Basic Folk podcast, eps. 275 – Maya, Nina & Lyle de Vitry
Maya, Nina and Lyle de Vitry‘s life, beginning in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has been music and family, music festivals with old-time music, songwriting and folk music. The de Vitry siblings (including sister Monica, currently teaching art in Western Mass) grew up amidst music and nature in their rural home and even had a family band called Old-Time Liberation Front. Many jams around the campfire, music lessons and encouragement from their parents led all three siblings to careers surrounding indie folk music (and jazz! thank you, Nina). All three have released albums in the past year: Maya’s new album The Only Moment is her fourth record in only six years of performing solo in her post Stray Birds career. Lyle JUST released his debut album, Door Within a Dream, while simultaneously working alongside other banjo makers at the Pisgah Banjo Company, his current day job. Nina’s excellent debut What You Feel is Real came out last year, and she’s currently been busy playing on the Noah Kahan tour as “the utility player.”
In our special conversation with the de Vitry sibs, we talk about how they feel about each other’s creative process, songwriter process and musician inspiration. They get into how being at all these music festivals and jams as kids bonded them together. We learn about made-up words that their family uses to this day: stay tuned to find out what a butchabee and a taffy bub is. Also they each talk about how disconnected they feel from the mainstream. And Lyle gets into how being around three sisters, female musicians and female songwriters has impacted him and his musicality. Plus, don’t miss a very special de Vitry “Which One” lightning round wrapping up one of the most special singer-songwriter interviews we’ve done on Basic Folk.
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