Archive for November, 2009

A Note From Helen . . . This week’s eTown broadcast with Neko Case and Charlie Louvin

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Be sure to tune into eTown this week, we’ve got an amazing show for you: A budding legend is teamed with a living legend in this eTown repeat broadcast. Neko Case has earned accolades since early on in her career. She is truly a brilliant musician, writer, singer and performer, and I hope you will [...]

A Note From Helen . . . This week’s etown broadcast with The Barenaked Ladies and Catie Curtis

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Here’s what’s cookin’ on the air in eTown this week: One of my most favorite shows, featuring some of my most favorite folks, is back by popular demand:  the beloved Barenaked Ladies return to eTown to share some songs from their children’s CD Snacktime. These delightfully crafted tunes will appeal to the kid in all [...]

Check out this cool performance by Shawn Colvin

Friday, November 13th, 2009

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Hi all, it’s Helen. Hey, if you haven’t yet tuned in to this week’s broadcast, here’s a song from that show to tempt you: it’s Shawn Colvin doing “Secret Gardens’ (that’s the song, written by Judy Collins, that Shawn did on a recent tribute album to Judy, featuring various female artists). Shawn performs it here [...]

A Note From Helen . . . Part Two of eTown’s special ‘on the road’ program with Judy Collins and Shawn Colvin

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

What’s our broadcast this week? It’s Part Two of eTown’s special ‘on the road’ program, coming to you from the historic Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder, Colorado. In this installment, there’s a breathtaking live performance by eTown favorite, singer/songwriter extraordinaire Shawn Colvin.  She works up some great songs, (some solo and some with the ETones – [...]

Dinner & A Show with Imogen Heap and Gregory Alan Isakov

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

If you’re not one of the millions of Imogen Heap’s Twitter followers or viral video subscribers, you’ve at least heard her music on the dozens of television shows and movies that have used her songs to accompany their footage.  On November 15th,  eTown  welcomes Imogen Heap to our stage along with Gregory Alan Iskov, a [...]

Judy Collins performs “Born To The Breed” on eTown

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

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As Helen mentioned in the eTown post below, those that crammed into the frigid and sold-out Chautauqua Auditorium for an eTown taping were treated to a heated evening with legendary folk divas Judy Collins and Shawn Colvin, along with an extremely pertinent conversation with Bill McKibben of 350.org. You can hear Part 1 of the [...]

A Note From Helen . . . This week’s eTown broadcast with Judy Collins and Shawn Colvin

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

eTown travels to the historic Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder, in conjunction with their ‘Grand Convergence’ conference, to tape this special two-part broadcast. Here in Part One, there’s an extraordinary performance from folk and pop music legend, Judy Collins. She shares a set of her classic songs, some stripped down and others featuring fine accompaniment by [...]