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Festival Radio New Adds, January 14, 2012

woodsmeister — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:18:18 +0000

New adds to Festival Radio since November 5, 2011

Artist Album Alela Diane Alela Diane & Wild Divine Ashley Hutchings and Rainbow Chasers A Brilliant Light Crooked Still Friends Of Fall Daniel Levi Goans BrotherStranger Darrell Scott Long Ride Home Doop and the Inside Outlaws What Am I Supposed To Do? Freebo Something [...]

Festival Radio Playlist, 1/14/2012

woodsmeister — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:05:31 +0000

Updated full playlist for Festival Radio, January 14, 2012. After the jump, of course.

Artist Title Album Abbie Gardner It’s You Hope Abigail Washburn Devine Bell City of Refuge Adrienne Young Blinded By Stars Plow To The End Of The Row Al Stewart with Dave Nachmanoff Last Days of the Century/Constantinople/Last Days [...]

Festival Christmas Top 42, 2011

woodsmeister — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:38:45 +0000

Top 42 tracks for Festival Christmas, as rated by the listeners:

Tommy Sands – A Christmas Childhood / A Call to Hope – To Shorten the Winter: An Irish Christmas with Tommy Sands Charley Bate – The Gower Wassail Song – Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection She & Him – Christmas [...]

Festival Christmas Is On the Air

woodsmeister — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:53:17 +0000

Festival Christmas is back on the air featuring an eclectic mix of folk, traditional, bluegrass, Celtic, singer/songwriter and novelty Christmas tunes.

Listen to Festival Christmas

Singer/Songwriter Terence Martin Has Died

woodsmeister — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:31:14 +0000

Singer/songwriter Terence Martin has died of pancreatic cancer. I didn’t know Terence Martin, but I’ve played tracks from his last several CDs because they were excellent.

Martin’s website A remembrance of Martin

New Adds, Festival Radio, November 5, 2011

woodsmeister — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:42:26 +0000

Sorry it’s been so long, crimestoppers. These are the new adds to Festival Radio since August 20, 2011.

Artist Album Abbie Gardner Hope April Verch That’s How We Run Cosy Sheridan The Horse King Driftwood Fire How To Untangle A Heartache Elly Wininger Part Time Paradise Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues Freebo Something To [...]

Rosanne Cash Wants Your Help

woodsmeister — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:38:39 +0000

Rosanne Cash invites Festival Radio listeners and FolkBlog readers to send requests and questions by twitter to @rosannecash to build the setlist for her first “Live from Zone C” concert she will record in her living room on 11/2.

Tweets should include the hashtag #essentialrc (for Essential Roasanne Cash). You may also include the [...]

Canadian Folk Music Awards 2011 Nominees

woodsmeister — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:31:52 +0000

Hey, America. They play folk music in Canada, too. Nominees for the Canadian Folk Music Awards, to be held in Toronto on December 4. A few (fewer than I would like) of these artists can be heard on Festival Radio. More specifically, I’ve given heavy play to the Bruce Cockbur, Ruth Moody, April Verch [...]

Happy Thanksgiving, Canada

woodsmeister — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:20:00 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving, Canada.

I was curious to see how much of my current playlist is occupied by Canadian artists, so I classified each artist by country. Groups in which members are from several countries are generally classified either by the country of residence or as International when I wasn’t sure. As it turns out, [...]

Bert Jansch Has Died

woodsmeister — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:26:11 +0000

Bert Jansch, Scottish guitarist best known for his work with seminal British folk group The Pentangle, has died of cancer at age 67. More here.