New Adds, Festival Radio, 2/19/2009

New Adds to Festival Radio, February 19, 2009. Disclaimer – the videos below were available on youtube and may not necessarily represent work from the artists’ latest album which was added to the station.

Liz Carroll and John Doyle – Double Play

Kyle Alden – Tangletown

Great Lake Swimmers – Lost Channels

Atsiaktonkie – Four Wolves Prophecy

Luka Bloom – Eleven Songs

Julie Clark – Change Your Mind

The Mad Maggies – Skull and Magpies

Steve James – Short Blue Stories

Barry and Holly Tashian – Long Story Short

Kim Beggs – Wanderers Paean

No video available

Walt Cronin – The Gousters

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Pete, Bruce and Tao

More inauguration-related musical goodness. From Sunday’s concert, here are Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen and Tao Rodriguez with choral backing performing Woody Guthrie’s classic response to Kate Smith.

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Video New Adds

I thought I’d try something different by adding videos for my newly added artists.  If y’all like it, I’ll keep doing it as I have time.

Rhythm Angels

Richard Berman (couldn’t find a way to embed – 6 videos)

Molly’s Revenge

Johnny Flynn

I couldn’t find a video for Ben Bedford.

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Miriam Makeba Passes

South African singer Miriam Makeba, known as Mama Africa, has died at age 76.

Performing “Pata Pata” in 1979:

Performing “Mayibuye”

Performing with Paul Simon:

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Billy Bragg on Late Night with Craig Ferguson

Billy Bragg updates “Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.”

“I don’t believe we can defeat the Axis of Evil by putting smart bombs in the hands of dumb people.”

Genius!

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Boots of Spanish Leather

Two versions of the same song – first the writer:

Now a great cover by Nanci Griffith:

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Moxy Fruvous – King of Spain

Moxy Fruvous – King Of Spain

Another video, because I’m bored. Early Fruvous.

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The Strangelings – Matty Groves

Matty Groves

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David Stoddard – The First Thanksgiving

David Stoddard – The First Thanksgiving

One of my favorite singer/songwriters, David Stoddard, has a great new live album out, entitled “Get Off My Lawn.”

Here is a video. It certainly adds some resonance to the question, “Where are all these people coming from?”

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Folk Video of the Week

Folk duo Trout Fishing in America has a channel on Youtube where they post videos regularly. It can be found at http://www.youtube.com/MusicbyTroutFishing

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