My Christmas-only station is back online for the holidays at
http://www.live365.com/stations/folkchristmas for your holiday listening.

That is all.
 Greg Grant


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I know I tend to neglect this list, but I thought y'all would like to
know that Festival Radio will be Celtapalooza! for the next week or so
for St. Patrick's Day.

Re-ripping of the back catalog is rapidly approaching conclusion,
helped along greatly by the Not-Quite-Blizzard of 2008 that dumped 20.4
inches of snow in Columbus last weekend.  I still have some
compilations to get through, but after that, the project will be
finished.

Also, I have upgraded my package at Live365 with more disk space, so I
should be able to have over 40 hours of music in rotation at any given
time, which will greatly expand the variety of music on the station.

Greg Grant
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Hey Greg, I dont know if you take submissions, but if
you are looking for any more original celtic/folk
Christmas music, there are two songs I think you
should hear. They're on a compilation cd that has been
featured on Lightning 100 in Nashville.

  Song of Mary and O Star O'er Bethlehem

  http://www.myspace.com/erikachambers

  If you get a chance to listen, and like them, I'll
email you the mp3s. You're doing a great thing!

  Merry Christmas! :)     erika






--- Greg Grant <gwgrant@...> wrote:

> The Online Folk Christmas, a holiday gift to the
> world
> from Festival Radio, is back on the air, featuring
> an
> eclectic holiday mix including folk,
> singer/songwriters, Celtic, bluegrass, polkas, steel
> drums, rhumbas and more.  You'll hear artists as
> diverse as Sufjan Stevens, Sarah McLachlan, Patty
> Loveless, Emmylou Harris, Brave Combo, Aimee Mann,
> Blackmore's Night, Bruce Cockburn, Eileen Ivers,
> Jethro Tull, and Flaco Jimemez.
>
> To listen, go to
> http://www.live365.com/stations/folkchristmas?play
>
> Greg Grant
> Festival Radio
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> I blog now! http://www.folk-blog.com
>
>
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The Online Folk Christmas, a holiday gift to the world
from Festival Radio, is back on the air, featuring an
eclectic holiday mix including folk,
singer/songwriters, Celtic, bluegrass, polkas, steel
drums, rhumbas and more.  You'll hear artists as
diverse as Sufjan Stevens, Sarah McLachlan, Patty
Loveless, Emmylou Harris, Brave Combo, Aimee Mann,
Blackmore's Night, Bruce Cockburn, Eileen Ivers,
Jethro Tull, and Flaco Jimemez.

To listen, go to
http://www.live365.com/stations/folkchristmas?play

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The Online Folk Festival is wearin' green and takin'
names this week, as Celtapalooza! is back on the air.
Fine Celtic music from a wide variety of styles
(Flogging Molly, Enya, Altan, Iona, Afro Celt Sound
System, Van Morrison, and more)

This week, we're making it easy to be green!

http://www.live365.com/stations/woodsmeister/
http://www.onlinefolkfestival.com/

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Hi Greg,

I've been rediscovering some classics and enjoying
some very new CDs

I've been digging up some early Joe Ely, including his
self-titled debut and his 'Honky Tonk Masquerade'.
I've also been enjoying 'Muddy Waters at Newport
1960'.  A true classic live performance.

Some newer music I've been digging include the very
latest from Jonathan Byrd, 'This Is The New That' and
Diana Jones 'My Rememberance of You'.  The two have
just recorded an album together and I can't wait to
here the "Byrd-Jones" disk when it comes out.

I also really like Mexican-American singer Lila Downs'
'La Cantina'.

Cheers,
Ed

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> Some records I've been digging lately include:
>
> Nathan - Key Principles
> Eddi Reader - Peacetime
> Junction Pool - selftitled
> Iona - Heaven's Bright Sun (not a new release, but I
> pull it out every
> year around Lent and St. Pat's)
> Peter Himmelman - Stage Diving (also not a new
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Some records I've been digging lately include:

Nathan - Key Principles
Eddi Reader - Peacetime
Junction Pool - selftitled
Iona - Heaven's Bright Sun (not a new release, but I pull it out every
year around Lent and St. Pat's)
Peter Himmelman - Stage Diving (also not a new release, but my wife
and I listened to it in the car the other day.  I'd forgotten how
great this CD is.)

