MAD TOAST LIVE!

MAD TOAST LIVE!

By Chris Wagoner and Mary GainesMusic
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MAD TOAST LIVE! episodes

  • Episode 154 - Graminy
    (pronounced "GRAM-in-knee") 1. the botanical name for the  grass family; 2. a "class-grass" ensemble  from Madison, Wisconsin, bringing together classical  and grassroots musical traditions.  Featuring UW Sociology Prof. Michael Bell, Chris Powers, Shauncey Ali (WI State Fiddle Champ), and the hosts of Mad Toast Live.  Performing several original works by Bell.
    www.graminy.net/
    1 hr
  • Episode 153 - Esben Bøgh Laursen
    His official stage name is Esben Langkniv--a Danish troubadour, singer/songwriter, storyteller and film-maker--Esben joins us during his 2010 US Tour performing the music and story from his latest release (I Myrens Tegn) “Under the Sign of the Ant”, following the life of Daniel Olsson from his birth in Denmark in 1892 to the last sign of him on the shores of Lake Superior in America. He will tell the story in English, and sing in both Danish and English. Help us give him a warm Madison welcome!
    esben.info
    52 min
  • Episode 150 - Steez
    Madison band, Steez, joins us on the show.  The originators of creepfunk have made a name for themselves touring over the last few years.  Their latest album "Creepfunk Crusade" was rated as one of the top 10 albums to come out of Madison in 2009 by the Isthmus.
    creepfunk.com
    1 hr 16 min
  • Episode 147 - Whim Po & Emili
    Playing what they describe as "Experimental Folk / Orchestral Pop",  Whim Po and Emili's Colin Weaver (vocals/strings) and Emily Robertson (vocals/piano) began as an acoustic duo playing small shows in and around Northfield, Minnesota in 2007. As their following grew in Northfield’s basement bar and college scene, other members were added and WPE released their debut album, "Whim, Po, & Emili," in November of 2009, followed soon after by their EP, Maybe Baby, in May 2010. Their music, while diverse, is most easily classified as orchestral pop. It takes the words and images so powerful in the folk tradition and imbues them with the melodies and rhythms of popular music. Intoned with the stories and imagery they encounter, they create music that embodies the textured world around them. Over the last two years WPE has played shows throughout the upper Midwest. Their diverse sound easily lends itself both to large, high-energy, electric sets and smaller, quieter acoustic shows.  Shades of Radiohead....you're gonna enjoy this one!
    whimpoemili.com/
    1 hr
  • Episode 146 - Yid Vicious

    A Madison favorite--from ramshackle bars and luxurious ballrooms, on high festival stages or on bare sod, Yid Vicious often drives crowds into flurries of freylekh-fueled dancing fury. With repertoire drawn mainly from traditional secular Yiddish music but infused with their collective aesthetic and experience, celebrating the long-standing tradition of klezmorim but incorporating new musical ideas into an organic and ever-evolving art form. Yid's musical arsental consists of clarinets, saxophones, fiddle, horn, vocals, guitar, accordion, tuba, drums and sometimes theremin.

    yidvicious.com

    55 min
  • Episode 145 - Cork & Bottle String Band
    One of Madison's long-time favorite bluegrass bands, it's not far from the truth to say that The Cork and Bottle String Band single-handedly turned on a whole new generation of bluegrass fans and revived the flagging folk and bluegrass scene in Madison over the past 14 years they've been together.  Their long-standing regular gigs have been a second home to hundreds of sweating, dancing, fun-loving C & B SB fans.  We're excited to finally have them on the MTL stage!
    bignew.com
    47 min

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Music, Talk, and Variety show with hosts, Chris Wagoner and Mary Gaines