AMERICAN ROUTES
Reimagining Kentucky Country Music & New Orleans Jazz with Kelsey Waldon and Aurora Nealand Reimagining Kentucky Country Music & New Orleans Jazz with Kelsey Waldon and Aurora Nealand March 22nd, 2023 (Hour 1)
Reimagining Kentucky Country Music & New Orleans Jazz with Kelsey Waldon and Aurora Nealand

Country singer Kelsey Waldon grew up in the Ohio River bottoms of Ballard County Kentucky-a place called “Monkey’s Eyebrow” where her family has farmed for generations. She tells us about her journey as a songwriter, and her friendship with another hero of Kentucky, John Prine. Then a live set of New Orleans jazz and its Caribbean cousins with the widely acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, Aurora Nealand and her quartet at Artisound Studios in New Orleans 9th Ward.

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AMERICAN ROUTES LIVE ON NEW YEAR'S

December 26th, 2007

Ring in the new year with some of our favorite live music from 2007. We’ll have a set from New Orleans’ trumpet player Kermit Ruffins, joined by an all-star Crescent City band featuring vocalist Thais Clark. Lafayette, Louisiana’s Pine Leaf Boys bring rock and roll energy to their own version of traditional Cajun music. Step into a holiday soiree of reels, jigs and waltzes by French fiddlers in Westbrook, Maine. And pull up a seat for a club set from singer and banjo player Don Vappie and the Creole Jazz Serenaders. It’s a festive set of live music that will keep you swinging well into 2008.

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  • Listen to Hour Two

HOUR ONE

  • Les Ognons Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders
    live at Dakota Club, Minneapolis, MN,
  • Dinah Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders
    live at Dakota Club, Minneapolis, MN,
  • Creole Blues / Tin Roof Blues Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders
    live at Dakota Club, Minneapolis, MN,
  • Instrumental: Sweet Georgia Brown Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders
    live at Dakota Club, Minneapolis, MN,
  • INTERVIEW: Don Vappie
    live at Dakota Club, Minneapolis, MN,
  • Look at Me Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders
    live at Dakota Club, Minneapolis, MN,
  • Salee Dame Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders
    live at Dakota Club, Minneapolis, MN,
  • Instrumental: Stella By Starlight Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders
    live at Dakota Club, Minneapolis, MN,
  • Mon Coeur Fait Mal Pine Leaf Boys
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • J'ai Perdu Ma Chance Pine Leaf Boys
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • INTERVIEW: Pine Leaf Boys
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • Ma Petit Femme Pine Leaf Boys
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • Pine Leaf Boys Two-Step Pine Leaf Boys
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • End Bed: Piano Medley David Torkanowsky
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: St. Ann's Reel French fiddlers, Ben Guillamette, Jeannette Jarry and Lucien Mathieu
    live French fiddle party in Westbrook, ME,
  • Golden Slippers / Redwing French fiddlers, Ben Guillamette, Jeannette Jarry and Lucien Mathieu
    live French fiddle party in Westbrook, ME,
  • La Ronfleuse Gobeil (The Snoring Miss Gobeil) French fiddlers, Ben Guillamette, Jeannette Jarry and Lucien Mathieu
    live French fiddle party in Westbrook, ME,
  • Instrumental: Piano Medley David Torkanowsky
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • Struttin' with Some BBQ Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • Basin Street Blues Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • INTERVIEW: Kermit Ruffins and Trombone Shorty
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • Paper Moon Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • Ain't Misbehavin' Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • Instrumental: Caldonia Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • Sweet Georgia Brown Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers, featuring Thais Clark
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • INTERVIEW: Thais Clark
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • Wild Women Don't Get the Blues Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers, featuring Thais Clark
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • Down by the Riverside / When The Saints Go Marching In Kermit Ruffins and BBQ Swingers, plus Pine Leaf Boys
    live at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN,
  • End Bed: Basin Street Blues Henry Butler
    American Routes original recording,

THE LATEST STREAMS

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    REIMAGINING KENTUCKY COUNTRY MUSIC & NEW ORLEANS JAZZ WITH KELSEY WALDON AND AURORA NEALAND

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