Image may contain: 2 people, guitar Mythic Valley is an indie-folk duo made up of Tommy Gunn and Tony Aman. Their sound “finds its core within the neo-Americana genre.” Their musical influences include James Taylor and Fleet Foxes. Songs featured: Mythic Valley, Whole Again, Steeples, Closed Doors, Come Clean, Something Sweet, The Last One, Full Moon, Sadie, King at Last Learn more about them here: https://mythicvalley.com/ Watch selections from this episode on YouTube:

  Mythic Valley is an indie-folk duo made up of Tommy Gunn and Tony Aman. Their sound “finds its core within the neo-Americana genre.” Their musical influences include James Taylor and Fleet Foxes.   Songs featured: Mythic Valley, Whole Again, Steeples, Closed Doors, Come Clean, Something Sweet, The Last One, Full Moon, Sadie, King at Last   Learn more about them here: https://mythicvalley.com/   Watch selections from this episode on YouTube:

Peter Breinholt, Nancy Hanson, David Tolk and Craig Miner are a talented group of musicians. They each have their own musical pursuits, but come together every now and again to work on special projects like the one recorded in Studio 6.  Songs featured: “Dancing Queen” (ABBA); “Rocket Man” (Elton John); “Roll Away the Stone” (Mott the Hoople); “Only You” (Yaz); “So Lonely” (The Police); “Only in Your Heart” (America); “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)” (George Harrison); “I Got You...

Peter Breinholt, Nancy Hanson, David Tolk and Craig Miner are a talented group of musicians. They each have their own musical pursuits, but come together every now and again to work on special projects like the one recorded in Studio 6.  Songs featured: “Dancing Queen” (ABBA); “Rocket Man” (Elton John); “Roll Away the Stone” (Mott the Hoople); “Only You” (Yaz); “So Lonely” (The Police); “Only in Your Heart” (America); “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)” (George Harrison); “I Got You Babe”...

photo by Josh Siebert Ben Reneer is a singer-songwriter from Alpine, Utah. According to the man himself, Ben “is determined to tell stories in the best way he knows how: through the universal language of music.”  Songs featured: Off My Mind, Emma, I Should Be Getting More Sleep, 25 Years (What's it Gonna Take?), Orange Avenue, Senseless, Swallow, Songbird Learn more about him here: https://www.benreneer.com/music/  Watch selections from this episode on YouTube:

  Ben Reneer is a singer-songwriter from Alpine, Utah. According to the man himself, Ben “is determined to tell stories in the best way he knows how: through the universal language of music.”    Songs featured: Off My Mind, Emma, I Should Be Getting More Sleep, 25 Years (What's it Gonna Take?), Orange Avenue, Senseless, Swallow, Songbird   Learn more about him here: https://www.benreneer.com/music/    Watch selections from this episode on YouTube:   

Aspen Winds is a string quartet native to Utah. In this epsiode they present a selection of songs that celebrate the 150th anniversary of the completetion of the transcontinental railroad. Songs featured: Surmounting Every Barrier; Irish Jig; Zhang Songs; Summerland;  City of Kindling; Thule Ultima; Fantasia and Cabaletta; Woodwind Quintet 3, Mvt. 2 Learn more about them here: http://www.aspenwinds.org/ Watch selections from this episode on YouTube:      

Columbia is a singer-songwriter of Americana music who comes from a small town in Maine. He is currently based in Murray, Utah.  Songs featured: Run, Twenty-Five, Trouble, Life Changes, Hang My Hat, Save My Soul, Devil’s Music, Call You, Real Bad, Daddy’s Boots Learn more about them here: https://columbiajonesmusic.com/ Watch selections from this episode on YouTube:   

The Copper Hills High Madrigals Choir, directed by Marc Taylor, is the winner of the 2018 Classical 89 High School Choir Competition. In this episode of Highway 89 they perform a selection of their best music.   Songs featured: Walking on the Green Grass; Take Care of This House/My House; It Don't Mean a Thing; Pure Imagination; The Kiss; Suo Gan; Vestigia; Unicornis Captivatur; Leron, Leron Sinta   Learn more about them here: https://bit.ly/2WPN95X  

Carl Cranmer is a world-famous pianist performing two differet excerpts from Gabriel Faure and Nikolai Medtner on Highway 89.  Songs featured: Nine Préludes, Op. 103 (five of them) 1. D-flat major-Allegro 2. c-sharp minor-Allegro 4. F major-Allegro moderato 5. d minor-Allegro 8. c minor-Allegro; Forgotten Melodies II, Op. 39: 1. Meditazione 2. Romanza 3. Primavera 4. Canzona matinata 5. Sonata tragica Learn more about him here: https://www.wcupa.edu/music/appliedmusic/cCranmer.aspx Watch...

