Interview with Alaska’s Fiddling Poet – Ken Waldman

Ken Waldman - Alaska's Fiddling Poet

On this week’s show I talk with Ken Waldman – Alaska’s Fiddling Poet. I interviewed him last Friday while sitting on stage at the Jalopy Theater in Brooklyn, just prior to his show there that night. Ken is an ex-college English professor who taught via telephone to Inuit villagers on the Aleutian Islands that stretch between mainland Alaska and Russia in the Bering Sea. He now tours the country constantly, reciting his poetry and playing his fiddle. Ken has played everywhere from the Kennedy Center to nightclubs to small independent bookstores. He is celebrating the release of a new prose book, a memoir called “Are You Famous?” and a new double CD of his own fiddle tune compositions called “55 Tunes, 5 Poems.” Great stuff!

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  1. I haven’t even heard the podcast yet, but I’m psyched! I love this guy! If the footage of him playing at the Kennedy Center is still available (on his Web site), check it out … Another excellent selection, Mr. Smith.

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