The KXLL Pop-Up Record Shop is back! To celebrate our Summer Membership Drive we’re setting up shop at the JAHC Rock around the Black Party at Pivot Plaza outside Alaska State Library Archives and Museum.
The sale begins at 5:30 p.m. on Friday June 9th with records priced at $1, $5, and $10.
Donate your record collection at KTOO Public Media between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Contact annie@ktoo.org for questions.
For our fifth video, we present Anchorage songwriter Emma Hill with Kat Moore performing Hill’s original song “2 Seconds Flat.” Since their recording at The Alaskan Hotel during the 43rd Annual Alaska Folk Festival, Hill has toured Europe with her songwriting partner Bryan Daste and Moore has toured Colorado with her band The Super Saturated Sugar Strings.
This video was made in collaboration between with Justin Smith of Rusty Recordings in Gustavus. Watch other Red Carpet Concerts with The Hannah Yoter Band of Anchorage, The Quaintrelles and Goldwing.
For our next Red Carpet Concert from the 2017 Alaska Folk Festival, we present Goldwing. Performing their song “Buffalo Coat,” Juneau songwriter Dan Kirkwood is flanked by Ben Higdon on pedal steel and Dan DeSloover on bass. They usually play with drummer Clae Good, though the band became a trio to fit into the tiny hotel room.
This video was made in collaboration with Justin Smith of Rusty Recordings in Gustavus. Watch other Red Carpet Concerts from the 43rd Annual Alaska Folk Festival with The Quaintrelles, The Hannah Yoter Band and Goldwing’s Alaska Originals performance.
For our third video, we present The Hannah Yoter Band, performing their song “Something Good.” It’s third video from our eight-part Red Carpet Concert series filmed at the Alaskan Hotel during the Alaska Folk Festival. The six-piece band is fronted by Anchorage songwriter Hannah Yoter. This spring she received an individual artist grant from the Rasmuson Foundation to work on the band’s next album.
This video was made in collaboration between with Justin Smith of Rusty Recordings in Gustavus. Watch other Red Carpet Concerts with The Quaintrelles, Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms, and The Hannah Yoter Band’s Alaska Originals television performance during the 2016 Folk Festival.
For our next Red Carpet Concert from the 2017 Alaska Folk Fest, we present the Portland musicians Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms. Returning for their second Red Carpet Concert, we recorded the duo performing their song “Been on the Rocks” at the Alaskan Hotel. They are currently touring with Foghorn Stringband in the UK.
This video was made in collaboration between KTOO Public Media and Justin Smith of Rusty Recordings in Gustavus.
Watch other Red Carpet Concerts with The Quaintrelles, Reeb Willms and Caleb Klauder, as well as their performance with Foghorn Stringband during the 2016 Alaska Folk Festival.
The Juneau Jazz and Classics Festival hosts Brooklyn alt-country band The Defibulators on their final stop of a southeast Alaska tour.
The six-piece started playing in New York’s punk bars which inspired their rowdy, high-energy sound. “You know, nothing too delicate,” banjo and guitarist Bug Jennings said.
Expect to hear lots of fiddle, twangy telecaster guitar, country shuffles and lyrics you wouldn’t expect from classic country.
Jennings says the band attempts to bring a barn dance feel to their more absurd take on classic forms. Their song “Working Class” is about “drinking away a a college education right on into a big pile a student loan debt.”
“We figured there weren’t a lot of songs about student loan debt, so we figured we’d write one up,” Jennings said.
See them Friday, May 12, at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center for their dance party set at 7:30 p.m. as part of the 31st Annual Juneau Jazz and Classics Festival.
