M&V’s Mailbag – looking toward the Folk Music International Conference

Today we bring you a round of recently acquired music not necessarily new but new to us - some of the songs and albums that made it to the finals of the FAI’s best songs and albums list, mixed in with other things that we like. We bring you folk (American,...

Folk Music from France and the Canadian Diaspora

Today Mark and Val bring you some of our favorite French folk groups with music from Brittany, Normandy, and the Massif in France, as well as the music that crossed the Atlantic and ended up in Quebec in Canada (we’ll bring you Louisiana Cajun country music another time).  Today you’ll...

Celtic & English Folk Mailbag

Mark & Val start the show off with some reels from Dan Possumato, Bill Verdier, Gerry Whelan, & Frances Cunningham from an IMM Promo CD2021/22 Disc 3, follow that with a Robert Burns song from Laverock and we're off! You'll be hearing Katie Grennan, Rachel Newton, Tim Van Eyken, 3'oh,...

Mark & Val Celebrate the Idiosyncrasy of KKFI

With no Program Director or Executive Director to determine our content, KKFI is a truly community-driven project. Where else can you find a station where the DJs are free to present a musical travelogue of their summer vacation? Which is exactly what we're doing to celebrate the idiosyncrasy of KKFI...