Orfeia Vocal Ensemble, Johnny Eck, & The Bumper Jacksons

Aaron Henkin presents a profile of Orfeia Vocal Ensemble, an unlikely group of American singers who’ve mastered the haunting, dissonant harmonies of traditional Bulgarian music.

The MICA exhibition, The Amazing Johnny Eck,  features paintings, sculptures, puppets, toys, photographs, and costumes belonging to the sideshow-performer-turned-Renaissance-man Johnny Eck. Producer Lisa Morgan stops by for a preview.  

There was a golden age in American music history when categories like ‘blues,’ ‘country,’ and ‘jazz’ didn’t really mean anything important to the people playing.  What was vital about the music was that it was fun to play.   The Bumper Jacksons happily take us back to that lost era.  They drop in for a visit with Aaron Henkin...