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Follow us to hear select rare recordings; music from teaching artists; and The Archives podcast, showcasing stories from the Old Town School community alongside live performances, field recordings and more from the archive at the school’s Resource Center. The Old Town School of Folk Music teaches and celebrates music and cultural expressions rooted in traditions of diverse US and global communities. Visit www.oldtownschool.org for more information on classes, concerts, the Resource Center, and other programming at the Old Town School.
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Ep 26 - La Peña, Part 4: Desde La Peña hasta World Music Wednesday from 2020-06-17T14:32:42
En la parte final de la serie, La Peña comes to a close, and makes room for a new and broader concert series, which continues to this day: World Music Wednesday. In this episode we hear stories--en...
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Ep 25 - La Peña, Part 3: Music and empanadas from 2020-05-06T15:24:30
“I think some people came because they could eat the empanadas. You know, and then, the music.” En la tercera parte de la serie, we hear how the La Peña concert series finally came to be. In this e...
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Ep 24 - La Peña, Part 2: "The school was in dire straits" from 2020-04-01T14:09:16
In the early 1980s, the Old Town School came the closest it ever has to shutting its doors. How did they manage to stay open? Escucha la historia en la segunda parte de la serie La Peña. In this ep...
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Ep 23 - La Peña, Part 1: El principio from 2020-03-04T13:45:02
Esto es la historia de La Peña, the first Latin music concert series at the Old Town School, pretty much the predecessor to today’s enormously successful World Music Wednesday concerts. But the sto...
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Trailer - La Peña: Música Latina en la Old Town School from 2020-02-26T13:35:15
Esto es la historia de La Peña, the first Latin music concert series at the Old Town School--the predecessor to today’s enormously successful World Music Wednesday concerts. To tell the tale, we’ll...
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Ep 22 - Second Half, Part 4: Jim DeWan & Elaine Moore from 2019-01-17T11:00:16
A running theme throughout Old Town School history is people finding deep connections and community, forging lifelong collaborations, friendships, and often falling in love. In this last episode of...
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Ep 21 - Second Half, Part 3: Remembering Becca Babcock from 2019-01-11T02:58:31
[Content warning: Brief profanity, conversation about death and chronic illness.] In these excerpts from a conversation between Mary Babcock and Lorena Velázquez-Hinojosa, Mary shares memories of h...
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Celebrating 50 Years at 909 W Armitage (REBROADCAST) from 2018-12-20T15:00:15
Before we take an end-of-year break, we want to recognize something pretty significant. The Old Town School and the music store formerly known as the “Different Strummer” have had a home at 909 W A...
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Ep 20 - Second Half, Part 2: Jon Langford & Sally Timms from 2018-12-15T01:26:28
Jon Langford and Sally Timms--of The Mekons and countless other projects--have been part of the Old Town School community in a myriad of ways since the 1990s. Just a few months after Langford was h...
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Ep 19 - Second Half, Part 1: Peggy Lipschutz from 2018-12-07T03:14:05
Welcome back! This season, we bring you Second Half: a new series drawn from the interviews we've collected as part of our oral history partnership with StoryCorps, featuring Old Town School folks ...
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Teaser & Rebroadcast - 60 Years of Folk, Part 1: Come for to Sing from 2018-12-01T15:27:54
Welcome back! We've got a fresh new season for you, to begin this Thursday, December 6th, and we want to tell you a little about it. Plus: Today is the Old Town School's 61st anniversary! In celebr...
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Ep 18 - 60 Years of Folk, Part 6: Old Town School today from 2018-02-01T06:30:58
The Old Town School has grown exponentially in the new millennium--both in terms of its reach and the two new buildings it’s grown into since 1998. Sixty years in, this episode introduces some of t...
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Ep 17.5 - EXTRA: La Peña from 2018-01-25T17:30:18
In this special episode, Resource Center engineer Raul Fernandez shares a selection of archival recordings from the La Peña concert series, a weekly showcase of Latin folk music and dance that ran ...
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Ep 17 - 60 Years of Folk, Part 5: Expanding the definition of folk from 2018-01-18T07:02:09
From Wiggleworms to the Latin Music Festival, this two-part episode explores how the school has expanded class offerings and community programs to be more inclusive and broad-reaching over the past...
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Ep 16.5 - EXTRA: Robbie Fulks & Steve Dawson from 2018-01-11T06:22:27
This is a special extra episode featuring excerpts from a conversation between longtime friends Robbie Fulks and Steve Dawson, fellow songwriters and performers in Chicago. In 2017 Fulks concluded ...
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Ep 16 - 60 Years Of Folk, Part 4: A bigger tent from 2018-01-04T06:27:26
By the early 1980s, “folk” was a four-letter word, and the Old Town School was nearly empty. Part four of the series explores how the school endured by broadening and redefining the meaning of “fol...
