Interview with Mark Bingham on Michot's Melody Makers & other recent projects

Mark Bingham

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Louis Michot is the violinist and vocalist with the ripping and spellbinding band Michot’s Melody Makers. Mark Bingham, producer, songwriter, guitarist, is the guitarist in the group. Here we converse about the release of Cosmic Cajuns from Saturn, their recent live record. Later in the interview we talk about another new release of Peter Stampfel’s 20th Century, a multi record set 20 years in the making.

Mark has been interviewed on this site a few times and is a veteran of a vast array of the American music shenanigans. Look through the site for further background. It won’t disappoint.

Interview with Mark Bingham…

Interview with Beth Patterson, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, novelist, poet, Celtic music specialist.

It is hard to summarize Beth Patterson (Paxton) in a simple paragraph. She embodies the terms multi-talented/ faceted, and she earnestly goes deeply into the musical avenues that interests her. But, this isn’t limited to music. She also has written novels (published) and poetry, and while she somehow does all that she puts on wild and riveting performances and invents crazy stuff to do with her also highly talented husband, Josh Paxton.

So in this interview you will hear her talk about coming out of Lafayette and somehow ending up involved in all sorts of world music but especially Celtic music. She plays an unusual instrument - the Irish Bazouki as well as bass and mandolin. Her dexterity and execution are amazing, but she also has an incredible wit and humor that are both fast and sensitive…and insensitive at exactly the right time. Her songwriting style is wide ranging as well as having a colossal repertoire of traditional music from around the world and the ability to fuse these things together. Is it mash-up or fusion?

Either way, it’s very interesting and she has a lot of thinking, ideas, and experiences that go into and come out in her art. Check out her ideas in this 4 part podcast.

part 1 of the Interview with Beth Patterson

part 2 of the interview with Beth Patterson

part 3 of the interview with Beth Patterson

part 4 of the interview with Beth Patterson

to know further:

Beth's website

Beth’s Wikipedia page

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