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Sounds from the Western Frontier
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Sounds from the Western Frontier

Premiering Feb. 16, 2026

Guests Kim Gruenwald and Dominic Giardino consider the music and sounds that reverberated across the western frontier as French, English, new American settlers, and Native Americans pushed westward in the decades following the Revolutionary War.

The full video episode is no longer available to stream. The podcast version remains accessible on all major platforms or here in your browser window.

Episode Credits

Debra Nagy, executive producer & host
Shelby Yamin, associate producer
Hannah De Priest, special projects manager

Episode Guests

Debra Nagy

LD Artistic Director and Host

Dominic Giardino

Historical Clarinet

Kim Gruenwald

Historian

Additional guests to be announced.

Resources

Music

“The Traveler Benighted” – Francis Hopkinson, arr. Nagy

“Hail Columbia” – Philip Phile, arr. Ezekiel Goodale

Washington’s March – Anon., arr. Goodale

Turkish Quick Step in the Battle of Prague – Frantisek Kotzwara, arr. Samuel Holyoke

“Roselyn Castle” – arr. Nagy after William McGibbon & James Oswald

“The Lovely Ohio” – trad., arr. Nagy

“The Blackbird” or “Logan’s Lament” – After Mary Eddy from Ballads and Songs from Ohio

“The Meeting of the Waters of Hudson & Erie” – S. Woodworth, arr. Nagy

“Yankee Doodle” – after James Aird, arr. Nagy

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