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Recordings of Weekend Folk Show Segments posted on the ARCHIVE page

2011-09-26T08:33:04-05:00

If you need some folk music to get you through the week, click on the ARCHIVE tab at the top of the page. You can hear a show you missed this past weekend, or your choice of shows going back several weeks. The Archive page is updated every week.

song from Madagascar!?!

2010-10-28T11:28:56-05:00

Hi! I was in the Peace Corps in Madagascar but rarely found local music that I liked. Imagine my astonishment when I heard a great song in Malagasy, the language of Madagascar, play on The Folk Show’s online stream just now (10/28, 11:20 am)!! Could anyone please tell me the song title and (especially) the artist? Thanks so much.

Pronunciation Help. How is “____” pronounced ?

2011-10-06T16:21:03-05:00

Thought it might be worth starting a thread. I know I could use pointers on a few artist/band names (and not just the Portugese/Spanish/Italian/German/French names that Tom Beebee pronounces so well} . Wikipedia and other web sites often don’t have readily accessible info for folk artist names, so maybe we should start building a web resource, maybe just a google doc…..

We could start with Bert Jansch JANsch.

Joel Mabus is another that comes to mind (MAY-biss)

I often have to re-look up Celtic names like Aoife….

What folky names come to mind for you….

Where can I find Utah Phillips’s radio show?

2011-10-29T10:29:45-05:00

Fellow Folkies:

The Wikipedia entry on Bruce “Utah” Phillips (1935-2008) contains the following tidbit:

“Until it lost its funding, Phillips hosted his own weekly radio show, Loafer’s Glory: The Hobo Jungle of the Mind.”

Any idea of where I can find an archive of this show?

Reordings of the Oct 1 and 2 Folk Show Broadcasts posted in the ARCHIVEs

2011-10-05T08:26:27-05:00

Click on RETURN TO FOLK SHOW HOMEPAGE at the top left of the page, then on AUDIO ARCHIVE

The name of that Canadian Group that backs up Jonathon Byrd on his new CD is CREAKING TREE STRING BAND !

2010-12-05T14:10:11-05:00

In case you were wondering, it’s Creaking Tree that adds such nice instrumental touches to Byrd’s new CD, CACALACK. Treasa Levassuer is on there too…. The reason for this post; my mind went blank when I had the opportunity to announce the name on-air.

Iris Dement song in Cohen bros movie True Grit

2010-12-24T02:20:16-05:00

Terrific movie, and destined to become a classic in the genre. iris Dement’s version on “In his everlasting arms” capped the movie. You’ll be hearing it on the Folk Show soon! Here’s a link to a Review of the movie.

Christmas Day Folk Music

2010-12-23T13:17:38-05:00

If you’re looking for Folk on Christmas, tune in to WPSU from 7-8 am, and also 9-10 pm. Almost every song is directly related to Christmas (I did sneak in one solstice song), and range from the well-known to the obscure, as well as the sweet to slightly skewed (more of the skewed on the late episode !) Artists include Odetta, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Robin and Linda Williams, John Prine, Nowell Sing We Clear, Abby Gardner, Dave Carter and James McMurty. Merry Christmas!

More about Forro Music from Brazil

2010-10-19T11:44:48-05:00

Folk Show host Tom Beebee has brought a number of world music traditions to the attention of Folk Show listeners, and I thought you might enjoy a story NPR ran this morning that featured one of those traditions: Forro.

Here’s the lead to the story, and you can read or listen to the entire piece with this link:

Brazil has a reputation for its music. Just mentioning the country’s name can evoke images of samba bands and glittering dancers at Carnaval, or the swaying beat of “The Girl From Ipanema.” But Brazil is home to plenty of other styles and genres, including forro, a musical amalgam that’s been compared to zydeco, the Texas Two-Step and even mazurka.

Martin Sexton at the State Theatre 10/20/10

2010-10-16T20:26:39-05:00

http://www.thestatetheatre.org/Events/fullevent.php?id=745