The Folk Show Road Show: The Jive Bombers, East River String Band and Dom Flemons

WPSU | By Mel DeYoung

Published December 17, 2014 at 11:02 AM EST

Recorded in March 2014 at Elk Creek Cafe and Ale Works in Millheim. The Jive Bombers are Central PA duo of harmonica virtuoso Richard Sleigh and guitarist/musicologist/singer Jerry Zolten. The East River String Band is Eden Bower and John Heneghan, based in NYC, and Dom Flemons is originally from Phoenix, but he is a co-founder of the Carolina Chocalate Drops. This episode of the Folk Show Road Show captures an evening that began with the Jive Bombers and East River String Band in the first hour, leading in to an hour with Dom

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Dom Flemons, recorded at Elk Creek Cafe and Aleworks, Millheim, Mar 2014

Flemons.

Mel DeYoung

Mel DeYoung hosts Morning Edition on WPSU and is in the broadcast booth before 5am each weekday. That means that if he's being sensible he goes to sleep way earlier than normal people do. The differences don't end there, but you'll have to chat with Mel sometime to understand the full depth of his abnormality.

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