Tag Archives: nick forster

This Week's eTown Broadcast with Mumford & Sons and Danielle Ate The Sandwich

Hello all, I hope you’ve had a wonderful, rejuvenating Thanksgiving weekend. After two decades of doing the whole thing, cooking the turkey with all the trimmings and hosting tons of family and friends at our house, Nick and I decided to take a break from the huge culinary extravaganza that has come to be associated [...]

This Week's eTown Broadcast with Shawn Mullins and Cloud Cult

Wow. What an exceptional show we have for you this week! First of all, eTown welcomes back Atlanta-based singer/songwriter Shawn Mullins. Shawn is one of our top favorite artists to visit eTown. He’s been with us several times, and this time is one of the best. He brings more of his artfully crafted original tunes, [...]

This Week's eTown Broadcast with Judy Collins and Shawn Colvin

I’ve got a great eTown radio show to tell you about! In this special ‘back by popular demand’ two part broadcast, the eTown gang heads just a short distance up the road to the historic Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder, Colorado, to tape a show in partnership with the ‘Grand Convergence’ conference. This week, in Part [...]

This week's eTown broadcast with Loudon Wainwright III and Bettye LaVette

This week we bring you a rebroadcast of a fantastic eTown road show that we did in Colorado Springs. Our old friend, singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, returns to eTown to share several songs, both hilarious and touching, as only he can do. Nick and I and the eTones will lend him support here and there. [...]

This week's eTown broadcast with Lila Downs and Gregory Alan Isakov

This week’s show, when originally broadcast in 2008, happens to be the eTown debut of two very interesting musical guests. One of them is the multi-cultural singer-songwriter Lila Downs, who joins us (she brings her band as well). Lila was raised in two diverse places: the Mixtec region of Oaxaca, Mexico and in the state [...]

This week’s eTown broadcast with Grace Potter & The Nocturnals and Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore

Hello dear eTown friends, The summer heat has just recently broken slightly here in eTown, with afternoon thunderstorms bringing a much needed and much welcome breezy coolness to the evening. Speaking of coolness, eTown treats you to an eclectic musical journey this week that fairly reeks of coolness. For one thing, Nick and I welcome [...]

This week’s etown broadcast with The Del McCoury Band and Eddie Kowalczyk of “LIVE”

There’s a fantastic eTown broadcast/podcast for you to check out this week, featuring the return of popular bluegrass legend, Del McCoury and his fine band. Del (celebrating his 50th year in bluegrass) and his amazing group (which includes sons Ronnie on mandolin & Robbie on banjo, plus Alan Bartram on bass and the amazing Jason [...]

A Note From Helen . . . This week’s eTown broadcast with Natalie Merchant and The Horse Flies

Hi everyone, Hey, happy summer! We are indeed in the thick of it. It is, in a word, HOT. Speaking of hot, I’m excited to tell you about this week’s very hot eTown broadcast! eTown celebrates the return one of the world’s most respected recording artists, Natalie Merchant. It’s been ten years (yup, a full [...]

A Note From Helen . . . This week's eTown broadcast featuring Indigo Girls and Nathaniel Rateliff

Happy Fourth of July to you all! I hope you had fun last weekend. We had a bit of intrigue here in Boulder on the 4th, when a huge storm blew in, threatening the traditional fireworks display that both Boulder and KBCO are so well loved for, for sponsoring. As the local populace gathered at [...]

A Note From Helen . . . This week's broadcast with Dan Hicks and Vienna Teng

Hello everyone, It’s been quite the action packed week. Back from Telluride and Hot Rize’s awesome live set there (Hot Rize, as most of you know, is the internationally renowned and revered bluegrass band that Nick Forster, Tim O’Brien, Pete Wernick and Charles Sawtelle formed in the late 70’s; Charles sadly passed away several years [...]