Above The Basement - Boston Music and Conversation

We met up with phenom guitarist and singer Arielle and her band as they road tripped in from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland to The Red Room @ Cafe 939 at Berklee College of Music.

Arielle …

Kabir Sen, AKA MC Kabir is an educator at heart who teaches through music. He teaches at Shady Hill School in Cambridge and his students are some of his biggest fans, as we discovered when several of…

When we first began this podcast and started putting together names of people we would like as guests, Billy Beard was on the primary list. Not necessarily because we had heard him play, but because …

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins is a rock-star of science who was instrumental in the identification of multiple genes for hereditary disease including cystic fibrosis, Hun…

A performance by A Far Cry - Live at City Winery Boston - February 28, 2019 in Boston, MA.

Recorded after our fourth ConcertCast - a conversation and performance in front of a live audience.

To liste…

Episode 131 - a ConcertCast Event with A Far Cry

Classical music is pretty much the only music in the world that still sounds beautiful when the musicians are tuning up. It sounded so great we decide…

Episode 130 - a conversation with Ari Hest.

With a distinctive voice and beautiful melodies, Ari Hest has carved out a diverse career as an independent artist. Several of his songs have appeared on T…

Episode 129 - a conversation with Livingston Taylor.

Boston’s own Livingston Taylor is a musician, teacher and interested man. Yes – we said interestED, not interesting. Not that Livingston isn’t int…

We are taking a little detour from our usual format to bring you this very special episode.

We hosted a conversation between the illustrious sports reporters Gordon Edes and Steve Buckley with arguab…

Episode 127 - a conversation with Jared Bowen.

We took a ride early one morning to the WGBH studios in Brighton, Mass to sit with arts and entertainment reporter and Boston native Jared Bowen. Jared …

Episode 126 - a conversation with Oompa

We first ran into Oompa at Boston One Night Band back in 2018 – listen to Episode 123 for our conversation with Richard Bouchard about that event - but Oompa i…

Episode 125 - a conversation with Peter Gammons.

As a Boston Red Sox fan living in the NY/NJ area back in the 90’s and early 2000’s, life as a Sox fan was...well...difficult. Especially after Game 7 …

Every so often we get the opportunity to catch a musical coming through Boston and then sit with the actors or musicians for a chat.

We were especially lucky to have a conversation with the lovely Zi…

Episode 123 - a conversation with Richard Bouchard.

Last year we went to our first One Night Band event at The Sinclair and left with a long list of possible guests – Thalia Zedek, Cliff Notez and Oo…

Episode 122 - a conversation with Jenee Halstead.

We are no longer surprised that our guests are much more than just musicians. Jenee Halstead is a great example.

In addition to being a singer-songwr…

Mike Block - Live at Indian Hill Music - November 17, 2018 in Littleton, MA.

Recorded after our Mike Block ConcertCast - a conversation and performance in front of a live audience.

To listen to the e…

Cellist, educator, innovator and pioneer, Mike Block breaks the mold and the norms. He plays, sings and creates percussion with what is normally imagined as an orchestral instrument while he moves ar…

Berklee College of Music in Boston is one of the premier music schools in the world. We have talked with many fantastic Berklee grads, including the folks from Honeysuckle, RIPE, Alison Keslow and Ma…

We were honored to sit with the amazing Pardis Sabeti who is doing her part to help those in need with her work at The Sabeti Lab where she is working to eradicate the Lassa and Ebola viruses.

Dr. Sa…

Music has a way of bringing people together, and is a language we share.   Recovery has its own language, within its own culture of addiction. We are all affected by substance use disorder (SUD…