Vernacular Sounds

Host(s): 
Caleb Paul
Timeslot: 
Tuesday, February 25, 2025 - 7:00pm
Length: 
1 hour
Type of Show: 
Music

Folk, traditional, and regional styles from all over the world; ethnographic, field recordings, local labels, state-sponsored labels, etc., sometimes themed or in the style of a survey, sampler, or anthology.

Past Episodes

  • Vernacular Sounds - EP15 - Balkans and Beyond Aired: Tuesday, February 18, 2025

    A mix of regional styles and traditional music from the Balkans and Southeastern Europe. Hear ethnographic field recordings of music from the former regions of Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Rumania, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Hungary. Tree leaf-playing choruses, kolo flute, lute, hurdy gurdy, fiddle, bagpipes, jaw harp, Traveller (gypsy) ballads, etc.

  • Vernacular Sounds - EP14 - Indigenous South and Central America Aired: Tuesday, February 4, 2025

    A show of regional styles and traditional music focused on indigenous Central and South America. This episode includes both field recordings and speculative commercial attempts of pre-Columbian or pre-conquest music and instruments, as well as more modern traditional styles.

  • Vernacular Sounds - EP13 - Guest Gamelan Aired: Tuesday, January 28, 2025

    A solid hour of Indonesian percussion orchestras, friend of the show Will R. does a Gamelan guest set, with some later tracks added by the show host, hear Gamelan, and other Gamelan adjacent music from Java, Bali, and some American Gamelan.

  • Vernacular Sounds - EP11 - Midwinter Mix Aired: Tuesday, January 14, 2025

    A mix of sounds from all over. Hear shepherds pipes, marimba & jawbone, panpipe ensembles, Khene, double membrane drum, Norwegian hardanger (octave) fiddle, and more.

  • Vernacular Sounds - EP10 - Caribbean Breeze Aired: Tuesday, January 7, 2025

    Keep warm with a winter mix of regional styles and traditional music from all over the Caribbean. Hear chanteys, mazurka, merengue, calypso, and other regional styles, on recordings from Loulou Boilasville Orchestra, Rawlingson Hector, Everard DeJean, Nassau String Band, Ago's Bal Band, Orchestre Jazz Corondo, The Duke of Iron, and others.

     

  • Vernacular Sounds - EP9 - NYE 2025 Bluegrass Country Gospel Bonanza Aired: Tuesday, December 31, 2024

    Celebrate the New Year with the Vernacular Sounds 2024 NYE Bluegrass Country Gospel Bonanza. Labels such as Starday, REM, King, Audiolab, and some independent or self-released material mingles with some bigger Nashville labels. Recordings by Moore & Napier, Easter Brothers, Carl Story, Red Ellis, Wayne Raney, A.L. Phipps Family, J.D. Jarvis, Cooke Duet and others.

  • Vernacular Sounds - EP8 - Merry ol' England Aired: Tuesday, December 24, 2024

    The 2024 Vernacular Sound Holiday Special is a mix of regional styles and traditional music from all over England, with some ceremonial and holiday material. Grab some ale or nog or whatever and hear wassailing, brass bands, and Mummers along with ballads, broadsides, and some songs of labor and industrial discontent. Recordings by the Copper Family, Harry Cox, the Watersons, Anne Briggs, Harry Boardman, Maureen Craik, Ed Pickford and more.

  • Vernacular Sounds - EP7 - good time Louisiana! Aired: Tuesday, December 10, 2024

    A mix of regional styles and traditional music from Louisiana. Hear early to mid 50’s Cajun, Creole, Zydeco, Acadian and New Orleans brass bands, are all featured recordings from Amede Ardoin, Dennis McGee, Joseph Falcon & Cleoma Breaux, S.D. Courville, Dewey Balfa and his family, Nathan Abshire, Hackberry Ramblers, Elise Doshotel & His Lousiana Rhythmnaires (featuring steel guitar wizard Atlas Fruge), Eureka Brass Band, and others.

  • Vernacular Sounds - EP6 - Kentucky Aired: Tuesday, December 3, 2024

    A show of regional styles and traditional music from Kentucky, the Bluegrass state, ballads, banjo, fiddle, hard shell Baptist sacred singing, old time, and, surprise, bluegrass are all featured on recordings by Roscoe Holcomb, Bill Corbett, Daw Henson, Rufus Crisp, Lenville Ball, Clyde Davenport & W.L. Gregory, Edna Ritchie, George Roark, Bill Shepard, and others.

  • Vernacular Sounds - EP5 - Mediterranean Islands & Coasts Aired: Tuesday, November 26, 2024

    A mix of regional styles and traditional music from all over the Mediterranean. Hear Italian and Greek bagpipes, Periklis Halkias (Epirus), beautiful Tralaleri polyphony, Sicilian folk song and Cantastorie (poet-story-singing), and even an ancient Greek fragment from 130 C.E. Recordists include Wolf Dietrich, Walter Henna, Diego Capitella, Alan Lomax, and others. Music from Crete, Kos, Karpathos, Epirus, Sicily Calabria, Sardinia, Corsica, Mallorca, Genoa, and more!

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