FolkBlog

Just for fun, I went through the Online Folk Festival playlist and attached a country of origin or residence to each artist that I play. For groups with members from different countries, I chose the label International.
Here are the results in alphabetical order:
Australia: 6 artists, 7 tracksCanada: 30 artists, 35 tracksInternational: 5 artists, 6 [...]

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The Online Folk Festival Top 41 Songs of the past 30 days as of August 28, 2006. Once again, there is a tie at #40. Ratings are determined based on listener voting through the live365.com player interface.
Rank. Artist - “Song” - Album
1. Amy Speace - “Right Through to Me” [...]

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Since Google has deemed fit to anoint this blog one of the leading sources on Mary Travers, let me offer this bit of news. Mary recently met the woman whose bone marrow allowed her to recover from leukemia and the story is here.
The FolkBlog is the opinion of the Online Folk Festival - http://www.onlinefolkfestival.com

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Jazz/pop trumpeter Maynard Fersuson died this week at age 78. There’s a fine obituary article at the Washington post site at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/24/AR2006082401836.html
A piece I wrote about Maynard Ferguson and Chuck Mangione on this blog can be found at http://www.onlinefolkfestival.com/folkblog/2005/01/mr-flugel-and-conquistador.html
I only saw Maynard once, at the Cleveland Zoo, sometime in the late 80s while he was [...]

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Lots of good CDs in the mail the last couple weeks, so I added tracks from several new CDs over the weekend:
Artist - Album
The Be Good Tanyas - Hello LoveSmithfield Fair - Walking Through This WorldVarious Artists - One MeatballDeborah Holland - Bad Girl Once…Soccer Mom NowTanya Lowman - It’s Gonna Take a Long TimeAmos [...]

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The FolkBlog is listed on BlogShares (see link in the left-hand column), just in case you’d like to own shares in this venture - well, figuratively.
The FolkBlog is the opinion of the Online Folk Festival - http://www.onlinefolkfestival.com

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The move was successful. Everything is at the new place, though I’m still not certain where everything is, and will eventually clear enough boxes out of the garage so that I can park the car in there.
Anyway, on to the new adds:
Artist - AlbumAmos Lee - CD single from Supply and DemandAnonymous 4 - GlorylandBrett [...]

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