eTown

Let's rewind the clock back to 2019 and check out a show featuring two amazing singer-songwriters! John Butler travels to us from Australia to play some solo tunes as well as a rousing version of his hit 'Better Than' with the inimitable eTones. And from New Mexico comes Eliza Gilkyson, a folk singer-songwriter best known for her heartfelt and socially conscious music. Nick also chats with Frank Anello, a Denver man who founded Project Worthmore in order to provide invaluable support to refugees. That's all this week on eTown! Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more! Be a part of the audience at our next recording: https://www.etown.org/etown-hall/all-events/ Your support helps us bring concerts, tapings and conversations to audiences while fostering connection through music, ideas and community. If you'd like to support eTown's mission to educate, entertain and inspire a diverse audience through music and conversation, please consider a donation: https://www.etown.org/get-involved/donate-orig/.

Join us as eTown celebrates the season with a compilation show of holiday music gathered from our archives. It features artists such as: The Blind Boys of Alabama, Sarah McLachlan, Dan Fogelberg, Tim O'Brien, The Indigo Girls, and more! That's all this week on eTown! Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more! Be a part of the audience at our next recording: https://www.etown.org/etown-hall/all-events/ Your support helps us bring concerts, tapings and conversations to audiences while fostering connection through music, ideas and community. If you'd like to support eTown's mission to educate, entertain and inspire a diverse audience through music and conversation, please consider a donation: https://www.etown.org/get-involved/donate-orig/.

Welcome to a wonderful new eTown show featuring musical guest, Kate Bollinger, a breathy singer whose music is charming and captivating. Also featured this week is Matt Pond PA, comprised of Matt Pond and Chris Hansen, whose music is both poetic and heartfelt. And, Nick has a chat with Roger Briggs about his book, "Emerging World: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Future of Humanity" and the need for positive messaging. That's all this week, on eTown! Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more! Be a part of the audience at our next recording: https://www.etown.org/etown-hall/all-events/ Your support helps us bring concerts, tapings and conversations to audiences while fostering connection through music, ideas and community. If you'd like to support eTown's mission to educate, entertain and inspire a diverse audience through music and conversation, please consider a donation: https://www.etown.org/get-involved/donate-orig/.

This week on eTown, we are going to revisit one of our favorite shows from 2018 featuring Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer Chris Hillman of The Byrds, accompanied by Herb Pedersen. Also taking to the eTown stage is Hiss Golden Messenger led by MC Taylor. Nick also engages in a great conversation about dinosaurs with paleontologist Dr. Kenneth Lacovara. That's all this week, on eTown! Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more! Be a part of the audience at our next recording: https://www.etown.org/etown-hall/all-events/ Your support helps us bring concerts, tapings and conversations to audiences while fostering connection through music, ideas and community. If you'd like to support eTown's mission to educate, entertain and inspire a diverse audience through music and conversation, please consider a donation: https://www.etown.org/get-involved/donate-orig/.

What a wonderful show we have for you this week! From the Pacific Northwest comes Haley Heynderickx, a genuinely unique and authentic singer-songwriter who promotes slow art as an alternative to our fast-paced modern life. And from Austin, Texas comes Matt The Electrician, yet another authentic singer-songwriter who shares not only his music but also his love of baseball. Also, Nick has an entertaining chat with historian and author, Professor Patricia Limerick about a handful of interesting topics. That's all this week on eTown! Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more! Be a part of the audience at our next recording: https://www.etown.org/etown-hall/all-events/ Your support helps us bring concerts, tapings and conversations to audiences while fostering connection through music, ideas and community. If you'd like to support eTown's mission to educate, entertain and inspire a diverse audience through music and conversation, please consider a donation: https://www.etown.org/get-involved/donate-orig/.

Join us as we head back to 2017 to hear music from Andrew Bird, a prolific folk artist and Grammy Award nominee, as well as Leif Vollebekk, an effervescent Canadian folk multi-instrumentalist/songwriter. Nick also sits down with Tom Chappell, co-founder of Tom's of Maine and Rambler's Way, to discuss the marriage of values and business. That's all this week on eTown! Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more! Be a part of the audience at our next recording: https://www.etown.org/etown-hall/all-events/ Your support helps us bring concerts, tapings and conversations to audiences while fostering connection through music, ideas and community. If you'd like to support eTown's mission to educate, entertain and inspire a diverse audience through music and conversation, please consider a donation: https://www.etown.org/get-involved/donate-orig/.

Join us as eTown goes back in time and on the road to Bentonville, Arkansas. Our musical guests include the hilariously funny yet seriously talented duo The Milk Carton Kids along with the tradition-stretching sonic talents of Buffalo Nichols. Nick also discusses the community-building magic of barbeque with a local Bentonville hero. That's all this week on eTown! Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more! Be a part of the audience at our next recording: https://www.etown.org/etown-hall/all-events/ Your support helps us bring concerts, tapings and conversations to audiences while fostering connection through music, ideas and community. If you'd like to support eTown's mission to educate, entertain and inspire a diverse audience through music and conversation, please consider a donation: https://www.etown.org/get-involved/donate-orig/.

