHju34
Kentucky Partisans – Blue Wave of Kentucky https://bit.ly/2T4QPA9
John Dillon – A Perfect Storm https://vimeo.com/431002133/52b7ad2017
Allison Lupton & Craig Werth – When Trouble Comes https://youtu.be/ClvxRnjzQoo www.allisonlupton.com/ www.craigwerth.com
John Flynn – This Used to be a Country (album: Vintage)
www.johnflynn.net
Len Seigelman – Our Turn Now https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=USDWXFSnYoY. www.lenseligman.com/
Karyn Oliver – Stand Up – Chicks with Dip – “Stomping on Eggshells”
8 songs -Proceeds from sale will benefit ACLU- digital-only release https://chickswithdip.bandcamp.com/ http://www.facebook.com/ChicksWithDip
Tim Grimm – Gone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPLKgCwBvug&feature=youtu.bewww.timgrimm.com
Danny Schmidt – A Prayer for the Sane
Bruce T Carroll – Lift Your Head Up https://youtu.be/Ub46Lu1tl28
Joel Rafael – One Vote, One Name https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6zxCv6dUMk www.joelrafael.com
Ellis Paul – Election Day (album:The Storyteller’s Suitcase) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Y14Pybbs4 www.ellispaul.com
Graham Nash – Vote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeR2ysos2PM
Roy Zimmerman with Laura Love – My Vote, My Voice, My Right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilk1RX-tElI www.royzimmerman.com
Eliza Gilkyson – We Are Not Alone (album: 2020)
Here’s the WNUR playlist.
This show originally aired today from 10am-Noon on WNUR 89.3 FM and HD1.
We start and end the show with new unreleased Kat Eggleston tunes. On this week’s show, you’ll hear some new tunes, some old favorites and an interview from the archives when Sue Kessell spoke with Maria Dunn back from 2009.
Here’s today’s playlist.
This show originally aired today from 10am-Noon.
We start with some songs of friendship and gratitude, followed by some newly-released music, and then in the second half of the show co-host Sue Kessell joins us to talk with Juel Ulven about the Fox Valley Folk Music & Storytelling Festival, being held virtually this year.
This show originally aired today from 10am-Noon.
We start with some old favorites, followed by some newly-released music, and then in the second half of the show co-host Kathy Kelly joins us with her remembrances of Michael Peter Smith.
This show originally aired on Sunday, August 9th.
We start with Sue Kessell and Ron chatting about Michael along with some of his music. Then we talk with Donna Adler about her new album Remembering Butterflies, we celebrate Ella Jenkin’s 96th birthday and some new music too.
On next week’s show Kathy Kelly joins us in the 11:00 hour for her thoughts about Michael and we’ll feature more of his music too.
This show originally aired on Sunday, July 12th shortly after we learned that Michael Smith was in hospice. Starting at about the 18-minute mark, we feature Michael who we are sad to report passed away on Monday August 3rd.
We start with Kathy Kelly’s contemporaneous thoughts about Michael along with some of his music. Then we dip into the archives and you’ll hear our last interview with Michael when Sue Kessell visited with him for over an hour in 2019.
We’re in the process of preparing a tribute show but due to our need to pre-record our program these days, an in-depth show likely won’t air until August 16th at the earliest. We’ll keep you posted.
Here’s Rick Kogan’s article about Michael.
Here’s Jamie O’Reilly’s tribute.
Here is the show which airs today from 10am-Noon on WNUR. The first couple of sets celebrate the marriage of my son Greg Lewis to our now official daughter-in law Julia Loughlin.