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Another update from Christine Lavin with good news:
Via Paul Kehoe at peterpaulandmary.com:May 29, 2005MARY IS HOME!!!!
Mary was released from the hospital this week, exactly one month after thebone marrow transplant procedure, and is so happy to be home!
The graft ‘took” and she reports that the donor marrow is making wonderfulcells, ALL FOR HER! She sends [...]

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This week, the Online Folk Festival salutes Canada (Happy Victoria Day!) with a week of Canadian music.
I have been reading the CanCon (Canadian Content) survey every week for the last couple years on the Folk DJ List and thinking what a great show you could do playing nothing but music made by Canadians. I asked [...]

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Back from being out of town celebrating my grandmother’s 90th birthday (more on that later as I have time this week). John Prine is this week’s featured artist (5/17-5/22). Many tracks from his new album as well as all the great John Prine songs you know and love.
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I know I haven’t blogged new adds in quite a while. I’m going out of town tomorrow, so it will probably be another few days before it happens.
I did want to post before I go about my weekend o’folk. Friday night I got to see Chris Stuart and Backcountry in Centerburg at a [...]

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Another update from Christine Lavin, by way of the Folk DJ list
Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 13:52:20 EDTFrom: Christine LavinSubject: update on Mary Travers
Hi Folk DJs and musicians — this is the word as of 10 PM Friday night, from Paul, who works on the PP&M website. [...]

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Appleseed Records, a folk label that has been responsible for putting out the recent output of Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, John Wesley Harding, Kate McDonnell and others, has now signed The Kennedys. Their new album, Half a Million Miles, will be out sometime in late summer. Based on what I’ve seen from both [...]

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He has a great new album produced by soul music legend Dan Penn, and he’s a songwriter who has been covered by the likes of Steve Earle, Billy Bragg and Maura O’Connell. All Greg Trooper does is write great songs and sing them with style in a smooth baritone. That ought to be [...]

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