Welcome to Mark & Val’s annual tribute honoring Traditional/Folk musicians who have passed in the prior year. It was a rough year for Traditional/Folk music lovers and today we’ll be honoring: Oliver Mtukudzi, known as Tuku; legend of the Zimbabwean music scene; celebrated as much for his messages in his lyrics...
Foolkiller Christmas, Part I is focused mostly on the British Christmas tradition through songs from the 13th century to the present day. We start with the Christmas story in carols, beginning with the Annunciation and ending with ‘… a ship came sailing in…’ (presumably up the Thames) from Bethlehem (no...
Special Guests from the Kansas City Women's Music Network Lizzie Leigh Loriann Clayton-Bethard of Common Threads Kathy Forste Jill Westra and J Kelly Dougherty of Distant Cousins
Mark & Val with a mostly English Folk (we snuck in a Scot), mostly 2018/2019 releases (we snuck in a 2015 that's new to us) mailbag program. For the Halloween show (which should be still available in the archives until tomorrow) we included a lot of Child Ballads; this show has...
And we have six hours of spooky music for you!! (Just kidding - we started out with six hours, but weren't allowed to take over six hours of air time for some reason, so we had to cut it back to two. Some of the scariest and most gruesome songs...
Today's rainy day mailbag journey takes you on a folk music tour across the pond and back again with new (to us) music from England, Ireland, Scotland, Romania, Estonia, the Balkans and Turkey, Sweden, around the US, and from Kansas City (Howard Iceberg and the Titanics, Kelly Hunt). The show will...
This long Labor Day weekend has been brought to you by the blood, sweat and tears of the labor movement. In the late 1800s, many Americans toiled 12 hours a day, seven days a week, often in physically demanding, low-paying jobs. Children worked too, on farms and in factories and...
This Sunday at 11:00 AM, Mark & Val bring you a taste of every 2019 KC Irish Fest performer from Trad to Celtic rock we could find commercially available recordings for :-). Starting with some local favorites and seguing into the international headliners, you'll be hearing: Eddie Delahunt, Bob Reeder,...
