Traditional music often seems in peril as young folks choose to pursue their pop music dreams and consider traditional music to be archaic and outmoded. This week’s edition will help to allay your anxieties as we feature some younger players choosing the path less taken: traditional music. We’ll hear from Sarah Morgan, Brad Kolodner, Jake Blount, Max Allard, The Piros and the Onlies and others. We’ll also present a review and three tunes from “Hurricane Clarice,” the new recording from Allison De Groot and Tatiana Hargreaves. If you love traditional music, this week’s program will ease your concerns about its future. Don’t fear, we’re all in good hands … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

LISTEN:

Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways
Max Allard / “Prelude Near G Major” / Odes-Codes / Self Produced
The Stray Birds / “Down in the Willow Garden” / Borderland / Self Produced
Sarah Morgan / “John Stenson’s #2” / Run to the Window / Self Produced
Kaia Kater / “White” / Nine Pin / Kingswood
Brad Kolodner / “Old Grimes” / Chimney Swifts / Self Produced

Clinton Davis / “The Lily of the West” / If I Live and I Don’t Get Killed / Tiki Parlour
Matt Brown / “Build Me a Cabin” / My Native Home / 5 String
Jake Blount / “The Angels Done Bowed Down” / Spider Tales / Free Dirt
Erynn Marshall & Carl Jones, Rachel Eddy & Em Hammond / “Thread the Needle / Old-Time Sweethearts
              Vol.2 / Dittyville
Max Allard / “Of the Morning” / Odes-Codes / Self Produced

Allison De Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves / “Nancy Blevins” / Hurricane Clarice / Free Dirt
Allison De Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves / “Hurricane Clarice – Brushy Fork of John’s Creek” /
              Hurricane Clarice /Free Dirt
Allison De Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves / “Dead and Gone (Hen Cackle)” / Hurricane Clarice / Free Dirt

The Piros / “Half Irish” / Brandywine Ridge / Self Produced
Susan Pepper / “Sweet Air” / The Prettiest Bird / Ballad
The Onlies / “Going Across the Sea” / The Onlies / Yodel-Ay-Hee
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways