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CHIRP Podcasts
Story Week Story Week Festival: Conversation with Playwrights
From March 15-21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presented its 19th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2015 offered a schedule jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public.
Readings and conversations with Kia Corthron, Breath, Boom, Regina Taylor, stop.reset and host Lisa Schlesinger, In the Wake of the Graybow Riots.
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Artist Interviews Ryley Walker
Katie Owens inhabited a corner of Schubas Tavern's basement for a pre-show interview with Ryley Walker. Ryley discussed the locales that make him most at ease, his distaste for downtime, learning 'punk rock ethic' from a veteran local musician and solicited his fans to contact him so he can play your house shows.
Primrose Green released March 31 on Dead Oceans. Ryley is currently on tour but will back to Chicago on July 17 for the 2015 Pitchfork Music Fest in Union Park.
Produced by: Bri O'Reilly
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Person of Interest Person of Interest: Marc Hauser
Where: West Town
"I've had a lot of things going against me, but I never give up."
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Artist Interviews Vetiver
Andy Cabic, frontman of San Francisco's Vetiver, sat down with CHIRP's Amanda Roscoe Mayo before his show at the Old Town School of Folk Music. They discussed the diverse geographic styles present in Vetiver's music, the bands he'd most like to share a stage with, and Amanda taught Andy about Malort.
produced by Amanda Roscoe Mayo
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First Time First Lie - Bente Engelstoft
Contains explicit language
Bente is an actor, writer and comedian. She is a first generation American who owes her comedy to a lifetime of watching her Danish father and Mexican mother communicate in their second language. She has been improvising, writing and performing in Chicago for that last 6 years on the stages of Second City, iO and the CIC Theatre. When she's not performing, Bente spends her time teaching people how to pronounce her name. It's like "Brenda" without the R.
Podcast produced by Dan Epstein
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