Mark & Val bring you Irish and English folk today - some old; some new; some we picked up on our trip to Ireland. As usual, we have more music than time to play it, but here's who we're going to be trying to stuff into our show: Cherish the...
Mark & Val have been rooting through their mailbag again and are delighted to bring you a collection of new to us mostly newly released Celtic and English music (yes - you get to hear them butcher Gaelic once again!). You'll be hearing from Max Allard, The ALT, Tom Delany,...
Today we bring you selections from Show of Hands' 2019 release Battlefield Dance Floor, Martin Simpson's 2020 Home Recordings, Tim Edy's 2019 release Being Myself, Josienne Clark's 2019 In All Weather, The Unthanks with Diversions, Vol 5: Live & Unaccompanied - 2020, Joni Mitchell from Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol 1:The Early Years (1963-1967),...
This fund drive week Mark & Val have music to warm your heart on a cold day - some old, some new, some borrowed, some blue. You'll hear love songs and anti-love songs, some of our favorite Trad, and local Artist banjo Kelly Hunt. And since we're still pandemic hunkered...
To do a 2020 Christmas show or not to do a 2020 Christmas show – that is the question! And, given the pandemic, it’s a hard question. But we’re doing one (although we’re not including any songs that would encourage gathering in large groups :-)). Usually I put together a...
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...
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...
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...
