FolkBlog

A quick post to let y’all know that Great Big Sea is the Featured Artist of the Week on the Online Folk Festival this week (11/28 - 12/5) to celebrate the recent US release of their Great Big DVD and CD, which I’ve reviewed elsewhere on the Folkblog.
Also, Over the Rhine has a new CD [...]

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Kasey Chambers will be this week’s (Novermber 21-28) featured artist of the week on the Online Folk Festival.
I was lucky enough to see Jeffrey Foucault and Devon Sproule in concert Friday night in a small hall normally used as a community foodbank/resource center. Both were excellent, particularly Foucault, who has an excellent command of the [...]

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This week’s (November 14-21) featured artist on the Online Folk Festival is Irish singer/songwriter Luka Bloom. I’ll be featuring tracks from his recently released CD Before Sleep Comes, as well as music spanning his solo career.

The FolkBlog is the opinion of the Online Folk Festival - http://www.onlinefolkfestival.com

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Alison Krauss and Union Station is this week’s Featured Artist on the Online Folk Festival, with boatloads of new music from their soon-to-be-released CD, Lonely Runs Both Ways.
Time to get back to talking about folk music here on the Folkblog.
On Hymns of the 49th Parallel, kd lang shows a great deal of subtlety in interpreting [...]

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Over the past few days, I’ve been seeing articles about liberals wanting to move to Canada to escape the next four years of the Bush Administration, which will, of course be disastrous. That’s the coward’s way out. Stay and fight. Better yet, move to Ohio.
Yes, Ohio. The state that disappointed you so much. Come here [...]

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Well, it’s over. The Republican Slime Machine, with the help of the So-Called Liberal Media, has tarnished another good man, and this time Bush’s election seems legitimate. I’m sorry that my state put our Corporate Criminal and War Monger in Chief over the top and gave him four more years to make the world hate [...]

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Iris Dement is this week’s featured artist on the Online Folk Festival. I’ll be playing lots of tracks from her new studio album, Lifeline, her first since 1996. Lifeline features Iris singing a collection of old-time gospel tunes produced by Jim Rooney, who produced Nanci Griffith’s classic work from the 80s and plays [...]

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