WUMB Member Concert with Eliza Gilkyson

If you are a WUMB Member you know that you can go to free WUMB Member Concerts. We have a Member Concert with Eliza Gilkyson, Rebecca Loebe, Betty Soo, and Bianca De Leon at 7 PM on Thursday, September 24th at David Friend Recital Hall at Berklee College of Music. The event is hosted by Berklee's Professional Education Division, Austin to Boston: Cutting Through The Noise.

Each of the featured artists are based out of Austin, Texas and are visiting Berklee to teach master classes, chat with students, and to perform. Eliza Gilkyson comes from a musical family. Her father is Terry Gilkyson the folk musician, and her brother Tony is a guitarist. Gilkyson has been releasing music since 1969. Rebecca Loebe competed on Adam Levine's team during the first season of NBC's The Voice and has toured with the likes of Ellis Paul and Raina Rose. Betty Soo has won awards from the Sisters Folk Festival, the Wildflower! Festival, Mountain Stage and more. Bianca De Leon is an internationally renowned folk singer who has had her music featured on film soundtracks and in video games.

You must be a WUMB member to attend Member Concerts. Become one here.

-Kendall Stewart

WUMB Member Concert with Joan Shelley

One of the perks of being a WUMB Member is that you are able to attend free WUMB Member Concerts. Our next Member Concert is with Joan Shelley at 12 PM on Saturday, September 12th at Club Passim. 

Joan Shelley is a singer/songwriter based in Louisville, Kentucky. Her influences range from 1960's folk music to classic country tunes. Shelley frequently collaborates with other musicians serving as a member of the trio Maiden Radio and even releasing entire records with them including Joe Manning for Outside Stay Outside  and Daniel Martin Moore for Farthest Field. Over and Even his her third solo record, out September 4th. 

You must be a WUMB Member to attend Member Concerts. Become one here. 

-Kendall Stewart

WUMB End of Fiscal Year Pledge Drive

We are coming to the end of the fiscal year here at WUMB and we are asking you to pledge your financial support. It is through your contributions that we are able to bring you the one-of-a-kind programming that you love.

As a non-commercial station we do not receive any ad dollars to cover operational costs. The most important source of income for us comes from our members and our members are listeners like you who appreciate the music that we are bringing to you every single day, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

If you can contribute $30 dollars a month to WUMB we will thank you with not only a WUMB hooded sweatshirt but also with J.D. McPherson's latest album, Let The Good Times Roll. You can pledge your support to WUMB by calling 800-573-2100 or by clicking here.

-Kendall Stewart

WUMB BBQ, 2015 Headliners: The Steel Wheels

Now that the weather is FINALLY getting warm and sunny it's time to gear up and get excited for outdoor activities like camping, going to the beach, hiking and of course: barbecuing! This year the annual WUMB BBQ will be at Carson Beach on June 28th catered by Blue Ribbon BBQ and featuring a one-of-a-kind performance by the quartet from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, The Steel Wheels!

The Steel Wheels: Trent Wagler (lead vocals), Jay Lapp (mandolin, guitar, vocals), Eric Brubaker (fiddle), and Brian Dickel (upright bass).

Their Mission: to fuse the personal with the universal, the deeply rooted past with the joys and sorrows of everyday existence. 

Wagler, Brukbaker and Dickel met as college students at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisburg, Virginia. Wagler and Dickel were originally in an alternative band before going in an acoustic direction as a duo. They soon were joined by Brubaker on fiddle and rounded out by the addition of Jay Lapp whom they had met on the road. After playing under Wagler's name and as Trent Wagler and The Steel Wheels the band dove in headfirst and became The Steel Wheels in 2010. They released their  latest album, Leave Some Things Behind on their own label, Big Ring back in April is a culmination of their last five years as a band, and draws on their experiences on the road, with a theme of exodus and "following your dreams and stepping against your own comfort zone". 

Click here to purchase tickets to the WUMB BBQ!

-Kendall Stewart

WUMB Member Screening: Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis

Over the weekend WUMB hosted a screening of the film Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Musice of Inside Llewyn Davis for our members. Inside Llewyn Davis is a film by the Coen Brothers starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, F. Murray Abraham, and Justin Timberlake. The movie is set in 1961 and chronicles a week in the life of a struggling folk singer named Llewyn Davis.

Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis is a concert film directed by Christopher Wilcha, of the concert by the same name--organized by T Bone Burnett who collaborates with The Coen Brothers quite often--in September 2013 at New York City's Town Hall. The film includes performances by Jack White covering Tom Paxton's "Did You Hear John Hurt", Rhiannon Giddens, Elvis Costello and Marcus Mumford, also of The New Basement Tapes, Locals Lake Street Dive with their own "You Go Down Smooth" and The Milk Carton Kids among others.

If you would like to attend WUMB Member Concerts you can become a member today here or by calling the membership office at 617-287-6902.

Attention Members! Choose your next giveaway!

Hello loyal Members!


Next week we are letting you choose what you want for our Online Member Giveaway. We have three cd's to choose from. Just vote on the poll to the right of our blog to cast your pick!


If you want the music now, you can buy the albums here:

Ollabelle- Neon Blue Bird

Tedeschi Trucks Band- Revelator

Tinariwen - Tassili





Don't forget to enter this week's Giveaway here [http://wumb.org/members/weeklygiveaway.php].



-Anita Lee