R.I.P. Dr. John. A Southern-fried mensch, a righteous musician for all seasons, a vital link in the New Orleans tradition.

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R.I.P. Leon Redbone. One of music's truly idiosyncratic and inscrutable performers has died. Nobody's sure what his real name was or when he was born

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The two-part "Sunday Supper" Seeger Centennial to commemorate Pete's 100th birthday is now permanently available on demand in the WFUV Archives.

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In April I devoted three editions of the Sunday Supper to special programs highlighting some of my favorite moments from my 50 years in radio.

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All My Sons, now at the American Airlines Theatre, was Arthur Miller’s first commercial success in 1947, two years before Death of a Salesman. It’s a tragedy, but a more classic one than his later hit…

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My first encounter with Hadestown was about 10 years ago when Anais Mitchell performed “Why We Build the Wall” on my show.

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On Tuesday, April 16, as the cast of Kiss Me, Kate took a curtain call at Studio 54 to a thundering ovation, Kelli O’Hara stepped forward and made a pitch for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

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Thanks to journalist Dave Gil de Rubio of the Long Island Weekly for the lovely article about my stroke recovery, my 50 years in radio, including the retrospective specials and the Pete Seeger Centennial Tribute, and my New Folk Initiative.

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It was April, 1969. I was a junior at Princeton University and the program director of WPRB. Dave Herman was an inspiration for his work on The Marconi Experiment, a free-form show on WMMR in Philadelphia (the sister station of WNEW-FM in New York).

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“What the Constitution Means to Me,” the play written by and starring Heidi Schreck, was critically-adored Off-Off Broadway last fall. It’s now opened on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre, and it’s compelling in ways that I didn’t expect.

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It’s impossible to overestimate Joni Mitchell’s influence on other musicians, so the lineup of talent for the JONI 75 tribute to celebrate her 75th birthday in November at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in L.A.

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My wife and I are semi-fanatical on the subject of Stephen Sondheim.

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