So, what's in your CD player lately?

Online Folk Festival Top 40 as rated by listeners
February 2007

Artist - Song - Album

1.    Cara Dillon - Garden Valley - After the Morning

2.    Karen Ashbrook & Paul Oorts - Breton Dance/Star
of Munster - Celtic Cafe
3.    Victoria Williams - Train Song (Demise Of The
Caboose) - Musings of a Creek Dipper
4.    Patty Griffin - Heavenly Day - Children Running
Through
5.    Iain Campbell Smith - Maryanne - Ballads and
Barsongs
6.    Switchback - Falling Water River - Falling Water
River
7.    Enoch Kent - The Calton Weaver (Nancy Whiskey) -
I'm a Rover
8.    Iris Dement - Walking Home - The Way I Should
9.    Paul Brady - The Lakes of Pontchartrain (New
Recording) - Nobody Knows
10.    Mary Fahl - In the Great Unknown - The Other
Side of Time
11.    Gina Forsyth - Talking Hurricane Refugee Blues
- Waterbug Anthology Eight: Born into the Whisper
12.    Ana Moura - Hoje Rudo Me Entristece - Aconteceu

13.    Solas with Mindy Smith - Reasonland - Hands
Across the Water: A Benefit For the Children of the
Tsunami
14.    Kate Rusby - The Wild Goose - 10
15.    Fiamma Fumanda - Mariuleina - Onda
16.    Chuck Brodsky - Come Heres and the Been Heres -
Radio
17.    The Queensberry Rules - The Black Dog - The
Black Dog and Other Stories
18.    The Lost Dogs - Lord, Protect My Child - Scenic
Routes
19.    The Foremen - Workin' on an MBA - The Best of
the Foremen
20.    Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Diablo Rojo - Rodrigo Y
Gabriela
21.    John Parkes - This Tonight - Faithlessnessless
22.    Francis Dunnery - My old friend love - The
Gulley Flats Boys
23.    Devon Sproule - Plea for a Good Night's Rest -
Waterbug Anthology Eight: Born into the Whisper
24.    David Mallett - Somewhere in Time - Midnight on
the Water (Live)
25.    Buddy Miller - Worry Too Much - Universal
United House of Prayer
26.    Steve Earle - Fearless Heart - Austin City
Limits: Live From Austin, TX: Steve Earle
27.    Nathan - The Wind - Key Principles 8.4
28.    Eva Tree - Heavy Load - Sail Away
29.    Carbon Leaf - Grey Sky Eyes - Indian Summer
30.    Bruce Cockburn - This Is Baghdad - Life Short
Call Now
31.    Al Petteway - Maggie's Reel - Caledon Wood
32.    John Flynn - Trust The Rope - Two Wolves
33.    Dougie MacLean - Ready For The Storm - The
Dougie MacLean Collection
34.    Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Ixtapa - Rodrigo Y
Gabriela
35.    Terence Martin - Sleeper on a Westbound Train -
Sleeper
36.    Joyce Andersen - You Were the One - Love and
Thirst
37.    Jeff Daniels - If I Weren't so Stupid, You
Wouldn't be so Smart - Live and Unplugged To Benefit
The Purple Rose Theatre
38.    Mark Erelli - Seeds Of Peace - Hope & Other
Casualties
39.    The Byrds - My Back Pages - Greatest Hits
40.    John Cowan Band - In Bristol Town - New Tattoo

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Once again, there's a tie at #40.

