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(Tune in to WFDU-FM’s TRADITIONS every Sunday from 2pm to 5pm Eastern Time over WFDU-FM 89.1 in the NYC/Northern New Jersey area, or on the web at www.wfdu.fm or iHeartRadio.com. On-demand streams of shows, including this one, are archived for two weeks by clicking HERE. A Sing Out! Radio Partner.)

ARTIST “Tune / Song”
ALBUM Label – Website

2PM
Theme: HARVEY REID “Dirty Dish Rag”
Solo Guitar Sketchbook Woodpecker Records – www.woodpecker.com
DAVID MALLETT “Celebration”
Celebration North Road Records –

GATHERING TIME “Station Song”
Keepsake Treble –
HALEY REARDON “Stand Together”
For The Love of the Music: the Club 47 Folk Revival Kingswood Records – www.loveofthemusic.com
ELAINE ROMANELLI “Stand”
The Hour Before self – www.elaineromaelli.net
THE LUCKY SISTERS “Those Hands”
So Lucky Patio Records – www.theluckysisters.net

FENDRICK & PECK “Sweet Peppermint Wind”
Lucky Penny self – www.fendrickandpeck.com
TERRI HENDRIX “Vulnerable”
Love You Strong self – www.terrihendrix.com
LOW LILY “House Carpenter”
Low Lily EP self – www.lowlily.com

THE SQUID JIGGERS “Hard Travelin'”
The Squid Jiggers Live in Maine self – www.squidjiggers.com
STEVE KAHN “Do Re Mi”
Ravens self – www.stevekahndefinantmusic.com
RAMBLIN’ JACK ELLIOT “New York Town”
Ramblin’ Jack Elliot Six Essential Albums Real Gone Music – www.realgonemusic.co.uk

YO-YO MA AND THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE with SARAH JAROSZ “Little Birdie”
Sing Me Home Masterworks –
VILLA PALAGONIA “Michelina’s Song”
Rhythm & Roots self – www.villapalagonia.com

3PM
HAPPY TRAUM “Things Are Coming My Way”
Just for the Love of It Lark’s Nest Music – www.happytraum.com

A Tribute to Daniel Berrigan, who passed away on April 30 at the age of 94:
DAR WILLIAMS “I Had No Right”
The Green World Razor and Tie – www.razorandtie.com , www.darwilliams.com
HOWARD ZINN “A poem by Daniel Berrigan: In Loving Memory of Mitchell Snyder'”
Artists in a Time of War PM Press – www.pmpress.org
ANNE FEENEY “Have You Been To Jail For Justice”
Have You Been To Jail For Justice self – www.annefeeney.com
PETER, PAUL & MARY “Show the Way”
Discovered Live in Concert Rhino – www.rhino.com , www.peterpaulandmary.com

BEN BEDFORD “Letters From the Earth”
The Pilot and the FLying Machine self – www.benbedford.com
SHAWNA CASPI “Grace”
Apartments for Lovers self – www.shawnacaspi.com
DON WHITE “Last Dance”
More Alive self – www.donwhite.net

RONNIE GILBERT “House in New Orleans”
Lonesome Road: Gems from the Vanugard Vaults One Day Music – www.onedaymusic.com
THE EVIE LADIN BAND “Under the Waterline”
Jump the Fire self – www.evieladin.com
KATHY KALLICK BAND “Kentucky Mandolin”
Foxhouds Live Oak Records – www.kathykallick.com

RIVER ALEXANDER’S MAD JAZZ HATTERS “All of Me”
River Alexander’s Mad Jazz Hatters self – www.madjazzhatters.com

4PM
THE FOLK BROTHERS – DAVID MASSENGILL AND JACK HARDY “On The Road To Fairfax County”
Partners in Crime self – www.folkbrothers.com

ARLON BENNETT “The Watch Man”
The Watch Man self – www.arlonbennett.com
MARCI GELLER “Save Me”
Square Peg self – www.marcigeller.com

CHILDSPLAY “I Am A Youth That’s Inclined to Ramble”
Waiting for Dawn Childsplay Records – www.childsplay.org
THE CHIEFTAINS with THE SECRET SISTERS “Peggy Gordon”
Voice of Ages Hear Music – www.concordmusicgroups.com , www.thechieftains.com
SOLAS “Roarie Bummlers”
All These Years THL Records – www.solasmusic.com

