Thursday, October 30, 2014

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features a trio of tunes from last weekend's show at Woodlands, a wonderful retirement community on a hilltop overlooking our hometown of Huntington, West Virginia.

Friday night the folks filled the hall, singing and laughing with us! Here are a few tunes from that evening, including some featured solos by our guest artists, Sherri Hamilton on piano and Paul Martin on mandolin.

And we wrap up the podcast with a beautiful Michelle Lewis number. You'll even hear Michelle a little out of breath at the end, as a result of dancing with one of the residents during her performance.

What a great night! Click here to hear the three tunes.

Tunes from the rehearsal sessions make up our weekly Flood podcasts. You can subscribe for free and get the music automatically delivered to your computer each Thursday. For details on that, click here.

Thursday, October 23, 2014

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features a couple of tunes from a recent live performance.

We made some excellent memories for ourselves earlier this month, playing the pre-show each night for Marshall University's wonderful theater production of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

Before we press these mementos into the big ol' Flood scrapbook, we thought we'd share a couple of the moments with our podcast family.

We thank our old friend Kevin Bannon, that tireless stage and sound technician at Marshall, for making this quick recording of the pre-show on the closing night of the play. Click here to hear the two tunes.

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features a tune we're performing each night this week at Marshall University.

All this week, The Flood is on stage at Marshall's Joan C. Edwards Playhouse, doing the pre-show for the university theater's magnificent staging of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," and we're having a ball.

It is an unadulterated delight to be around these bright, talented, energetic performers, watching them light up the house, night after night.

For our part in the show, we've selected old and new tunes in the folk tradition. Here's one that Michelle Lewis brought to us just for this production. Click here to hear the tune.

"Tom Sawyer" runs through Saturday night at Marshall's Joan C. Edwards Playhouse. The house opens at 7 each evening, and the Flood plays until the 7:30 curtain. Come out and see the show!

Remember, "Tom Sawyer" runs Oct. 8 through 11 at Marshall's Joan C. Edwards Playhouse. Come on out for a great show! Tunes from the rehearsal sessions make up our weekly Flood podcasts. You can subscribe for free and get the music automatically delivered to your computer each Thursday. For details on that, click here.

Thursday, October 2, 2014

This Week's Freebie from The 1937 Flood

This week's freebie features a tune we're preparing for another Flood First.

The band has been asked to perform as part of a Marshall University theater production. Next week, Wednesday through Saturday nights at 7, we'll be doing the pre-show for a delightful production of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

The director has asked us to put together a selection of traditional and contemporary tunes that fix this classic Mark Twain story. At last night's rehearsal, we tuned up this beautiful Jean Ritchie composition to add to the mix. Click here to hear the tune.

Remember, "Tom Sawyer" runs Oct. 8 through 11 at Marshall's Joan C. Edwards Playhouse. Come on out for a great show!

Tunes from the rehearsal sessions make up our weekly Flood podcasts. You can subscribe for free and get the music automatically delivered to your computer each Thursday. For details on that, click here.