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Festival Radio

Online Folk Festival

About Me

Festival Radio is a streaming Internet-only station playing folk and related music (bluegrass, Celtic, singer/songwriter, gospel, acoustic blues, traditional folk, technofolk, folk/rock, world folk and more). Visit our home page at www.onlinefolkfestival.com for more information, or listen now via this link .

I also maintain a blog featuring folk music reviews, new adds to the station, and life the universe and everything called (and no expense was spared to name my blog) The FolkBlog .

I play a lot of independent music on the Online Folk Festival, and am happy to receive artist submissions. if you want me to play your music, send me a CD. Don't send me an e-mail or message asking me to visit your page or download your mp3. I get so many of those requests that I cannot possibly visit all of them, so unless you are an artist I've already heard of with some buzz in the folk world or on the Folk DJ list, I will not visit your site or download your mp3. I just don't have the time. I can, however, listen to your CD in my car or while at my real job. For more information on how to submit your CD, please visit my submissions guidelines page.

I would also dig it if you would join the Online Folk Festival discussion group on Yahoo, where I'll post station information and such. I hope it becomes a place for folk fans and musicians alike, a place to swap tour schedules, news about what's in the CD players, album reviews and folk community news. To join, go to the group page at http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/onlinefolk/ and click on the Join This Group button. A Yahoo ID will be required. Hope to see you there.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Folk music fans everywhere with open minds and generous hearts.

Music:

folk and related genres - singer/songwriter, Celtic, bluegrass, technofolk, world folk, acoustic blues, gospel and more. Artists I particularly like include Mark Heard, Over the Rhine, David Wilcox, The Clumsy Lovers, Kate Campbell, The Kennedys, Eddi Reader, Bob Dylan, Baka Beyond, Brooks Williams, Bruce Cockburn, Chuck Brodsky, David Stoddard, and a whole lot more.

My Blog

Festival Radio, Top 40, May 2008

Top 40 Songs for May 2008, as rated by listeners of Festival Radio:     Artist - "Track" - Album 1.    Enter the Haggis - "Down With The Ship" - Live From Northampton2.&...
Posted by Festival Radio on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:06:00 PST

Top 41 - Festival Radio - April 2008

Top 41 tracks (tie at 40) rated by listeners of Festival Radio: Artist - Track - Album 1.    Joe Crookston - Hands Metal and Wood - Able Baker Charlie and Dog 2.    The H...
Posted by Festival Radio on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:07:00 PST

Higher Fidelity! Operation Re-Rip Now Ended!

Festival Radio is now broadcasting in beautiful 96K mp3PRO, to give you a better variety of folf-related tuneage in higher fidelity. Also, Operation Re-Rip is now over and the back catalog is now full...
Posted by Festival Radio on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:47:00 PST

Top 42, Online Folk Festival, March 2007

As rated by listeners of the Online Folk Festival Artist- Song - Album 1.    Mark Erelli - Theresa - The Memorial Hall Recordings 2.    Railroad Earth - Long Way To Go - ...
Posted by Festival Radio on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:26:00 PST

Online Folk Festival Top 40, February 2007

Top 40 tracks as rated by listeners to the Online Folk Festival, February 2007Artist - Song - Album1.    Cara Dillon - Garden Valley - After the Morning  2.    Karen...
Posted by Festival Radio on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:48:00 PST

Top 41 - Online Folk Festival - January 2007

As ranked by listeners to the Online Folk Festival: 1.    Davy Cowan - Moving On - Fragile People 2.    Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh - Seoithin Seotho - daybreak: fainne an lae...
Posted by Festival Radio on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:14:00 PST

Top 40 on Online Folk Festival

Top 40 on Online Folk Festival, as rated by listeners Month ending January 4, 2007 Position - Artist - Song - Album 1.    The Love Hall Tryst - Jack in the Green - Songs of Misfortune 2...
Posted by Festival Radio on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:06:00 PST

Online Folk Festival Top 36 of October

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...
Posted by Festival Radio on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:44:00 PST

Online Folk Christmas is Back!

I have re-activated the Online Folk Christmas stream for your holiday enjoyment.  Online Folk Christmas is a streaming mix of freeform Christmas music in the style of the Online Folk Festival.&nb...
Posted by Festival Radio on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:02:00 PST

New Mailing/Discussion List

The Online Folk Festival now has a mailing list/discussion group at Yahoo! I'll be posting updates on the station, and I hope you'll participate with folk news, gig announcements, album reviews, updat...
Posted by Festival Radio on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 06:04:00 PST