The show, unknown to many in the Harvard community, has a devoted following in New England and beyond thanks to the advent of live streaming on the Web. PPS Orgy® information updated; thanks to listener Louis in NYC. Some listeners have told me they like the GHs (more favorites and less talk). And who else is in the band, at least for this gig? Tony Watt on guitar! Since WHRB is in the basement of Pennypacker Hall, a freshman dorm, I am excluded. 617-495-4818. The hillbilly stereotype is considered to have had a traumatizing effect on some in the Appalachian region. For example, WHRB broadcasts a popular weekly radio show entitled "Hillbilly at Harvard". Yeah, I knew Dan was famous in the Soggy Bottom Boys in that awful slam-at-the-South movie, was Alison Krauss’s leading sideman, and had won numerous awards for all kinds of musical adventures, but he wasn’t really bluegrass country. Tristan I guess was the harbinger, as the evening’s performance was tempered with the news that this would be the last performance of the band—all were going their separate ways. saw Patty Loveless perform at the South Shore Music Circus and [Sinc and Dave] managed to finagle a DJ interview with her after the show. There will be Met Prelude programs before the operas at 1:00 PM, so HAH will end 10-15 minutes early each Saturday. Of course, ‘commercial’ means advertising! Their plan was to edit the interview together with a selection of songs for the radio show, and that actually did happen 18 months later, when Dave was back in town. /CL. ‘Antigone in Ferguson’ honors the memory of Michael Brown, Very long, even for academic book club, but themes of morality, isolation resonated, Measurements of brain activity during sleep reveal signs of accelerated brain aging, Study finds a host of health benefits accompany an optimistic attitude, © 2020 The President and Fellows of Harvard College. Margaux will feature artists like ‘Rhiannon Giddens, Mandolin Orange, Chatham Rabbits, and Hank, Pattie & the Current’. Old-time music, bluegrass, traditional country, and contemporary artists such as John Prine and Iris DeMent (“We’re not the jet set; we’re the old Chevro-let set”) all get airtime in the eclectic but discriminating mix that characterizes the show. Now Cousin Lynn hosts the show himself, though local musician Larry Flint lends a hand now and then, and other members of the extended Hillbilly family come by to play live or to add their particular perspectives to Joiner’s panoramic view of the country scene. It’s been two months, so I’ll keep comments to a minimum. The program caught on, and top touring bands began appearing on WHRB. Dan also played new songs he either wrote or co-wrote, which will appear this fall on a new Rounder album. Hear the audio that matters most to you. Richard Brown). Here he is on stage, plus the BBU’s Gerry Katz. “We are raising money because we are projected to lose over a third of our annual operating budget in the next few months due to canceled ad campaigns from our clients, many of whom are performing arts organizations in the Boston area.”. Here’s Stonewall Jackson’s ‘Waterloo’ (1959), written by John D. Loudermilk and Marijohn Wilkin: And here’s a beautiful, rather sad, version of ‘Bonaparte’s Retreat’ that I just chanced upon, played by Aly Bain, with some significant associates: Jerry Douglas (dobro), Danny Thompson (bass), Tommy Hayes (Percussion), Michael Doucet (second fiddle), Russ Barenberg (guitar), Donald Shaw (piano): The Metropolitan Opera is making up for the sudden dearth of live broadcast performances this season by adding archival productions every Saturday from May 23rd through June 13th. At 1:00 PM for the next three Saturdays: 11, 18, 25 July: Strauss, Rossini, Saint-Saëns. He was 62. The last Met archived opera was this past Saturday. Wednesday will rebroadcast the 2019 tribute to David Elliott with ‘The David Elliott Orgy’ at 1:00 PM. Listen in each week to the best in new and independent jazz produced locally, across Canada and around the world. Even in mid-February, there weren’t many cases of the Wuhan virus in the United States, and we assumed there wouldn’t be many people from China at the festival, so (rightly or wrongly) there wasn’t much chance of encountering it in a crowd of bluegrass and country aficionados. ], Sadly I had to leave before Claire Lynch‘s set Friday night. [Click on one to see larger versions in sequence; go to Flickr for high-res versions. ], Downstairs, a gathering of bass fiddles spawned a few jokes of the “Who’s on first?” variety. General manager Emily Spector ’21, chief studio engineer Margaux Winter ’21, and former chief engineer Hamish Nicholson ’20 live nearby and regularly come into the station to manage basic operations. His friends Brad Riew ’17, Cynthia Cheung, and You-Myeong Kim '17 got on board for the romance of the open road, and to gather accurate, reliable data for wheelchair travelers. he WHRB Sports Department broadcasts various Harvard athletic events throughout the year. UPDATE 15Jun20: Edited to correct ending-date error. When that comes up, you’ll see the interview. Following that are 28 hours of ‘The Ella Fitzgerald Orgy’, from 5:00 AM to 7:00 PM Tuesday the 12th, 5:00 AM to 1:00 PM Wednesday the 13th, and Thursday the 14th. They were billed ‘with Jesse Brock‘, master mandolinist taking the place of Jeff’s son, the incredibly energetic Tristan (off on his own in Nashville, I think Jeff said). Apparently spooked by the hysteria surrounding the Wuhan Bat Bug (an epidemic no worse than many in the past that never resulted in lockdowns and other restrictions), the administrators at Harvard have decreed that only 40% of enrolled students will be allowed back on campus for the new term, and only those students, plus some employees, will be allowed into campus buildings. Don’t you dare miss it! The Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday matinee broadcasts are the longest-running continuous classical music program in radio history. Sign in. Then he queued up a closing bluegrass number, clanged the old Nash hubcap with a metal church key, possibly from his Harvard student days, and signed off with, “Y’all stay Hillbilly now, hear!”, How to mourn, find meaning in the deaths of 200,000, with more certain to come, Environmentalist predicts more extreme heat events — and disasters linked to them. The May 4th issue featured a story by Jon Chase on WHRB staying on the air (‘WHRB keeps classical connections’), despite the unexpected departure of most of its staff, as I posted in ‘WHRB and HAH Are Still on the Air’.

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