2022 Summit Labs
Thursday September 8
That’s the Way the World Goes Round
Jason Isbell, Margo Price, Warren Haynes and Newport Folk’s Jay Sweet, explore the lessons left behind by American icon and Grammy Award-winner John Prine — social equality, humor, and keeping your soul intact while navigating the music industry.
Participants
Jason Isbell 
Margo Price
Warren Haynes
Moderator
Jay Sweet
Keepers of the Flame
Veteran concert promoter and impresario, Peter Shapiro and Newport Folk and Jazz Festival’s executive producer, Jay Sweet talk to CBS Senior Culture and National Correspondent, Anthony Mason about the lasting legacy of classic live music venues and the oldest festival in the United States.
Participants
Peter Shapiro
Jay Sweet
Moderator
Anthony Mason
Live from The Great Room
Andrew Bird’s pioneering Live from The Great Room YouTube series showcases the creative process across a wide spectrum of arts. Watch the live taping of an episode of this livestream featuring Portlandia, Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Seth Meyers‘ actor/comic/musician, Fred Armisen.
Participant
Fred Armisen
Moderator
Andrew Bird
I’ll Take You There
American treasure and icon, Mavis Staples graces our labs with a personal and career spanning conversation with Jay Sweet, who has worked closely with Mavis over the years including producing her legendary and star-studded MAVIS 80 birthday celebrations. Having not only toured the world many times over with her family, The Staple Singers, Mavis has also worked with everyone from Mahalia Jackson to The Band, Prince and Jeff Tweedy of Wilco and has been at the epicenter of the music industry for seven decades.
Participant
Mavis Staples
Moderator
Jay Sweet
Southern Gothic
Raised in a committed Seventh Day Adventist family, Adia Victoria spins dark-hued Southern gothic tales at a recording of Katie Pruitt‘s The Recovering Catholic — a podcast on faith, artistic expression, and identity. The two reconcile their religious upbringings with personal truth and what it means to be spiritual in the modern age.
Participant
Adia Victoria
Moderator
Katie Pruitt
Shattering the Image
Her prodigious talents as a singer-songwriter, actress, multi-instrumentalist, and spoken word artist shape a prolific career for Celisse. Joined by women’s author and music journalist, Marissa R. Moss, the two redefine the long-standing and stereotypical image of rock’s lead guitarists.
Participant
Celisse
Moderator
Marissa R. Moss
Her Country
Award-winning Journalist Marissa R. Moss and Nashville singer-songwriter Katie Pruitt discuss how the women of country music became the success they were never supposed to be.
Participant
Katie Pruitt
Moderator
Marissa R. Moss
Melody for the Roots of Us
Sisters Leah Song and Chloe Smith of Rising Appalachia combine folk musical traditions with global influences and world culture. The duo explain how music created in the most desolate of places somehow finds its way into urban American households and hearts, alongside grassroots festival organizer, JK McKnight.
Participants
Rising Appalachia
Moderator
JK McKnight
Soulshine
Warren Haynes is a cornerstone in the American music landscape and is revered as one of the finest guitar players in the world. The Grammy Award-winner, whose career includes memberships with Allman Brothers Band, Gov’t Mule and the Dead, surveys song, soul, and spirit with CBS Senior Culture and National Correspondent, Anthony Mason.
Participant
Warren Haynes
Moderator
Anthony Mason
Hungry Wolf
As the 80s transitioned to the 90s, so did John Doe when the founding member of punk band X pursued rootsy, rockabilly influences. The troubadour tells Liz Schulte, local punk and ska music expert and host of Rude Awakening on KRCL, how this transition also assisted his transformation from luddite to a new millennia technophile.
Participant
John Doe
Moderator
Liz Schulte
America the Beautiful?
Hard and resilient on the outside but sweet and compassionate on the inside, Adam Weiner of Low Cut Connie has always been a fighter. And like any fighter, he loves a good scrap. The Low Cut Connie frontman invites Adia Victoria to discuss the trials and tribulations of being a songwriter in today’s America.
Participant
Adia Victoria
Moderator
Adam Weiner of Low Cut Connie
