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Nick Forster, host of the eTown radio show and multi-instrumentalist member of the legendary bluegrass band, Hot Rize, joins The Nature of Music for an interview celebrating eTown's 30th B'Earthday! Our conversation starts by exploring the origins of Forster's environmental passions: a tale involving the heroic activism of Nick's mother in the presence of Pete Seeger. Forster shares insights from decades of conversations with eTown guests, covering big issues from climate change to biodiversity conservation to environmental justice, and solutions from renewable energy (including the backstory to solar-powered eTown Hall) to sustainable agriculture to the importance of each of us taking action to protect our magnificent planet. Along the way, he tells the backstory to moving eTown performances in which he hosted James Taylor, The War and Treaty, and Brandi Carlile and Rufus Wainwright.

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We celebrate the new year by saying farewell to the disastrous 2020. We play some comfort music and protest music by freethinking songwriters, performed (mostly) by freethinking singers. We hear Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Yip Harburg, Jerome Kern, Stephen Sondheim, and more — performed by Tom Lehrer, Linda Ronstadt, Joni Mitchell, Pete Seeger, Nina Simone, Elton John, James Taylor, Cher, Dan Barker and Shelley Segal.

This episode of LINER NOTES is centered around two new recordings by pianist David Berkman; a recent sextet offering entitled Six of One, and a new solo project featuring the music of John Coltrane and folk icon Pete Seeger.