Local and national bands play live in KGNU's performance studio.

Perfomeres from the Coalition of Women Songwriters, featuring:

Karen Finch (blues)

Susanna Minichiello (Kirtan)

Joy Adams (modern folk on cello)

Born and bred in the heart of Texas, Leslie Tom cut her teeth listening to Hank Williams, Patsy Cline and Bob Wills on the radio of her father’s Ford truck. Her own musical journey began at age 7, picking up the violin and clarinet before settling on piano, and eventually developing her vocal skills and songwriting chops.

This Denver-based songstress is defying the odds by steering away from the “Nashville style” country trends. Instead, combining relatable lyrics with her bubbly, sassy personality and an un-mistakable voice (along with the occasional fiddle and pedal steel guitar), Leslie Tom stands poised to hit the mainstream with her own traditional-modern spin on country music.

With John Macy on pedal steel.

https://www.leslietommusic.com

Animal / object and the Denver Avant Garde Music Society

A re-broadcast of the performance from Mary Stribling and Combo Amazo, who played on the Kabaret Sept 9, 2017. Dan Wilging hosts.

The Heartstring Hunters are an indie-folk band based in Boulder, CO. Rich harmonies, youthful optimism and stories-from-the-road.

The Heartstring Hunters are: singer-songwriter Carolyn Hunter, producer/mulit-instrumentalist Daniel Hunter, bassist Alessandro Ceserani, drummer Alex Heaton, and vocalist Rachael Sheaffer

RachelBaiman.com: In many ways, Shame, the new album from 27-year-old Nashville Americana songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Baiman, is an exploration of growing up female in America. “I wasn’t necessarily trying to write songs that would be easy to listen to,” Baiman says of the project, “I wanted to write about reality, in all of it’s terror and beauty.”

From the title track about abortion politics, to love, sex, and abuse in relationships, to classism and inequality in her re-write of Andy Irvine’s working class anthem “Never Tire of the Road,” the album is ambitious in its scope, yet remains cohesive through Baiman’s personal perspective.

Despite the serious subject matter, the overall feeling of the album remains light, with the tongue-in-cheek “Getting Ready to Start (Getting Ready)” and feel-good anthem “Let them Go To Heaven.” A departure from her stripped-down work with progressive folk duo 10 String Symphony, Shame is lush and varied in instrumentation and musical texture.

In the tradition of Butch Morris, Dino Deane conducts this 12 person emergent modern music ensemble.

Featuring: Dino J.A. Deane - conductor / live-sampling, Brian Mullins - tenor guitar, Bruce Orr - bassoon, Farrell Lowe - guitar / electronics, Gil Selinger - cello, Mark Harris - alto sax / flute, Markus Hunt - contrabass, Mathew Powelson - contrabass, Paul Mimlitsch - bass-clarinet, Phil Norman - cello, Todd Bilsborough - guitar / electronics, Victoria Lundy - theremin / electronics

DUSTY STRAY features the alt-folk repertoire of Texan songster Jonathan Brown which delves into universal themes of unrequited love, heartbreak, loneliness and death but (almost) always with a small dose of hope and redemption.

http://www.dustystray.com/