FolkBlog

I’m back from vacation, and I want to pose a question: should I keep the Featured Artist of the Week?
I’ve looked at the numbers, and it seems that more people actually listen when I put the music up there in shuffle play and let it go than when I program a featured artist. There are [...]

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I will be traveling this week to visit my parents in Florida who do not have broadband. Therefore, I will not be able to update the station until sometime after next Tuesday (October 25). Therefore, there will be no featured artist this week - just great folk and related music left in shuffle [...]

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It’s been way too long since I’ve blogged new adds, so here goes
Bruce Cockburn: SpeechlessI’ve wondered for years why Cockburn has not done an instrumental CD, having long been amazed by his guitar prowess. Now he’s done it, and it contains nearly all of my favorite instrumentals. (”Deer Dancing in a Broken Mirror” [...]

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Canadian master singer/songwriter/guitarist will be this week’s featured artist to celebreate the recent release of his instrumental collection, Speechless. This CD collects many of Cockburn’s best instrumentals over the last 30+ years, along with several new instrumentals. The Online Folk Festival will focus this week on instrumental tracks spanning Bruce’s career, plus some [...]

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From the Eddie From Ohio e-mail newsletter

UPDATE ON JULIE’S BOUT WITH BREAST CANCER
On September 15, Julie had very successful surgery, with the very encouraging news that the tumor had not spread to her lymph nodes. The past couple of weeks have been spent recovering from the surgery and awaiting the Oncologist’s assessment of her [...]

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I have set up a link to use to add the FolkBlog to your My Yahoo page. Just click the button in the left hand column and let Yahoo do the rest. It’s so simple, everyone should do it. Isn’t technology grand?
The FolkBlog is the opinion of the Online Folk Festival - [...]

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I was inspired by what little I saw of the No Direction Home documentary (I did tape it, though, and hope to watch it this week some time) to choose Bob Dylan as the Featured Artist of the Week for October 2-8. To be more specific, it will be just early Dylan - Highway 61 [...]

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