LIVE Bound for Glory
this Sunday!
Richie & Rosie
January 25, 2:00 pm
at the Lansing Area Performance Hall
Richie Stearns and Rosie Newton grew up 150 miles and a few decades apart. Having originally met at Saratoga Springs’ Flurry festival, the two reunited in the Ithaca old-time scene, where Richie grew up and Rosie had moved to attend Ithaca College. During Rosie’s freshman year, they began touring together regionally as members of the Evil City String Band and eventually decided to pursue a more intimate project as a duo. In 2013 the duo released their first album, Tractor Beam, a 12-track mix of originals and classics, designed to mirror the experience of a live performance.
Richie is a well-established singer and banjo player in the Ithaca area, having performed around the world with bands like Bela Fleck, Pete Seeger, David Byrne, Billy Bragg & Wilco, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Joan Baez. Rosie, who plays fiddle, has toured with multiple bands, including an appearance while she was in high school with folk-rock band The Mammals. In 2010, she released a self-titled album as part of the duo The Pearly Snaps.
After three years of touring and writing, Richie and Rosie returned to the studio to record their second full-length album, Nowhere in Time. At a junction of Americana, old-time, and folk, the record brings a new sound to traditional music.
Come join us for Bound for Glory’s monthly live shows on the fourth Sunday of each month at 2 pm in the Lansing Area Performance Hall at 1004 Auburn Road (Route 34), North Lansing, NY.
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On your radio January 25—
Caroline Doctorow
Originally broadcast 3/8/2009
Folk singer and songwriter Caroline Doctorow has helped to define the blossoming live music and indie recording scenes in the New York City area over the last several years. She seamlessly blends originals, traditional music, and folk covers from decades past into an act that features her “wondrous, velveteen” voice, “one of those pure, clear voices that’s captivating no matter what she sings,” according to Steve Matteo of Long Island Pulse Magazine.
Doctorow cites the folk singers and songwriters of the 1960s as her main influence, and her version of Bob Dylan’s “One Too Many Mornings” climbed to number 13 on the folk charts in 2006. Her latest release, “Another Country,” was produced by Pete Kennedy and is a retrospective of the songs of folk icons Richard and Mimi Farina.
She frequently tours around Long Island and throughout the eastern United States, and we’re delighted to have her join us for her first time, reinvigorating some magical songs from the past.
On your radio February 1—Brooks Williams
Originally broadcast 4/10/16
“One of America’s musical treasures.”—Dirty Linen
Brooks Williams stands on tradition but he doesn’t stand still. His influences fly so fast and furious, they blur. Like drinking whiskey from a honey jar, you get both the sweet and the bite.
Born in Statesboro, Georgia (USA)—the town made famous by blues legend Blind Willie McTell’s song, Statesboro Blues—Brooks Williams got his start in the clubs and bars around New York and Boston. In 2013, the UK’s foremost roots-music mavens, Spiral Earth, nominated him best male vocalist. AmericanaUK says, “He has a beautiful voice that you just melt into.” He’s also one helluva good guitar player, ranked in the “Top 100 Acoustic Guitarists.” The San Antonio Light says that Williams is a “fret monster who has to be seen to be believed!”
With twenty-two albums to his name, including My Turn Now (2016) and Shreveport Sessions (2014), Williams’ music has featured on the BBC (UK), RTE (Ireland), CBC (Canada) and NPR (USA) and has charted on the FOLKDJ stations. WUMB-FM radio in Boston (USA) voted him one of their “Top 100 Artists.”
On your radio February 8—
The New Cut Road String Band
Originally broadcast 12/8/2019
New Cut Road String Band is an old time string band that plays music from the southern Appalachian Mountains that became popular in this country from the mid-1920s through to the Great Depression. With John Hoffmann on fiddle, Steve Arkin on banjo, Jim Reidy on tenor guitar, Randi Beckmann on guitar, and Sally Freund on bass, they deliver fast and furious fiddle dance tunes as well as ballads that bring a tear to the eye.
John Hoffmann, the fiddler, played banjo for The Tompkins County Horseflies in the early 1980’s before he segued to fiddling. John has garnered a number of awards for his fiddle playing around the country.
Steve Arkin grew up in New York’s legendary Washington Square music scene, playing both old-time and bluegrass music in many bands. Bill Monroe said of him, “it takes backing to get that stuff going. Steve could play the best backup banjo I ever heard.”. Steve has won numerous banjo contests and has taught both bluegrass and old-time banjo.
Randi Beckmann began her musical career playing classical flute and attended music school at Ithaca College. Randi happily switched to the Irish flute in the 1990’s and, after some arm-twisting, began playing Old Time backup piano and guitar. Her solid, powerful rhythm playing provides the groove to keep her rambunctious band mates in sync.
Sally Freund, the bass player, has become a trusted rhythm player on bass, guitar, triangle and scrub-board, backing up many of the great Old Time and Cajun/Zydeco musicians around western New York and beyond..
Spring season of
Live Bound for Glory shows!
The new series of live Bound for Glory shows will be returning in January 2026 in our new venue—the Lansing Area Performance Hall. The shows are on the 4th Sunday of the month at 2 pm. Coming this Spring season:
January 25 — Richie & Rosie
February 22 — Mark Rust
March 22 — Low Lily
April 26 — Joe Crookston
May 24 — Rachael Kilgour
These once-a-month live shows, hosted by Travis Knapp, will be recorded for broadcast on a future Sunday’s WVBR’s Bound for Glory radio show.
Come be a part of Bound for Glory’s new series of live shows at the
Lansing Area Performance Hall
1004 Auburn Road, North Lansing, NY