Sing Out!

This week’s edition of the program treats you to songs about food, friends and family. We’ll hear songs from Robyn Landis, Sally Rogers and Claudia Schmidt, Michael Jerling, David Holt, Eric Bibb and many others. At our destinations and in the kitchen...

Thanksgiving is the busiest time of the year for travelers. Perhaps it’s because of the annual four-day weekend or maybe it’s just the lure of spending time with family and friends, and – oh yes – there’s food. This time around we’ll hear songs about...

On this episode we ‘ll conclude our two-part feature with American traditional players, dance musicians and some songwriters, too. All of them have been influenced by players before them, whether through recordings, film or simply learning knee to knee...

Traditional folk musicians can’t develop their style in a vacuum – they are always influenced by past masters. Whether they learned the style and repertoire by listening to recordings, watching films or by sitting knee-to-knee, they absorbed everything...