In Search of a Song: Evie Ladin Part 2

EVIE LADIN PART 2: BROADCAST  7 / 21 / 2012
IN SEARCH OF A SONG originates in BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA and is sponsored by: THE BLUEBIRD NIGHTCLUB ,  AIRTIME RECORDING STUDIO ,  and VISIT BLOOMINGTON.COM
Executive Producer Rich Reardin interviews Evie Ladin and Keith Terry about their lives and music.
Evie Ladin is a natural entertainer with a gift for infusing folk practices with contemporary verve.
--SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Evie Ladin is a banjo player, step-dancer, singer, songwriter and square-dance caller with a lifetime of experience in traditional American cultural arts. She grew up in a trad folk scene up and down the Eastern Seaboard of the US, travels the world, and calls the rich arts scene in Oakland, California home. She also tours with The Stairwell Sisters, all-gal old-time teardown, and Keith Terry & Crosspulse, performing rhythm-based multi-cultural music & dance works. She teaches banjo, harmony singing and dance and calls rowdy square dances in the San Francisco Bay Area when you can find her there.

Topics discussed:   Keith talks about collaborating and what he adds to the songs from his part, audience participation, orchestrating and playing the audience with humor, communicating through music without the use of words or lyrics, how Evie's side is ALL about the lyrics and words, using the banjo as an expressive intrument, other forms of art that inspired her songwriting, how politics or current events do not have much influence on her music, how she hopes the experience of her artform brings people closer together from the aspect of what they have in common, rather than pointing out how they are different,what makes a good song, and what they're musical lives are like in various perspectives on the road.

Musical selections include: Coffeeshop, Dime Store Glasses, Precious Days, The First Time, Mistreated Mama/Yew Piney Mountain, Dance Me, How Did You Know.

This program is "Evergreen" and not date specific.

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