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Updated news from the folk music world from the host of Festival Radio, an Internet broadcast featuring folk, Celtic, bluegrass, singer/songwriter and related musical styles
Recent Posts
Liam Clancy dead at 74
Liam Clancy, the youngest of the Clancy Brothers, has died. Story here ...
Peter Buffett Advent Calendar
From an email I just received from his publicist: Here is an innovative holiday initiative from Emmy Award-winning musician and philanthropist Peter Buffett. This week, Peter launched his 2009 advent calendar which includes free music, video blogs, a...
A Singer For The Songs
Woodsmeister’s Note – FolkBlog is privileged to have Australian music journalist Sue Barrett as a regular contributor of artist profiles and interviews. The following article is provided courtesy of Sue Barrett and she holds all copyrig...
GRAMMY Nominations Are In
Link to GRAMMY Nominations More comment later. Watch grammy.com for some thoughts from all the Community Bloggers. ...
Festival Radio Top 40, November 2009
Top 40 Tracks as rated by listeners to Festival Radio for November 2009: Artist – Track – Album Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Blue Moon Waltz – After Awhile Julie Miller – All my Tears – Broken Things Norman & Nancy ...
Remembering Bess Lomax Hawes
Seminal folk archivist and performer Bess Lomax Hawes has died at age 88. Bess Lomax Hawes is probably best known to casual folk fans as the cowriter of the classic tune “The MTA Song,” but her involvement in folk music represented so m...