This week on eTown we feature two amazing guitar players! Trace Bundy is a leading exemplar of contemporary acoustic instrumental music and Ron Artis II is an eclectic player with great range who also sings heart-wrenching songs. Nick also has a chat with Byron Kominek, a proponent of agrivoltaics - the art of growing plants within the micro-climates that exist under solar panels. That's all this week on eTown! Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more! Be a part of the audience at our next recording: https://www.etown.org/etown-hall/all-events/ Your support helps us bring concerts, tapings and conversations to audiences while fostering connection through music, ideas and community. If you'd like to support eTown's mission to educate, entertain and inspire a diverse audience through music and conversation, please consider a donation: https://www.etown.org/get-involved/donate-orig/.

The wayback machine lands us back in 2017 to revisit a show featuring John Moreland and Phoebe Hunt. Nick joins John onstage for an acoustic tour de force of Oklahoma folk-flavored original tunes and Phoebe is joined by the eTones as she lends her silky-voiced twang to the Americana lexicon. We also hear from Susan Burton, a formerly incarcerated drug addict turned activist who has used her life experience to help and reform others with similar struggles. That's all this week on eTown! Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more! Be a part of the audience at our next recording: https://www.etown.org/etown-hall/all-events/ Your support helps us bring concerts, tapings and conversations to audiences while fostering connection through music, ideas and community. If you'd like to support eTown's mission to educate, entertain and inspire a diverse audience through music and conversation, please consider a donation: https://www.etown.org/get-involved/donate-orig/.

What a special eTown we have for you this week!. From Nashville, comes veteran singer-songwriter, Darrell Scott, whose songs have literally travelled out of this world. And, from the Netherlands comes a newcomer to the Nashville song factory, Jana Mila. Both artists share their unique takes on classics as well as original songs. Also, Nick chats with Allison Neswood about her social justioce work with the Native American Rights Fund. Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more! Be a part of the audience at our next recording: https://www.etown.org/etown-hall/all-events/ If you'd like to support eTown's mission, please consider a donation: https://www.etown.org/get-involved/donate-orig/.

This week on eTown we revisit a show from last year - eTown travels all of 30 miles from Boulder to The Mission Ballroom in Denver, Colorado to catch the amazing performances from two Austin, Texas-based acts: Charley Crockett, a street performing vagabond turned New Country star, and Greyhounds, a funky, funky trio of soulful gentlemen. That's all this week on eTown! Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more! Be a part of the audience at our next recording: https://www.etown.org/etown-hall/all-events/

This week on eTown we feature two acts that are veteran stalwarts of the music world. From Nashville comes The Del McCoury Band, one of the premier groups in Bluegrass, featuring multiple generations of the McCoury family. Ann Savoy joins us from Eunice, Louisiana and performs songs from her latest album, Another Heart, a collection of autobiographical remnants from her life. That's all this week on eTown! Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more!

This week on eTown, we're headed back in time to 2020 to feature a tough-to-pin-down bluegrass-influenced band The Lil Smokies as well as English singer-songwriter Jack Broadbent. Nick also has a chat with a young indigenous climate activist Xiye Bastida. That's all this week on eTown! Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more!

What a great show we have for you this week! The hilarious and talented John Craigie travels to eTown Hall from Portland, Oregon along with his band. Also on the bill is the Americana songstress, Jobi Riccio who comes to us from just down the road in Morrison, Colorado. She shares songs from her Nashville debut - Whiplash. Nick also interviews the first Native American Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities - Shelly C. Lowe. That's all this week on eTown! Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more!

This week on eTown, we’re featuring indie-folk-rock band Big Thief and legendary Americana singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, live from Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, CO. While the theatre of Red Rocks is dramatic in and of itself, this year’s show was electric – storms brewed overhead before, during, and after. Paired with incredible music from Big Thief and Lucinda Williams, set and setting combined for a night that was nothing short of magic. That's all this week on eTown! Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more!

What a great show we have for you this week! Donavon Frankenreiter joins us from Hawaii and spreads all the chill beach vibes. From the great Canadian city of Toronto comes Donovan Woods to share his intimate brand of singer-songwriting. Nick also has a conversation with Zara Alexandra, (a singer-songwriter herself) who is the Organizer of the Colorado Chapter of the National Young Farmers Coalition, about the joys and challenges of working the land in these contemporary times. That's all this week on eTown! Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more!

Join us as we check out another show from the eTown archives! This week, we're featuring progressive Bluegrass-influenced Americana band Railroad Earth and Blues powerhouse Matt Andersen. Our interview guest for the week is the President of Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, Bill Bennet, who chats with Nick about providing financial assistance to struggling musicians. That's all this week on eTown! Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more!

What a great show we have for you this week! Valerie June is a creative artist like no other. She not only plays and sings in a most distinctive voice but she also writes books on poetry and self-improvement. Larry & Joe are also a musical group like no other in that they play "Latin Grass" - a mix of Bluegrass and Latin American flavors. That's all this week on eTown! Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more!

From the soulful gravelly voice of Bettye LaVette to the vintage guitar stylings of Vilray, we've got a great show from the archives for you this week. Nick also interviews Rose Tourje, founder of the non-profit organization ANEW that tackles issues of recycling and trash management to better our environment. That's all this week on eTown! Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more! Be a part of the audience at our next recording: https://www.etown.org/etown-hall/all-events/

This week in eTown we are visited by two musicians from the great white north of Canada. Feist and her band make their first appearance along with fellow eTown neophyte, Sam Weber. Nick also has a chat with Sarah Townes, the CFO of the American Solar Energy SocIety, about aiding Native Americans in South Dakota. That's all this week on eTown!