1.    Davy Cowan - Moving On - Fragile People
2.    Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh - Seoithin Seotho - daybreak: fainne an
lae
3.    Bruce Cockburn - This Is Baghdad - Life Short Call Now
4.    Mary Fahl - In the Great Unknown - The Other Side of Time
5.    Christine Lavin - Chicken Soup - FolkZinger
6.    Tracy Grammer - Preston Miller - Flower of Avalon
7.    The Be Good Tanyas - What Are They Doing in Heaven Today -
Hello Love
8.    Enter the Haggis - Down With the Ships - Live From Studio A
Volume 10 (WCBE-FM)
9.    Dervish - Boots of Spanish Leather - Spirit
10.    Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer - Old Friends Live On Stage
11.    David Mallett - Somewhere in Time - Midnight on the Water
(Live)
12.    Clive Batkin and Joel McDermott - Dolly Got Out the
Catflap/The Humours of Glanedart - G-Force Trousers
13.    Ruthie Foster - Hole in My Pocket - Runaway Soul
14.    Kim Harris & Reggie - Oh Mary, Don't You Weep - Get on Board!
Underground Railroad & Civil Rights Freedom Songs, Vol. 2
15.    Kate Rusby - Jolly Plough Boys - Hourglass
16.    Amy White and Al Petteway - If I Were a Blackbird - Golden
Wing
17.    The Innocence Mission - What A Wonderful World - Now The Day
Is Over
18.    Solas - Nil Na La - Reunion: A Decade of Solas
19.    Nickel Creek - Sabra Girl - This Side
20.    Eddi Reader - My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose - Live at
Newcastle UK 24.05.03
21.    Luka Bloom - The Shape Of Love To Come - Salty Heaven
22.    Junction Pool - The Big Wellie Set - Junction Pool
23.    Darryl Purpose - Victory in the Struggle - Right Side of Zero
24.    Danny Carthy - Just You And Me - Stand Look Around You
25.    The American Wake - Greenland Whale Fisheries - Tell No Tales
26.    Liz Carroll & John Doyle - Fremont Center, The "Vornado",
Minutemen (reels) - In Play
27.    Garnet Rogers - Small Victory - All That Is
28.    Emmylou Harris - Prayer In Open D - Spyboy
29.    Mason Jennings - Lemon Grove Avenue - Use Your Voice
30.    The Jayhawks - Save It For A Rainy Day - Rainy Day Music
31.    Fiamma Fumanda - Angiolina - Onda
32.    Tiller's Folly - The Ghost of Kitty O'Reilly - A Ripple In
Time
33.    Smithfield Fair - Walking Through This World - Walking
Through This World
34.    Loreena McKennitt - Kecharitomene - An Ancient Muse
35.    Kasey Chambers - Nothing At All - Carnival
36.    Joni Mitchell - Chelsea Morning - Hits
37.    Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Diablo Rojo - Rodrigo Y Gabriela
38.    Rick Lee - The Merry Golden Tree - Look What Thoughts Will Do
39.    Carrie Newcomer - Alice and Roy - Regulars and Refugees
40.    The Byrds - My Back Pages - Greatest Hits
40.    Cheryl Wheeler - On the Plane - Defying Gravity

Some of the music added since the first of the year:

Artist - Album

Eamonn Coyne and Kris Drever - Honk Toot Suite
Joan Osborne - Pretty Little Stranger
Various Artists - Live From Studio A Volume 10
(WCBE-FM, Columbus Ohio)
Dave Rowe Trio - The Good Life
Kim and Reggie Harris - Get On Board: Underground
Railroad and Civil Rights Freedom Songs Volume 2
The Wailin' Jennys - Firecracker
Greg Trooper - The BackShop Live
Clive Batkin and Joel McDermott: G-Force Trousers
Lynn Miles - Love Sweet Love
Yusuf - An Other Cup
JJ Cale and Eric Clapton - The Road to Escondido
Loreena McKennitt - An Ancient Muse

Thought you'd like to know.

