Live At the Grafton
by Daniel A. Kugler
Live from the Grafton showcases musicians who are part of the Chicago folk community, interviewed by Dan Kugler. Often, guests are associated with the Old Town School of Folk Music. The show is an almost-monthly part of Folk Tuesdays at the Grafton, and edited shows are broadcast on WLUW 88.7 FM. All shows have been engineered by Gunnar Jebson.
Episodes
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The Lucky Ducks
The Lucky Ducks Live at the Grafton Download The Lucky Ducks are a duo from Chicago. Zoe Savage & Mike Jones take you through everything from blues shuffles to Cajun. They play Chicago Blues from Legend Little Walter and others, and also some Cajun music. Enjoy!
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Larry Rand
Larry Rand Live at the Grafton Download Rand is a longtime Chicagoan folk musician and humorist. Larry has performed on HBO, Comedy Central, Dr. Demento, and many more. He speaks on topics such as how he does his song writing, songs about politics in Chicago, songs that he did for a play, and…
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Rich Kreuger
Rich Kreuger Live at the Grafton Download Krueger is a major songwriter that has recently won the Kerrville 2018 New Folk award. He has received worldwide critical acclaim for his music. His 15-song sophomore album, “NOWThen” will be coming out in October 2018. The album will be about two periods...
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Golosa
Golosa Live at the Grafton Download The Golosa Choir have been performing for over 20-years, having their anniversary in 2017. They are Chicago’s one and only Russian choir. The choir plays sacred and Russian folk songs in cappella form and perform all year long throughout the Chicago area.…
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Donna Herula
Donna Herula Live at the Grafton Download Herula is a Chicago-born acoustic blues guitarist and singer who has a passion for Delta, country, and Chicago Blues. Highly known for playing the resonator guitar. She was named as one of the “top 10 up and coming resonator guitar players” by Guitar...
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Bau Graves
Bau Graves Live at the Grafton Bau Graves is Executive Director of the Old Town School of Folk Music, in Chicago, Illinois, the largest community school of the arts in the United States, and among the most active concert presenters in the Midwest. During his tenure, the School has continued its...
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Skip Landt and Strictly Jugnuts
Skip Landt and Strictly Jugnuts Live at the Grafton Strictly Jug Nuts was organized in 2008 by long-time Old Town School teacher Skip Landt. The band includes key members of the jug band that won the 25th Annual Battle of the Jug Bands in Minnesota in 2007 and others whose music appears on...
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Colby Maddox
Colby Maddox Live at the Grafton Colby moved to Chicago in 1995 to work and travel with The Special Consensus bluegrass band. He rubbed elbows and shared the stage with many of his heroes like Tim O’Brien, Scott Nygaard, Sally Van Meter, Laurie Lewis, Slavek Hanzlik, J.D. Crowe and John Hartford....
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Dave Bragman
Dave Bragman Live at the Grafton David G. Bragman teaches banjo, guitar, singing, and sound recording. He has been on the staff of the Old Town School for almost 20 years and started studying at the school in 1971. David performs with Brushfire, the Dime Store String Band, David & Marian, and…
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BandBoxBuster (Gunnar Jebsen)
BandBoxBuster (Gunnar Jebson) Live at the Grafton Gunnar Jebsen is BandBoxBuster. In addition to traditional banjo, he plays advanced compositions like those of Bela Fleck, and also employs looping and modified instrumentation to create his unique songs.
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Jason McInnes
Jason McInnes Live at the Grafton Jason McInnes uses his guitar and banjo to support his reinterpretation of folk traditions. His songs and stories are powerful, yet tender; uniquely his, yet as old as time. He has been a faculty member at the nationally recognized Old Town School of Folk Music...
