by kitchensisters | Sep 19, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – John Cohen, 1932-2019. Folk musician, photographer, filmmaker, field recordist, musicologist, seeker, keeper…
by kitchensisters | Sep 18, 2019 | The Keepers
Listen to our podcast collaboration with the Goethe Institut’s Big Pond series, The Passion of Chris Strachwitz, about the founder of Arhoolie Records and Keeper extraordinaire, Chris Strachwitz (“El Fanatico” Ry Cooder calls him). Featuring Linda...
by kitchensisters | Sep 16, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – StoryCenter “We create spaces for transforming lives and communities, through the acts of listening to and sharing stories. Our public program enables people to register individually for storytelling workshops. Our custom program...
by kitchensisters | Sep 11, 2019 | Podcast, The Keepers
Chris Strachwitz is a man possessed. “El Fanatico,” Ry Cooder calls him. A song catcher, dedicated to recording the traditional, regional, down home music of America, his adopted home after his family left Germany at the close of WWII. Mance Lipscomb,...
by kitchensisters | Sep 4, 2019 | The Keepers
“Some of the oldest audio recordings in the world have been digitally restored and returned to the descendants of the people who made them, the Passamaquoddy tribe of eastern Maine. Now younger members of the tribe are learning songs and stories once thought to...
by kitchensisters | Aug 30, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Latino Public Radio Consortium, an affiliate of the Library of Congress Radio Preservation Task Force. Here is a clip with astronaut Jose Hernandez from the Historias de Si Se Puede series: “sixty-second radio stories about immigrants and...
by kitchensisters | Aug 29, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Pacifica Radio Archives an affiliate of the Library of Congress Radio Preservation Task Force. “Chronicling the political, cultural and artistic movements of the second half of the 20th century.” Here’s a gem from the archive. A...
by kitchensisters | Aug 28, 2019 | Events & Appearances, Workshops
Time again for The Kitchen Sisters Interviewing, Recording & Podcasting Workshop. Davia Nelson is holding two workshops on Monday, September 16th in Francis Coppola’s historic Zoetrope building in San Francisco. This three-hour session is designed for those...
by kitchensisters | Aug 28, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Hip-Hop Radio Archive, an affiliate of the Library of Congress Radio Preservation Task Force. “The Hip-Hop Radio Archive aims to digitize, preserve, share, and contextualize recordings of hip-hop radio from the 1980s and 1990s from...
by kitchensisters | Aug 27, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – American Archive of Public Broadcasting, an affiliate of the Library of Congress Radio Preservation Task Force. Listen to a clip from their holdings below featuring civil rights activist Catherine Burks-Brooks from the 1963 radio documentary,...
