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New adds to Festival Radio since 3/5/08:

Artist - Album

Erik Balkey - Deadpan Alley
The Barefoot Boys - Sweetwater Passage
Janet Bates - For All His Wealth
The Bobs - Get Your Monkey Off My Dog
The Brombies - Live at the Spitting Llamas Bluegrass Bar
Stephanie Corby - More to Show You
Allison Downey with John Austin - Across the Sea
Flogging Molly - Float
Bruce Holmes - The Old King's Reel
Catherine MacLellan - Church Bell Blues
Kathy Mattea - Coal
Andrew McKnight - Something to Stand For
Brian Ashley Jones - Courier
Keith and Joan Pitzer - Gathering Stones
David Wilcox - Airstream

Project Re-Rip is finished. The back catalog is all there. Festival Radio is back in its full scope, with 29+ hours of higher fidelity 96K mp3PRO sound.

Labels: Festival Radio, New Adds

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. The station will sound even better for those of you with high bandwidth. If you haven't listened for awhile, stop by and tune in - I'm sure you'll notice a difference in sound quailty.

Labels: Festival Radio, Folk Radio

To celebrate St. Patrick's Day, for the next week or so, Festival Radio will be celebrating Celtapalooza 2008, with an expanded mix of the Celtic artists you usually hear on the station.

Some of the artists you'll hear -

• Afro Celt Sound System
• Altan
• Danu
• Eddi Reader
• Anuna
• Black 47
• Flogging Molly
• John Whelan
• Cathie Ryan
• Cherish the Ladies
• Great Big Sea
• Saw Doctors
• Van Morrison
• Susan McKeown
• Patrick Street
• Planxty

And much, much more.

Labels: Celtapalooza, Festival Radio

The following list details additions since2/11/08:

Artist - Album
The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
Bellowhead - Burlesque
Patrick Bloom - Moses
Antoine Dufour - Existence
Stuart Ferguson - Shackles and Ties
Caroline Herring - Lantana
Robert Hill - My Corner
Malcolm Holcombe - Gamblin' House
The Hooters - Time Stand Still
Michael Johnathan - Walden
Andy McKee - The Gates of Gnomeria
Off to California - Hard Times in the Promised Land
Noel Paul Stookey - Facets
The Waybacks - Loaded
Various Artists - Paste Samplers 37 through 39

Operation Re-Rip Update - Just finished re-ripping The Schramms last night. The end is nearly in sight.

Festival Radio Update - Live 365 has changed the broadcasting packages. I now have a lot more disk storage space and will either be adding additional songs and staying at the same bit rate or broadcasting at a higher quality (96K instead of 64K). Any thoughts on which I should do? Let me know.

Labels: Festival Radio, New Adds