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Ep 15.5 - In sacred trust: Stephen Wade, Fleming Brown & Hobart Smith from 2017-12-21T06:26:12
This is a special mini episode on the musical lineage between Hobart Smith, Fleming Brown, and Stephen Wade, who was featured on our last episode. You’ll hear archival recordings of Hobart and Flem...
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Ep 15 - 60 Years Of Folk, Part 3: Folk clubs and all-night parties from 2017-12-14T06:17:42
Folk music changed significantly over the 1960s, and the Old Town School was no different--even as it sought to preserve the traditional music that defined it from the start. This episode features ...
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Ep 14.5 - EXTRA: Ted & Marcia Johnson from 2017-12-07T06:37:59
This is a special mini episode featuring the stories of Ted and Marcia Johnson, who you heard in both of the last two episodes. Ted and Marcia met at the Old Town School in in the early sixties, an...
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Ep 14 - 60 Years Of Folk, Part 2: Folksingers and folk families from 2017-11-30T06:16:02
This episode shares the stories of the school’s fabled opening night on Dec. 1st, 1957, and the early years when it was housed at the Immigrant State Bank Building at 333 West North Avenue. You’ll ...
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Ep 13 - 60 Years Of Folk, Part 1: Come for to Sing from 2017-11-23T15:57:45
Sixty years ago, in the holiday season of 1957, Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music first opened its doors. This Thanksgiving Day, The Archives celebrates the 60th anniversary with a six-part d...
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Ep 12 - Five from the Archives - City of New Orleans from 2016-10-13T13:05:55
In this episode on “City of New Orleans,” we chat with longtime Chicago folksinger Ed Holstein about his friend Steve Goodman, and other memories from the booming 1970s Chicago folk scene. This is ...
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Ep 11 - Five from the Archives - Cindy from 2016-10-06T08:15:26
Part five of our series on songs of the Old Town School songbook delves into the American folksong “Cindy.” Episode 11 features folklorist, Volo Bogtrotter and fiddle teacher Paul Tyler, and a perf...
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Ep 10 - Five from the Archives - Gypsy Davy from 2016-09-29T15:30:50
In the second of two podcasts featuring descendents of the old Scottish folksong, “The Gypsy Laddie,” we follow the trail that led across the ocean to the United States, and to what would become “T...
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Ep 9 - Five from the Archives - The Gypsy Rover from 2016-09-22T07:21:50
Tracing the journey of the ballad “The Gypsy Laddie” from the British Isles to the southern United States, we see one of the most fascinating examples of the way folk songs adapt to the singer, and...
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Ep 8 - Five from the Archives - Sloop John B from 2016-09-15T14:04:11
Episode 8 of the Archives tells the story of “The Sloop John B,” and the song’s special place in Old Town School history. Listen through for interviews with folksinger and school co-founder Frank H...
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Ep 7 - Five from the Archives - John Henry from 2016-09-08T15:47:21
This episode on the classic American ballad “John Henry” is the first of five featuring key songs of the Old Town School songbook. Like our last story on “We Shall Overcome,” this is part of our Fi...
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Ep 6 - Five from the Archives - We Shall Overcome from 2016-02-24T15:30:42
In the first episode of our Five from the Archives series, we tell the story behind the rise of the protest song “We Shall Overcome,” featuring its journey from the southern black church to the for...
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Ep 5 - Appalachian Balladry Workshop by Anna & Elizabeth from 2015-11-13T22:12:57
Episode 5 of the Archives features excerpts from a workshop on Appalachian balladry by Elizabeth Laprelle and Anna Roberts-Gevalt of the duo Anna & Elizabeth, conducted in the Old Town School's Mau...
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Ep 4 - The Armstrongs, Part 4: The Wandering Folksong from 2015-08-07T21:48:50
In the fourth and final episode of our podcast on the Armstrong family, we delve into George’s inspiration for the 1974-1985 WFMT radio program The Wandering Folksong, and discuss the enduring sign...
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Ep 3 - The Armstrongs, Part 3: From the Mountains to the Midwest from 2015-07-31T22:53:31
In Episode 3 we continue to meditate on George and Gerry’s contributions to the music community of Chicago. We chatted with their daughter Rebecca, who shared memories of family recording trips an...
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Ep 2 - The Armstrongs, Part 2: George & Gerry Armstrong, Unsung Musicologists from 2015-07-24T21:16
In Episode 2, Mareva Lindo and Emma Rothman explore the Armstrongs’ trove of field recordings, focusing on their trips to Beech Mountain, NC, where they collected songs from friends such as the Hic...
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Ep 1 - The Armstrongs, Part 1: Introducing the Armstrongs from 2015-07-19T15:54:43
The Archives is a podcast brought to you by the Resource Center at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music. This series is dedicated to exploring and celebrating the people and events that have sh...
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