Sunday Supper: 10/13/19

Today's "Sunday Supper" celebrates Columbus Day with an hour of songs dedicated to the American Dream. Some of them, like "Ellis Island" by Marc Cohn and "Goodnight, New York" by Julie Gold, are open-armed welcomes to a foreign land. Others, like "Lady of the Harbor" by Brother Sun, "Sun Never Sets" by Roger Street Friedman, and "All Some Kind of Dream" by Josh Ritter, reflect a different immigrant experience at this tense moment in time. 

One of the most intriguing new examples is "The Dreamer" by Che Apalache. Led by a North Carolina fiddler and vocalist, Joe Troop, the band also features two Argentines on guitar and mandolin and a Mexican on banjo. Together they meld myriad influences (including Uruguayan murga, flamenco, mountain gospel, and straight-ahead bluegrass) into a true Latin-Appalachian fusion on their album, Rearrange My Heart, produced by Bela Fleck.

As always, "Sunday Supper" has music for your heart and mind from 5-6 p.m. EDT at 90.7FM or streaming at wfuv.org, with instant access to the WFUV Weekend Archives, made even easier if you have a smart speaker like Alexa.