Greg Grant
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Top 40 of the previous 30 days ending January 4

Artist - Song - Album

1.    The Love Hall Tryst - Jack in the Green - Songs
of Misfortune
2.    The Schramms - Duck Hunting in Hell - Little
Apocalypse
3.    Southern Rail - Caroline's in Carolina - Cool
Tattoo
4.    Salamander Crossing - Color Outside the Lines -
Passion Train
5.    Smithfield Fair - Walking Through This World -
Walking Through This World
6.    Richard Shindell - Transit - Courier
7.    Tim Harrison - Train Going East - Tim Harrison
8.    Rig the Jig - Kathleen Hehir's-Stick on the Hob
- Passing Through
9.    Tracy Grammer - Hey Ho - Flower of Avalon
10.    The Waifs - Gillian - A Brief History Disc
11.    Joni Mitchell - River - Hits
12.    Red Molly - Oh My Sweet Carolina - Never Been
To Vegas - Live
13.    Old Blind Dogs - The Wisest Fool - Gab O Mey
14.    Tom Paxton - I Can't Help But Wonder - Live In
The UK
15.    Ricky Skaggs & Friends - Blue Moon of Kentucky
with John Fogerty - Big Mon: The Songs Of Bill Monroe
16.    Tom Rush - Urge for Going - Live at Symphony
Hall, Boston
17.    Ralph McTell - Streets of London - From Clare
to Here: The Songs of Ralph McTell
18.    Mason Jennings - Lemon Grove Avenue - Use Your
Voice
19.    The Kennedys - Gypsy Rose - Songs of the Open
Road
20.    5 Chinese Brothers - If I Ain't Falling -
Singer Songwriter Beggarman Thief
21.    Cheryl Wheeler - On the Plane - Defying Gravity

22.    Blind Boys of Alabama - Many Rivers to Cross -
Higher Ground
23.    David Stoddard - My Town - Hesselville
24.    Bill Mallonee - Stain Glass Soul - Friendly
Fire
25.    Liz Carroll & John Doyle - Fremont Center, The
"Vornado", Minutemen (reels) - In Play
26.    Flogging Molly - Factory Girls (feat. Lucinda
Williams) - Within A Mile Of Home
27.    Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul - Paddy in
Zululand - Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul
28.    Chris de Burgh - Last Night - Live in Dortmund
8.4
29.    The Kennedys - Namaste - Half A Million Miles
30.    Jed Marum - The Locket - Miles From Home
31.    Linda Thompson - No Telling - Fashionably Late
32.    Robin Flower and Libby McLaren - Sue's
Delight/Patsy's Pitchers/Steelhead in the Riffles -
Steelhead in the Riffles
33.    Oysterband - The Oxford Girl - From Little Rock
to Leipzig
34.    Chris and Siobhan Nelson - The Bold Dragoon -
Day Has Dawned
35.    Amy White and Al Petteway - If I Were a
Blackbird - Golden Wing
36.    Tracy Grammer - Preston Miller - Flower of
Avalon
37.    Solas - Nil Na La - Reunion: A Decade of Solas
38.    John Renbourn - Willy o'Winsbury - The
transaltlantic anthology
39.    Jeff Talmadge - A Soldier's Christmas -
Blissville
40.    Cathie Ryan - What Will You Do, Love? Duet with
Sean Keane - The Farthest Wave

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Since it seems that everyone else does it, I do it
too. The following are the albums that I just keep
coming back to this year for my own personal listening
enjoyment.

Here they are - the Top 10 albums of 2006 according to
the woodsmeister:

1) Bruce Springsteen - The Seeger Sessions: Easily the
most important folk album of the new century.
Supercharged folk songs in a folk/rock/Dixieland
melange that transcends easy categorization played by
top-flight musicians.

2) Bob Dylan - Modern Times: The best album by Dylan
in well over a decade, maybe two.

3) Ashley Maher - Flying Over Bridges: Intriguing mix
of folk/singer/songwriter/Afropop/worldbeat/jazz with
catchy, difficult syncopation and an incessant groove.
Maher's smooth voice also helps.

