Conversations with Members of Our Native Daughters, October's Get Lit with A.M. Homes and Laurie Anderson
[REBROADCAST FROM NOVEMBER 5, 2021] Canadian roots musician Allison Russell has been a member of several bands, including Po’ Girls, Birds of Chicago, and Our Native Daughters alongside Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, and Leyla McCalla. Earlier this year, she released her debut solo album, Outside Child, an autobiographical record of childhood abuse and survival. Russell joins us for a Listening Party, and we end on a special performance of "Hy-Brasil" featuring Sista Strings.
[REBROADCAST FROM JUNE 21, 2021] On Amythyst Kiah's new album, Wary + Strange, the folk and roots musician, and member of the group Our Native Daughters, broadens her sound, mixing together Americana, rock, and more. Kiah joins us for a Listening Party.
[REBROADCAST FROM MAY 11, 2022] On her new solo album, Breaking The Thermometer, former Carolina Chocolate Drops and Our Native Daughters bandmember Leyla McCalla explores the history of Radio Haiti, the country's first independent radio station and one of few to broadcast in Haitian Creole. Along with original acoustic compositions and traditional Haitian songs, McCalla includes personal interviews and radio broadcasts to tell the station's story. McCalla joins us for a Listening Party.
We air highlights from our October Get Lit with All Of It book club event! Our author this month was A.M. Homes, who joined us to discuss her novel, The Unfolding. The story follows the Big Guy, a powerful Republican donor whose life starts to unravel after the results of the 2008 election. Hear Alison's interview with Homes, as well as some of the audience Q&A portion of the evening.
Multi-media artist Laurie Anderson joined as the musical guest at our October Get Lit, with her friend, author A.M. Homes. Anderson discussed her career and performed improvised works based on Homes's The Unfolding. Her set also honored her late husband Lou Reed, the anniversary of whose death coincided with the event.
