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Top 32 rated songs by listeners to Festival Radio, June 2008.  Why 32?  Listeners only rated 32 songs.
Rank - Artist - Song - Album
1.    Kris Delmhorst - Sea Fever - Strange Conversation
2.    Ian & Sylvia - Early Morning Rain - Vanguard - Roots of Folk
3.    Lauren Lapointe - Here Comes The Rain Again - Butterfly
4.    [...]

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Top 41 songs, as rated by listeners of Festival Radio.  Why 41?  There’s a tie at #40.
Artist - “Track” - Album
1.    Joe Crookston - “Hands Metal and Wood” - Able Baker Charlie and Dog
2.    The Hooters - “Time Stand Still” - Time Stand Still
4.    Terri Hendrix - “Jim Thorpe’s Blues” - The Spiritual Kind
5.    Emmylou [...]

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St. Patrick’s Day has come and gone, and so has Celtapalooza 2008. Thanks to all who listened - my listenership high for the day was 31 simultaneous listeners, which is much higher than I usually get.
After clearing out all the Celtic music, I’ve restarted the station in spiffy 96K mp3Pro, a step-up from 64K mp3Pro. [...]

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I am amazed by the number of artists who contact me who have no idea that they are sabotaging their own chances to get airplay on my station, or on folk radio in general. Here are some mistakes I see artists making all the time.

Failure to do research or read submission guidelines. Every [...]

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One of the most respected folk DJs in North America has lost her job due to a station format change. Mary Cliff, host of “Traditions” on WETA in Washington, DC, has been downsized due to the station going all-classical. As the local airwaves continue to get less diverse, it is even more sad when one [...]

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The FOLKDJ-L Top 250 Albums of 2006 by airplay have been released and posted to the list (although they have not yet been posted to the website).

Of the Top 10 albums, had you been listening to the Online Folk Festival, you would have heard 9 (90%).
Of the Top 50 albums, you would have heard [...]

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