Once again, Festival Radio presents a 24/7 Christmas station for your enjoyment. Festival Christmas is playing the same genre-spanning mix of musical discovery as Festival Radio – Celtic, traditional folk, bluegrass, cajun, etc. You all know the drill.
Festival Radio will remain refreshingly holiday-free for those of you who wish to escape the jingle.
Top 40 tracks of May 2008 as voted by listeners to Festival Radio
#Â Â Â Artist – “Track” – Album
1.   Enter the Haggis – “Down With The Ship” – Live From Northampton
2.   Rachael Davis – “Lonely When You’re Gone” – Antebellum Queens
3.   Kathy Mattea – “Green Rolling Hills” – Coal
4.   Karan Casey – “Dunlavin Green” – Ships in the Forest
5.   Kallet, Epstein and Cicone – “Holy Now” – heart walk
6.   Paul Robeson – “Don’t You Cry, My Honey” – The Voice Of The Mississippi
7.   Blind Boys of Alabama – “I Shall not Walk Alone” – Higher Ground
8.   Eliza Carthy – “Benjamin Bowmaneer” – Rice
9.   Pamela Ward and Paul Cherrington – “Iris & Daffodils” – Sail on By
10.   Emmylou Harris – “Goodbye” – Wrecking Ball
11.   Jason Wilber – “Northern Lights Over Lewisburg Tennessee” – Lazy Afternoon
12.   Diana Jones – “Pretty Girl” – My Remembrance of You
13.   Toni Price – “Gravy” – Talk Memphis
14.   Spook Handy – “Heading For the Hague” – Whatcha Gonna Do?
15.   Over the Rhine – “If a Song Could Be President” – The Trumpet Child
16.   Nathan – “The Wind” – Key Principles
17.   Lunasa – “Morning Nightcap [New Version]” – The Story So Far
18.   Buddy Mondlock – “Poetic Justice” – Poetic Justice
19.   Laura Love – “The Cuckoo” – NeGrass
20.   Claudia Russell – “Ready to Receive” – Ready to Receive
21.   Tom Rush – “Lost My Drivin’ Wheel” – The Very Best of Tom Rush: No Regrets
22.   Kate Campbell with Spooner Oldham – “Terrible Mercy” – For the Living of These Days
23.   John Prine – “Space Monkey” – Live On Tour
24.   Bruce Hornsby & The Range – “The River Runs Low” – The Way It Is
25.   Tommy Emmanuel, CGP – “I Go To Rio” – Center Stage
26.   The Kennedys – “Light My Way” – Better Dreams
27.   Karan Casey – “Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye” – Ships in the Forest
28.   Arlington Priest – “Almost Home” – The Memory of Your Company
29.   Andy McKee – “Ebon Coast” – The Gales of Gnomeria
30.   The Tannahill Weavers – “The Cruel Brither” – Live and In Session
31.   The Brombies – “It’s Better To Have Loved and Lost” – Live! at the Spitting Llamas Bluegrass Bar
32.   Antoine Dufour – “The Hidden Moon” – Existence
33.   Tim Harrison – “Homeboys” – Wheatfield With Crows
34.   Tammy Rogers & Don Heffington – “John’s Tune” – In the Red
35.   Boldwood – “Three Sea Captains/The Seven Stars” – Feet, don’t fail me now
36.   Alecia Nugent – “My First Mistake” – Bluegrass Hits
37.   Paul Thorn – “Even Heroes Die” – Mission Temple Fireworks Stand
38.   Greg Greenway – “Highway 4 am (Driving)” – Standing on the Side of Love
39.   Friction Farm – “Reluctant Soldier” – 34 degrees, 32 minutes
40.   Afro Celt Sound System – “Sene’ (Working the Land)” – Volume 5: Anatomic
Adds to Festival Radio, since December 24, 2007
Artist – Album
- The Callen Sisters – The Callen Sisters
- Marc Cohn – Join the Parade
- Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill – Welcome Home Again
- Fort Pastor – Beautiful Imperfection
- The Kennedys – Better Dreams
- Mozaik – Changing Trains
- Elizabeth Nicholson and Stringed Migration – Fly Not Yet
- Bill & Eli Parras – Runnin’ Outta Georgia
- Tom Paxton – Comedians and Angels
- Karine Polwart – Fairest Floo’er
- Ragged But Right – Down Harmony Road
- Danny Schmidt – Little Grey Sheep
- Peggy Seeger – Bring Me Home
- Sonia and Disappear Fear – Tango
- Stonecraft – The Call
- Chris Vallillo – Abraham Lincoln in Song
- Various Artists – Acoustic Rainbow Sampler #29
- Various Artists – King Easy Radio Sampler #2
- Various Artists – Music to Life 2006 Award Finalists
- Sydney Wayser – Silent Parade
- Brooks Williams – The Time I Spend With You
- Cris Williamson – Fringe
Back catalog ripping update – Longtime readers of this blog know that I had a catastrophic hard-drive crash several months ago and that I continue to rip back catalog CDs for reinsertion in the Festival Radio playlist. I store CDs in alphabetical order by artist (with a few exceptions), and am ripping them in that order. Last night, I ripped all of my Levellers CDs. Now that I have a much faster computer, a laptop, I can put the CDs in while I’m watching TV or reading a book in the evening. My focus, of course, is on listening to the latest CDs I receive in the mail, but the catalog ripping has progressed rapidly over the last month or so.
