Bound for Glory LIVE!
October 20, 2024
Your favorite performers live onstage at the Hangar Theatre
celebrating over a half century of Bound for Glory broadcasts—
more details here!
October 20, 2024 •
Noon to 6 pm •
Hangar Theatre, Ithaca, NY
Weekly broadcasts of the
Best of Bound for Glory
Every week we feature a recording from our archive of live
Bound for Glory shows. Spend Sunday nights with us
on your radio at 93.5 FM or through the Internet.
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On your radio October 13—Reverend Robert Jones & Matt Watroba
Originally broadcast 3/12/17
The Rev. Robert Jones, Sr., and Matt Watroba met over twenty years ago when each hosted back-to-back radio programs in Detroit. Sharing a love of traditional American music, they have forged a personal friendship over the years.
As performers and teachers, they seek to revive and instill appreciation for the history, social change, and migration in the lives of all Americans through folk songs, blues, spirituals, work songs, and chants.
The Rev. Robert Jones was born in Detroit. Ordained into the Baptist ministry in 1989, he is pastor of the Sweet Kingdom Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit. As a performer and story-teller he has performed all over America and Europe. In 2007, the National Blues Foundation named him “Educator of the Year”.
Matt Watroba was also born in Detroit and raised in Plymouth, MI. After teaching for a dozen years in the Plymouth-Canton public schools, his interests in music and education drew him both into writing, where he has published many pieces in Sing Out! magazine, and into radio, where for 20 years he hosted WDET-FM’s Folks Like Us, and syndicated media programs Sing Out! Radio Magazine and Folk Alley. In 2000, the Detroit Music Awards dubbed him “Best Overall Folk Performer”.
LIVE! October 20—
Bound for Glory’s 50+ Years Celebration!
COME JOIN US TO CELEBRATE!
…over a half century of marvelous live folk concert broadcasts on October 20, 2024
at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, New York.
From noon to 6 pm we will have performances of some of your favorite Bound for Glory performers all live on stage at the Hangar!
Join us to celebrate Phil Shapiro’s marvelous 58 years of weekly Sunday night live folk concert broadcasts.
Check out all the details here!
On your radio October 20—Kyle Carey
Originally broadcast 2/4/18
“As in all things musical, there are those who are the real thing and those who are mere pretenders and, even as essentially traditional as Kyle Carey undoubtedly is, she is quite clearly the real thing.”—Bluesbunny Music Review
Kyle Carey was born in New Hampshire to schoolteacher parents, and lived in Yup’ik native communities in the Alaskan bush until the age of seven, before her family re-located permanently to New Hampshire. She attended Holderness School and Skidmore College, where she studied English literature, and spent the weekends as a waitress at Caffè Lena. She received the prestigious President’s Award upon her graduation from Skidmore. Afterward, she traveled to Cape Breton in Nova Scotia on a Fulbright Fellowship to study Scottish Gaelic song and traditional music. In 2009-2010 she attended Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on the Isle of Skye for a year, obtaining a certificate in Scottish Gaelic language and music and becoming a fluent Gaelic speaker.
“Though many of my songs contain themes of longing and immigration,” says Carey herself, “the most important thing about my music is its mix of Celtic and American Appalachian styles—which in the end are really just branches of the same tree. I think the most exciting music comes from the crossing of cultural and artistic boundaries.”