Hot Club of Saratoga are back with a new record for 2025. It's called "Comes Love," and it's out on February 21.
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Local 518 Music (and More) Report - 2024 Quarter 4
Interviews & Sessions
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Evan Westfall from the Columbus, Ohio folk band Caamp talks about his instrumental debut album, Is This Our Exit?
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Anthony Cubbage is Age of the Bear, and he has some new music for your ears.
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The second Folk Club Kids album is out! Dan, Oona and James have created a fun little Wednesday morning hang at Caffe Lena - and online. The new album draws from the fun show where very young kids get to learn about the world and music every Wednesday morning.
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Molly Durnin visits home every winter. She loves to be here in winter for the change of pace. It's been a while since we could have her by. This was such a treat.
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The Diver Library does a lot of really cool and creative things. One of those is part of the annual summer reading program that becomes the spring board for a summer project of making an album of songs - written by library patrons of all ages, but particularly those of school age.
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Jenna Nicholls stopped by to play songs and talk about her new EP, "Paper Daisy." She's at Caffe Lena on January 18th, 2025.
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Laura Johnson has been working under the name Girl Love these past few years. She's a queer, indie-folk musician with some very powerful songs, including a new protest song she performs in this episode.
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Juliana of Canella shared the story behind the band's latest song. The true story of how one of her music teachers was grooming her and how she managed to break free. Juliana's is a story of resilience and triumph over a desperate situation.
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Joe Deuel is the guy in the back corner of Caffe Lena, huddled over a control console fiddling with the faders. And that fiddling makes the amazing sound we hear up there each night. And he's been doing that and taking pictures for five decades!
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Michael Eck is traveling to Memphis to participate in the International Blues Challenge. He won the solo/duo challenge put on by the Capital Region Blues Network at Caffe Lena. He's off to Memphis the week of Jan 7 through 13.
Live performances and conversations with Local 518 musicians. Each week, we highlight a different Local 518 artist in session. Thursdays at 930pm.
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