Thank you to all of you who participated in the Internet Radio Day of Silence activities by contacting you representative. The fight is not over and there is a very real possibility that the Online Folk Festival will be off the air July 15 if a solution is not found. Live365’s bill for back royalties would drive them into bankruptcy, and I do not have the financial werewithal to find another provider and pay the royalties myself. Your continuing support is appreciated.
It’s not too late to make your voice heard in the fight to save Internet Radio. More on what you can do at http://www.live365.com/choice or at http://savenetradio.org.
Regular programming is back on the Online Folk Festival, at least through July 15.
The Online Folk Festival is participating in the Internet Radio Day of Silence today (6/26/07) . Regular programming will resume tomorrow.
Abominable royalty increases are scheduled to annihilate Internet radio on July 15 if not stopped. To find out how you can help, please go to http://www.live365.com/choice.
Top 40 songs on the Online Folk Christmas for the last week (November 30-December 6) as rated by listeners. Just a little sample to whet your appetite for what you might hear this holiday season.
Oh, and I’ve added the new Moya Brennan – An Irish Christmas CD as well, and it hasn’t had enough plays to show up on this list yet, but I suspect it will.
Rank. Artist – Song – Album
1. Anonymous 4 – Nowel; Owt Of Your Slepe Aryse – The Best Of Celtic Christmas
2. The Crossing – In Dulci Jubilo – The Court of a King
3. Brent Bourgeois, Carolyn Arends, Derri Daugherty – what child is this – Noel
4. Emmylou Harris – Beutiful Star of Bethlehem – Light of the Stable – Christmas Album
5. Loreena McKennitt – Coventry Carol – A Winter Garden
6. Harvey Reid and Joyce Anderson – Christ Was Born in Bethlehem – Christmas Morning
7. Emmylou Harris – The First Noel – Light of the Stable – Christmas Album
8. Over the Rhine – Thank You My Angel – The Darkest Night of the Year
9. Carlos Nunez – Galician Carol – The Very Best of Celtic Christmas
10. Pierce Pettis – Miriam – A Winter’s Eve: Acoustic Music for the Winter Season
11. Sheila Walsh – Light Of The World – Peace – A Celtic Christmas
12. Ottmar Liebert – Poets + Angels – Poets & Angels
13. Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band – I Saw Three Ships – The Best Of Celtic Christmas
14. Donal Hinely – Carol Of The Bells – Midwinter Carols: Fourteen Selections On Glass Harmonica
15. Ensemble Galilei – Danse Arabe (from the Nutcracker Suite) – A Winter’s Night — Christmas in the Great Hall
16. Shawn Colvin – In the Bleak Mid-Winter – Holiday Songs and Lullabies
17. Suzy Bogguss – I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day – Have Your Self A Merry Little Christmas
18. Ashley MacIsaac – Ciuin An Oidhach (Silent Night) – A Cape Breton Christmas
19. Aoife Ni Fhearraigh – Seact Sualci Na Maighdine Muire – The Best Of Celtic Christmas 20. Harry Connick, Jr. – Winter Wonderland – Acoustic Christmas
21. Chris Thile – Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella – Tinsel Tunes : more holiday treats from Sugar Hill
22. Beausoleil – It Came Upon a Midnight Clear – Alligator Stomp, Volume 4: Cajun Christmas
23. The Irish Tenors – R Tynan, A Kearns, J McDermott) – Ave Maria (Gounod) – Home For Christmas
24. Newgrange – Christmas Eve – A Christmas Heritage
25. Lori Pappajohn – While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night – Celtic Harp for Christmas
26. Honky Tonk Confidential – Who Gets the Fruitcake This Year? – Creme de la Creme: A Holiday Feast
27. Jethro Tull – Pavane – The Jethro Tull Christmas Album
28. Jerry Chamberlain, Sharon McCall, Riki Michelle, Derri Daugherty – i heard the bells on christmas d – Noel
29. Jane Monheit – I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day – The Season
30. Sara Groves – Child Of Love – It’s Christmas Time
31. Loreena McKennitt – God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen – A Winter Garden
32. The Christmas Jug Band – Lonesome Reindeer Blues – Uncorked
33. Peasall Sisters – Hark The Herald Angels Sing – A Holiday EP From Dualtone
34. Patty Loveless – Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem – Bluegrass & White Snow
35. Harvey Reid and Joyce Anderson – Pretty Paper – Christmas Morning
36. Eric Rigler, Scarlet Rivera and Tommy Eyre – The Holly and the Ivy – Christmas in Ireland
37. David Cullen – The Christmas Song – Holiday Guitar
38. Alison Brown Quartet – Carol of the Kings – A Winter’s Eve: Acoustic Music for the Winter Season
39. The McKrells – Angels We Have Heard on High – Merry Christmas
40. Los Embajadores Vallenatos – Diciembre – A Putumayo World Christmas
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