JPR Live Sessions

The Canadian duo Mama's Broke is currently touring on their 3rd album, Reunion.

From Nova Scotia, Amy Lou Keeler and Lisa Maria make up Mama's Broke. They blend various styles of traditional folk from the North America and Europe, and both have a background playing punk. With over a decade of playing music together, they've developed a distinctive vocal style punctuated by intricate acoustic string arrangements.

Hear some new songs and the stories behind them in this JPR Live Session.

JPR Live Sessions are engineered by Jon Griffin of Lunazen studios and made possible with support from Talent Club offering live music and cold drinks in a casual atmosphere.

It’s a homecoming of sorts for Tye Austin. The guitarist, composer and singer was born in Hillsboro, Oregon, and his formal music training brought him to Ashland to study with James Edwards and Mark Jacobs at Southern Oregon University. Since then, he’s ventured further, traveling the world on a musical journey that included Carnegie Hall, the United Nations, Spain and China. Now, the musician is back in Oregon, in the midst of a 30+ concert series bringing classical guitar into the wilderness settings of Oregon state parks.

Austin sat down with JPR Arts Reporter Vanessa Finney to play a few pieces and to talk about the Wilder Frets series and his family connection to pirates that once sailed the high seas.

This JPR Live Session was engineered by Jon Griffin from Lunazen Studio. JPR Live Sessions are made possible with support from Talent Club – offering live music and cold beverages in a casual atmosphere in Talent, Oregon. Find their live music schedule at their website.

The Jaws of Brooklyn are a rock and soul ensemble from, as their name suggests, Seattle.

Since joining forces during the pandemic, they've gone through some changes, but have released 3 albums, including their latest, Unstoppable, produced by Ben Tanner who was part of Alabama Shakes at the historic Muscle Shoals studios in Alabama.

Their sound is a mix of '60s girl-group soul and garage rock. Joining them on this tour, are back-up singers (and best friends) Uncle Roy & Spice who have also sang back up for Sir Woman.

Hear some live cuts and about the band and the making of Unstoppable in this JPR Live Session with The Jaws of Brooklyn.

The founding members of Fruition - Jay Cobb Anderson, Mimi Naja, and Kellen Asebroek started busking in the streets of Portland in 2008.

They've seen a lot in the their almost 20 years as a band. Their upcoming album Something More is due out in August.

Hear them perform live, including a track from the upcoming album, and talk about their career and how they've grown together like a family, and as musicians in this JPR Live Session.

JPR Live Sessions are engineered by Jon Griffin of Lunazen Studios, and made possible with support from Talent Club - featuring live music and cold beverages in a casual atmosphere in Talent, Oregon. Their live music schedule is available here.

Now living in Nashville, the cosmic country crooner Cassandra Lewis has spent a lot of time moving around.

Her last two albums - Always, All Ways from 2022, and 2024's Lost in a Dream, were well-received spending time on both the Americana and triple A charts, and got a lot of play on Open Air. She's getting ready to release a new, fully independent album - In Love and War, and performs one of the new singles American Sickness, as well as songs from her earlier albums. She also talks about her career, what it was like to go from a major label to an independent artist in this JPR Live Session.

In addition for her show at the Copper Plank in Medford, she'll be on the West Coast with dates at High Sierra and the Oregon Country Fair.

Find out more about Cassandra Lewis at her website

JPR Live Sessions are engineered by Jon Griffin of Lunazen Studios and made possible with support from Talent Club - offering live music and cold beverages in a casual atmosphere in downtown Talent. Find their live music schedule here.

Russian pianist Olga Kern may be the most accomplished and prized classical pianist to ever breeze into the JPR studios. She arrived with only a minute to spare before her scheduled JPR Live Session, and spent half an hour talking with JPR Arts Reporter Vanessa Finney and playing Rachmaninov and Debussy before whisking off again to the Britt Hill to rehearse with the Britt Festival Orchestra.

The program for the BFO’s opening concert includes Olga in the starring role for a performance of Rachmaninov’s Variations on a Theme by Paganini. Britt Music Director Norman Hyunh also leads the orchestra in two Czech masterpieces: Smetana’s The Moldau and Dvorak’s The New World Symphony. The concert begins Thursday, June 18th at 8pm. Tickets and more information at brittfest.org.

This JPR Live Session was engineered by Jon Griffin from Lunazen Studio. JPR Live Sessions are made possible with support from Talent Club – offering live music and cold beverages in a casual atmosphere in Talent, Oregon. Find their live music schedule at their website.

Spanish pianist Daniel del Pino is no secret to classical music fans in the Rogue Valley. He’s performed alongside cellist Amit Peled several times over the past year locally, but this time he’s performing a solo program of Flamenco-infused works from turn of the century Spain including Albéniz, Granados, Turina, and De Falla, along with French composers Debussy and Ravel.

After a whirlwind couple of days that included performing at the Rogue Valley Manor and teaching a Master Class at SOU, Del Pino dropped in for a conversation and live performance with JPR Arts Reporter Vanessa Finney.

Daniel Del Pino’s concert will also include nature-themed poetry by Tiziana DellaRovere, and takes place Sunday, May 31 st at 3pm at the SOU Music Recital Hall in Ashland. Tickets and information are available at here or 541-833-3066.

This JPR Live Session was engineered by Jon Griffin from Lunazen Studio. JPR Live Sessions are made possible with support from Talent Club – offering live music and cold beverages in a casual atmosphere in Talent, Oregon. Find their live music schedule at their website.

Sage Cook got his start in the band Elephant Revival. He and Aera left Colorado in about 2013 to start a subsistence farm in Kansas.

Missing music, they started the band We Dream Dawn, originally adding a drummer to their lineup about 10 years ago.

In 2025, with a full band, they released the debut full-length from We Dream Dawn - Love Undoubtedly Underlies Everything. They've been touring this spring as a duo, with their cat, and camping at hot springs.

Hear about the origins of We Dream Dawn, about their farm which is now a sustainable food forest, their future, that includes a little one, and some tunes from Love Undoubtedly Underlies Everything.

This JPR Live Session was engineered by Dave Young with help from Jon Griffin. JPR Live Sessions are made possible with support from Talent Club - offering live music and cold beverages in a casual atmosphere in Talent, Oregon. Find their live music schedule at their website.

The Wood Brothers are touring on their latest album, Puff Of Smoke, and the 20th anniversary of their debut, How Not to Lose, which is being released for the first time on vinyl.

The Wood Brothers sound incorporates elements of rock, folk, blues, gospel, and funk. They balance a gritty organic sound with tight harmonies, thoughtful lyrics, and stellar musicianship.

Hear two new tunes and one from their debut in this JPR Live Session.

JPR Live Sessions are engineered by Jon Griffin and made possible with support from Talent Club offering live music and cold drinks in a casual atmosphere in Talent. Find their live music schedule here

Tyler Ballgame - the nom de plume of Tyler Perry - grew up with music. After performing in musical theater in high school, he went on to study songwriting at Berklee School of Music in Boston. He struggled for a while after college and eventually decided to move to Los Angeles. He worked days in a Real Estate Office and played Open Mics at nights where he was discovered by producer Jonathan Rado. Working together they crafted his debut - For The First Time, Again, in about a month.

He blends classic rock and R&B sounds for introspective songs that showcase his dynamic voice.

Hear him talk about his past, getting into music, and some stripped-down live tunes accompanied by pianist Max Woobs in this JPR Live Session.

JPR live sessions are engineered by Jon Griffin and made possible with support from Talent Club - featuring live music and cold drinks in a casual atmosphere in Talent, Oregon. Find their live music schedule here