THE CHAPIN SISTERS “We Will Not Stop Singing”
Today’s Not Yesterday self – www.thechapinsisters.com
MICHEAL JONATHON “Sunday Afternoon”
Song Farmer Poet Man Records – www.songfarmers.com
ARLO GUTHRIE “Chilling of the Evening”
Alice’s Restaurant 50th Anniversary Massacree Rising Son – www.risingsonrecords.com

DAVE VAN RONK “Green Green Rocky Road”
Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk Fantasy –
LEON BIBB “Take This Hammer”
Lonesome Road: Gems from the Vanguard Vaults One Day Music – www.onedaymusic.co.uk
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Ron Olesko
WFDU-FM
1000 River Road
Teaneck, NJ 07666

www.wfdu.fm
www.iheart.com/live/WFDU-891-6648
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Hey Ron, I think that one real key will be for Folk Radio to adapt to new formats like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and to stream programs live. (And I am sure that there are other, newer formats I am at present clueless about.) The world is definitely changing quickly but I do think that there will always be folk music. And a second key is to also invite in new audiences by playing some of their music. I don’t mean playing “pop” – there are plenty of stations doing that, and we don’t need to do corporate America’s job for them. They have their own money. But how about when you are delving into some of the political subjects you do, to also reach out to some of the more progressive hip hop groups, and include their music – and let them know in advance so they can alert their fans? Some of this music is in fact, “folk” music in its truest sense; it is not made for the market. Of course if we define “folk music” as guitars, fiddles, banjos and the like, that’s another story. But if Balkan, Middle Eastern, Native American, various African musics, Indian music is folk music – why isn’t some community-driven rap and funk? A few years ago I did have one dj tell me that my music wasn’t his cup of tea, so to speak – which is of course his right (chacun a son gout, pardon the missing accents monsieur!) – but it was clear that he meant my use of latin rhythms and other non-trad folkie stuff on that recording. The funny thing is no one appreciates Woody, the Carter Family, Leadbelly, etc. etc. than me……but many in our community are closed to other “people’s music,” and sometimes I think that we’re in danger of just becoming a mostly white, comfortably progressive but isolated group. If we want others to join US, we also have to join them first. (And believe me, this is not just radio I am referring to; as a Steering Committee member of a progressive music organization, the Peoples Music Network (PMN), this is something I am painfully aware of, and something I am looking to “shake up!”)

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Reaching New Audiences — 1 Comment

mikeglick on May 3, 2016 at 5:28 pm said:

Hey Ron, I think that one real key will be for Folk Radio to adapt to new formats like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and to stream programs live. (And I am sure that there are other, newer formats I am at present clueless about.) The world is definitely changing quickly but I do think that there will always be folk music. And a second key is to also invite in new audiences by playing some of their music. I don’t mean playing “pop” – there are plenty of stations doing that, and we don’t need to do corporate America’s job for them. They have their own money. But how about when you are delving into some of the political subjects you do, to also reach out to some of the more progressive hip hop groups, and include their music – and let them know in advance so they can alert their fans? Some of this music is in fact, “folk” music in its truest sense; it is not made for the market. Of course if we define “folk music” as guitars, fiddles, banjos and the like, that’s another story. But if Balkan, Middle Eastern, Native American, various African musics, Indian music is folk music – why isn’t some community-driven rap and funk? A few years ago I did have one dj tell me that my music wasn’t his cup of tea, so to speak – which is of course his right (chacun a son gout, pardon the missing accents monsieur!) – but it was clear that he meant my use of latin rhythms and other non-trad folkie stuff on that recording. The funny thing is no one appreciates Woody, the Carter Family, Leadbelly, etc. etc. than me……but many in our community are closed to other “people’s music,” and sometimes I think that we’re in danger of just becoming a mostly white, comfortably progressive but isolated group. If we want others to join US, we also have to join them first. (And believe me, this is not just radio I am referring to; as a Steering Committee member of a progressive music organization, the Peoples Music Network (PMN), this is something I am painfully aware of, and something I am looking to “shake up!”)

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