Episode 15 - Peter Siegel
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See and hear Peter Siegel in action:
- His website
- His show Live from Brattleboro is every Sunday evening at 6 p.m. Eastern. is available for watching on Facebook and YouTube. (Older episodes on YouTube are here)
- The Gaslight Tinkers live at the Iron Horse in 2013
- Playing and singing with Pete Seeger in 2012
- With Susan Conger, Susie Secco, and David Kaynor playing at the John C. Campbell Folk School Dance Musicians’ Week in 2009
- The Beverwyck String Band’s album is elusive right now — if you know of a way to purchase or listen to it, please let us know!
Some people mentioned in this interview:
- Julie and Mary Cay Brass discuss other aspects of the Greenfield Dance Band in their conversation in Episode 14
- Jay Ungar and Molly Mason make the magic happen at Ashokan
- Lyn Hardyis still performing and is also a luthier
- Susan Conger
- Here’s an interview with Guy Bouchard. Thirty Below no longer exists, unfortunately…
- Sue Songer was awarded CDSS’s Lifetime Contribution Award in 2019
- Garrett Sawyer runs Northfire Studio in Amherst, MA.
Some musical groups mentioned in this interview:
- Jim Kimball is still running the Geneseo String Band at SUNY Geneseo
- You can learn more about Wild Asparagus from Julie’s conversations with David Cantieni (Episodes 7 and 8) and George Marshall (Episode 13)
- Here’s a video from Ashokan with members of Nightingale and Wild Asparagus jamming together
- The Mammals
- Peter mentioned Garrett’s band The Alchemystics; here’s what they sound like
- Here’s Ann Percival’s swing band, The O-Tones, performing “Let’s Get Away from it All”
Some dances and events mentioned in this interview:
- Learn more about the Clearwater Festival on their website
- The Old Fiddler’s Convention in Galax, VA
- Ashokan Northern Week happened virtually this summer
- You can read more about the environmental education programming at Ashokan here
- Julie mentioned drawing on David Kaynor’s ideas when starting the BIDA dancein Cambridge, MA
- Dance Musicians’ Week at the John C. Campbell Folk School also happened virtually this summer
Some odds and ends mentioned in this interview:
- At the beginning of the interview, Peter was riffing on “John Henry.” Here’s a recording of Pete Seeger singing it.
- Listen to Woodie Guthrie singing and playing “This Land Is Your Land”
- Here’s La Bottine Souriante playing both "Hommage à Edmond Parizeau" and "Dédicado à Jos"
- Here’s a YouTube video to give you an idea of what Soca Calypso sounds like
- PVPA is the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts charter school in South Hadley, MA
- Peter mentioned using the New England Dancing Masters material in his teaching. Mary Cay Brass talks about this in Episode 14
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