News stories tagged with "unmpod"

(11/23/08) In the final performance in the UpNorth Music Concert Series, Adrenaline Hayride, a group of well-seasoned bluegrass players from Saratoga Springs, NY, dazzled a full house at The Tannery Pond Community Center in North Creek.

(11/23/08) In the final performance in the UpNorth Music Concert Series, The Fraser Clan, a family band of Celtic musicians and singers from Harrisville, NY, dazzled a full house at The Tannery Pond Community Center in North Creek.

(01/25/08) Upnorth Music opened its concert series with a program in the Gulick Theater at St. Lawrence University in Canton NY. Featured performers participated in NCPR's year-long studio outreach project. They were Adrenaline Hayride, a bluegrass band from Saratoga Springs, The Jonathan Lorentz Quartet, a jazz ensemble from Queensbury, singer/songwriter Meredith Luce from Ottawa, and the celtic family band The Fraser Clan from Harrisville.

(11/06/07) UpNorth Music, North Country Public Radio's local music project, has just completed its recording phase, in which hundreds of musicians from every corner of the North Country participated. Open Studio's Beth Robinson sat down with project coordinator Jill Breit and audio engineer Joel Hurd to find out what the last year has been like, hear stories from the road, and learn more about the next phase of the project. Joel tells Beth about how UpNorth Music began.

(04/04/07) Tom Hood first caught his wife Esther's attention by playing her favorite hymn on the organ in the church where Esther's father was pastor. That was 40 years ago, and the Hoods have been playing old-time gospel and country tunes together ever since.

(03/14/07) Today we hear music and conversation from the Christian rock band, 2 Or More.

(02/11/07) This time UpNorth Music visits with the band Queen August. Four guys born in the eighties who have a sophisticated sound from the early seventies.

(01/24/07) Steel Drummer Dan Hammond talks about his Caribbean-based instrument and plays some terrific music from his Sackets Harbor recording session.

(11/24/06) We met some great musicians in Sackets Harbor November 8-11, 2006. Here's a look back with some terrific music by the Maxon Family and Against Reality.

(11/02/06) UpNorth Music coordinator Jill Breit and audio engineer Joel Hurd talk about the UpNorth Music project in advance of the first recording sessions in Sackets Harbor, NY.