Chris Wienk

Midnight North, led by songwriters Elliott Peck and Grahame Lesh, released their third album, "Under The Lights" to great acclaim earlier this year.  When they stopped in town to play a show this past September, we were fortunate enough to get to sit with them and discuss everything from Grateful Dead shows and their own eclectic brand of music to their home base of Terrapin Crossroads.

Every October, four guys come out of the pumpkin patch to play groovy tunes to the folks who come out to Sunnyside Gardens in Saratoga.  Johnny Twoseeds, A. Pumpkin, C. Pumpkin and O. Pumpkin are Adrenaline Pumpkin.  See these guys Saturdays and Sundays from 12-4p.

Somehow we convinced them to leave the pumpkin patch and the donuts and apple cider to come play a few tunes for us on the radio.

One of our recent discoveries has been a singer songwriter from the Syracuse area by the name of Alyssa Rose.  She's recently released her new EP of songs called "Tumbleweed."  Here's a chance to hear what she's all about in a new Live @ EXT session.

On January 3rd, 2011, KTG walked through the doors of WMHT. She came to work for the station as the person who would take care of the back office administrative work that would support what we do on the air on WMHT-FM and WEXT-FM.  As she was starting, we learned she had been a DJ for a station like WEXT before.  That was when we presented to her the opportunity to be the evening DJ for Exit 97.7, WEXT. 

Saratoga Springs musician, Local 518 Jeff Brisbin has released his latest album - a labor of love for sure. It's called "Foreverly." He joined us to talk about the genesis of the album, play a few songs, and share some good times.

Rachel Baiman and Christian Sedelmyer, two 5-String fiddle players from Nashville have been making waves, both on their own and recently as 10 String Symphony. Christian plays with Jerry Douglas' band, and Rachel Baiman has her solo career, too. She released "Shame" to the world earlier this year. 

Hillary Perkins, a.k.a. Nell Robinson met Jim Nunally at a jam. Pretty quickly, they realized they share musical thoughts. The two embarked on their next journey, which has resulted in a couple albums, a cool concept show, and the latest recording, "Baby, Let's Take The Long Way Home."

Nell and Jim have teamed up with Jon Arkin (percussion) and Jim Kerwin (bass) to form the band that stopped by our studios on Friday (9/15/17). 

One of my favorite DJ's is Wanda Fischer. She has this way on the radio that makes you feel like you've been friends forever. She is a true treasure. So, when I heard that Wanda was about to celebrate her 35th year as our Saturday night companion on WAMC's Hudson River Sampler, I thought I had to get her over to talk about some of those memories and have her play some of her favorite songs.

Happy 35th anniversary, Wanda!

Chris Wienk caught up with the ever moving Del McCoury ahead of their appearance at the 2017 Freshgrass Festival (9/15-17/2017).

Del talks all about his life in music, playing with his sons in the band, David Grisman, and Bill Monroe.

See The Del McCoury Band and Del & Dawg at Freshgrass (9/15-17). For more information, visit the Mass MoCA website.

Since our beginning, Josh Ritter has been one of our favorite artists. We have loved watching and listening to him grow as a person and as an artist.  With each new album, we continue to become more and more fond of the young man from Moscow, Idaho.

On September 22nd, Josh releases his latest called "Gathering."  All day long, we'll be featuring tracks from the record, and then at 8pm, hear the entire album from start to finish.

The Colorado trio known as Edison dropped by to talk about and play songs from their new album, "Familiar Spirit."  

Here the full audio of the session and below find the videos made at the session.

The day of the total eclipse, a sunny day in Saratoga Springs - at Caffe Lena, Richard Barone and Chris Wienk sat down to record an interview and performance centered around Richard's latest album, "Sorrows & Promises."  Richard shines a light on the great folk scene of Greenwich Village in the 1960s.