On this week’s show we begin a two-part feature celebrating Women’s History Month. We’ll hear some wonderful music from some of the finest musicians and singers who just happen to be women. Included are selections from Claudia Schmidt, Rachel Eddy, Molly Tuttle, Rory Block, Martha Spencer, Bonnie Raitt and many more. Here’s to the women … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

LISTEN:

Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
              Smithsonian Folkways
Tracey Dares / “Castle Bay Scrap” / Crooked Lake / CBC Maritimes
Claudia Schmidt / “Sea of Forgiveness” / New Whirled Order / Red House
The Starry Mountain Singers / “Didn’t It Rain” / The Starry Mountain Singers / Self-Produced
Rachel Eddy / “Sarah Armstrong” / Hand on the Plow / Self-Produced
Kim & Reggie Harris / “Never Go Back” / Resurrection Day / Appleseed

Molly Tuttle / “Take the Journey” / When You’re Ready / Compass
Anna & Elizabeth / “Jeano” / The Invisible Comes to Us / Smithsonian Folkways
Maggie Hammons Parker / “Ireland’s Green Shore” / The Hammons Family / Rounder
Tracey Dares / “Black Mary” / Crooked Lake / CBC Maritimes

Rory Block / “I’m So Glad” / Hard Luck Child / Stony Plain
Laura Rucker / “Crying the Blues” / The Aristocrat Blues Story / One Day Music
Jane Rothfield & Cathy Fink / “Mosquito Stomp” / Out of Thin Air / iFiddle
Martha Spencer / “Wishful Thinking” / Martha Spencer / Self Produced

Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem / “Oil in my Vessel” / Big Old Life / Signature Sounds
Front Porch String Band / “Looks Like Rain” / Lines & Traces / Rebel
Norman & Nancy Blake / “Texola Waltz” / Natasha’s Waltz / Rounder
Bonnie Raitt / “Too Long at the Fair” / Give it Up / Warner Brothers
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
              Smithsonian Folkways