Above The Basement - Boston Music and Conversation
Above the Basement offers casual and candid discussions with musicians, artists, producers and others from Boston and beyond. Conversations will inform and entertain listeners with experiences from those shaping Boston's music community and for whom music is a passion. You will hear their stories, hardships faced and overcome...
and why they love what they do.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 211
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2021
On Your Feet with Above The Basement - Take 5 Tuesday - A New Broadway
Ladies and Gentlemen and all fans of On Your Feet!
Here is our final installment of Take 5 Tuesday where we offer you a snippet of the conversation with On Your Feet! band members Jorge Casas (bass) …
Episode 097 - Tony and Angela DiTerlizzi
Illustrator and author Tony Diterlizzi got his start drawing for Dungeons & Dragons but soon began "worldbuilding" though his books that include Jimmy Zangwow's Out-of-this-World Moon Pie Adventure, …
On Your Feet with Above The Basement - Take 5 Tuesday - Crash and Recovery
Ladies and Gentlemen and all fans of On Your Feet!
Here is our fourth installment of Take 5 Tuesday where we offer you a snippet of the conversation with On Your Feet! band members Jorge Casas (bass)…
Episode 096 - Ashe Gordon
Violist and holistic educator, Ashe has played all over the world with a number orchestras and ensembles, and has collaborated with many living composers including Thomas Adès, Steve Reich, and Jeffr…
On Your Feet with Above The Basement - Take 5 Tuesday - Conga Time
Ladies and Gentlemen and all fans of On Your Feet!
Here is our third installment of Take 5 Tuesday where we offer you a snippet of the conversation with On Your Feet! band members Jorge Casas (bass) …
Episode 095 - Joyce Kulhawik
The local evening news in the 80's was such a big part of our day. At 6pm we’d sit down to watch TV and get our fill of what’s happening in our city and the world.
A lot has changed since those days,…
On Your Feet with Above The Basement - Take 5 Tuesday - The Crossover
Ladies and Gentlemen and all fans of On Your Feet!:
Here is our second installment of Take 5 Tuesday where we offer you a snippet of the conversation with On Your Feet! band members Jorge Casas (bass…
Episode 94 - Town Meeting
We sat with Luke, Russ and Brendan Condon - three brothers from the Boston band Town Meeting a few weeks ago and it quickly went off the rails.
In between several simultaneous conversations we talked…
On Your Feet with Above The Basement - Take 5 Tuesday - New Machine
Ladies and Gentlemen and all fans of On Your Feet!: We would like to introduce you to the story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan as told in the Broadway national tour of ON YOUR FEET! The Musical.
You…
In Concert Series 006 - Brent Shuttleworth - Live at Rapscallions
A performance by Brent Shuttleworth - Live at Rapscallions - April 11, 2018 in Acton MA.
Recorded after our first ConcertCast - a conversation and performance in front of a live audience.
To listen t…
Episode 093 - Brent Shuttleworth
When we got word that Brent Shuttleworth was coming to town, we saw it as an opportunity to celebrate the Nashville / Boston connection, new and old friends, and experience a fresh unique style of so…
Episode 092 - Dutch ReBelle
Hip-Hop artist and proud "Queen of the Bean", Dutch ReBelle has earned national attention for her lyrical punch and powerful performances.
In 2014 she was named the Boston Music Awards “Best Hip-Hop …
Episode 091 - On Your Feet
ON YOUR FEET! The musical is a story of rhythm and resilience.
It covers the lives of Gloria Estefan and her husband Emilio Estefan to and through success, and tells a story of setbacks and love. The…
Episode 090 - Cambridge Rindge & Latin HS
What is the first song that comes right to your mind?
When you think of the world around us, or a social issue - why does this song resonate?
These are the kinds of questions we asked the students at…
Episode 089 - Ryan Montbleau
We first saw Ryan Montbleau back in 2012 in Boston on a Rock and Blues Cruise that featured the Ryan Montbleau Band. It was a full boat and was packed with Ryan Montbleau fans and the band totally ro…
Episode 088 - Wu Man
Internationally acclaimed soloist, composer and educator, Wu Man is a master of the Pipa, an instrument that dates back almost 2000 years. Wu Man co-founded The Silkroad Project with Yo-Yo Ma and has…
Episode 087 - Jonatha Brooke
Jonatha Brooke's first band - the critically acclaimed The Story with the talented Jennifer Kimball was the beginning of an impressive run of beautifully written songs that today culminate in her lat…
Episode 086 - David Minehan - Part Two
This is part two of a two part episode.
We met Sir David Minehan when we walked up the stairs to the wonderful rooms of his recording studio Woolly Mammoth Sound to begin recording our Butler Frog EP…
Episode 085 - David Minehan - Part One
We met Sir David Minehan when we walked up the stairs to the wonderful rooms of his recording studio Woolly Mammoth Sound to begin recording our Butler Frog EP.
David is in the seminal Boston band Th…
Episode 084 - RIPE - Part Two
This is part two of our conversation with RIPE so if you haven’t heard the first, go to abovethebasement.com/episodes to listen.
Coming out of Berklee College of Music, RIPE has been called many thin…