Podcasts about Evie Ladin

Episode 27 features banjoist Evie Ladin, Juno Award-winning songwriter Lynn Miles, Americana group Jackson Pines, singer-songwriter Jennifer Castle, and internet-famous mortician from Warren, Minnesota, Victor Sweeney.

Today I'm pleased to be joined by Evie Ladin, world-class banjo player and musician. Evie's coming to Peaks on March 29th as part of the Long Winter's Night Concert Series at the New Brackett Church at 7pm. In this interview, we talk about Evie's roots in music and movement and what folks can expect to hear at her performance. For details about Evie's latest album, check out evieladin.com I also want to update you on the results of the Spring Hop. If you went to the Hop, or listened to the last interview with Danielle and Sage, you know that they were raising funds for a community art event. Well, the Hop brought in approximately $750 - enough to host an Invitational Group Show at The Crow's Nest and Gathering Space. There are already 12 confirmed artists for the group show. It will run Friday May 24th starting with a reception that evening, and will be available weekends through Sunday June 2nd including Memorial Day hours on May 27th. Congrats to Danielle and Sage, and to everyone who participated in the fun night of dance. Hopefully there will be others to look forward to in the future! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/peaksislandradio/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/peaksislandradio/support

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week's friend is Evie Ladin. We recorded this at her home in Oakland, CA. Tune in this episode: * My Epitaph (1:38) * Horse and Buggy-O (26:14) * Only You (33:43) * Jenny Get Around (41:36) * John Brown's Dream (50:15) * Bonus Track: Swing Lady Home Visit Evie Ladin's website (https://evieladin.com/events/) Follow Evie Ladin on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/evieladin/) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/EvieLadin/) TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@evieladin) Bandcamp (https://evieladin.bandcamp.com/) Evie Ladin on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/6sTZhHbZkS4PiHlE2StJkc) Evie Ladin Band on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/1iLSCtfJXy3IVYzeAkJXDJ) See Tall Poppy String Band on our Mid-Atlantic tour! (https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/shows) Sign up for Cameron's Fall Old Time Songs Banjo Workshop Series (https://www.camerondewhitt.com/store) Find out more about Old Growth Old Time, Seattle's new old time festival! (https://oldgrowtholdtime.org/) Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool) Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! (https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/) Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron (https://www.camerondewhitt.com/banjolessons) Check out Cameron's old time trio Tall Poppy String Band (https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/)

www.patreon.com/banjopodcast   In this episode, host Keith Billik interviews Evie Ladin! Evie is a fantastic clawhammer banjo player, but is also a professional singer, songwriter, percussive dancer, and square dance caller. She is best known for her work performing and recording with Rhythm n' Shoes, the Stairwell Sisters, and the Evie Ladin Band.   Sponsored by Peghead Nation, Elderly Instruments, and GHS Strings   Evie on the web: www.evieladin.com   Contact the show: pickyfingersbanjopodcast@gmail.com

This week on Dancing Through the Lens, Coral spoke with Evie Ladin. Not only is Ladin the director of the Oakland-based MoToR/dance, she is a singer/songwriter with many groups including the eponymous Evie Ladin band and also the director of the International Body Music Festival (a project of Oakland-based nonprofit Crosspulse). The episode discusses her upbringing in music and dance, technical considerations of creating music videos, and the inspiration behind 2021 SFDFF selection Drumset. The Storm(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWJKC9wqM5M&ab_channel=EvieLadin)filmed and edited by Chafic Saad and Kris LeeAin't No Grave(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiDrGmgj1CM&ab_channel=EvieLadin_filmed by Mark Kohr (2014 SFDFF Co-Lab Participant)@evieladin@crosspulsehttps://evieladin.com/ #MoToRMondays

Banjo player, singer, songwriter, percussive-dancer, choreographer and square-dance caller, Evie has always been surrounded by music – credit to her upbringing as daughter of an international folk dance teacher, and an old-time folk music devotee, she grew up thinking that playing music, dancing, singing with others was what people do.  Though entrenched in the traditional cultural arts of Appalachia, her home was in New York City, Baltimore, now Oakland – in cities, not mountains. But tradition bearers came through and played in her living room, with weekends spent at music festivals and house parties.  Evie's performances, recordings and teaching reconnect Appalachian music/dance with other African-Diaspora traditions, and have been heard from A Prairie Home Companion to Lincoln Center, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass to Celtic Connections. Evie tours internationally with Keith Terry and her Evie Ladin Band; and has produced numerous albums and instructional DVDs. Writing clever, engaging songs, for her neo-trad kinetic roots band with Keith Terry & Erik Pearson, in 2019 they released two CDs: the band's fourth album of adventurous originals, Caught On A Wire, and Riding the Rooster, totally traditional, raging fiddle/banjo duets, quickly followed by a 2020 EP of favorite cover songs Playing Our Hand. In the percussive dance world, Evie directs the moving choir MoToR/dance for live performance and award winning dance films, is Executive Director, artist and choreographer with the International Body Music Festival, and an ace freestyle flatfooter. She is a 2020 Jubilation Fellow, awarded to artists with an exceptional talent for bringing joy to people through music and movement. In the traditional music world, Evie calls rowdy community square dances, and teaches clawhammer banjo, old time harmony singing and more. An electric and entertaining live performer, Evie really enjoys balancing performance with facilitating arts learning in diverse communities. Evie Ladin is a natural entertainer with a gift for infusing folk practices with contemporary verve. —SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE For more on Evie, please visit: https://evieladin.com/ Tracks listed in this episode: You Gotta Be Hunting The Buffalo  Have It All News Cyclone

Inside the Episode with Mitch Hampton “I confess I tend to lay it on pretty thick when making self deprecatory jokes about all the many things I claim to not be able to do well, whether it is drawing or, not able to do at all in the case of our current episode any kind of sculpture. In this particular episode I happen joke about how I am "impaired" in seeing objects in three dimensional space for example, and sing the praises of Beth and Rob Magnum in their "visual intelligence" and their ability to turn out beautiful and handcrafted works of pottery. But all joking aside, my point in all of this is actually more far reaching. My point is never to judge or compare in a thumbs up/thumbs down juvenilia. Rather, my aim is a philosophical one: to emphasize that are as many different paths as to the way of art as there are ways of being in the world. That, although all the arts are one, nevertheless the arts come in many different mediums of expression. There is nothing I love more than spending quality time with people who have skills that I personally lack. Not only do I learn an enormous amount about what it is like to walk in another's shoes, I am also reminded that there are no "little things" in art and nothing can be taken for granted. Being in the physical space of Magnum Pottery and hearing heir life stories was to me what our podcast is all about. I hope you enjoy listening to it every bit as much as I enjoyed bring there. “ More about Mangum Pottery: Nestled into the Blue Ridge mountains Of Buncombe County near Asheville, North Carolina lies the historic town of Weaverville. Stroll down Main Street and you may wander into this working pottery studio. As you step into the gallery you’ll see displays of pitchers, teapots, and tableware next to hand built vases, ceramic furniture and banjos. Beyond the wares are craftsmen hard at work. Potters Rob and Beth Mangum continue a creative tradition started by Rob’s parents over forty years ago. Continued here….. Links to Mangum Pottery’s beautiful work: Website: https://www.mangumpottery.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mangumpottery/ You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi6Fe9ek2uThby5L-XjVV5Q Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mangumpottery/ Links and details about Rob's beautiful music, gratefully used in this episode, thanks Rob! Featured songs are : Opening song is Evie Ladin featuring Bob Mangum called “Checkin' on the Taters”. The closing song is from Bob Magnum called “Primordial Chowder” from “In The Midst, Migratio”. https://www.facebook.com/The-Barsters-129964614073495/ https://soundcloud.com/rob-mangum-837747707 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mitch-hampton/message

The Neo-Trad Kinetic Folk of The Evie Laden Band (from Northern California) live on Folkscene. Hosted by the late Roz Larman. Engineered and remastered by Peter Cutler ©Folkscene

This week, renowned California bluegrass and roots singer-songwriter, traditional dancer, and multi-instrumentalist Evie Ladin and her band recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park. Also, interviews with Evie. “The neo-trad kinetic-folk of the Evie Ladin Band is a mingling of the deep Appalachian sound of clawhammer banjo, guitar, bass and percussive dance, with contemporary storytelling and original, conversational interplay among the band members. Some of their adventurousness comes from early hip hop in the high school cafeteria, some from Evie’s early attraction to, and study of, the African roots in Appalachian music and dance. She created an African Studies In Dance major at Brown University, then studied dance in Eastern Nigeria on a Fulbright Fellowship. While myriad world and contemporary music influences permeate the band’s choices, they never reach too far, remaining seamless and true to the stories they tell. Precisely because Evie was raised to know that music, dance and singing are what humans do together, she is an avid educator and community facilitator, at all ages and levels, in diverse communities.  An electric and entertaining live performer, balancing performing with hands on teaching has proven extremely satisfying.  Music is meant to move. Music is to do. In listening, live or on record, Evie keeps bringing you back to these basics, while savoring the real stuff of life.” - https://evieladin.com/bio/ In this week’s “From the Vault” segment, musician, educator, and country music legacy Mark Jones offers a 1978 archival recording of Ozark original Bob Strayer performing on a mouth harp the traditional song “Turkey in the Straw,” from the Ozark Folk Center State Park archives. Writer, musician, and traditional dancer Aubrey Atwater discusses the tradition of “work songs” in folk music with musical examples and her own cultivated insight.

This week, renowned California bluegrass and roots singer-songwriter, traditional dancer, and multi-instrumentalist Evie Ladin and her band recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park. Also, interviews with Evie. “The neo-trad kinetic-folk of the Evie Ladin Band is a mingling of the deep Appalachian sound of clawhammer banjo, guitar, bass and percussive dance, with contemporary storytelling and original, conversational interplay among the band members. Some of their adventurousness comes from early hip hop in the high school cafeteria, some from Evie’s early attraction to, and study of, the African roots in Appalachian music and dance. She created an African Studies In Dance major at Brown University, then studied dance in Eastern Nigeria on a Fulbright Fellowship. While myriad world and contemporary music influences permeate the band’s choices, they never reach too far, remaining seamless and true to the stories they tell. Precisely because Evie was raised to know that music, dance and singing are what humans do together, she is an avid educator and community facilitator, at all ages and levels, in diverse communities.  An electric and entertaining live performer, balancing performing with hands on teaching has proven extremely satisfying.  Music is meant to move. Music is to do. In listening, live or on record, Evie keeps bringing you back to these basics, while savoring the real stuff of life.” - https://evieladin.com/bio/ In this week’s “From the Vault” segment, musician, educator, and country music legacy Mark Jones offers a 1978 archival recording of Ozark original Bob Strayer performing on a mouth harp the traditional song “Turkey in the Straw,” from the Ozark Folk Center State Park archives. Writer, musician, and traditional dancer Aubrey Atwater discusses the tradition of “work songs” in folk music with musical examples and her own cultivated insight.

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Evie Ladin, with special guest Keith Terry! We recorded this at the Kauai Old Time Gathering back in November. Tunes in this episode: Five Miles from Town Jenny Get Around Lonesome John Precious Days I Love My Honey Bonus tracks: Say Darling Say and a certain 90’s R&B song that will not be named for copyright reasons mashed up with Hunting the Buffalo Evie Ladin’s website: http://www.evieladin.com Like and Follow her band on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EvieLadin/ Evie Ladin’s personal Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/evie.ladin1 Follow Evie Ladin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evieladin/ Follow Evie Ladin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EvieLadin Listen to the Evie Ladin Band on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1iLSCtfJXy3IVYzeAkJXDJ?si=bX6cpeDPRpKxBrFuEzfDxg As well as her solo material: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6sTZhHbZkS4PiHlE2StJkc?si=D72fnEZeRsqOjk1-yMInyw Take Evie’s Peghead Nation Clawhammer Banjo Courses: https://pegheadnation.com/string-school/instructors/evie-ladin/ Crosspulse website (Keith’s intercultural music and dance non-profit): https://www.crosspulse.com/ Kauai Old Time Gathering: https://www.kauaioldtime.com/ Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! It’s the first week Get Up in the Cool month; I’ve been saving up some very exciting interviews in hopes that you’ll be moved to support the show. Which is why this week’s friend is Genevieve Koester, Illinois fiddler extraordinaire and daughter of Gary Harrison. Also joining us is special guest guitarist Smith Koester. We recorded this in front of a live audience at The Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, Illinois. Thanks for having us out, Old Town! And thanks to everyone who came out. Tunes in this episode: Old Aunt Polly Shot the Mad Dog Down Pappy Taylor’s Groundhog Jump in the Well Pretty Little Miss Molly Kiss Your Darling Hay Mow Bonus track podcast: Description of the term “Boinker Hang,” Cacklin’ Hen, and Audience Q&A Buy the Pride of America album on CD Baby: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/newmules Buy the Dear Old Illinois Book and Albums: http://www.pickaway.press/doi/order.html Study Fiddle with Genevieve Koester at The Old Town School of Folk Music: https://www.oldtownschool.org/teachers/Genevieve-Koester/ Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: (https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool) The Old Town School of Folk Music: https://www.oldtownschool.org/ Field Recorders’ Collective: https://fieldrecorder.org/ Genevieve and Smith are playing two square dances, a jam, and a house concert in Kalamazoo next weekend! October 12, 7:30pm:Oshtemo Grange Contra Dance and Squares https://www.countrydancinginkalamazoo.com/ October 13, 2:00pm: Second Sunday acoustic jam at the Old Dog Tavern October 13, 7:00pm: House Concert and jam with Genevieve and Smith Koester (email howard.steiner@gmail.com to RSVP with “October 13 Concert RSVP” in subject line) October 14, 7:30pm: Square Dance with Genevieve and Smith Koester and caller Dwayne Johnson at Peoples Church This episode is brought to you in part by the Kauai Old Time Gathering! They have a special message for you. Aloha y’all. Tickets are on sale for the 3rd Annual Kauai Old Time Gathering this November 22-24. Workshops and performances by Magnolia Sisters, Lone Piñon, Evie Ladin, Jane Rothfield and Shona Carr as Little Missy, and lots of local Hawaiian artists. Head over to kauaioldtime.com (kauaioldtime.com) for more information and to reserve a bed or a campsite in the beautiful mountains of Kauai. Lots of music and lots of dancing with Cajun two-step, old time bailes nuevomexicanos and square dancing. Get your tickets now!

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Penka Jane Culevski! We recorded this at the Centralia Campout in Centrlia, WA. Tunes in this episode: Starry Crown Wimbush Rag Squirrel Hunters Hunting the Buffalo (in D) Billy in the Lowground (in A) Bonus track: Madison County Waltz Like and Follow The Choice Wives on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thechoicewives/ Like and Follow Dear Crow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dearcrow/ This episode is brought to you by Kauai Old Time! Tickets are on sale for the 3rd Annual Kauai Old Time Gathering this November 22-24. Workshops and performances by Magnolia Sisters, Lone Piñon, Evie Ladin, Jane Rothfield and lots of local Hawaiian artists. Head over to kauaioldtime.com for more information and to reserve a bed or a campsite in the beautiful mountains of Kauai. Lots of music and lots of dancing with Cajun two-step, old time bailes nuevomexicanos and square dancing. Get your tickets now at https://www.kauaioldtime.com/.

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Maggie Shar! We recorded this at Clifftop a few months ago in the Long Point String Band tent. Tunes in this episode: Indian Ate the Woodchuck Highlander’s Farewell Josie-O Horses in the Canebreak Sally in the Rye Bonus track: Jon Bekoff’s Durang’s Hornpipe Visit The Moon Shells’ website and buy their albums! https://www.themoonshells.com/ Like and Follow The Moon Shells on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themoonshells/ Visit Little Roots’ website for kids music classes, concerts, and lessons: https://www.littlerootsmusic.com/ Like and Follow Little roots on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LittleRootsFamilyMusic/ Contact Maggie Shar for Skype or i music lessons! http://maggieshar.com/ The Ephemeral Stringband: https://www.ephemeralstringband.com/ Like and Follow The Ephemeral Stringband on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ephemeralstringband/ This episode is brought to you in part by the Kauai Old Time Gathering! So I’m going to pass along a message for them. Aloha y’all. Tickets are on sale for the 3rd Annual Kauai Old Time Gathering this November 22-24. Workshops and performances by Magnolia Sisters, Lone Piñon, Evie Ladin, Jane Rothfield and lots of local Hawaiian artists. Head over to kauaioldtime.com for more information and to reserve a bed or a campsite in the beautiful mountains of Kauai. Lots of music and lots of dancing with Cajun two-step, old time bailes nuevomexicanos and square dancing. Get your tickets now at https://www.kauaioldtime.com/.

Evie Ladin is a dancer, musician, vocalist, songwriter and square dance caller, balancing performing and traveling with hands-on teaching. She’s created a sustainable career doing all the creative things that she loves. Evie talks about her upbringing with music and dance as a part of social communication and how she balances her career and family, all saturated with music. She brings Appalachian traditions to collaborations with musicians and dancers of other styles, including West African, Afro-Cuban, African-American, Indonesian and more, bending and blending forms to create exciting new works. Evie also works extensively with her husband Keith Terry, renowned Body Musician, and his multi-cultural rhythm-based music and dance projects produced by the non-profit arts organization Crosspulse, Inc. Her music is a product of a lifetime immersed in the study of culture, as well as a depth of experiences, of total joys and deep disappointments, illuminating the paradoxes living life in this world.

NEFESH MOUNTAIN is the place where the Jewish spirit and soul meet with Bluegrass and Old-Time musical traditions. Husband and Wife team Eric Lindberg & Doni Zasloff are pioneering this blend of Jewish Americana throughout the country, bringing their unique knowledge and passion for both Jewish and Bluegrass traditions to the fore, singing English and Hebrew songs alike. As a duo, Doni & Eric alternate lead and harmony vocals while switching between instruments, using the drive of the Banjo, intrigue of the Guitar, nuance of the Mandolin, and visceral sound of the Dobro. EVIE LADIN & KEITH TERRY are innovative musicians/dancers with a quirky neo-trad soul. This Oakland, California-based duo throw down original folk songs and deep interpretations of old songs, with the kinetic thrill of percussive dance. A prolific singer-songwriter, percussive dancer and square dance caller, the polyrhythmic heat of Evie�s clawhammer banjo has been heard from A Prairie Home Companion to Celtic Connections, Lincoln Center to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass while Terry is a master percussionist and a collaborator with a host of inventive performers from Bobby McFerrin, Turtle Island Quartet, Tex Williams and Robin Williams. The just released their third record, JUMP THE FIRE. WoodSongs Kid: Kentucky Just Us is a family bluegrass band from Greensburg, Kentucky.

Evie Ladin talks about the band's new album JUMP THE FIRE (May 6, 2016) that combines traditional folk with African influences. JUMP THE FIRE not only introduces you to the energy and character of the band's live show, capturing a palpable audience connection through emotive, catchy songs and masterful percussive dance, the album happens to tell a story. Visit www.EvieLadin.com and see the feature at www.bigblendnetwork.com/jump-the-fire.html

Clawhammer/clogger/songwriter Evie Ladin and percussionst Keith Terry discuss Evie's newest record, "Evie Ladin Band". See the notes and links to go with this episode at http://www.michaelgaither.com.

DARRELL SCOTT is a songwriter, acclaimed performer and recording artist. As a songwriter, he's contributed a string of hits that reads like a list of the best modern country music has to offer. There's the Grammy Award winning "Long Time Gone" and "Heartbreak Town," both top hits for the Dixie Chicks. "Great Day to be Alive" helped Travis Tritt complete his comeback; "Born to Fly" was a No. 1 hit for Sara Evans, while "Family Tree" was successful for Darryl Worley and "When No One's Around" extended Garth Brooks' run. Darrell returns to WoodSongs with a brand new double CD "A Crooked Road" before he hits the road for a string of dates with Robert Plant (yes, the Led Zepplin guy). EVIE LADIN plays old-time banjo. Listen and you can hear the whomp and jive of the genre's Appalachian heritage. You also hear the instrument's African roots. Now listen to Evie's genteel voice and lyrics and you hear the push and pull of life, you hear real, contemporary stories. Evie is known to music fans as a driving force behind San Francisco's all-gal old-time group the Stairwell Sisters. Based in Oakland, CA, is has just released her debut CD "Float Downstream."

Special guests are Keith Terry and his dance partner Evie Ladin, who will speak about the "Second Annual International Body Music Festival," December 1-6, 2009. If you have ever gone on an obsessive search of a sound or song whose name and origin you didn't know, you might relate to Keith Terry, the director of the International Body Music Festival, which returns for its second year to the San Francisco Bay Area early December in multiple Bay Area venues. In fact, Keith's obsession runs so deep that last year he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the first to go to a body musician, someone who makes music purely with their body. This year the Festival director has tracked down human beatboxers, a flamenco duo, a highly rhythmic Cuban a capella group, Peruvian zapateo, and a sound Terry has heard for years and will spotlight. The festival also features Kenny Muhammad, a.k.a. The Human Orchestra, is known for emphasizing complex polyrhythms, non-percussive sounds, and a breathing “wind technique.” The beatboxer will share a bill with Cuba's Vocal Sampling on Dec. 5, at the Freight & Savage in Berkeley, CA. The six-man ensemble from Havana will be among the first wave of Cuban artists to tour the U.S. since a performance embargo took effect in the wake of the Buena Vista Social Club. Max Pollak, a soloist, performs what he calls RumbaTap, a form that combines foot-driven percussion with the organic flow of Afro-Cuban rumba; Rashidi Omari, a young Bay Area dancer who specializes in hip-hop contemporary dance, an expression derived from local Oakland culture marked by high energy and a frenetic pace. The Prescott Clowns, an Oakland youth performance group led by hambone artist Derique McGee, along with a student performance group from the San Francisco School, led by Sofia Ibor Lopez perform. Step Afrika! stepping, gumboot, out of Washington, DC, performs Saturday, Dec. 6, 8 PM at the Herbst Theatre, in San Francisco. Visit http://www.crosspulse.com/html/aboutkt.html

The very highly regarded US Appalachian Old Time band, the Stairwell Sisters hit the UK for their first full Scottish tour after a remarkable performance with Celtic Connections last year. With a knack for infusing the old music with intoxicating energy and soul, the Stairwell Sisters will play from new release Get Off Your Money and accompanying the music will be a unique step-dancing/clogging collaboration between Evie Landen and Scottish step-dancer JOHN SIKORSKI of the Scottish Step Dance Co. San Francisco's all-gal urban old-time teardown, THE STAIRWELL SISTERS have amassed a rowdy repertoire of timeless tunes plus a solid standing of smart, original material that is winning praise on a international level as counter-culturalists of every generation enjoy their energetic musicianship, tight vocal arrangements and red-hot buckdancing. In the Spring of 2008 they released their third CD, Get Off Your Money, produced by Austin's Lloyd Maines (Dixie Chicks, Waybacks). The Stairwell Sisters have come quite far since founding members Lisa Berman and Sue Sandlin began practicing vocal harmonies in a stairwell at work. Their third release showcases the all-female string band's authentic old-time sound with the band's present-day interpretations and original compositions. The five member band arranges traditional fiddle tunes and old-time standbys by running music through the "Sister Mill". In this way, songs take on new energies and identities. Thus, songs depicting timeless themes such as working class struggles, love, and loss regain their relevancy Line Up: Stephanie Prausnitz (fiddle/vocals), Evie Ladin (banjo/clogging/vocals), Lisa Berman (dobro/vocals). Martha Hawthorne (bass/vocals) and Sue Sandlin (guitar/tiple/vocals)