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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.

Labels: day of silence, online radio

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.

Labels: Online Folk Festival, online radio

Banjo Player Sought in Hootenanny Spree:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/banjo_player_sought_in_hootenanny

Labels: Other

New Adds, Online Folk Festival, June 17, 2007

Artist - Album

Stan Bozek - Solo
Paul Brock and Enda Scahill - Humdinger
Gene Keller - Every Song the Mockingbird Knows
Charlotte Kendrick - North of New York
Marie Knight - Let Us Get Together (A Tribute to Reverend Gary Campbell)
The Tannahill Weavers - Live and In Session

Labels: New Adds, Online Folk Festival

I was just listening to the station and Riders in the Sky's version of "I Ride an Old Paint," came on, with its line about being "Off to Montana to throw the Houlihan" and I started wondering what the Houlihan was.

So, with a little help from Google, I found this site: http://www.westernhorseman.com/stories/12272005/ran_20051227006.shtml

The Houlihan is a pretty basic rope shot that every ranch hand should be able to throw out on the range.

That's all. Houlihans for everyone, on me!

I know it's late, but here are the Top 40 for May 2007 for the Online Folk Festival:

Artist - Track - Album
1. Julie Miller - Dancing Girl - Blue Pony
2. Donna Hughes - Sad Old Train - Gaining Wisdom
3. Norman & Nacy Blake - Don't Fear The Neo-Cons - Back Home In Sulphur Springs
4. Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer - 236-6132 - Drum Hat Buddha
5. James McMurtry - Walk Between the Raindrops - Walk Between the Raindrops
6. Emmylou Harris - The Pearl - Red Dirt Girl
7. Dan Fogelberg - The Reach - The Innocent Age
8. Grey DeLisle - Joanna - Iron Flowers EP
9. Bill Jones - A Brisk Young Sailor - Turn To Me
10. Simon & Garfunkel - El Condor Pasa - Old Friends Live On Stage
11. Joyce Andersen - Filled With Love - Love and Thirst
12. Jason Wilber - Down in Russell Square - Lazy Afternoon
13. Deirdre Flint - 1-900-Score a Date - Then Again
14. Wayne Greene - Grandma's Pump Organ - Himself
15. The Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir - Soon Ah Will Be Done - Jubilation IV-Acapella
16. Obo Addy - Evening at Kaneshie Market - The Rhythm of Which a Chief Walks Gracefully
17. Ashley Maher - Seven - Flying Over Bridges
18. The Four Bitchin Babes - Just ask your doctor - Hormonal Imbalance
19. Michael Kelsey - Rain Whispers - The Woodchopper's Ball
20. Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts - Hunting the Hare - Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts
21. David Bromberg - Shake Sugaree - Try me one more time
22. Abigail Washburn - Single Drop of Honey - Song of the Traveling Daughter
23. Tracy Grammer - Laughlin Boy - Flower of Avalon
24. Third Road Home - Here With You Today - Venus in Retrograde
25. Simon & Garfunkel - America - Old Friends Live On Stage
26. Outback - Dingo Go - Baka
27. Leonard Cohen - Take This Waltz - The Essential Leonard Cohen
28. The Love Hall Tryst - Jack in the Green - Songs of Misfortune
29. The Byrds - Wasn't Born To Follow - There Is A Season
30. John Gorka - Unblindfold the Referee - Writing in the Margins
31. Solas - Who's in the What Now - Reunion - A Decade of Solas
32. Pieta Brown - Precious Game - In the Cool
33. Johnny Cash - Ballad Of Barbara - Live from Austin, TX
34. David Mallett - Dulcimer - Midnight on the Water (Live)
35. Robert Earl Keen - Shades Of Gray - Live From Austin TX (2004)
36. Erik Balkey - What Good Am I? - My Sacred Heart
37. Tom Paxton - My Last Love Song - Live At McCabe's February 23, 1991
38. Pierce Pettis - My Life Of Crime - Making Light Of It
39. John Prine - Morning Train - Fair & Square
40. Emily Maguire - Falling on My Feet - Radio Sampler

This list, created entirely by the listeners clicking on what they like, is fantastic. It includes singer/songwriters, gospel, world folk, bluegrass, folk/pop, folk/rock, alt-country, straight county, acoustic blues, traditional, instrumental folk, and a cappella folk, as well as songs dealing with political topics. Artists are from the US, England, Canada, Africa, and Australia. This list, for me, validates everything I've been trying to do by presenting a station that plays a wide variety of folk-related genres, because it shows me that there are people listening who like each type of folky music that I'm playing.

So, listeners, I thank you, and these artists thank you. Keep making me proud.

Labels: Online Folk Festival, Top 40

New Adds to the Online Folk Festival, June 7, 2007

Artist - Album

Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band - Live in Dublin
Kris Drever - Black Water
Laura Love - NeGrass
Donna Hughes - Gaining Wisdom
Truckstop Honeymoon - Delivery Boy
Tom Rowe and Dave Rowe - Rowe by Rowe

Labels: New Adds

For those of you interested in the Central Ohio folk scene, the new blog by John Locke, President of the Columbus Folk Music Society, has been added to my blogroll at left. Folkie Haven details concerts and jams and other events sponsored by the Society.