Sounds to Grow On

In this program we explore the various musical sides of Pete Seeger. We will begin with Pete at Carnegie Hall getting ev... Read more

I am originally from New York City, though Canada has been my home since 1969. But that wasn’t my first time in Canada.... Read more

This time, I thought we’d wander about the collection listening to a teeny bit of the Jazz that my father recorded. Give... Read more

Shortly before he died in 1986, my father was interviewed I think by the Today Show on NBC. At that time, he justified h... Read more

Harold Courlander is an important figure in the history of Folkways. Well known in some circles for winning the case aga... Read more

This show will mine the Folkways catalogue for songs about clocks and time, at least Western conceptions of time. We sta... Read more

This show is called “talking about and singing the blues.” The idea comes from the Folkways album “This is the Blues.” I... Read more

Nicola Sacco and Bartolmeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchists, were executed unjustly in 1927 for armed robbery and murder of ... Read more

It was kind of a gloomy day around Michael Asch’s home when his researcher Rob Wiznura sent him an idea for a show that ... Read more

This show is built around the song “The Ink is Black” or “Black and White” by David Arkin, Alan Arkin’s father and Earl ... Read more