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A Note From Helen . . . This week’s eTown broadcast with Sonny Landreth, Juliana Hatfield and Terry Tempest Williams

Old friend and slide guitar master Sonny Landreth joins us in eTown for this week’s encore airing. Sonny is a musical gem, and we are happy to have him back. In fact, Eric Clapton apparently has discovered with what we in eTown have known all along: Sonny is “probably the most underestimated musician on the [...]

A Note From Helen . . . This week’s eTown broadcast with Imogen Heap and Gregory Alan Isakov

This week, talented British singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and producer Imogen Heap makes her inaugural eTown visit. This two-time Grammy nominee shares her most-innovative songs with arrangements mixing both electronic and traditional instrumentation. Also joining us is Gregory Alan Isakov who makes his return to the eTown stage for a second appearance with us. This Boulder based [...]

A Note From Helen . . . This week’s eTown broadcast with The Punch Brothers and Tift Merritt

Hey everyone, Nick and I just returned from a few days in Aspen, seeing old friends and getting out in the great outdoors. We also had a super live show taping with two incredible artists, John Hiatt and Brandi Carlile, at the historic Wheeler Opera House. This show will air in February; will let you [...]

A Note From Helen . . . This week’s eTown broadcast with Ray LaMontagne and Ingrid Michaelson

Hello Friends! Have you survived the celebration of Hanukkah and Christmas? Are you caroled out, gifted out, and sugared out yet? Well be sure to join us for some sugar of our own this week, on the air or as a podcast, as we bring you one of my all time favorite musicians and writers [...]

A Note From Helen . . . This week’s eTown broadcast, a special holiday show with Tori Amos and Loudon Wainwright III

Hi all, here we are so close to Christmas you can almost taste the eggnog and smell the evergreen in the air. What would the holidays be without a special yuletide themed show here in eTown? So Nick and I and the whole eTown crew headed ‘on the road’ to New York City and the [...]

eTown in NYC lineup change

The eTown crew is in the Big Apple right now prepping for a show this evening at the Manhattan Center featuring Tori Amos and Loudon Wainwright III.  A few tickets are still available, so snatch them up while you can via Ticketmaster.  You may have also noticed the lineup change for tonight’s eTown show.  Due [...]

A Note From Helen . . . Part Two of eTown's special 'on the road' program with Judy Collins and Shawn Colvin

What’s our broadcast this week? It’s Part Two of eTown’s special ‘on the road’ program, coming to you from the historic Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder, Colorado. In this installment, there’s a breathtaking live performance by eTown favorite, singer/songwriter extraordinaire Shawn Colvin.  She works up some great songs, (some solo and some with the ETones – [...]

Child Rights Advocate Kimmie Weeks Receives E-Chievement Award

In this week’s broadcast, eTown presents the E-Chievement Award to Kimmie Weeks, founder of Youth Action International (YAI). Kimmie is an acclaimed youth activist, motivational speaker, and a survivor of the Liberian Civil War. As a boy, he endured unspeakable horrors in an overcrowded refugee camp in Liberia. This led him to his life’s work: [...]

This week’s eTown broadcast with Joan Osborne and Henry Butler

Autumn is in the air here in eTown. The leaves are turning, it’s Indian Summer and life is good. And we’ve got a great encore broadcast for you this week, featuring one of my all time favorite vocalists: Critically-acclaimed Joan Osborne returns to eTown with some songs, both old and new. She rocks out with [...]

A Note From Helen

Hello everyone, First, something sad: I was so sorry to hear that Mike Seeger recently passed away after a long illness. He is such a historic figure in the folk music scene. He was a fine musician; and a very, very nice man. He was a long time friend of Nick’s and more recently mine [...]