Tune in to the “Friday Afternoon Show with Lucy Bohnsack” for fun and quirky interviews with community leaders and local personalities.

Today, Lucy is joined by Derek Piotr of Fieldwork Archive, an archive containing over 2,000 audio recordings collected from March 2020 onward, which preserves diverse representations of folklife; ballads, hymns, tales, poems, children’s songs, and interviews among them. The focus of this collection is on the "non-singer"; in other words, someone with no background in musical performance who can nevertheless relate a song or folkloric memory. However, the Archive features a wide variety of informants, including professional singers, descendants of musicians, laypeople, and ballad scholars. The vast majority of the recordings in the Archive showcase unaccompanied vocal performances.

Lucy Bohnsack is an artist and professional photographer, but over the course of her life she’s also been a forklift driver, tour guide, factory bottling line operator, seamstress, fabric designer, writer of technical instructions, tractor parts salesman, lead cashier at Claire’s Etc, and now host of the "Friday Afternoon Show" on the first Friday of every month. She lives in Catskill, NY with her husband and two children.