Tag Archives: Helen Forster

A Magical Musical Night in L.A. plus the scoop on this week’s broadcast/podcast:

This week eTown welcomes back some old friends, the nationally renowned band Big Head Todd and the Monsters. Nick and I have known these talented guys since they were just getting started, and it’s been so great to watch their meteoric rise to the top. Since the band got its start more than 20 years [...]

Thoughts about Fox News, global warming and this week’s broadcast:

What’s not to love about Lyle Lovett? He and his large band, plus blues icon Taj Mahal, join us this week in a repeat of a special eTown program, originally recorded in late August of 2010. Nick and I and the eTown crew return to the breathtakingly beautiful Red Rocks Amphitheatre located outside of Morrison, [...]

We did it!! The Operational Grant Match for 2011 fulfilled . . . AND this week’s incredible broadcast:

For your listening pleasure: Mumford & Sons rocked eTown’s world when they were originally with us a year or so ago; it’s been one of THE most requested programs of the past, so much so that we had to re-air it for you. We head just a short distance down the road from the historic [...]

Nick and Yonder Mountain String Band – Ringing in the New Year – The scoop on this week’s broadcast/podcast:

First, the show this week: musical guests are Flobots and Matthew Caws.  Here’s a little bit about them: Flobots are an established progressive hip-hop group, based in Denver, who’ve made the national scene in a big way, impressing such press entities as the Boston Herald, who described them as “rap music’s most singular breakthrough act [...]

Sad news – hope for the future – info on this week’s show:

First off, I must report some sad news: Our friend Warren Hellman has passed away at age 77. We’re all in shock here at eTown: Warren and his band, The Wronglers, were just with us in eTown several weeks ago. He had privately shared with us that he had leukemia, but he was upbeat, positive [...]

Another trip to NYC, and info about this week’s broadcast

We continue our celebration of the holiday season! You’ve maybe noticed we’re doing a three-week series of special eTown holiday programs, two from the past and also this year’s 2011 offering. This week we bring back our Christmas show from last year, with Indigo Girls and Tim O’Brien as our musical guests. Nick and the [...]

Hello my friends,

This week’s show features Tori Amos and Loudon Wainwright III, as eTown revisits the Big Apple for a live taping at the Grand Ballroom at the Manhattan Center. (This was a special program, one that so many of our listeners requested another chance to hear, we just had to accommodate them.) It’s just Tori and [...]

THANKSGIVING . . AND THIS WEEK’S SHOW . .

Cake, Danny Barnes and Eliza Gilkyson join us for part two of this special version of  ’eTown on the Road’ in the great state of Washington. Nick and I and the eTown gang are happily in the Northwest to be part of in ‘Celebrate Elwha’, a multi-day event commemorating the nation’s largest dam removal project. [...]

Removal of eco-damaging dams in the Northwest brings eTown out ‘on the road:’

It’s a special eco-themed road show for you, both this week and next (see videos below). eTown packs its bags and heads to Port Angeles, Washington to take part in ‘Celebrate Elwha’, a multi-day event commemorating the nation’s largest dam removal project. (The back story: In the early 1900’s two privately installed dams were built [...]

Thoughts on OWS and what’s on the air this week for eTown:

Hello all, First the show: Ray LaMontagne and JJGrey are our musical guests this week. Both of these talented, charismatic men bring their stellar bands with them (this show originally aired last year, and we got such a tremendous response from our listeners, we’re bringing it back for you all again to enjoy). Some info [...]