Sleepover Show #133: You Won’t

The space that You Won’t occupies is a maze.   We showed up to film and they had plenty of ideas about where to perform.  We walked up a flight of stairs and realized that two apartments were connected on the second floor, the walls removed long ago. We passed room after room wondering where we [...]

Instrument Interview #9: Sarah Neufeld

The incredibly talented Sarah Neufeld, who has been playing with different bands for a long while now (you may have heard of one of them, Arcade Fire), has begun playing solo music as well.  And it’s really good.  In our latest monologue, Sarah tells us about her violin, how it is different than working in [...]

Instrument Interview #8: Mark O’Connor

Today, we give you the first of a series of interviews about violins.  And what better way to start than with Mark O’Connor, one of the most celebrated violinists of the past few decades.  We hope you enjoy. To stay updated, make sure to find us on Facebook or Twitter.

Instrument Interview #7: Ben Jaffe

We met up with Ben Jaffe, Creative Director and Tuba player for the Preservation Hall Jazz Band the night before they headed down to the Newport Folk Festival.  Sitting in the lobby of the Fairmont Copley Hotel, we watched as the rest of the band milled about, meeting old friends and getting ready for their [...]

Sleepover Show #132: Horse Feathers II

Sleepover Shows first had the opportunity to film Horse Feathers very early on, only a few months after the blog began. We narrowly fit the band into a bright green stairwell and tried our best to capture their amazing music. This time, we had a bit more to work with location-wise. We met the band [...]

Sleepover Show #131: Lisa Hannigan

We were looking forward to meeting Lisa Hannigan in person after having listened to her voice for many years accompanying Damien Rice on the albums O and 9 Crimes. She has since moved on and started a solo career with her debut album, Sea Sew in 2008 and most recently released the album Passenger. It’s [...]

Sleepover Show #130: Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again—some of our favorite sessions have been with artists who can take their music and transform it into something different right before our eyes.  And so it was when we met up with Richard Edwards of Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s to capture a few [...]

Sleepover Show #129: The Wooden Sky

We met up with The Wooden Sky earlier in the year to capture some songs off their latest, excellent album, Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun.  We figured a good spot might be Somerville Grooves, a recently opened record shop, and conveniently right down the road from Radio, one of the newest venues [...]

Sleepover Show #128: Blitzen Trapper

What better way to be reminded of all the natural imagery in Blitzen Trapper’s music than to see them play beneath a tree, gently swaying in the breeze?  Well, that’s exactly what we did when we met up with the band while they were down at the Newport Folk Festival a few weeks ago.  It [...]

Newport Folk Festival 2012

It doesn’t get any better than the Newport Folk Festival.  Gathering traditional folk musicians as well as some you wouldn’t think fit the bill, in recent years Fort Adams has been a great place to discover and remember some incredible music.  We spent the week filming some bands, but here’s a little taste of what [...]