Talkin' Music

KVNF speaks with Regina Spektor at the 2018 Rocky Mountain Folks Festival. Regina talks about the different approaches to studying music in the US and Russia, her early days playing in NYC's east village and her creative process.

KVNF's Ali Lightfoot speaks with duo about their latest CD Everywhere I Go, touring America (pre and post Trump) and meeting Gillian Welch.

Brother and sister Jeneda and Clayson Benallyof the Navajo Nation in Northern Arizona make up the band Sihasin. Ali Lightfoot talks to them about their environmental activism, a trip to the white house and how their music has evolved to be more hopeful over the years.

The two bands have joined forces for a performance at The Telluride Bluegrass Festival. They stopped by the KVNF studios to play some new music and share stories about their trip to India, the Roots of Freedom project and how to break an accordion.

Paonia singer songwriter Steve Clisset plays some music and talks with Ali Lightfoot.

One-man-band Forest Beutel plays some tunes and talks with Ali Lightfoot about touring with punk bands, cats on leashes, and how to stay hopeful during troubled times.

Kuinka blends folk, indie, pop, electronica and bluegrass for a sound all their own. Currently touring for their new EP “Stay Up Late,” they stopped by KVNF to play some music and chat with Ali Lightfoot before their show at the Old Mad Dog Dog Cafe in Crawford.

The hosts of My Generation interview r ock journalist Ellen Sander about the Greenwich Village folk scene, Haight-Ashbury in its heyday and studio sessions with the Rolling Stones - all chronicled in her book, "Trips: Rock Life in the 60s"

Paonia artist Eden Clearwater, known by the stage name Zephyr, talks about his new CD titled Time in Sensations. Zephyr uses acoustic instruments, electronic sounds, and nature to create this psychedelic ambient electronica composition.

Ali Lightfoot interviews some of the coolest musicians she bumped into during the 2018 French Quarter Festival. First we hear from the Norwegian, Denmark-based jazz singer Live Foyn Friis who Ali discovered singing at The Spotted Cat with The Jazz Vipers. Then she talks to Futon (Efuntola Akinlana), a street musician, who has been playing saxophone since he was 14 in The Hundreds Brass Band.