It’s summer time and that’s the time to go to your favorite music festival or better yet, try out a new one. We’ll hear classic music from the first Newport Folk Festival in 1959, travel to Galax, Virginia for the Fiddler’s Convention and visit Colorado for two of the Centennial State’s finest events. Celebrate summer music with us … 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
Bascom Lamar Lunsford / “Rye Straw” / Ballads, Banjo Tunes, and Sacred Songs / Smithsonian Folkways
Blue Ridge Mountain Ramblers / “Grey Eagle” / In the Field Behind the Stage / Old Blue Records
Roan Mountain Hilltoppers / “Sally Ann” / In the Field Behind the Stage / Old Blue Records
Kirk Sutphin with the New Ballards Branch Bogtrotters / “Belle of Lexington” / In the Field Behind the
              Stage / Old Blue
Tommy Jarrell / “Sourwood Mountain” / The Brandywine Mountain Music Convention / Chubby Dragon
Smokey Valley Boys / “Cricket on the Hearth” / The Brandywine Mountain Music Convention / Chubby Dragon

Barbara Dane with Frank Hamilton & Bill Lee / “Dink’s Blues” / The Newport Folk Festival 1959 / Not Now
Pete Seeger / “The Bells of Rhymney” / The Newport Folk Festival 1959 / Not Now
Mississippi John Hurt / “Candy Man” / Folk Music at Newport Part.1 / Vanguard
Bascom Lamar Lunsford / “Ten Steps” / Ballads, Banjo Tunes, and Sacred Songs / Smithsonian Folkways

John Gorka / “Love is Our Cross to Bear” / Folks Live / Blue Plate Music
Norman & Nancy Blake / “Battleship of Main” / Folks Live / Blue Plate Music
Claire Lynch and the Front Porch String Band / “It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing” /
              Rockygrass / Blue Plate Music

Bill Monroe & Doc Watson / “Watson’s Blues” / Off the Record Volume 2 / Smithsonian Folkways
Bill Monroe & Doc Watson / “Paddy on the Turnpike” / Off the Record Volume 2 / Smithsonian Folkways
Bill Dillof / “All I Got’s Gone” / Bluff Country Gathering 2000-2004 / Jawbone
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways