Podcasts about woody guthrie folk festival

Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Daniel BolingWinner of the Grassy Hill Kerrville New Folk songwriter contest, the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, and others, Daniel shares experiences from a life well-lived in three countries and seven States. This balladeer/songwriter with the friendly tenor brings his well-crafted story songs to happy audiences throughout the U.S. and abroad in over one hundred shows a year, from House Concerts and listening rooms to major festivals – Kerrville, Winfield, Woody Guthrie, and others. Daniel is also a member of the iconic 1960s folk trio The Limeliters. http://www.makingascene.org

Join us in celebrating Kim Gentry Meyer's birthday as we delve into her inspiring journey of faith, music, and freedom in Christ. Kim, a talented musician and advocate for mental health awareness, shares her story of finding liberation in surrendering her life to God and embracing the freedom that comes from knowing Him. In this special episode, Kim discusses her latest album, "Herald," and the beautiful artwork associated with it, featuring captivating sunsets. She opens up about her passion for rescuing animals and how her love for them intersects with her music and ministry. Kim reflects on the transformative power of experiencing God's perfect love, as portrayed in her song "Perfect Love," written for an Easter service. She shares her battle with depression and the importance of addressing mental health issues within the church without judgment. Through authentic discussions and prayers, Kim emphasizes the significance of anchoring our minds in Christ and finding peace in His presence. She shares her desire to equip others with the tools needed for mental, emotional, and spiritual growth. As we journey through Kim's story, anchored in the powerful verse Romans 8:6, we are reminded of the importance of using our talents and gifts to impact the world. Kim's courage to share her gifts and experiences serves as an inspiration for all of us to step out in faith and make a difference in the lives of others. Bio: Mrs. Massachusetts 2020, award-winning songwriter and poet Kim Gentry Meyer is also an International Acoustic Music Award winner and a finalist in the USA Songwriting Competition. She has showcased at esteemed venues including the Blue Bird Café in Nashville, Tennessee, and the SXSW Festival (South by Southwest) in Austin, Texas. Meyer was recently named a 2023 Woody Guthrie Poet and was invited to read her newly published poem, “You'll Find Me There” (which appears in song form on her new album) during the 2023 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, which celebrates the life and work of the late legendary singer/songwriter best known for his song, “This Land is Your Land.” She is also an accomplished visual artist, and painted the album cover art for her debut project, Herald, which recently released from NWN Records and Integrated Music Rights, part of the Integrity Music family. Alongside her ministry and her work in the arts, Meyer, who holds a bachelor's degree in business and a master's degree in social work, is a professional fundraiser whose proposals have raised a whopping $25 million for various non-profit organizations. She and her husband Adam currently live on Cape Cod with a home full of personally rescued dogs and cats. Anchor Verse: Romans 8:6 Connect with Kim: Website: https://www.kimgentrymeyer.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/kimgentrymeyer Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/kim-gentry-meyer/1184334676 ***We love hearing from our listeners! Sharing your thoughts through reviews is a fantastic way to be a part of our podcast family and contribute to the conversation. If you've enjoyed our podcast, leaving a review is quick and easy! Just head to Apple podcasts or wherever you are tuning in and share your thoughts. Your feedback makes a big difference!***

Pi Jacobs draws inspiration from her unconventional upbringing in the Land of Weed and Wine aka Northern California. Blending roots-rock swagger and storytelling soul, her music has drawn comparisons to Tom Waits, Dolly Parton and Lucinda Williams. She has been heard on NPR, Austin Music TV, Americana Highways and regularly on radio stations across the nation including 90.1 FM KKFI Kansas City Community Radio. Tim Easton is repeat offender on the Tasty Brew Music Podcast having first appeared during a live recorded interview from the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Okemah, Oklahoma in 2019. Tim Easton was born on the Canadian border in upstate New York and spent his formative years living in Tokyo, Japan and Akron, Ohio. Traveling early and often, he learned the ways of the road and roads and spent 7 years as a bona fide troubadour, making his way around Europe, playing the streets and clubs, living in Paris, London, Madrid, Prague, and Dublin. Before the pandemic he toured Russia under the auspices of the US State Department. His songwriting style is folk based storytelling and personal traveling tales, often peppered with bold confessions or “tell it as it is” reality. Rolling Stone magazine praised him as “having a novelist's sense of humanity”. Pi and Tim were part of a contingent of artists who came in to the KKFI studios during the 2022 Folk Alliance Conference in Kansas City as part of a special 4 hour “takeover” of the Tasty Brew Music Radio Show. Enjoy these conversations and musical interludes with Pi Jacobs and Tim Easton!

The annual festival honoring the legacy and music of legendary Oklahoma singer Woody Guthrie is returning to his hometown. Last year's Woody Guthrie Folk Festival — affectionately known as WoodyFest — went completely virtual. But this year, musicians like Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Patty Griffin and Grammy-nominated Mary Gauthier will take the stage in addition to Oklahoma artists like Samantha Crain, John Fullbright and Mike McClure. WoodyFest will also feature a children's festival featuring a ukulele and harmonica class, as well as a family-friendly concert. There will be panel discussions on songwriting and the history of prejudice around Okemah and the lynching of Laura Nelson and her son on May 24, 1911, outside the town. In this episode, hear WoodyFest's media chair Maddie Gregory talk about the artists performing, how the festival is taking precautions and the new events and panels. Support this podcast

One of our favorite events, the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival (aka WoodyFest), is set to return, so we spoke with board member Miranda Huff about the enduring legacy of Guthrie's music, the sense of family at the festival, and some of the amazing acts (Patty Griffin!) playing in Okemah this week. Plus your usual Question of the Week hijinks, featuring a record-setting number of responses, and our quirky podvents. We hope you listen!

Today’s guest is Ambassador Gregory W. Engle (Ret.). Greg and I first met in Ethiopia in 2012 when he became the Peace Corps Country Director while I was a volunteer. Having served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in South Korea (1980-1981), his assignment as a Peace Corps country director brought his international career full circle in many ways. In this episode we dive deep into Greg’s life and career as a Foreign Service Officer, which spans decades and is full of breath-taking stories of meetings with Presidents and even a dinner with Nelson Mandela. Greg provides guru-level advice for those interested in joining the Foreign Service or the Peace Corps, so be sure to pull out your notebooks for that section. He speaks with a unique conviction that will have you sitting on the edge of your chair and offers layers of sage-like wisdom that will surely help you chart your path into travel and exploration. As I mentioned, Greg is a retired Foreign Service Officer whose diplomatic career included assignments in Pakistan, Germany, Ethiopia, Cyprus, Malawi, South Africa, Iraq, Washington and Togo, where he was the U.S. ambassador. He was the recipient of the U.S. Department of State's prestigious Leamon R. Hunt Award for Administrative Excellence in 1990, as well as a Presidential rank award in 2016 for his service in Iraq. Greg spent his last two years in the Foreign Service as Diplomat-in-Residence at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Following his retirement from the U.S. Department of State in 2008, he continued as adjunct faculty of the LBJ School (2008-2018). For the first time on this show, Greg treats us to a live musical performance in the middle of our conversation, playing “A Simple Prayer” from his 2010 debut album “Take it Personally”. He also won first prize in the annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival songwriting competition in Okemah, Oklahoma in 2011. He has performed and conducted songwriting workshops in Swaziland (2012), Lesotho (2015), Mauritania (2016), Cote d’Ivoire (2018), Djibouti (2019) and Eritrea (2019) under the U.S. Department of State’s Arts Envoy Program. Greg is also the co-author of a book entitled Managing Overseas Operations: Kiss Your Latte Goodbye (Vargas Publishing, 2012), which he wrote with Ambassador Tibor Nagy. Greg has been an ardent supporter and mentor of mine over the years and I’m humbled and honored to help share his words with you. This episode is truly a treat, so grab your pen and paper, your folk-festival shoes, and your imagination as you dive into this one! To connect with Greg: Greg Engle Watch “A Simple Prayer” videos: Friends of Korea: A Simple Prayer Glimmer of Hope (Ethiopia): A Simple Prayer Official Video: A Simple Prayer Support the Show: Paypal: paypal.me/BenjaminMorse Instagram: @techawat_with_benjamin_morse, @benjamin_august_blair

Stoll Vaughan Interview: Stoll opens up about getting started in music, how he writes (and how he doesn’t!), getting confidence to get back in the game, getting sober and not being so willful, going for it, being humble enough to seek a spiritual path & more. Very sincere convo with a total professional A successful singer, guitarist & songwriter, Stoll’s released 5 LPs, toured with John Mellencamp, John Fogerty, James McMurtry, Marty Stuart and opened for a Def Leppard/Journey co-bill. He’s also performed at Farm Aid, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Master Musicians Festival and The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. He also co-produced & co-wrote Sketches of American Music, the debut EP by Duane Betts, son of Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dickey Betts. He co-wrote with The Allman Betts Band for their LPs Down To The River (#1 on rock charts) & Bless Your Heart Support this Show: http://www.everyonelovesguitar.com/support  Subscribe https://www.everyonelovesguitar.com/subscribe/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EveryoneLovesGuitar/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everyonelovesguitar/ 

Making a Scene Presents an interview with Grant Peeples A self-described “tree-hugger that watches NASCAR, and Buddhist with a gun below the seat,” Grant Peeples is known for his axe-sharp socio-political tunes, raucous humor and heart-gigging ballads.He is the recipient of the Focus Foundation Award for Creative Excellence, which cited the “humor, compassion and wisdom of his songs,” and their "unflinching social insight and cultural acuity.” Grant tours coast to coast, and is a regular performer at The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, the 30A Songwriters Festival, and The Florida, Folk Festival. January 2019 marked a second tour in The Netherlands, where FolkForum.nl described him “…a pure storyteller, in the best American folk tradition…” and his show “…one of those gems that you will remember for a long time…”

Tim Easton, American songwriter and fellow Buckeye, has learned the ways of the hardcore troubadour…making his way around Europe and America by busking in the streets and playing the clubs. Although Rolling Stone Magazine praised him as “having a novelist’s sense of humanity” I believe his education as a Poetry Major at Ohio State University is the not so secret ingredient to his lyrical life. When I saw he was on the roster for the 2019 edition of the Woody Guthrie Festival in Okemah, Oklahoma, I knew I had to try and have a sit down conversation with him. Although my familiarity with his work was on the fringe, I wanted to dig deeper. As soon as I hit the registration desk at the Okfuskee County Historical Society in Okemah, (incidentally the recording site for Tim’s latest CD “Exposition” )I asked the volunteer staff for help in contacting Tim. Within two hours I had a text. We met shortly thereafter in front of the Crystal Theater but where to record a conversation? There was no media room and no readily available space to sit down and chat. A Woodyfest volunteer AGAIN to the rescue…”I live at the rock house down at the corner of Woody Guthrie Boulevard and Broadway. The back door is open, the air conditioning is on; there’s nothing but two chairs and a table in there but you’re welcome to it.” Tim was game and so was I. We had the following conversation in a virtually empty house sitting in two velveteen rockers facing each other with my lavalier mic attached to my water bottle handle. As you’ll hear, Tim talks about growing up in Japan, opening for the Flatlanders and Townes Van Zandt, busking the streets of Europe, heading his own record company, traveling to Alaska to teach songwriting workshops so you can fish and an upcoming State Department sponsored trip to Russia. Woody Guthrie would have loved Tim Easton. Now THAT’s Americana!

This week's episode is with Joshua Polaschek. He's a fantastic local songwriter who has recently thrown himself into the music community organizing music events to help spread awareness of the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. Join us while we talk of his first couple years of involvement with the festival, his songwriting, and of his desire to set up his own music festivals in the future to support awareness of Mission 22.

AMY RAY is the Decatur, Georgia songwriter best known as half of the Grammy-winning Indigo Girls folk-rock duo. Amy has always been a a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll but her upcoming solo release 'Goodnight Tender', on Ray's own Decatur-based imprint, will be a career first for her -- a pure country music album. The songs were written over more than a decade and she sings movingly about dogs, pills, Duane Allman and heartache. Amy will appearing on WoodSongs with her country band. JOHN FULLBRIGHT was born in Bearden, Oklahoma and went to school in nearby Okemah, also the hometown of Woody Guthrie. It was at the annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival that John first started to make a name for himself in the picking circles on the festival campgrounds. In 2009, John burst upon the southwest music scene with a stellar live and started to earn comparisons to great songwriters like Townes Van Zandt and Randy Newman. His debut album two years ago earned the Oklahoma native a Grammy nomination for 'Best Americana Album'. He just released his follow up LP titled 'Songs'.