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Paul Kaye
Paul Kaye Live at the Grafton Interview starts with Paul talking about growing up in New York and meeting some of the members of the 60s folk revival like Dave Van Ronk. We then talk about Paul cutting his teeth in Chicago with players like Detroit Jr., The Black Lone Ranger, Lefty Dizz…
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Steve Dawson
One of the most underrated songwriters in American music, Chicago-native Steve Dawson has been helming influential rock band Dolly Varden since the early ’90s, producing humane and hooky solo records, collaborating with his wife Diane Christiansen and digging into soul on side projects. His…
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Bucky Halker
"Bucky" Halker is an American academic, music historian, labor activist, singer and songwriter who specializes in American folk music. Halker is best known for his work on labor protest songs, Illinois folk music, and his involvement with the preservation of Woody Guthrie's musical legacy. He is…
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Mark Dvorak
Mark Dvorak is a modern day troubadour who has never stopped performing, writing and recording. He has been called "a folk singer's folk singer" with an "encyclopedic knowledge of traditional songs." His song writing has been called "wondrous" and "profound." Since 1981, Mark has performed in...
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Andy Cohen
Andy Cohen grew up in a house with a piano and a lot of Dixieland Jazz records, amplified after a while by a cornet that his dad got him. At about fifteen, he got bitten by the Folk Music bug, and soon got to hear records by Big Bill Broonzy and the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, both of which reminded…
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Old Lazarus Harp
Old Lazarus' Harp is a collective of some of the best folk acts in Chicago: Spitzer Space Telescope, Can I Get An Amen, Glass Mountain, Honey Hole Johnson and their friends. Every OLH show is a fiery resurrection of traditional folk songs. Covering everything from old time fiddle tunes to…
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The Pickin' Bubs
The Pickin' Bubs (Peggy Browning, Maura Lally and Mark Mitchell) are a Chicago acoustic trio whose sound is rooted in traditional music, from country blues, to gospel, to old time and folk ballads and carried on in the originals penned by the Pickin' Bubs and the songwriters they enjoy. They…
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Jonas Friddle
Jonas Friddle is a North Carolina native with a history in the Appalachian music tradition and is an experienced performer on the Guitar, Banjo, Fiddle and Mandolin. After graduating from Berea College he spent a year abroad as a Watson Fellow studying community building through traditional music...
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Chris Walz
Nationally acclaimed bluegrass multi-instrumentalist Chris Walz combines a joy of performing with a reverence for America’s musical story. Chris perfected his Scruggs-style banjo playing and guitar flatpicking at a young age as he diligently studied all his musical heroes from Pete Seeger to...
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Ed Holstein
Ed Holstein has been a stalwart of the Chicago folk music scene for over 40 years. He has written a number of songs including “Jazzman” which have been recorded or performed by the likes of Bette Midler, Bonnie Koloc, Tom Rush, Steve Goodman, and Martin Simpson. He is also a featured performer on...
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Paul Tyler
After twenty-plus years at the Old Town School, Paul Tyler, a country boy from Indiana, has gradually become a Chicagoan. He plays fiddle, mandolin and guitar in the Fantastic Toe Trippers Orchestra and the Fly Boys, the band behind the WAZO County Warblers. Previously, he did a long stint with…
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Congress of Startlings
Chicago-based Congress of Starlings progressive folk-rock fills the room with fun energy, magical lyrics, stellar harmonies, and challenging reflections on nature, gender, and humanity. Aerin Tedesco and Andrea Bunch have been entertaining midwest and east coast audiences for over a decade at…
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Matt Brown
Thanks to his banjo-playing father, Matt grew up with old-time music. He studied classical violin with Linda Litwin and Richard Amoroso, and old-time music with Brad Leftwich, Bruce Molsky, Paul Brown, Ginny Hawker, and Tracy Schwarz. He has appeared at The Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage and…
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About this show
Live from the Grafton showcases musicians who are part of the Chicago folk community, interviewed by Dan Kugler. Often, guests are associated with the Old Town School of Folk Music. The show is an almost-monthly part of Folk Tuesdays at the Grafton, and edited shows are broadcast on WLUW 88.7 FM. All shows have been engineered by Gunnar Jebson.
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