Crackin' the Vault: Recent Episodes

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Remembering John Dee Holeman **who passed last week at the age of 92

Never before heard cuts from John Dee at a house party in 1991**

… and a John Hartford retrospective from 1999

This is a special day, the 10th birthday of KPTZ, and coincidentally the birthday of Larry Stein. Hope you tune in.

Crackin’ the Vault will go on hiatus for the summer, this will be the last show for a while (though we will play a rerun next week). Thank you dear listeners, we hope you’ve enjoyed these shows. They’ll still be available on the Centrum podcast channel:

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

See you soon I hope – enjoy every sandwich!

Peter

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Strange and Wondrous Gigs Gregg Miller and The Lips go head-to-head with the Mafia, and…?

George Rezendes’ Dream Gig comes true, but how?

Del Rey – the good, the bad, and the ugly, from Amsterdam to Texas

The Original Foghorn String band represents all of American music - in Borneo!

… and some pickin’ from Jerry Ricks

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!

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Floating Down the Mississippi From the headwaters in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, some music from every state we pass

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

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Don Esteban Hernandez and Mariachi Los Galleros de Pedro Rey

A look and a listen to some of the six generations of the Hernandez dynasty, from the middle of the 19th century until today and some Balkan, blues, and banjo

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

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**A look at the eclectic and creative musicians in our town, featuring:

George Rezendes * George Radebaugh * The Delta Rays**

Simon Lynge * Janna Marit

Murphy and Marckx * Those Darn Accordions

Bobbie Nikles * The Jack Dwyer Band

Abakis * Micaela Kingslight

Bertram Levy and Kirk Sutphin * Neville Pearsall

Danny Barnes * Jonathan Doyle * LA Jones * David Grisman

and The Blue Crows

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

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Featuring:

Joseba Tapia
Dwight Lamb
Joshua Horowitz
Raynald Ouellet
Smokey McKeen
Chrissie Marshall

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

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1977 Fiddle Tunes Festival, the first one **Featuring:

Benny Thomasson * Mark Graham
Kenny Hall * Hank Bradley * Larry Hanks
Jerry Gallaher * Nancy Katz * Tony Marcus
Marty Somberg * Ann Hansen * Scott Nygaard
and The Gypsy Gyppo String Band**

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!

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Éirinn go Brách - Irish musical delights Get ready for St. Patrick’s Day with selections from:

Liz Carroll and John Doyle
Martin Mulhaire, Seamus Connolly, Seamus Egan
Liz and Yvonne Kane, with Django Amerson
Martin Hayes

And a short moment of reflection for Vesta Johnson, who passed away last week.

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

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Danish Music with Morten Alfred Høirup and Mia Guldhammer,

A conversation with Morten and Mia

And selections from Ruthie Dornfeld, Kristian Bugge, Sonnich Lydom, and Jamie Fox

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

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The Gu-Achi Fiddlers, and Manmay Lakay

Music from hot places:
the Tohono O’odham from Arizona, led by Elliot Johnson
and Manmay Lakay from St. Lucia, led by Augustin “Charley” Julian
And thoughts from Jeanie McLerie and Ken Keppeler

For a sobering and heart-breaking video about the wall built through the middle of the Tohono O’odham reservation (19 minutes):
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/border-nation/

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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With:

• De Temps Antan - Andre Brunet, Pierre Luc-Dupuis, and Eric Beaudry;
• Genticorum - Pascal Gemme,  Yann Falquet, and Alexandre de Grosbois-Garand.
• Kevin Desrosiers with the mighty Lisa Ornstein

….. and a big band update from the McBeebee Twins leading off the show.

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

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You’ll hear:

Ross Brown with George Reynolds

Mark Graham and Sandy Silva

Marley’s Ghost

Pete Sutherland

The Neolithic Broadcasters

Sheila Kay Adams

Scott Nygaard, Jerry Gallaher, and Jack Link

Lightnin Wells

Ethel Caffie Austin

And another episode of itmightabeen, featuring Abner Jay.

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

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With a spotlight on the Heartbeats

and a short chat with Tara Nevins

You’ll hear:

• Jimmy and Nancy Borsdorf
• Molly Tenenbaum and Mark Graham
• Tony Marcus
• Evo and Jemmy Bluestein
• The Hillbillies from Mars
• Eileen Ivers and Mick Moloney
• Ralph Blizard and the New Southern Ramblers
• And the Heartbeats – Tara Nevins, Rose Sinclair, Beverly Smith, and June Drucker

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

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Selections from the Country Blues festival featuring all 12 faculty members, including six National Heritage Fellows.

• John Cephas and Phil Wiggins
• Rich and Maureen DelGrosso
• Orville Johnson
• Jack Owens
• Mary Flower
• John Jackson
• Suzy Thompson
• John Dee Holeman
• Steve James
• Howard Armstrong
• Del Rey
• John Miller

Lagniappe of the week: look here for a video of John Dee Holeman and Algia Mae Hinton buck dancing.

https://www.facebook.com/ptcentrum

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

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If you like country blues, this is your meat. Selections from all 12 faculty members, including six National Heritage Fellows.

Featuring:

• John Cephas and Phil Wiggins
• Rich and Maureen DelGrosso
• Orville Johnson
• Jack Owens
• Mary Flower
• John Jackson
• Suzy Thompson
• John Dee Holeman
• Steve James
• Howard Armstrong
• Del Rey
• John Miller

Lagniappe of the week: attached is an example of Howard Armstrong’s handwriting.

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