4) Brett Dennen - So Much More: The best pure
singer/songwriter album I heard all year. It's no
wonder that Dennen is getting all kinds of buzz and
his tunes placed on TV shows. It's all that good.

5) Diana Jones - My Remembrance of You: A little bit
country, a little bit folk, a little bit old-timey, a
little bit Iris DeMent, a little bit Gillian Welch,
but a whole lot of good. Jones' songs are first-rate,
and her voice is arresting.

6)Red Molly - Never Been to Vegas (live): This
all-female trio features tight harmonies, instrumental
chops (particularly Abbie Gardner), and well-chosen
cover tunes, and should appeal to anyone who likes the
Dixie Chicks and/or murder and death ballads.

7) Mark Erelli - Hope and Other Casualties: Erelli's
best yet features some of his best songwriting so far.
Here's what I said in April: "It's no accident that
the cover of this album is an homage to Dylan, because
this album is very Dylanesque - a little personal, a
little political. And while several songs do chronicle
Erelli's disappointment with the way things are going
(hence the title) he title of the album, he does offer
an album of pragmatic hope in "The Only Way" : 'So I'm
gonna love/And I'm gonna believe/And I'm gonna
dream/But I'm gonna roll up my sleeve/And give
everything until there's nothing left to give./That's
the only way I know how to live.'"

8) Hem - Funnel Cloud: Hem keeps expanding their
musical pallette, and the result is their best album
yet. Sally Ellyson sings with a little more passion on
this disk, and the production and arrangements are top
notch as always.

9) John Flynn - Two Wolves: Flynn is as much a
philospher as a great storyteller, and songs like the
title track about the effects of revenge on the one
seeking vengeance, and "Trust the Rope" bear this out.

10) Chuck Brodsky - Tulips for Lunch: Another great
album of story songs from a master storyteller.

Honorable Mention (in alphabetical order):

Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer - Seven is the Number
Bruce Cockburn - Life Short Call Now
Crooked Still - Shaken by a Low Sound
The Duhks - Migrations
Tommy Emmanuel - The Mystery
The Queensberry Rules - Black Dog and Other Stories
Paul Simon - Surprise
Solas: Reunion
Brooks Williams - Blues and Ballads

Honorable mention 2006 releases for Christmas:
Over the Rhine - Snow Angels
Sarah McLachlan - Wintersong
Moya Brennan - An Irish Christmas
Disclaimer: The above list is entirely subjective
based on the taste and whims of Greg Grant, aka
woodsmeister. It is not based on airplay, listener
feedback or any other scientific measurement.


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Current Top 39 Songs on the Online Folk Christmas based on listener
ratings of the last 30 days:

