Crackin' the Vault

Remembering John Dee Holeman who passed last week at the age of 92 Never before heard cuts from John Dee at a house party in 1991 … and a John Hartford retrospective from 1999 This is a special day, the 10th birthday of KPTZ, and coincidentally the birthday of Larry Stein. Hope you tune in. Crackin’ the Vault will go on hiatus for the summer, this will be the last show for a while (though we will play a rerun next week). Thank you dear listeners, we hope you’ve enjoyed these shows. They’ll still be available on the Centrum podcast channel: https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/ See you soon I hope – enjoy every sandwich! Peter

Strange and Wondrous Gigs Gregg Miller and The Lips go head-to-head with the Mafia, and…? George Rezendes’ Dream Gig comes true, but how? Del Rey – the good, the bad, and the ugly, from Amsterdam to Texas The Original Foghorn String band represents all of American music - in Borneo! … and some pickin’ from Jerry Ricks If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel: https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/ Thanks for listening, have fun!

Floating Down the Mississippi From the headwaters in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, some music from every state we pass If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel: https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/ Thanks for listening, have fun! Peter

Don Esteban Hernandez and Mariachi Los Galleros de Pedro Rey A look and a listen to some of the six generations of the Hernandez dynasty, from the middle of the 19th century until today and some Balkan, blues, and banjo If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel: https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/ Thanks for listening, have fun! Peter

A look at the eclectic and creative musicians in our town, featuring: George Rezendes * George Radebaugh * The Delta Rays Simon Lynge * Janna Marit Murphy and Marckx * Those Darn Accordions Bobbie Nikles * The Jack Dwyer Band Abakis * Micaela Kingslight Bertram Levy and Kirk Sutphin * Neville Pearsall Danny Barnes * Jonathan Doyle * LA Jones * David Grisman and The Blue Crows If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel: https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/ Thanks for listening, have fun! Peter

Featuring: Joseba Tapia Dwight Lamb Joshua Horowitz Raynald Ouellet Smokey McKeen Chrissie Marshall If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel: https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/ Thanks for listening, have fun! Peter

1977 Fiddle Tunes Festival, the first one Featuring: Benny Thomasson  *  Mark Graham Kenny Hall  * Hank Bradley  * Larry Hanks Jerry Gallaher  *  Nancy Katz  *  Tony Marcus Marty Somberg  *  Ann Hansen  *  Scott Nygaard and The Gypsy Gyppo String Band If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel: https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/ Thanks for listening, have fun!  

Éirinn go Brách - Irish musical delights Get ready for St. Patrick’s Day with selections from: Liz Carroll and John Doyle Martin Mulhaire, Seamus Connolly, Seamus Egan Liz and Yvonne Kane, with Django Amerson Martin Hayes And a short moment of reflection for Vesta Johnson, who passed away last week. If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel: https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/ Thanks for listening, have fun! Peter

Danish Music with Morten Alfred Høirup and Mia Guldhammer, A conversation with Morten and Mia And selections from Ruthie Dornfeld, Kristian Bugge, Sonnich Lydom, and Jamie Fox If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel: https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/ Thanks for listening, have fun! Peter

The Gu-Achi Fiddlers, and Manmay Lakay Music from hot places: the Tohono O’odham from Arizona, led by Elliot Johnson and Manmay Lakay from St. Lucia, led by Augustin “Charley” Julian And thoughts from Jeanie McLerie and Ken Keppeler For a sobering and heart-breaking video about the wall built through the middle of the Tohono O’odham reservation (19 minutes): https://emergencemagazine.org/story/border-nation/ If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel: https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/ Thanks for listening, have fun! Peter

Singers of Note Singers from many Centrum programs, lots of duets, including: The Brain Marshall Family Band, Laurel Bliss and Cliff Perry Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin,  Pharis and Jason Romero, Mary Sherhart,  Alice Gerrard, Julie Fowlis, Shaye Cohn and Erika Lewis, the Lonesome Doves, Morten Alfred Høirup and Mia Guldhammer, Riley Baugus, and the Birmingham Sunlights If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel: https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/ Thanks for listening, have fun! Peter

