The Ballroom Thieves

*While Sarah Jarosz’s show Friday night, February 2nd, at World Cafe Live may be sold out, she will be playing WXPN’s Free At Noon at World Cafe Live on the afternoon of February 2nd, which you can attend for free, if you just register here. Polaroid Lovers, the seventh...

“Generally playing Johnny Brenda’s is a good memory,” says Calin Peters, one-half of Boston-based indie folk duo The Ballroom Thieves.  The last time I spoke with the band’s other half (in March of 2020, just before COVID put live music on hold), and Calin’s husband, Martin Earley, he told...

“I had the greatest thing in the world that could ever happen to me happen.  Elton John somehow came across my new record and called me up and asked if he could play piano on my next record,” Aaron Lee Tasjan tells me, laughing, after asking him if he’s...

Andrea von Kampen should be your next folk obsession!  (Our friends The Ballroom Thieves and WXPN’s Bruce Warren are already fans!)  Earlier this month, the Nebraska-based singer/songwriter released the whimsically woodsy That Spell (courtesy of Fantasy Records), the follow-up to her debut LP, 2019’s Old Country.  The songs found...

Postmodern Americana singer/songwriter Odetta Hartman describes her sound as an amalgam of, “cowboy soul, future folk, superstitious songs, sound experiments,” driven by “back-porch banjos, detuned violins, foley field recordings, tuning forks.”  Although her sound and presence are notably quirky, her musical chops are undeniable.  Odetta Hartman is...

Just about a year ago Boston-based Americana rockers The Ballroom Thieves packed an exceptionally squishy Johnny Brenda’s for an exceptionally sweaty Friday night, despite the fact that Americana mega-darlings The Lone Bellow were headlining Union Transfer just a couple neighborhoods over.  The Ballroom Thieves expressed their gratitude for the...