HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Just a quick note to wish all readers of this column a very happy and healthy new year! May 2009 live up to the promise that is in our hearts and lets hope we can gather together one year from … Continue reading →
Bits and Pieces: XM’s THE VILLAGE TO RETURN, GUY DAVIS PERFORMS AN HISTORIC ROLE, GEORGE MCTAVEY (HUSBAND OF SLOAN WAINWRIGHT) PASSES
A few weeks ago, Sirius/XM gave their folk music channel “a vacation” in order to make room for some Holiday channels. While these channels were spinning out seasonal ditties that we’ve all heard ad nauseum in shopping malls, elevators and … Continue reading →
MY FAVORITE CDs OF 2008
RON OLESKO’S FAVORITE CD’S OF 2008 Okay, it is extremely difficult to put together a “best of” list, and I hesitate to call my selections that. These are however, CDs that I will be listening to and playing on the … Continue reading →
Bits and pieces –
Greetings! I don’t know if the hustle and bustle of this holiday season has you as frazzled as I have been the past few weeks, but I do hope that you have some to sit down and relax. Spend time … Continue reading →
New Amnesty International Song and Video The Price of Silence Makes Urgent Call for Universal Human Rights
(New York, NY) — A young woman, scaling the Himalayas on foot, flees the Chinese work camp where she was born, her tiny son in tow. A boy, forced to fight in Sudan’s bloody civil war at age six, winds … Continue reading →
Folk and Blues Great Odetta Passes at 77
From Odetta’s friend & manager Doug Yeager (12/03/08) : Dear Family and Friends of Odetta, The Grand Lady Odetta passed this evening at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. For more than a decade she fought the brave fight with chronic heart … Continue reading →
ODETTA 1930 – 2008
Odetta has left us. It is hard to find the words at this time. When I started doing radio back in the late 1970’s, Odetta was one of the first artists that I had the honor of interviewing. To be … Continue reading →
WORK O’ THE WEAVERS AND JOE MCKAY COMING TO THE HURDY GURDY FOLK MUSIC CLUB THIS SATURDAY
On Saturday December 6 at 8:00pm, the Hurdy Gurdy Folk Music Club Concert Series at the Fair Lawn Community Center will present Work O’ The Weavers. Opening the evening will be Joe McKay. Work O’ The Weavers is a quartet … Continue reading →
WFDU-FM’s TRADITIONS Playlist for November 30, 2008
Guest: Joe McKay (who is opening for Work O’ The Weavers at the Hurdy Gurdy Folk Music Club on 12/6 – www.hurdygurdyfolk.org New CD’s of note – K.J. Denhert’s “Vivo a Umbira Jazz”, Debra Cowan “Fond Desire Farewell”, Gathering Time … Continue reading →
WFDU-FM’s TRADITIONS playlist for November 23, 2008
Guests: Anthony da Costa & Abbie Gardner (Tune in to TRADITIONS every Sunday from 3 to 6pm Eastern Time over WFDU-FM 89.1 in the NYC/Northern New Jersey area or on the web at www.wfdu.fm. A Sing Out! Radio Partner) ARTIST … Continue reading →