We have so many talented artists stop by the WFPK studios for live performance and a chat it's hard to keep up with them all! If you missed your favorite artist who was on yesterday or the day before, or if you heard a great interview and want to hear it again ... this is the place!


The Louisville Ballet & Ben Sollee: A Perfect Match

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The Louisville Ballet is celebrating 60 years and has a lot of exciting shows in the work.  One of those happens to be a collaboration with the ballet’s Mikelle Bruzina and ‘FPK fav Ben Sollee.  We talked to both artists about the whys, hows, whens, and wheres (this weekend, April 13-14 at The Brown Theatre) when they stopped in earlier this week.

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Mickey Hart in-studio

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Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart has always been searching for the perfect and most unusual beat. This time he goes to outer space and retrieves rhythms from the Universe- literally! His new album is called Mysterium Tremendum and he gets pretty cerebral and celestial in our conversation about it.

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Civil Twilight in-studio

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Steven McKeller, lead singer and front man for the band Civil Twilight, stopped by our studio almost as soon as our successful Spring Membership Drive ended to celebrate with us by playing a couple of songs off their new album Holy Weather.

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A Conversation with Bonnie Raitt

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Bonnie Raitt has a new album called Slipstream and she’s released it on her own label-Redwing. The legendary singer & slide guitarist recently talked to 91.9 about the new album, her own label, recent loss and recent triumph. WFPK is proud to present Bonnie Raitt in concert at The Kentucky Center for The Arts’ Whitney Hall on May 13th.

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Fanfarlo in-studio

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The London based Indie band Fanfarlo was recently in town to support their new release called Rooms Filled With Light. They performed a couple of songs for us.

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Winterpills in the WFPK Studio

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Philip Price and Flora Reed of The Winterpills stopped by the WFPK studio after a show at Uncle Slayton’s last Sunday evening.  Here’s what they sounded like:

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HillVille Co-publishers talk about the new online magazine

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Niki King and Beth Newberry co-publish The HillVille, an online magazine of urban Appalachia. Each week, you’ll find news, features, columns and profiles of people and places that will appeal to and engage urban Appalachians. They stopped by the WFPK studios to talk to Michael Young, host of Roots ‘n’ Boots.

 

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Chris Trapper in-studio

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Chris Trapper fronted the Boston based band The Pushstars for many years and has several solo releases as well. His newest is called The Few & The Far Between. We talk about some of the guests on the record such as Colin Hay & Rob Thomas. Chris also plays for us a couple of great songs live.

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