Every Month is Black History Month Let’s retire Black History Month and incorporate Black history into every year-round history curriculum nationwide. In the meantime, we’ll listen to some Black musicians who have participated in Centrum programs. Including: The Carolina Chocolate Drops, with Joe Thompson Jerron Paxton and Phil Wiggins Howard Armstrong Boo Hanks and Dom Flemons Lynn August The Creole Cowboys and a little bit of Etta Baker Rhiannon Giddens has been loading one awesome post per day this month on her Facebook page, about Black history in general, highly recommended: https://www.facebook.com/RhiannonGiddensMusic/ If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel: https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/ Thanks for listening, have fun! Peter

Cleofes Ortiz Fiddlers from Northern New Mexico are all but gone. We’ll spend some time talking with Ken Keppeler and Jeanie McLerie about Cleofes and Tonie Apodaca, and the disappearance of culture. If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel: https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/ Thanks for listening, have fun! Peter

Don Pedro Dimas El Maestro, the dean of Purepecha fiddlers, passed last week, and we’ll spend some time listening to his music and telling some stories, and remembering him. … and a conversation with Zaidee Stavely about his life and legacy. For a look at Mirando al Lago (it’s worth it), Don Pedro’s orchestra, with dancers wearing regalia that he designed, dancing his choreography - tune in to the Quarantine Happy hour on Sunday, January 31, at 5:30pm PST. https://www.facebook.com/groups/quarantinehappyhourmusic   If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel: https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/ Thanks for listening, have fun! Peter

The Bobs! How they started, how they got their name, and a chat with Matthew Stull, founding member and selections from a Voice Works concert in 2015.   Including:   The Thundering Cannonballs; Moira Smiley; Elizabeth Laprelle; Eli West; Cedric Watson; The Peña-Govea Family – Miguel, Susan, Rene, and Cecilia; and some of the Bobs early hits     If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel: https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/   Thanks for listening, have fun!   Peter

A chat with Cathy Jordan, lead singer with Dervish, and how Reeb Willms came to know her. And selections from a Voice Works concert in 2015.   Including:   A look back at Christine Balfa’s triangle record; Cedric Watson; The Peña-Govea Family – Miguel, Susan, Rene, and Cecilia – with a corrido and a polka; Joel Savoy, Kelli Jones, Reeb Willms, Caleb Klauder; Cathy Jordan herself, with Mark Simos and Moira Smiley; If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel: https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/   Thanks for listening, have fun!   Peter

Alas, John passed way too soon, on January 2. We'll take an (inadequate) listen to some of the music John loved, vintage jazz, choro, and Italian dance music.   With: a few cuts of John on clarinet and bass clarinet; some of the source material for the Italian music that John played, including Tony Flores and his family and his connection to Port Townsend; Ricardo Tunzi; Paul Rangell and Emily Abbink; Irene Herrmann and Paul Hostetter   If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel: https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/   Thanks for listening, have fun!   Peter

Songs About Drinking (and other mood-altering substances), wishes for 2021, and a conversation with Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms about what it was like to be a touring band in 2020 and what it might look like going forward.   With: Neville Pearsall The Whiskey Spitters Steve James Tex Jackson and the Panhandlers Richie Stearns Tiny Moore Bearcat Wildcat Eric and Suzy Thompson Caleb and Reeb Bill Kirchen Outlaw Social (featuring Pharis Romero) Martin, Bogan, and Armstrong

New Christmas Music from Louisiana, and a chat with Chas Justus about his recent Yuletide Project   With:   Dirk Powell, fret-free The Roches Red Simpson The Stony Point Quartet (Dudley Connell, David McLaughlin, Linda Lay, and Bill Lux) Bill Kirchen The Silent Knights, featuring Brody Douglas Hunt Chas Justus Blake Miller and Amelia Biere Jamie Lynn Fontenot and Miriam McCracken Megan Constantin and Kelli Jones Corey Porche and Bird Courtney Granger (my favorite living male singer) Johnny Paycheck                 … and a few others     If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel: https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/   Thanks for listening, have fun!   Peter

Klezmer Music, Thoughts from Alicia Svigals about celebrating Hanukkah, Seven-Day Weddings, and Inviting Itzhak Perlman to Fiddle Tunes With: Alicia Svigals, Patrick Farrell, Lauren Brody Cookie Segelstein, Margot Leverett, Don Weeda, and Mark Rubin     If you can’t hear it live - most Crackin the Vault shows will be available on the Centrum podcast channel: https://centrum.org/artists-in-place/crackin-the-vault-2/   Thanks for listening, have fun!   Peter