Last week and this week, I’m sharing recordings from the 2020 South Haven Jazz Festival, in South Haven, Michigan. Most of the performances were virtual, on account of the pandemic….
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Chenango Sessions Ep. 79: South Haven Jazz Festival (1 of 2)
This week and next, I’m sharing recordings from the 2020 South Haven Jazz Festival, in South Haven, Michigan. Most of the performances were virtual, on account of the pandemic. We start…
Chenango Sessions Ep. 78: Shannon Heaton & Keith Murphy
This week, we step back in time to a pre-pandemic concert at Binghamton’s Cranberry Coffeehouse. Shannon Heaton, from Boston, is one of the world’s finest Irish flutists, a composer, and…
Chenango Sessions Ep. 77: Chris Merkley
Coming to us this week from Cortland, New York, is the singer-songwriter Chris Merkley of the bands Merkley & Morgan, Digger Jones, and the Crooners. Chris has been hosting live…
Chenango Sessions Ep. 76: Rough & Tumble | Folias Duo
Mallory Graham and Scott Taylor of the Rough and Tumble record a few of the songs from their brand new album for us from their home. The album is called…
Chenango Sessions Ep. 75: Allie & Frank Lee | Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen | Steve Poltz
This week’s program starts with Frank and Allie Lee of the Freight Hoppers, The Freight Hoppers with Frank Lee released two albums on Rounder Records in the 1990s, which blazed…
Charlie Parr
An easily confused and very shy individual, Charlie Parr has been traveling around singing his resonator-fueled folk songs ever since leaving Austin, Minnesota, in the 1980s in search of Spider John Koerner, whom he found about 100 miles north at the Viking Bar one Sunday night
Chenango Sessions Ep. 73: B Sides
I have been digging through the vaults this week to find a bunch of recordings that have never made it to the radio. It’s a variety of live tracks I’ve…
Chenango Sessions Ep. 72: Corn Potato Duo
This week on the Chenango Sessions, we hear an encore performance from Lindsay McCaw and Aaron Jonah Lewis of the Corn Potato String Band, from Detroit, Michigan. I recorded Lindsay…
Chenango Sessions Ep. 71: Jez Lowe
The great British songwriter Jez Lowe released his first album in 1980, and has been touring and performing throughout the world ever since. Besides his solo career, Jez is known…