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Top tracks as rated by listeners to Festival Radio, August 2008.  There was a 5-way tie at #44.
Artist - Track - Album
1.    Taj Mahal - Two-Step de Grand Mallet - Creole Bred - A Tribute to Creole & Zydeco
2.    Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Bhindi Bhagee - Global A Go-Go
3.    The Hooters - Karla [...]

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Playlist for Festival Radio, August 28, 2008.  Recent adds are in red text.

Artist
Title
Album

5 Chinese Brothers
Alone Together
Singer Songwriter Beggarman Thief

A J Roach
Chemicals
Revelation

Abbie Gardner / Anthony da Costa
Spent
Bad Nights / Better Days

Abigail Washburn
Halo
Song of the Traveling Daughter

Afrocelts
All Remains
Seed

Al Petteway
Spindrift
Whispering Stones

Al Stewart
Angry Bird
Sparks of Ancient Light

Al Stewart
Hanno the Navigator
Sparks of Ancient Light

Alison Krauss & Union Station
Two Highways
Two Highways

Altan
The [...]

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New adds to Festival Radio since 8/7/2008
Artist - Album

Beoga - Mischief
H. R. Cook - Neongrass
Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade
Drew Emmitt - Long Road
Samuel James - Songs Famed for Sorrow and Joy
Cindy Kallet and Grey Larson - Crossing the Water
Tamara Lewis - Living Down River
Old Crow Medicine Show - Caroline
Jake Shimabukuro - Gently Weeps
Solas - [...]

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My wife and I got back late Sunday from attending the Philadelphia Folk Festival, as well as spending some quality time with my wife’s aunt, who lives in Philly and attended with us on Saturday.  Among the highlights:

Attending a workshop session where Pete Kennedy and Jake Shimabukuro went at the ukelele.  I’ve heard Pete Kennedy many times, [...]

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I just found out that my friend from college, Chris Clapp, was the production designer for a movie, The Horseman.  The trailer is up now at http://www.horsemanthefilm.com and it looks like it could be cool - a very dark period piece.

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New Adds to the Festival Radio, since july 17, 2008
Artist - Album

Joan Baez - Day After Tomorrow
The Bittersweets - Goodnight, San Francisco
Blackthorn Band - The River That Runs Below
David Bromberg - Live in New York, 1982
Charmer - The Perfect Cafe
Dervish - Traveling Show
Luke Doucet and the White Falcons - Blood’s Too Rich
Mark Erelli - Delivered
Steven Finn [...]

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Making Music: Virgo Rising — The Once and Future Woman (1973)
By Sue Barrett
It all began as an idea to put the movement into music, a record produced and engineered, written and sung by women. –(Virgo Rising, liner notes)
For many people, the world today includes fashion challenges, bad hair days, an energy crisis, multiple music formats [...]

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