Mark & Val have a mailbox show today. Our new-to-us selections include songs and tunes from Alice Gerard; Sister Sadie; Niall Hanna; Roisin McGrory; John Denver; American Patchwork Quartet; Scott Cook; Zachary Lucky; Nuala Kennedy and Eamon O'Leary; Alice Zawadski, Fred Thomas, and Masha Mullov-Abbado; Peter Knight's Gigspanner; The Rheingans...
Last month the folk music and arts festival FolkEast was held in the parkland of Glemham Hall in Suffolk, England. We didn't get to go, but we did manage to acquire the music, and now we get to bring it to you, You'll be hearing from Melrose Quartet, Fay Hield,...
Mark & Val today with a Celtic mailbag show. Mostly new releases, but a nod to Robert Burns Day (1/25) from Andy M Stewart's 1989 release "Songs of Robert Burns"
This year we kick off with White Christmas by Irving Berlin (who knew that innocuous little White Christmas could eventually become interpreted as a commentary on climate change?) By the way: Did you know that approximately half of the 30 best-selling Christmas songs by ASCAP members in 2015 were written by Jewish composers? Jewish...
Mark & Val are in the mood for something completely different today, so Mark dug into the world music collection and we're taking you Around the World in 1/960 of the time of Phineas Fogg (the protagonist in the 1872 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days). You'll be...
A random bit of music we like for you today from Atilla the Hun (Calypsos from Trinidad 1930s) to Lauren MacColl (Scottish fiddle player from Fortrose) with a release from 2023. We bring you The Rooftop Singers, Jeff Brown, John Francis Flynn, Joanne Shenandoah, Lauren McColl, Suzie Leblanc, Tinariwen, Amadou &...
Tune in today to join Mark & Val and Bob & Diana as we play and talk about folk music from our collections. Only one day to donate during Foolkiller Folk this fund drive, but you can donate through Thursday! KKFI - radio by and for the community - is dedicated...
Yes – we lost so many greats last year that it’s taken Mark & Val two Foolkiller Folk shows to honor them. This is the final program, covering August 2022 through the end of the year. You’ll be hearing songs and tunes from Paul Sartin, Mary McCaslin, Loretta Lynn, Noel...
