David Calder presents the music he loves in The Folk Music Hour, with the aim of rekindling listeners’ interest in acoustic music in the Anglo-American tradition, including NZ folk song, and world folk music such as that heard at WOMAD in New Plymouth’s beautiful Brookland’s Park.
Almost all music has a folk origin: blues, jazz, rock and even so-called classical. As Big Bill Broonzy famously said – “all songs are folk songs; ain’t never heard a horse sing!”
Arguably the first Kiwi to make a living with a mandolin, David spent some of his musical life playing bluegrass, but was performing in the folk boom as early as 1964. He was playing in Europe and the UK in the 70’s, dabbling in folk rock and pop in California in the 80’s, and creating a country garden in the 90’s and teaching children to read.
These days, kind of retired, he is free to pursue any of the musical paths he loves: song-writing, tuition, and performance with guitar, piano, banjo, mandolin, autoharp, dulcimer, even bass; playing jazz, folk, blues and originals. Or to just kick back and listen to Bach or Grappelli …
He is a long-standing performer of NZ folk, and maintains a love affair with US old-time music nurtured since Doc Watson’s LPs first made it to these shores. A natural entertainer since his debut on radio aged six, David thinks radio is the perfect performance medium.
In the golden age of air travel, flying was sold as glamorous, luxurious, and effortlessly chic. But for the young women working the aisles at 30,000 feet, the reality was very different. When Patt Gibbs joined American Airlines in the 1960s, she was trained to be slim, smiling, and subservient. Stewardesses like her were weighed like luggage, forced to retire at 32 years old, banned from marriage, and expected to endure sexual harassment with grace. One extra pound, one birthday too many, or one wedding ring and your wings were clipped. But when Patt walks into a union meeting on a whim, everything changes. The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight tells the story of the stewardesses who refused to be grounded. From secret meetings to landmark discrimination cases to high-stakes union votes, these women challenged America’s biggest airlines and the sexism baked into the industry itself. A powerful sisterhood began to form across cabin aisles and crew lounges. They weren’t just fighting for better contracts. They were fighting for control of their own lives.
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Welcome to Passion for Craft Podcast! Jackson, Richard and Brent, providing different levels of experience from Apprentice to Journeyman to Master, discuss modern craftsmanship, and how it would benefit from the ways it used to be done. Join them as they seek to improve craft and relearn the past one house at a time.
In a world full of negative news the goal of this podcast is to shed some light on the positive and to recognize and give attention to the people who are the true Heroes in society.
I am Lisa Falzone your Security Heroes podcast host. Our aim, connects listeners to real-life heroes in the security world. We explore the challenges and successful strategies of these heroic figures to resolve issues which unravel under highly stressful conditions.
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The Intelligence Jumpstart with Jane DOE is the National Intelligence University’s podcast produced by NI Press. It explores relevant national security topics through collegial conversations that provide listeners with transparency and insight into issues that affect the US Intelligence Community today.
You don’t have to be a professional intelligence officer to listen, you just have to subscribe to get your own Intelligence Jumpstart.
PSL On The Mic is the official podcast for the City of Port St. Lucie, Florida. Twice a month, host Maureen Kenyon sits down with staffers, including Port St. Lucie Mayor Shannon Martin, to discuss hot topics important to our residents, including growth and development, taxes, parks projects, public safety and more. Listen and learn anytime, anywhere!
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The mystery Zebb Quinn has more questions than answers. The reality is, no one will ever truly know what happened to Zebb Wayne Quinn. By all accounts the 18-year-old was the quiet kid in class … the person you’d see at Walmart … truly the guy next door – a good kid.
Nothing could prepare the community, detectives, or the Quinn family for the circus about to consume their idyllic mountain town for over two decades.
From Zebb’s disappearance in 2000 to rumors of a lover’s triangle, the cryptic clues left behind in Zebb’s Mazda, and the gruesome discovery of a murdered couple that left the bright lights of Hollywood for a slower lifestyle.
Years of questions all connected to one man … a man that would become notorious through his heinous actions.
A Good Guy: The 22-year murder mystery of Zebb Quinn,” is hosted by General Assignment and Special Projects reporter, Samiar Nefzi and WLOS anchor Holly Headrick. Together, they dive into the mystery, taking listeners step by step through the case, never-before-heard detective notes, station reports, and beyond.
Walter Russell Mead, a historian, pundit, and popular author, is encyclopedic about politics, culture, and history. On What Really Matters, Mead and Tablet deputy editor Jeremy Stern help you understand the news, decide what news matters and what doesn’t, and enjoy following the story of America and the world more than you do now.
Check out Walter Russell Mead’s Tablet column at https://www.tabletmag.com/columns/via-meadia.
Welcome to the MH Life Podcast! During these short podcast episodes, the Maryland Heights Communications Division will be answering YOUR questions that are submitted online at www.marylandheights.com/mhlife or at one of our physical comment boxes located at the front desks of the Maryland Heights Government Center, 11911 Dorsett Road, and the Maryland Heights Community Center, 2300 McKelvey Road.
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