Festival Radio, Top 37 March 2011

Festival Radio top  37  tracks for March 2011 as voted by listeners

Artist – Track  - Album

  1. Johanna Divine – Been Gone Awhile – Mile-High Rodeo
  2. Shaun Cromwell – The Gristmill – Folk-Worn Prose
  3. Mavis Staples – Too Close / On My Way To Heaven – You Are Not Alone
  4. Nick Masullo – Hang Up Your Phone – Some Kind of Sign
  5. Joyce Andersen – Sound of Hearts – Love and Thirst
  6. Tom Juravich – Power in a Union – Altar Of The Bottom Line
  7. Railroad Earth – Too Much Information – Railroad Earth
  8. Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper – Dixie Special – Fired Up
  9. Katie McGarry – Sailors – Katie McGarry
  10. John Wesley Harding – Kill The Messenger – Why We Fight
  11. Gillian Welch – Wrecking Ball – Soul Journey
  12. The Duhks – Dance Hall Girls – The Duhks
  13. David Stoddard – Parfrey’s Glen – Get Off My Lawn
  14. Eddie From Ohio – Very Short Fuse – Portable EFO Show
  15. 5 Chinese Brothers – Let’s Kill Saturday Night – Let’s Kill Saturday Night
  16. TriBeCaStan – Dizzy In The Dunes – 5 Star Cave
  17. Laura Marling – Devil’s Spoke – I Speak Because I Can
  18. Joel Rafael – Plane Wreck at Los Gatos – The Songs of Woody Guthrie, Volume I
  19. Al Stewart with Dave Nachmanoff – Last Days of the Century/Constantinople/Last Days (Medley) – Uncorked
  20. Whirligig – Revolution Earth – Spin
  21. Over the Rhine – All My Favorite People – The Long Surrender
  22. Greg Brown – The Foggy, Foggy Dew – Honey In The Lion’s Head
  23. Grace Griffith – Quiet Land / Innisfree – Grace
  24. Capercaillie – Shelter – Beautiful Wasteland
  25. T With The Maggies – Farewell Farewell – T With The Maggies
  26. T With The Maggies – Biodh Orm Anocht – T With The Maggies
  27. Wolfstone – Glanglass – Pick of Litte
  28. Patrick Street – The Set / La Cardeuse – The Best of Patrick Street
  29. Lunasa – Casu – The Story So Far
  30. Donal O’Connor and John McSherry – Muneira d’Anton – Tripswitch
  31. Ben Sands – Writing a Song for You – Better Already
  32. The Rankin Family – Christy Campbell Medley – North Country
  33. The Malarkeys – The Old Wild Boar – Bloody Brilliant
  34. Donal Clancy – The Castle of Dromore/Sonny Brogan’s – Close to Home
  35. Paul Brady – The Homes Of Donegal – The Paul Brady Songbook
  36. Battlefield Band – Ballarat Jig/Eadar I ‘s Leodhas – Zama Zama …try your luck…
  37. Black 47 – Maria’s Wedding – Live in New York City

Back to Freeform Folk Stream

Celtapalooza is over. We’ve Celted and we’ve paloozed. We’re back to the regular freeform eclectic folk stream you’ve come to expect. I’ve added new Bruce Cockburn and Steve Martin as a special reward for listening.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everyone.  Since everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, it stands to reason that everyone should also listen to Celtic music today. So, I offer Celtapalooza 2011 as one possibility to make you a little more green. You’re probably wearing green, so you should be hearing it as well.

Celtapalooza 2011

Celtapalooza, the annual Festival Radio salute to St. Patrick’s Day is on. I have a short Irish playlist up now and will be expanding it throughout the week to over 40 hours of Celtic goodness. Festival Radio will be all Celtic all week and will be back to regular programming sometime next weekend.