Artist - "Song" - Album
1. The Original Five Blind Boys - "White Christmas" - It's A Gospel
Christmas
2. Steve Bell - "Magnificat (Holy is His Name)" - The Feast
3. The Blind Boys of Alabama - "In The Bleak Midwinter" (featuring
Chrissie Hynde with Richard Thompson) - Go Tell It On The Mountain
4. The Irish Tenors - "O Holy Night" - Home For Christmas
5. Skaggs Family - "Go Thee Down" - A Skaggs Family Christmas
6. Linda Ronstadt - "Xicochi, Xicochi"- Merry Little Christmas
7. Emmylou Harris - "Beutiful Star of Bethlehem" - Light of the
Stable
8. Over the Rhine - "Greensleeves" - The Darkest Night of the Year
9. Caedmon's Call - "Babe In The Straw" - It's Christmas Time
10. The McKrells - "Angels We Have Heard on High" - Merry Christmas
11. Skaggs Family - "The Christmas Guest" - A Skaggs Family Christmas
12. Flaco Jimenez with Freddy Fender - "Frosty The Snowman" - A
Tejano Country Christmas
13. Emmylou Harris - "Christmas Times a Coming" - Light of the Stable
14. Skaggs Family - "Deck the Halls" - A Skaggs Family Christmas
15. Sheila Walsh - "Light Of The World" - Peace - A Celtic Christmas
16. Ruben Romero And Robert Notkoff - "Jingle Bell Rhumba" -
Christmas In Santa Fe
17. Stephen Murray & Jenny Gullen - "o holy night" - Noel
18. Harry Connick, Jr. - "Winter Wonderland" - Acoustic Christmas
19. Skaggs Family - "Hangin' Round the Mistletoe" - A Skaggs Family
Christmas
20. Asylum Street Spankers - "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" -
Christmas Spanking
21. Sheila Walsh - "Gloria" - Peace - A Celtic Christmas
22. Shawn Colvin - "Little Road to Bethlehem" - Holiday Songs and
Lullabies
23. Sam Bush - "Sleigh Ride" - Tinsel Tunes : more holiday treats
from Sugar Hill
24. Mannheim Steamroller - "Stille Nacht (Franz Gruber 1818) -
Christmas
25. Riki Michelle, Jerry Chamberlain, Sharon McCall - "o come, O
Come, emmanuel" - Noel
26. October Project - "Silent Night" - Silent Night
27. Steve Bell - "Come Thou Long Expected Jesus" - The Feast
28. Kathy Mattea - "Brightest and Best" - Good News
29. Patty Loveless - "Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem" - Bluegrass &
White Snow
30. Beausoleil - "Christmas Bayou" - Alligator Stomp, Volume 4:
Cajun Christmas
31. Hazel Dickens and Dudley Connell - "Blue Christmas" - Creme de
la Creme: A Holiday Feast
32. Emmylou Harris - "Light of the Stable" - Light of the Stable
33. Carol Noonan - "I Wonder as I Wander" - Carol Noonan Christmas
34. Mannheim Steamroller - "Bring A Torch, Jeannette, Isabella"-
Christmas
35. John Fahey - Good Christian Men Rejoice - Christmas Guitar
36. Harvey Reid and Joyce Anderson - Merry Christmas Baby -
Christmas Morning
37. Christine Lavin and the Mistletones - The All Purpose Carol -
The Runaway Christmas Tree: favorite holiday songs and bedtime
stories
38. Emmylou Harris - The First Noel - Light of the Stable
39. Kelly Joe Phelps - It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - Hear the
Angels Sing: Holiday Greetings from Rykodisk

Hello, folks. I'm new to this group, so I hope I'm not breaking
etiquette. We have a houseconcert series in Charm, which is in Holmes
County, and we'll be hosting Jake Armerding on November 18th. Jake's a
fabulous fiddler as well as a talented songwriter and entertaining
performer. He'll be giving a fiddle workshop at noon at the Kent State
Folk Fest and at 3:00 here in Charm, both on the 18th. We'd love to
have you join us!

For more information, you can either see Jake's myspace for samples of
his music at http://www.myspace.com/armerding or
www.sproutedacorn.blogspot.com for details about the show.

Looking forward!
Denice
The Sprouted Acorn

Online Folk Festival Top 36 of October 2006
Why a top 36? Because listeners at the Online Folk Festival only rated
36 songs in the last month. Local Celtic band Knot Fibb'n comes in
with the top slot - another #1 rating for a Central Ohio team. October
was a slow month for new releases at the top of the charts - most of
these tunes are from albums which have been out awhile. Recent
releases (within the last three or four months) are asterisked

