FolkBlog

Following are my most recent adds to the Online Folk Festival. I hope I’ll be back to review some of them.
Artist: Album

Birdie Busch: The Ways We Try
Breadfoot (featuring Anna Phoebe) : Tea With Leo
Brooks Williams: Blues and Ballads
Dale Nikkel: Passages
Danielle Howle: Thank You Mark
Dave Crossland: Pearl
Diana Jones: My Remembrance of You
Johnsmith: break me [...]

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Legendary singer/songwriter, soundtrack copmposer and producer T Bone Burnett will release a CD of new material as well as a 2-CD career retrospective, both on May 16. More details here. T Bone’s musical career includes serving as a sideman of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue, several critically acclaimed solo albums featuring help from his [...]

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Just thought it was worthwhile once again to share some statistics that indicate that the Online Folk Festival is a worldwide phenomenon. According to statistics provided to me by Live365.com, in the last 30 days the station had listenership of at least one hour from the following countries:

United States
Canada
United Kingdom
Australia
Germany [...]

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We are back to regular folk mix programming, and as I continue to switch out the Celtic music, I thought that a thank you was in order to all who listened on St. Patrick’s Day. The Online Folk Festival set a single-day listener hour record of 1007, with a simultaneous listener record of 115. [...]

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I don’t talk much about my personal life on this blog, but I think it’s important to share this news. Last Monday, I became engaged to a wonderful woman who loves the music as much as I do. No date has yet been set. I’m really thrilled, and if station management seems erratic and slow [...]

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The annual Online Folk Festival St. Patrick’s salute to Celtic music has begun. Nonstop traditional, Celtic rock, Celtic punk, TechnoCeltic all week through Sunday 3/19/06. It’s a regular Celtapalooza!
Stop by and hoist a few!
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I got an offer in my email at work today to good to refuse, so I’ve registered a separate URL for the Folk Blog: http://www.folk-blog.com. How easy is that! It may take awhile to propagate through the web to your domain name server of choice, but, trust me, it will. If you [...]

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Bruce Springsteen has announced that he will be releasing an album of covers of songs related to Pete Seeger as a tribute, in time for Seeger’s 87th birthday in April. It is the first album of covers that Springsteen has released.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2006-03-03-springsteen-seeger_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA
This is, to be honest, not very surprising to me. He earlier recorded “We Shall [...]

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My friend Andy Whitman, who writes for Paste magazine and lives in nearby Westerville, is a really fine writer and has a blog of his own. Here is a really fine post about visiting his daughter at Kent State University:
http://andywhitman.blogspot.com/2006/03/transfiguration.html
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The best freeform radio station on the air and on the web has released their list of Choice Albums for 2005.
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wcbe/guide.guidemain?action=viewPlaylist&playlistID=88465&eventID=1285&x=15&y=7
I counted that I have played tracks from 21 of these albums on The Online Folk Festival
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