New Adds, Festival Radio – March 1, 2011

New adds to Festival Radio since February 11, 2011:


Artist Album
Beth DeSombre At Home In This Town
Bruce Cockburn Small Source of Comfort
Burns Sisters Tell the Truth digital single
Cahalen Morrison & Eli West The Holy Coming Of The Storm
Chuck Cheesman Imagining Dancers
David Roon Skies Full of Seas
Israel Nash Gripka Barn Doors and Concrete Floors
Jessica Lea Mayfield Tell Me
Johnny Cash From Memphis To Hollywood – Bootleg Vol II
Josh Joffen Postcard from Antigua
Laura Marling I Speak Because I Can
Lydia Adams Davis Take Me Back
NEeMA Watching You Think
Over the Rhine The Long Surrender
Rachel Harrington Celilo Falls
Ray Korona Band A Little Too Much Sunshine
SieGra Memories of the Stone. Wlodawa Synagogue Live Recording
Sierra Hull Daybreak
Stan Rogers The Very Best of Stan Rogers
The Gibson Brothers Help My Brother
The High Kings Memory Lane
Wanda Jackson The Party Ain’t Over

Top 20, Festival Radio, February 2011

Top 20 tracks as rated by listeners to Festival Radio:

Artist – Track- Album

  1. Lunasa – The Wounded Hussar – The Kinnitty Sessions
  2. Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand – Lady Pole (Or A Night At Lost-Hope) – All The Good Summers
  3. Paul Brady – The Homes Of Donegal – The Paul Brady Songbook
  4. Les Triaboliques – Hora Anicuta Draga / Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood – Rivermudtwilight
  5. Adam Rafferty – Harlem – Chameleon
  6. The Innocence Mission – Bright As Yellow – Glow
  7. Mumford & Sons – Thistle & Weeds – Sigh No More
  8. Paper Aeroplanes – Freewheel – The Day We Ran Into The Sea
  9. Miriam Makeba – Jol’ Inkomo – TransAmerica
  10. Lau – Dear Prudence – Arc Light
  11. Jaime Michaels – Eyes Front – The Man With the Time Machine
  12. Connie Dover – Miss Lillian Williams – If Ever I Return
  13. Jaime Michaels – Wish on the Moon – The Man With the Time Machine
  14. Heather Masse – Mittens – Bird Song
  15. The Twangtown Paramours – Simple & True – The Twangtown Paramours
  16. Jadea Kelly – Walking Wounded – Eastbound Platform
  17. The Rankin Family – You Feel The Same Way Too – Endless Seasons
  18. Arthur Lee Land – Monet Sky – Happy Cow CD Single
  19. David Bromberg – Last Date – Live in New York 1982
  20. Johnny Flynn – Barnacled Warship – Been Listening

Remember that top tracks are selected by your votes while listening to the station.  The people will not and cannot be ignored!

New Adds, Festival Radio, February 11, 2011

New Adds to Festival Radio since January 2, 2011:

Artist Album
Aaron Burdett Stand Up Eight
Abigail Washburn City Of Refuge
Andina and Rich Two Guitars, A Dulcimer And An Attitude
Ari & Mia Unruly Heart
Bill Mize The Angel’s Share
Brenda Jean Joe Pye Weed
Carrie Elkin Call It My Garden
Carrie Rodriquez and Ben Kyle We Still Love Our Country
Coyote Grace Ear to the Ground
Cumberland Gap Connection A Whole Lotta Lonesome
Curtis And The Dilettantes Tales Of A Traveler
David Berkeley Some Kind Of Cure
Emily Arin Patch of Land
Exene Cervenka The Excitement Of Maybe
Gillian Frame Eilean Mo Ghaoil – The Music of Arran
Gregg Allman Low Country Blues
Haunted Hearts Howdy
Jaime Michaels The Man With the Time Machine
Jake Shimabukuro Peace Love Ukulele
Jarek Adamów and Traditional Polish Vocal Ensamble ” Sami Swoi “ Expedition to the Lost World, part I – ” Winter “
Jeff Talmadge Kind of Everything
John Connolly The Wind
Karan Casey & John Doyle Exiles Return
Kate Jacobs Home Game
Katie McGarry Katie McGarry
My Sweet Patootie Patootified
One Left This Land I Love
Paper Aeroplanes The Day We Ran Into The Sea
Peter Mayer Heaven Below
Salsa Celtica El Agua de la Vida
Shaun Cromwell Folk-Worn Prose
Stacy Swinford This Random Life
Steve Swinford Steven’s Song
Susan Werner Kicking the Beehive
T With The Maggies T With The Maggies
The Decemberists The King Is Dead
The Jayhawks Mystery Demos
Tim and Savannah Finch Tim and Savannah Finch with The Eastman String Band
Will White Rise Above

Full Playlist – Festival Radio – February 11, 2011

It’s 2/11/11, so 11s are wild.  Time to post another Festival Radio playlist. After the jump, of course.