Aimee Nolte is a jazz singer and pianist, visiting us from LA where she shines in the gigging scene as both a solo artist and the leader of a trio. While she’s primarily a jazz player, she brings her chops to music of all kinds – Aimee knows more than a thousand songs and can play them at the drop of a hat.   Some of those songs have been captured in a growing catalog of recordings that have been called “deeply personal, captivating works of art.” In 2016, Aimee started her YouTube channel,...

Folk-rock group Grizzly Goat describes their sound as 'Undomesticated Americana.' Listen to discover exactly what that means, what it's like to record in a rural Utah cabin, and why this band wants to write a song about all 50 states! Songs featured: Time; Oh My Road; Virginia, Gentle, Wild Spaces; Oh Good Lord; Idaho; Don't Know How; Out of Sight Ain't Out of Mind; Southern Indiana; The Higher Ground  Learn more about them here: https://www.grizzlygoatmusic.com/ Follow Highway 89 on...

In 2005, a group of singers was enroute to a festival in Italy. They had the repertoire, they were rehearsed – all ready to wow their waiting audience. All they needed now was a name. Paul Smith, one of those singers, said, "We needed a name to go on stage and there were eight of us and we were in Italy. We wanted something that feels like voices but had that Latin vibe to it, so we went with voces."   Thus was born VOCES8, a group that Gramophone calls “impeccable in its tone and balance.”...

Touring music of the masters as well as exciting original works from visionary composers of our time, the Fry Street Quartet has perfected what The Strad calls a "blend of technical precision and scorching spontaneity." The quartet has reached audiences from Carnegie Hall to London, and from Sarajevo to Jerusalem, exploring the medium of the string quartet and its life-affirming potential with what the Deseret News calls "profound understanding...depth of expression, and stunning technical...

The NEXT Ensemble performs live at Kaffe Mercantile. Their mission is to bring concert music to small coffee-shop venues like this one.   Songs featured: Suite No. 1 for Solo Cello in G Major, Prelude; Sonata No. 1 for Solo violin in G Minor, Adagio; Five; B.B. Wolf; PBD19; You Are Not Machines   Learn more about them here: http://nextensemble.org/web/home.aspx   Watch selections from this episode on YouTube:   

Live music performances from Studio 6 at BYU Radio.

    In 1998, a string quartet burst onto the New York City music scene, bringing with it the riches of conservatory scholarship and study, and also embracing the intensity of rock, the grooves of jazz and hip hop, the eclecticism of world-beat bands, and more.       We’re talking about ETHEL, the group that now includes cellist Dorothy Lawson, violist Ralph Farris, and violinists Corin Lee and Kip Jones. And in the decades since its beginnings, the group has fostered a dedication to...

Vocalist Cherie Call is accompanied by pianist Brett Raymond share some of their holiday favorites on this Christmas-time Highway 89.  Learn more about them here: https://cheriecall.com/; https://brettraymond.com/home/   Watch selections from this episode on YouTube:  

World-renowned pianist Jim Brickman joins Highway 89 at the beginning of his Joyful Christmas tour.  Songs featured: Celebration; Thanksgiving; The Gift; Christmas Medley; That Silent Night; Simple Things; Rocket to the Moon; Timeless; Fly; If You Believe Learn more about him here: https://www.jimbrickman.com/ Follow Highway 89 on Instagram: @byuh89 and Twitter: @byuh89

November 11, 2018, marked the hundredth anniversary of the end of the first World War – the war to end all wars. It saw the mobilization of more than 70 million military personnel. The fighting cost the lives of 9 million combatants and seven million civilians, and the war contributed to other factors – including a worldwide flu epidemic, that cost the lives of tens of millions more.   In our time, we come to understand the war by studying its history. But much of what we imagine about living...

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The Deseret String Quartet, which is comprised of violinists Alex Woods and Monte Belnap, violist Claudine Bigelow, and cellist Michelle Kessler, performs a piece by Haydn and a contemporary work by Ethan Wickman, commissioned and first performed right here at Brigham Young University. Songs featured: Franz Joseph Haydn's Opus 76 No. 2 "Fifths" and Ethan Wickman's Namaste Learn more about them here: HERE Follow Highway 89 on Instagram: @byuh89 and Twitter: @byuh89

The tale of our guests today begins, perhaps, in a home in which the father, a painter, exchanged some of his paintings for musical instruments. His sons, soon to be a harpist, a fiddler, and a guitarist, grew up to be Kirkmount, a Celtic band that, when the boys were still very young, kept up a rigorous schedule performing at festivals and in concert halls, making recordings, and they even won A Prairie Home Companion's "Talent from Towns Under Two Thousand" contest. Two of those brothers,...