Killdeer String Band

The Basso

Femspring - Flodens Dod - Schankheden

The Brexit

Ruby Rakes perform fiddle tune Salt Creek at the 2025 Anchorage Folk Festival.

Salt Creek

It could be that, in your domicile these days, there is a certain focus on "spring cleaning."  Sometimes this is simply a focus for conversation and good intentions.  Though occasionally, it may actually materialize into concrete actions such as sweeping under the couch or washing the wall behind the fridge or checking through the cans well beyond their best-before dates in the back of the cupboard.  Here at Routes & Branches & Beyond, it means cleaning off a shelf and playing the music that I've been meaning to get to all winter.  

I'll have incessant and driving Cape Breton fiddle (just like the rain there...), legendary Irish quartets devoted to your own good health, traditional government rams, celtic punk attitude from the suburbs, deep folk from the west, Scottish moist-eyed tributes, heavy wood from a guitar guru, lush love fiddles, thrift store americana, NL cultural anthems, and old-timey chamber music from York County.  All from musicians such as Andrea Beaton, Planxty, The Government Rams, The Swinish Multitude, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Dougie Maclean, Don Ross, Jay Ungar & Molly Mason, The Rough & Tumble, Tarahan, Shane MacGowan & the Popes, and The Creaking Tree String Quartet.  Get out a new broom and join me.


Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 369 2025 05 08

Cover of traditional song, recorded for Jeanette Kotowich solo dance performance Kisiskâciwan

Buffalo Gals

Gabrielle Marie

And the summer continues, here at Routes & Branches & Beyond!  This is episode 11 of "Summer on the Range," which you'll be excused for referring to as "the endless summer."  But there are just a couple more chances to ride the range before heading to more scripted theme shows.  So enjoy the freedom while you can.  I'll have stately morris marches, radically democratic folk rock, Eastern Ontario gopher fiddle, high-tech hoedowns, deperate pioneer Canadiana, west coast trombone revelry, geeky trad blues, post-communist Polish folk tunes, bittersweet country swing songs of relationship implosion (twice), and four Nordy lads with a Limerick lass.  From musicians such as Leveret, The Levellers, Gopher Baroque, Onion Honey, Yusef/Cat Stevens, Beoga, Oh Susanna, Chris Whiteley, Warsaw Village Band, Celtic Social Club, Arlen Roth, and Rick La Riviere and the Best Laid Plans.  Leave the salsa canning until tomorrow and join me.


RBB 383 2025 09 11

Autumn is a grand time to ramble.  After all, you are much less likely to sweat, the bugs are fewer, there is the calming sound of walking through fallen leaves, there is the poignant sky that just makes you want to devote your life to do oil painting en plein aire, and it is a chance to walk off the excesses of the summer before the excesses of the solstice season begins.  So today on Routes & Branches & Beyond we start a series of Mid-Autumn Rambles.  I'll play iconic Irish, incomprehensible Gaelic, Calgary celtic, Australian convict heroes, Haligonian indie folk rock gets mellow, trans-Atlantic chamber folk, stormy Canadian pioneer odes, Quebec jazz d'hiver, tickles & kissing, and old greasy stringbands.  All from musicians such as Planxty, Annmarie O’Riordan, Fraid Knot,Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, Black Pool, Skye Consort & Emma Björling, Red Moon Road, Christine Tassan & Les Imposteures, Greg T. Brown & Jeremy Keddy, and Red Hen.  Set aside your doubts and join me.


Routes & Branches & Beyond show #385 2025 10 30

Host Dina Pavlis chats with Ryan Hanson, Gage Carter, and Mason Akers of Tuesday String Band. This fun and engaging interview covers the groups' journey from early days to present day. The interview includes a couple of songs as well.

Tuesday String Band loves entertaining crowds with fast pickin’, witty banter, and string band versions of songs from a wide variety of styles. The band plays upwards of 100 shows per year throughout the Pacific Northwest and has performed at several major Bluegrass festivals, including the North Cascades Bluegrass Festival.

The band is on a mission to keep the string band tradition alive and to educate the next generation of pickers along the way!

Tuesday String Band performs at the Winter Music Festival in Florence, Oregon, this January.


Featured Artist - Tuesday String Band

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