Continue reading Full Playlist – Festival Radio – February 11, 2011

Festival Radio Top 35, January 2011

Top 35 tracks as rated by listeners of Festival Radio, January 2011. Why 35? Because. You’re more than welcome to bump the number up by listening and rating tracks yourself.

Artist – Track – Album

  1. Paul Brady – Crazy Dreams – The Paul Brady Songbook
  2. The Lowlands – Gamblin’ Soul – Bark and Twine
  3. Freedy Johnston – Lonely Penny – Rain on the City
  4. Childsplay – Soir Et Matin – Waiting For The Dawn
  5. Joe Derrane & John McGann – The Bantry Lasses Molly On The Shore – - – Grove Lane
  6. Fairport Convention – Matty Groves – Meet on the Ledge: The Classic Years (1967-1975)
  7. Dromedary – Ukrainian Stomp – Live From The Make Believe
  8. Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez – Don’t Speak in English – The New Bye & Bye
  9. The Kruger Brothers – Once I Had a Sweetheart – Forever and a Day
  10. Cherish the Ladies – The Cameronian Set: Tha M’Intinn Raoir…Duke of Gordon…The Cameronian…Lady of the House – One And All: The Best of Cherish The Ladies
  11. Victoria Parks – Ballad of Uncle Davey – Wild English Rose
  12. Kris Drever – Navigator – Black Water
  13. Shaun Cromwell – Rust Belt Comet – Folk-Worn Prose
  14. Joel Rafael – Danville Girl – The Songs of Woody Guthrie, Volume I
  15. The Honey Dewdrops – Goodbye and Farewell – These Old Roots
  16. April Smith and the Great Picture Show – Movie Loves A Screen – Songs for a Sinking Ship
  17. Shaun Cromwell – Numbers Game – Folk-Worn Prose
  18. Loreena McKennitt – The Lady Of Shalott – Nights From The Alhambra
  19. Kate Jacobs – On My Monitor – Home Game
  20. Rebecca Loebe – Her In That Dress – Mystery Prize
  21. My Sweet Patootie – This Old Quilt – Patootified
  22. Jonathan Byrd – I Was an Oak Tree – Cackalack
  23. Joe Derrane – Gan Ainm/The Mooncoin Jig – Grove Lane
  24. Geoff Bartley – Put The Big Stone Down – Put The Big Stone Down
  25. Johnny Clegg – Give Me the Wonder – Human
  26. The Weavers – If I Had a Hammer – Greatest Hits
  27. Tift Merritt – The Things That Everybody Does – See You On The Moon
  28. Ruth Moody – Cold Outside – The Garden
  29. Red Molly – Poor Boy – James
  30. Ralph McTell – The Girl From The Hiring Fair - Silver Celebration
  31. Lisa Biales – Missing You – Closet Hippie
  32. Jan Krist – Gravity – Curious
  33. The Chieftains – Little Love Affairs (Nanci Griffith, vocal) – An Irish Evening
  34. Basia Bulat – Go On – Heart Of My Own
  35. Corin Raymond – Better Him Than Me – There Will Always Be A Small Time

Worldwide Reach of Festival Radio

I may be the only person interested in this, but over one-third of the listener hours for Festival Radio in the last 30 days came from outside North America:


Country % Streams % Listening Hours
United States 40.0% 57.0%
Canada 10.2% 9.3%
Germany 9.4% 7.7%
United Kingdom 12.7% 6.4%
Netherlands 4.4% 4.2%
Denmark 0.8% 1.7%
France 2.3% 1.6%
Israel 0.6% 1.4%
Greece 0.2% 1.4%
Ireland 1.1% 1.1%
Sweden 1.1% 1.1%
Australia 2.0% 1.0%
Spain 2.0% 0.8%
Switzerland 1.2% 0.7%
Belgium 0.9% 0.6%
Czech Republic 0.4% 0.5%
Austria 0.9% 0.5%
Poland 0.6% 0.4%
Mexico 1.3% 0.4%
Russia 0.8% 0.3%
Japan 0.7% 0.3%
China, People’s Republic of 0.2% 0.3%
Slovenia 0.2% 0.3%
Ecuador 0.1% 0.2%
Estonia 0.0% 0.1%
Portugal 0.2% 0.1%
Costa Rica 0.0% 0.1%
Other (51) 5.8% 0.7%
Total 100.0% 100.0%

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