Tag Archives: nick forster

A Note From Helen . . . This week’s eTown broadcast with Joe Bonamassa and Tift Merritt

Hi all, we’ve got a remarkable eTown broadcast/podcast for you this week, one that’s really a classic eTown show in so many ways. Nick and I welcome guitar hero Joe Bonamassa and his incredibly awesome band to the eTown stage for their very first visit ever. Joe’s been dubbed “The New King of the Blues” [...]

A Note From Helen . . . This week’s eTown broadcast with Bruce Cockburn and Joan Osborne

Hi everyone, It’s springtime in the Rockies and we’re experiencing the normal (albeit schizophrenic) weather that goes along with it; right now, as I look out my window here at eTown world headquarters, it’s spitting rain and sleet, soon to turn into snow I’m told. Yikes. I don’t know about you but I am SO [...]

A Note From Helen . . . This week's broadcast with Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings and Darrell Scott

Hi everyone, I hope your week has been a good one so far. As usual, I want to tell you about this week’s broadcast/podcast: eTown gets even more soulful than usual, as Nick and I welcome Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, the “masters of old school R&B” (Newsweek), for their first visit to eTown. Sharon [...]

A Note From Helen . . . This week’s eTown broadcast with Michelle Shocked and The Bad Plus

Did you know that legendary folk singer/songwriter and outspoken social activist Michelle Shocked is officially a ten-time eTown veteran? In fact, we thought her tenth appearance in eTown was worth sharing with you again, so that’s exactly what we’re doing this week. In this re-broadcast episode we welcome back this talented troubadour from Texas who [...]

A Note From Helen . . . This week’s eTown broadcast with The Flobots and Matthew Caws

Hi all, It’s another stellar road show for you this week! We are sharing one from the recent past, brought back by popular demand. (An aside, between you and me: I LOVE road shows! It’s always so exciting to visit another community and connect with our great listeners there). This is one that we got [...]

A Note From Helen . . . This week’s eTown broadcast with CAKE and Chuck Prophet

eTown cooks up a fantastic show for you this week, featuring the talented American indie band, CAKE. This group has built a huge base of fans who are drawn to their unique sound, a blend of pop, funk, jazz and rock. They fit right into the eTown scene because they are collectively really environmentally and [...]

A Note from Helen . . . This week’s eTown broadcast with John Hiatt and Brandi Carlile

It’s eTown ‘on the road’ this week, as Nick and I and our crew head west for our first-ever show in Aspen, Colorado, at the beautiful and historic Wheeler Opera House. Have you ever been to Aspen? So beautiful. And the Wheeler is just stunning (I’m including a photo of it here for you to [...]

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 featuring Sarah McLachlan, Darrell Scott and Griffin House

Hi all! I hope you are well and enjoying this beautiful winter. Here in Boulder, the weather is returning to normal after an uncommonly cold stretch. And everywhere, as you know, the days are now officially getting longer, and that always gives one the hope of springtime to look forward to, if winter is not your [...]

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 [...]