Glen Phillips

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 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.