bluegrass

KALW On-Air Folk Festival this Saturday

JoAnn Mar — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:04:07 +0000

It's five hours of continuous live music performed in the KALW studios this Saturday 3 to 8 pm, featuring some of the Bay Area's finest talent, hosted by JoAnn Mar, Kevin Vance, and Peter Thompson. Here's the line-up:

3:00 pm Xandra Corpora, former lead singer with the Bay Area funk-blues band Con Brio. Her powerful, expressive voice has been called "strikingly soulful."

Local Music: Dark Hollow

Steven Short — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:06:41 +0000

The band Dark Hollow says there's a bluegrass revival in the Bay Area, and they're claiming some credit for it. Dark Hollow has been performing traditional songs, and adding some of their own, for over seven years now.

KALW's On-Air Folk Festival this Saturday 3 to 8 pm

JoAnn Mar — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:12:39 +0000

KALW's Saturday music hosts join forces to present a five-hour folk extravaganza of continuous live music performed by some of the Bay Area's finest talent. Enjoy the Scottish fiddling of Alasdair Fraser, the powerhouse vocals of Teresa Trull and Barbara Higbie, the original songs of Caren Armstrong, and the homegrown bluegrass of Them Boys and the Sycamore Slough String Band. Here's the schedule:

Bluegrass Signal: A salute to Dudley Connell

Peter Thompson — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:14:01 +0000

Now on KALW's Local Music Player: The incomparable singer who first came to prominence with the Johnson Mountain Boys in the early '80s.

Bluegrass & Red Wine

Peter Thompson — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:07:24 +0000

Europe's premier bluegrass band, Red Wine, is coming to the Bay Area from their home in Genoa, Italy. Martino Coppo and Silvio Ferretti recently celebrated the band's 30th anniversary by adding a couple of 20-somethings to the group, and Red Wine sounds better than ever.

You'll hear music from six Red Wine releases, including their latest (a world-wide radio debut!), to get you ready for concerts in Mountain View, Berkeley, and Winters.