Crackin' the Vault

Crackin' the Vault

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Crackin' the Vault episodes

  • Singers of Note

    Singers of Note
    Singers from many Centrum programs, lots of duets, including:
    The Brain Marshall Family Band,
    Laurel Bliss and Cliff Perry
    Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin,  Pharis and Jason Romero,
    Mary Sherhart,  Alice Gerrard,
    Julie Fowlis,
    Shaye Cohn and Erika Lewis, the Lonesome Doves,
    Morten Alfred Høirup and Mia Guldhammer,
    Riley Baugus,
    and the Birmingham Sunlights


    If you can’t hear it live     - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel:

    https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/

    Thanks for listening, have fun!

    Peter

    1 hr 1 min
  • Every Month is Black History Month

    Every Month is Black History Month
    Let’s retire Black History Month and incorporate Black history into every year-round history curriculum nationwide.
    In the meantime, we’ll listen to some Black musicians who have participated in Centrum programs.

    Including:

    The Carolina Chocolate Drops, with Joe Thompson
    Jerron Paxton and Phil Wiggins
    Howard Armstrong
    Boo Hanks and Dom Flemons
    Lynn August
    The Creole Cowboys
    and a little bit of Etta Baker

    Rhiannon Giddens has been loading one awesome post per day this month on her Facebook page, about Black history in general, highly recommended:

    https://www.facebook.com/RhiannonGiddensMusic/

    If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel:

    https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/

    Thanks for listening, have fun!

    Peter

    1 hr
  • New Mexican fiddlers and players

    Cleofes Ortiz
    Fiddlers from Northern New Mexico are all but gone.
    We’ll spend some time talking with Ken Keppeler and Jeanie McLerie
    about Cleofes and Tonie Apodaca, and the disappearance of culture.

    If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel:

    https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/

    Thanks for listening, have fun!

    Peter

    59 min
  • Honoring Pedro Dimas

    Don Pedro Dimas

    El Maestro, the dean of Purepecha fiddlers, passed last week, and we’ll spend some time listening to his music and telling some stories, and remembering him.

    … and a conversation with Zaidee Stavely about his life and legacy.

    For a look at Mirando al Lago (it’s worth it), Don Pedro’s orchestra, with dancers wearing regalia that he designed, dancing his choreography - tune in to the Quarantine Happy hour on Sunday, January 31, at 5:30pm PST.

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/quarantinehappyhourmusic

     

    If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel:

    https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/

    Thanks for listening, have fun!

    Peter

    58 min
  • Voice Works 2015 and a chat with The Bobs

    The Bobs!

    How they started, how they got their name, and a chat with Matthew Stull, founding member and selections from a Voice Works concert in 2015.

     

    Including:

     

    • The Thundering Cannonballs;
    • Moira Smiley;
    • Elizabeth Laprelle;
    • Eli West;
    • Cedric Watson;
    • The Peña-Govea Family – Miguel, Susan, Rene, and Cecilia;
    • and some of the Bobs early hits

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      If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel:

      https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/

       

      Thanks for listening, have fun!

       

      Peter

      58 min
    • Voice Works 2015 and a Chat with Cathy Jordan

      A chat with Cathy Jordan, lead singer with Dervish, and how Reeb Willms came to know her. And selections from a Voice Works concert in 2015.

       

      Including:

       

      A look back at Christine Balfa’s triangle record;
      Cedric Watson;
      The Peña-Govea Family – Miguel, Susan, Rene, and Cecilia – with a corrido and a polka;
      Joel Savoy, Kelli Jones, Reeb Willms, Caleb Klauder;
      Cathy Jordan herself, with Mark Simos and Moira Smiley;


      If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel:

      https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/

       

      Thanks for listening, have fun!

       

      Peter

      1 hr
    • Remembering John Morton

      Alas, John passed way too soon, on January 2.

      We'll take an (inadequate) listen to some of the music John loved, vintage jazz, choro, and Italian dance music.

       

      With:

      • a few cuts of John on clarinet and bass clarinet;
      • some of the source material for the Italian music that John played, including
      • Tony Flores and his family and his connection to Port Townsend;
      • Ricardo Tunzi;
      • Paul Rangell and Emily Abbink;
      • Irene Herrmann and Paul Hostetter

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        If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel:

        https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/

         

        Thanks for listening, have fun!

         

        Peter

        59 min
      • Songs About Drinking
        Songs About Drinking (and other mood-altering substances), wishes for 2021, and a conversation with Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms about what it was like to be a touring band in 2020 and what it might look like going forward.

         

        With:

        • Neville Pearsall
        • The Whiskey Spitters
        • Steve James
        • Tex Jackson and the Panhandlers
        • Richie Stearns
        • Tiny Moore
        • Bearcat Wildcat
        • Eric and Suzy Thompson
        • Caleb and Reeb
        • Bill Kirchen
        • Outlaw Social (featuring Pharis Romero)
        • Martin, Bogan, and Armstrong
          • 1 hr
        • Unusual Christmas Music

          New Christmas Music from Louisiana, and a chat with Chas Justus about his recent Yuletide Project

           

          With:

           

          • Dirk Powell, fret-free
          • The Roches
          • Red Simpson
          • The Stony Point Quartet (Dudley Connell, David McLaughlin, Linda Lay, and Bill Lux)
          • Bill Kirchen
          • The Silent Knights, featuring Brody Douglas Hunt
          • Chas Justus
          • Blake Miller and Amelia Biere
          • Jamie Lynn Fontenot and Miriam McCracken
          • Megan Constantin and Kelli Jones
          • Corey Porche and Bird
          • Courtney Granger (my favorite living male singer)
          • Johnny Paycheck

            •                 … and a few others

             

             

            If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel:

            https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/

             

            Thanks for listening, have fun!

             

            Peter

            59 min
          • Klezmer Music

            Klezmer Music, Thoughts from Alicia Svigals about celebrating Hanukkah, Seven-Day Weddings, and Inviting Itzhak Perlman to Fiddle Tunes

            With:

            • Alicia Svigals, Patrick Farrell, Lauren Brody
            • Cookie Segelstein, Margot Leverett, Don Weeda, and Mark Rubin

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              If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel:

              https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/

               

              Thanks for listening, have fun!

               

              Peter

              59 min

            About Crackin' the Vault

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            Crackin the Vault features musical nuggets from the last five decades of Centrum programming, including Country Blues, Fiddle Tunes, Voice Works, Slide and Steel, and one-time shows from the 90s. More…