The Great American Folk Show

The Great American Folk Show is a little place on the radio where we commune with you to share stories, sing songs, and talk to some good people with…

The Great American Folk Show is a little place on the radio where we commune with you to share stories, sing songs, and talk to some good people with…

The Great American Folk Show is a little place on the radio where we commune with you to share stories, sing songs, and talk to some good people with…

The Great American Folk Show is a little place on the radio where we commune with you to share stories, sing songs, and talk to some good people with…

On September 25, 1963, President John F. Kennedy visited the University of North Dakota as part of a five-day tour across the United States. Jim Brosseau shares his recounting of the event in this essay, read aloud by Glen Phillips.

Episode 8 features writer Gianni Washington; Musician Melissa Mary Ahern; Writers Julie Wolfson and Zoe Howell; a short story by Glen Phillips; Poet laureate of Charleston, South Carolina, Marcus Amaker; Cowboy poet and songster Andy Hedges; North Dakota associate poet laureate Bonnie Larson Staiger; and autoharp player Colin Haines.

Episode 7 features musicians Grant-Lee Phillips, Tre Burt, Sebastian Steinberg, and Sofia Wolfson; and Hilary Saunders from No Depression magazine.

The Great American Folk Show is a little place on the radio where we commune with you to share stories, sing songs, and talk to some good people with…

Episode 5 features visual artist, composer, and singer David Garza; Banjoist, singer, jean maker, and founding member of Old Crow Medicine Show Willie Watson; Toad the Wet Sprocket founding member Glen Phillips, and singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tomo Nakayama. Plus, we’ll visit with ND Associate Poet Laureate Bonnie Larson Staiger, and hear Notes from the Badlands by Joe Wiegand.

Episode Four features Bluegrass legend Peter Rowan, singer/songwriter Sunny War, and Toad the Wet Sprocket founding member Glen Phillips. Plus, a visit with Mary Beth Orn and her daughter, Medora Burning Hills singer veteran Bethany Andrist, in Wimbledon, North Dakota at the Peggy Lee Museum.