SPINNING ON AIR
20TH ANNIVERSARY
Sunday, October 7, 2007, 7:00 PM
Joe's Pub
Spinning On Air
Spinning On Air's 20th Anniversary Live Broadcast from Joe's Pub brings together three very individual songwriters whose passionate voices communicate their musical visions: Larkin Grimm, a young Appalachian shaman/troubador who has a voice to conjure with; Bridget St. John, veteran British songwriter with a special knack for disarming intimacy; and David Deporis, a wild-eyed Brooklyn-based singer of tenderness, rage, and rue. Each performer has presented their music on Spinning On Air before, and now each will have the opportunity to play for the live Joe's Pub audience and WNYC-FM's listeners in this event which marks the 20th anniversary of Spinning On Air. Giving exposure to underexposed artists is one of the show's missions.
Spinning On Air illuminates the meeting points of Art and Pop. Heard on WNYC since 1987, currently Sundays, 7-8 pm, the show transcends categorizing and formula to explore unusual music, and the mysteries of communicating through music. Recently Spinning On Air has emphasized in-studio performances by passionate, personal, adventurous songwriters such as Sufjan Stevens, Antony and the Johnsons, Devendra Banhart, Juana Molina, Akron/Family, Animal Collective, and many others. Spinning On Air has been ahead of the curve in presenting and premiering work by such artists, who have gone on to wide acclaim and attention. Listening to Spinning On Air is a discovery, with producer/host David Garland as curator and advocate generally giving the whole hour to a particular theme or artist (usually musicians, but occasionally innovators in other arts). Garland is an intelligent, inquisitive, and articulate interviewer, and his interaction with bold and thoughtful guests performing and talking about their creativity adds up to a show that is itself intelligent, exciting, ear-opening, and uniquely engaging.
Bridget St. John's music conveys a gentle, disarming intimacy and sincerity. She is a singer and songwriter best known for the three albums she recorded between 1969 and 1972 for John Peel's Dandelion record label. Peel produced her debut album "Ask Me No Questions." She also recorded a large number of BBC and Peel sessions and toured regularly on the early UK college and festival circuit. Her popularity peaked in 1974 when she was voted fifth most popular female singer in that year's Melody Maker readers poll. An accomplished guitar player, she credits John Martyn (with whom she has been friends since college) as her guitar mentor. The second album "Songs for the Gentle Man," was produced by Ron Geesin. She emigrated to Greenwich Village in 1976 and virtually disappeared from the public eye for over 20 years. She appeared at a Nick Drake tribute concert in New York in 1999, performing "Northern Sky" and "One of These Things First". She toured Japan in 2006 with the minimalist French musician Colleen. Aside from work under her own name, Bridget St John has also recorded with Mike Oldfield (on Amarok), Kevin Ayers and Robin Frederick. In 2007 she reunited with Kevin Ayers to record on his album The Unfairground in New York. They duetted on the song "Baby Come Home". All her albums are now available on CD - some containing songs originally only released as singles, as well as previously unreleased 'live' material.
Larkin Grimm was born in Memphis, Tennessee four years after Elvis died. Her parents were members of a community of energy healers called The Holy Order of MANS. When this cult disban
More Info at Joe's Pub Genres- Folk, Singer-Songwriter
- Pop, Rock
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