On your radio July 5—Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers & Wendy Ramsay

Originally broadcast 11/1/2015

“It’s the blend. It’s the instruments. It’s the ideas. It’s the creativity. It’s the authority. It’s the flair. It’s the flirting. It’s the fast fingers. It’s the laughing. It’s the words. It’s the rock. It’s the folk. It’s the wit. It’s hard to put your finger on just what you like best about Rodgers and Ramsay.” –Nancy Emrich, LilFest

Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, grand prize winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, teams up with multi-instrumentalist/songwriter Wendy Ramsay in this dynamic folk-rock duo. Rodgers, also the founding editor of Acoustic Guitar magazine, delivers masterful band-in-a-box guitar work while Ramsay, harmonizer extraordinaire, adds flute, clarinet, guitar, accordion, and her quirky originals to the mix.

Based in upstate New York, the two musicians collaborated on Rodgers’ latest album, “Almost There”, which won the 2015 Sammy Award for Best Americana. They were selected to perform, with the full JPR Band, in the 2015 Emerging Artist Showcase at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. The duo has played in venues ranging from house concerts and coffeehouses to bars and churches.

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On your radio July 12—Evan Horne

Broadcast of the Live show on 6/28/2026

Evan Horne (a.k.a. Tenzin Chopak) is a cinematic-folk singer songwriter, composer, and visual artist from Oak Ridge, TN, now based out of Ithaca, NY. His music and live performance are known for their immersive, mesmerizing, and incandescent power that defy genre. Raised in East Tennessee with a singing minister father and artist mother, Evan was surrounded and suffused by art and music throughout his upbringing.  The roots of music from his upbringing in Tennessee resonate deeply through his own unique voice, emerging as both hauntingly timeless and fully his own.

Evan Horne tours solo as well as with his ensemble Emmett Scott on piano/keys and backing vocals, Michael Schuler on bass, and Aaron Walters on drums and backing vocals, and regularly collaborates in performance with singer songwriter Bess Greenberg.    

Over the years he has been joined onstage by many of the most treasured musicians to grace the Finger Lakes such as jazz cellist Hank Roberts (Bill Frisell), clawhammer banjo master Richie Stearns (The Horse Flies), upright bassist Ethan Jodziewicz (Aoifie O’Donovan, Sierra Hull, Milk Carton Kids), legendary fiddle player Rosie Newton (Richie & Rosie), and has opened for artists such as Donna the Buffalo, Ryan Montbleau, Driftwood, Shawn Colvin, Tim Reynolds, and Todd Rundgren. His latest album, “Witness” is now available.

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On your radio July 19—Zoe Mulford

Originally broadcast 10/14/2012

Originally from Pennsylvania, Zoe Mulford now lives in Manchester and plays on both sides of the Atlantic. She learned to play in the old-time picking circles of North Carolina and started touring from Washington DC, where she was nominated “Songwriter of the Year” two years running by the Washington Area Music Association. She has been a finalist in several national songwriting contests, including those at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in New York and the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas.

She intersperses her own songs with selections from the music that inspires them: American and British folk ballads, Old-Time banjo tunes, and the work of songwriters from George Gershwin to Richard Thompson. Backing her clear vocals with guitar or five-string banjo, she may bring to mind artists from Joni Mitchell to Gillian Welch in the course of a single set.

Whether her starting-point is Franklin’s doomed polar expedition or the neglected contents of her own refrigerator, her vivid storytelling and down-to-earth humor promise listeners an enjoyable journey. Her third album, “Bonfires,” was inspired by her experiences with English folk clubs, and celebrates the folk tradition from North Carolina to Liverpool.

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LIVE Bound for Glory!

James Bird

July 26, 2:00 pm 
at the Lansing Area Performance Hall

James is a poet, musician, and bard local to Western Massachusetts. A live musician at heart, he has shared music in a diversity of spaces like festivals, farmer’s markets, funerals, wedding ceremonies, ecstatic dances and grief rituals. Myth is a central theme in Bird’s music, using ancient stories to speak to the timeless human experiences of love, loss, friendship, mystery, death and rebirth. 

In mid 2024 James went into the studio to record “Riddles” a story album that weaves through the stories of many mythical characters like Echo and Narcissus, Tammuz, Inanna, Circe and many more. The album is expected to be released in 2026. 

James released his first album, “Parables”, on Bandcamp in 2014, an EP “Lila” in 2017, and a home-recorded single “Byron Bay” in 2019. 

The single, “Flower of Wind” was Bird’s first release in 5 years, a home-recorded ode to letting go. It arrived alongside his first book of poetry titled, “The Confluence”.

Come join us for Bound for Glory’s monthly live shows on the fourth Sunday of each month at 2 pm in the Lansing Area Performance Hall at 1004 Auburn Road (Route 34), North Lansing, NY. Admission—as always—is free, but we are encouraging donations for the performers.

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On your radio July 26—Tanglefoot

Originally broadcast 4/18/2004

“A solid wall of musical energy, a full-throated, multi-instrumental roar of exuberance and delight…” — Greg Quill, The Toronto Star

The only Canadian folk quintet ever to play in space (well, their CD “Music in the Wood” was dinner music aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2001) is also a past winner of the “Best of Bound for Glory Award,” and a favourite every time they visit Ithaca. Tanglefoot brings their special brand of “full-throated abandon” to every stage show, offering high-energy, raucous drinking songs, personal ballads, and inspiring history lessons in the span of a single set. 

Tanglefoot began as a three-piece group in the early ’80s, playing their own lusty arrangements of Canadian folk songs, but lately they’ve focused on their massive and growing library of original songs. The band consists of guitarist Steve Ritchie, bass player Al Parrish, mandolin/guitar/etc. player Terry Young, keyboardist Bryan Weirmier, and fiddler Terry Snider. 

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Summer season of
Live Bound for Glory shows!

July 26 — James Bird
August 23 — The Honey Badgers
September 27 — SingTrece

Live Bound for Glory shows are in our new venue—the Lansing Area Performance Hall. The shows are on the 4th Sunday of the month at 2 pm. These once-a-month live shows, hosted by Travis Knapp, will be recorded for broadcast on a future Sunday’s WVBR’s Bound for Glory radio show.

Come be a part of Bound for Glory’s new series of live shows at the
Lansing Area Performance Hall
1004 Auburn Road, North Lansing, NY

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