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Tune in for a special guest show by James Keepnews.

James Keepnews is a musician, writer and multimedia artist. He majored in English at Hamilton College and received an MFA from the iEAR program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. As a musician and composer, he has performed and/or recorded with such artists as Joe McPhee (currently in the trio Plan B with drummer Dave Berger), George Lewis, William Parker, Karl Berger, Daniel Carter, Billy Stein, Charles Gayle, Kidd Jordan, Roy Campbell, Tony Malaby, Hamid Drake, Jason Kao Hwang's Spontaneous River, Ras Moshe, Matt Lavelle, Holland Hopson, The New York Chapter of Crafty Guitarists, Chapter Two, The New York Guitar Project, Brown Cuts Neighbors, Blown Woofer, and Lick the President. His writing has appeared in Chronogram, Pacific Life Magazine, New Haven Advocate, Bass Guitar, Fairfield Weekly, Metroland, Story Screen Beacon, The Squid's Ear, and Reign of Toads. He curates the Elysium Furnace Works live event series held annually in the Hudson Valley, primarily in Poughkeepsie.