INTERVIEWS AND CONCERTS FOR THE WEEK
Monday 02/16
AN INTERVIEW WITH ROKIA TRAORE
A griot of mood
From Mali comes Rokia Traore, a singer-songwriter whose lyrics are in her native Bamama tongue but whose songs speak a universal language through her sensual, smokey voice. We talk with her about her new album, Tchamantché that moves through deep meditations and joyous hymns.
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Tuesday 02/17
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH LISA LYNNE AND ARYEH FRANKFURTER
Two harpists, one music
Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter are well-known exponents of the Celtic harp. Lisa writes original music and has recorded for Windham Hill and New Earth Records. Aryeh specializes in Scandinavian folk music. Both play multiple instruments and we'll hear many of them when these two gifted musicians get together in an Echoes performance for harp, Swedish nycklleharpe, bouzouki and viola.
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Wednesday 02/18
We hear the nylon string fret work of Dominic Miller who plays with Sting and has a new CD with Peter Kater. And we'll hear Mogwai, the Scottish post-rock band who works ambient moods into their new CD, The Hawk is Howling.
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Thursday 02/19
AN INTERVIEW WITH SUNDAD
Father and son trade guitar leads
John Eurell, Sr was a rock and roll guitarist who hung up his axe to get on with life when he started playing acoustic guitar with his son, John, Jr. For the last several years, they've been playing as Sundad mixing twin acoustic guitars in the spirit of fusion artists like John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola. John Jr. and Sr. talk about coming together on music while at different points in their lives.
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Friday 02/20
ECHOES ALTERNATIVE OSCARS
For your consideration....soundtracks the Academy missed
The best soundtracks of the year aren't necessarily nominated for Academy Awards. On this Echoes we'll hear music from films that didn't seem to pass Academy muster, but are welcome on the red carpet of Echoes. It's an all-soundtrack show of Oscar outcasts, though don't be surprised if a couple of Academy Award nominees crash the party.
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Playlists for previous weeks can be found at our Playlist Archive
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