Homegrown Music Podcast

A Scranton area singer-songwriter/electronic musician, Ms. Fernandes creates ethearal sounding music with New Age influence, in this 2019 solo studio session.

A wacky acoustic rock trio known for their songs about superhero frogs, world-changing haircuts, and a lost continent of vegetables

Named after a venue in Scranton, this all-star group includes musicians with backround in jazz, blues, bluegrass and classical music, to perform music inspired by the innovative jazz guitarist Djanho Reinhardt.

A prolific singer-songwriter from the Scranton area, the late Dave Wight succumbed to cancer in 2003 in his early 50s.

Singer-songwriter and guitarist Ned Farr is known as a filmmaker, producing and directing everything from feature films to informercials.

A long-running group from the Lehigh Valley headed by guitarist-singer-songwriter Joey Mutis III, who combine intelligent folk and rock with a bit of jam band influence. This podcast is an anthology of songs from three sessions in 1993 and 1994.

Singer-songwriter and harmonica player Ron Sunshine is a great swing revivalist.

This Baltimore area trio calls their music Indian Jazz Fusion, featuring classically-trained Indian sitar and taba players, a jazz keyboardist and a guest guitarist, Melodic Intersect creates original improvisation music with a disctily Indian texture but often with a jazz groove.

One of the more distinctive groups to come out of the Homegrown Music series, Bedful of Metaphysicians combined a high level of musicianship with art rock and fusion influence, with often humorous and topical lyrics.

Jay Leonhart is one of the leading and ubiquitous bassists in jazz, having performed and recorded with Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra James Taylor, Sting, Mel Torme, Peter, Paul & Mary, Gerry Mulligan, Phil Woods, Urbie Green and many others.

First formed in 1987 when the members were still in high school, the Mommyheads are known for thier distinctive blend of art rock and melodic pop, aliong with clever lyrics.