Artist - "Song" - Album

1. Knot Fibb'n - "The Catholic Boy/Fiddler's Green" - Knot Loitering
2. Ernie Hawkins - "Singin' the Blues" - Rags & Bones
3.* Greg Greenway - "I Love Everybody" - Weightless
4. Gillian Welch - "Wayside/Back In Time" - Soul Journey
5. Chuck Brodsky - "Death Row All-Stars" - Tulips For Lunch
6. Jules Shear - "Dreams Don't Count" - Dreams Don't Count
7.* Old Crow Medicine Show - "Down Home Girl" - Big Iron World
8.* James Durst - "Song From Slovenia" - Internationally Unknown
9. Grace Griffith - "Summertime" - Grace
10. Natalie MacMaster - "The Drunken Piper" - No Boundaries
11. James Keelaghan - "Somewhere Ahead" - Then Again 8
12. Dale Nikkel - "Everybody Knows How to Pet a Dog" - Passages
13. Kate Campbell with Spooner Oldham - "Jesus Christ" - For the
Living of These Days
14. John Prine and Fiona Prine with Dermot Byrne - "'Til a Tear
Becomes a Rose" - Hands Across the Water: A Benefit For the Children
of the Tsunami
15. The Carter Family - "Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow" - Anchored
in Love: Their Complete Victor Recordings 1927-1928
16. Lisa Richards - "Bloom" - Mad Mad Love
17. Chuck Brodsky - "Dangerous Times" - Color Came One Day
18. Christine Lavin - "Mysterious Woman" - Good Thing He Can't Read My
Mind
19. Chris and Siobhan Nelson - "The Bold Dragoon" - Day Has Dawned
20. Sandy Denny - "I'm A Dreamer" - No More Sad Refrains: The Anthology
21. Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul - "Parting of Friends: Air" -
Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul
22.* Amos Lee - "Freedom" - Supply and Demand
23. Tom Rush - "Urge for Going" - Live at Symphony Hall, Boston
24.* Red Molly - "Caleb Meyer" - Never Been to Vegas (Live)
25. Pierce Pettis - "Moontown" - State of Grace
26. Boiled in Lead - "The Town of Ballybay" - Orb
27. Steve Forbert - "Train Whistle Blues" - Any Old Time: Songs of
Jimmie Rodgers
28.* Brett Dennen - "I Asked When" - So Much More
29. Chris de Burgh - "Last Night" - Live in Dortmund
30. Leadbelly - "Goodnight Irene" - Genius of Folk
31. Tom Russell - "Gallo del Cielo" - The Long Way Around
32. Malcolm Holcombe - "Your Eyes Will Shine" - Not Forgotten
33. Bruce Hornsby & The Range - "The Way It Is" - The Way It Is
34. Bobby Bridger - "Heal in the Wisdom" - Heal In The Wisdom
35. James Bryan - "Chicken in the Snowbank" - Come to the Mountain:
Old-Time Music For Modern Times
36.* Bob Dylan - "Workingman's Blues #2" - Modern Times

Well, technically it never left the air - it was still
available for VIP members of Live365 only. Now, it's
available for everyone. I've paid for three months of
Christmas programming, so from now through January 23,
Online Folk Christmas will be playing a freeform blend
of folk and related Christmas music: traditional,
bluegrass, singer/songwriter, Celtic, cajun, steel
drum, world folk and more.

Even as a VIP station with limited access, the station
has averaged about an hour per day of listenership
from someone somewhere in the world, so I know that
there are those out there who like to listen to
Christmas music year-round.

So, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow (sorry,
Buffalo).

Online Folk Christmas can be found at
http://www.live365.com/stations/folkchristmas/

Greg Grant
Online Folk Festival
http://www.onlinefolkfestival.com
I blog now! http://www.folk-blog.com

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Some CDs in heavy rotation on the personal CD player:

Red Molly - Never Been to Vegas (live)
Ashley Maher - Flying Over Bridges
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Greg Brown - The Evening Call
Diana Jones - My Remembrance of You
The Duhks - Migrations
The Kennedys - Songs of the Open Road

What's been in your player lately?

Greg Grant
Online Folk Festival

The Online Folk Festival Discussion list is designed to be a place to
discuss the Online Folk Festival and the artists that are heard
there.  In addition, please feel free to discuss folk musicians and
artists.  Tell us your favorites, review an album, post a tour
schedule, etc.

I hope this will become a folk music community.

But, please play nice.  I don't want to have to ban you, but I will be
assertive if any flame wars develop.

Greg Grant
Online Folk Festival