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Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Recent Adds 3/29/2006
Following are my most recent adds to the Online Folk Festival. I hope I'll be back to review some of them.
Artist: Album
Artist: Album
- Birdie Busch: The Ways We Try
- Breadfoot (featuring Anna Phoebe) : Tea With Leo
- Brooks Williams: Blues and Ballads
- Dale Nikkel: Passages
- Danielle Howle: Thank You Mark
- Dave Crossland: Pearl
- Diana Jones: My Remembrance of You
- Johnsmith: break me open
- Kat Eggleston: First Warm Wind
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo: Live at Montreux, 1987, 1989, 2000
- Lui Collins: Closer
- Mick Maloney: McNally's Row of Flats
- Mission Street Project: Liberty Tree: Songs From the American Kitchen Table, Volume 1
- Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh: daybreak: fainne an lae
- Peter Mulvey: The Knuckleball Suite
- Peter Verity: Sometimes a Journey
- Russ Rentler: Scarecrow's Lament
- The Queensberry Rules: The Black Dog and Other Stories
- The Weepies: Say I Am You
- The Yellow Room Gang: Volume 1
Labels: New Adds, Online Folk Festival
Friday, March 24, 2006
Not 1, But 2 T Bone Burnett Releases!
Legendary singer/songwriter, soundtrack copmposer and producer T Bone Burnett will release a CD of new material as well as a 2-CD career retrospective, both on May 16. More details here. T Bone's musical career includes serving as a sideman of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, several critically acclaimed solo albums featuring help from his pals like Bono, and composing soundtrack music, including producing the soundtrack to "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" which has helped revive interest in old-time and folk music.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
A Worldwide Folk Phenomenon
Just thought it was worthwhile once again to share some statistics that indicate that the Online Folk Festival is a worldwide phenomenon. According to statistics provided to me by Live365.com, in the last 30 days the station had listenership of at least one hour from the following countries:
- United States
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Australia
- Germany
- Spain
- France
- Korea, Republic of
- Netherlands
- Italy
- Ireland
- Japan
- Brazil
- Venezuela
- Poland
- Hungary
- Czech Republic
- Switzerland
- Norway
- Russia
- Israel
- Finland
- Turkey
- Congo, Democratic People's Republic
- Mexico
- Bulgaria
- Singapore
- China, People's Republic of
- Belgium
Labels: Online Folk Festival
Monday, March 20, 2006
Celtapalooza 2006 Smashes Listenership Records!
We are back to regular folk mix programming, and as I continue to switch out the Celtic music, I thought that a thank you was in order to all who listened on St. Patrick's Day. The Online Folk Festival set a single-day listener hour record of 1007, with a simultaneous listener record of 115. So, hey, thanks for listening.
I will also be adding new music over the next few days from Brooks Williams, Peter Mulvey, Diana Jones, and The Mission Street Project, so stay tuned.
I will also be adding new music over the next few days from Brooks Williams, Peter Mulvey, Diana Jones, and The Mission Street Project, so stay tuned.
Labels: Online Folk Festival
Engaged!
I don't talk much about my personal life on this blog, but I think it's important to share this news. Last Monday, I became engaged to a wonderful woman who loves the music as much as I do. No date has yet been set. I'm really thrilled, and if station management seems erratic and slow over the next few months, well that's probably why, and I apologize in advance.
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Celtapalooza 2006!
The annual Online Folk Festival St. Patrick's salute to Celtic music has begun. Nonstop traditional, Celtic rock, Celtic punk, TechnoCeltic all week through Sunday 3/19/06. It's a regular Celtapalooza!
Stop by and hoist a few!
Stop by and hoist a few!
Labels: Online Folk Festival
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Myspace Group and New URL
I got an offer in my email at work today to good to refuse, so I've registered a separate URL for the Folk Blog: http://www.folk-blog.com. How easy is that! It may take awhile to propagate through the web to your domain name server of choice, but, trust me, it will. If you like the old standbys (http://www.onlinefolkfestival.com/folkblog/) and http://folkblog.onlinefolkfestival.com - well don't worry, because they still work, too. So many web addresses, so little time!
I've also created a group on Myspace for Online Folk Festival listeners. Some of the artists I play have already joined. I hope this can become a useful community for folk music announcements and discussion. This group is at http://groups.myspace.com/onlinefolkfestival
I've also created a group on Myspace for Online Folk Festival listeners. Some of the artists I play have already joined. I hope this can become a useful community for folk music announcements and discussion. This group is at http://groups.myspace.com/onlinefolkfestival
Labels: Online Folk Festival
Monday, March 06, 2006
Bruce to honor Pete Seeger
Bruce Springsteen has announced that he will be releasing an album of covers of songs related to Pete Seeger as a tribute, in time for Seeger's 87th birthday in April. It is the first album of covers that Springsteen has released.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2006-03-03-springsteen-seeger_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA
This is, to be honest, not very surprising to me. He earlier recorded "We Shall Oversome" for Appleseed Records' Where Have All the Flowers Gone tribute CD for Pete Seeger. Springsteen has always been a master storyteller, and has now released 3 albums of stripped down acoustic performances (Nebraska, The Ghost of Tom Joad and Devils and Dust). He has often cited Woody Guthrie as an influence when asked, performing at a Woody Guthrie tribute concert at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame several years ago that was released as 'Til We Outnumer 'Em: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and recording two tracks for an earlier Folkways tribute Shared Vision: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie.
I hope that this event cues the public into remembering that Pete Seeger is a national treasure, and perhaps even more importantly, inspires a boatload of people to seek out some of the original recordings, and to check out the folk music scene.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2006-03-03-springsteen-seeger_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA
This is, to be honest, not very surprising to me. He earlier recorded "We Shall Oversome" for Appleseed Records' Where Have All the Flowers Gone tribute CD for Pete Seeger. Springsteen has always been a master storyteller, and has now released 3 albums of stripped down acoustic performances (Nebraska, The Ghost of Tom Joad and Devils and Dust). He has often cited Woody Guthrie as an influence when asked, performing at a Woody Guthrie tribute concert at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame several years ago that was released as 'Til We Outnumer 'Em: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and recording two tracks for an earlier Folkways tribute Shared Vision: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie.
I hope that this event cues the public into remembering that Pete Seeger is a national treasure, and perhaps even more importantly, inspires a boatload of people to seek out some of the original recordings, and to check out the folk music scene.
Friday, March 03, 2006
Great post from Andy Whitman
My friend Andy Whitman, who writes for Paste magazine and lives in nearby Westerville, is a really fine writer and has a blog of his own. Here is a really fine post about visiting his daughter at Kent State University:
http://andywhitman.blogspot.com/2006/03/transfiguration.html
http://andywhitman.blogspot.com/2006/03/transfiguration.html
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
WCBE's Choice Albums of 2005
The best freeform radio station on the air and on the web has released their list of Choice Albums for 2005.
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wcbe/guide.guidemain?action=viewPlaylist&playlistID=88465&eventID=1285&x=15&y=7
I counted that I have played tracks from 21 of these albums on The Online Folk Festival
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wcbe/guide.guidemain?action=viewPlaylist&playlistID=88465&eventID=1285&x=15&y=7
I counted that I have played tracks from 21 of these albums on The Online Folk Festival
Maybe I Still Have Olympic Fever?
There is a newspaper vending machine right outside the exit to my apartment building, and I usually glance at the headlline on my way to work. This morning's headline: "Bloodshed Swells in Iraq". My brain's first response: Bobsleds in Iraq?
