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AcousticMusicScene.com Hosts Late-Night Song Swaps at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival

Post published:July 24, 2012
Post author:Michael Kornfeld
Post category:Festival Focus News - Northeast U.S.

AcousticMusicScene.com will host a series of late-night song swaps and mini-showcases during the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, July 26-29, in partnership with Pirate Camp, which was informally launched by Stuart Kabak and the late Jack Hardy a decade ago to provide a warm and welcoming haven for sharing music, food and camaraderie.. Now in its 24th year, Falcon Ridge takes place at Dodds Farm on Route 7D in Hillsdale, NY -- located in the foothills of the Berkshires, near the tri-state corner of New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. [ To read about the festival and see the late-night schedules, click on the headline.]

Entries Sought for International Acoustic Music Awards

Post published:July 23, 2012
Post author:Michael Kornfeld
Post category:Awards & Contests

Entries are currently being accepted for the International Acoustic Music Awards. Now in its ninth year, the competition promotes excellence in acoustic music performance and artistry. Awards will be presented in eight categories: Best Male Artist, Best Female Artist, Best Group/Duo, Folk/Americana/Roots, AAA/Alternative, Instrumental, Bluegrass/Country, and an Acoustic Open Genre category. An overall Grand Prize winner also will be named. [To read this short article, click on the headline.]

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 07-20-12

Post published:July 21, 2012
Post author:Michael Kornfeld
Post category:Acoustic Radio Waves

Fittingly, as we celebrate his birthday, Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection (Smithsonian Folkways), a 150-page large-format book with three CDs containing 57 tracks (including 21 previously unreleased performances), topped the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week. Willie Nelson's Heroes continued in the #1 position on the roots country chart. [To view the current Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]

Huntington Folk Festival Set for July 22, 2012; Free Event in NY Extends from Noon to Night

Post published:July 14, 2012
Post author:Michael Kornfeld
Post category:Festival Focus News - Northeast U.S.

The seventh annual Huntington Folk Festival is slated for Sunday, July 22, 2012. The free event will extend from 12 noon into the late evening at Heckscher Park, Main Street (Route 25A) and Prime Avenue, in Huntington, New York. AcousticMusicScene.com and Acoustic Live! in New York City and Beyond will host unplugged showcases during the afternoon, while the artists who are part of this year's Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Most Wanted Tour will perform on the Chapin Rainbow Stage in the evening. [To read the article and view the showcase schedules, click on the headline.]

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 07-13-12

Post published:July 13, 2012
Post author:Michael Kornfeld
Post category:Acoustic Radio Waves

Shawn Colvin's All Fall Down tops the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart for a second week, while Willie Nelson's Heroes remains #1 on the roots country chart. [To view the current Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]

Top Albums & Songs for June 2012 (FOLKDJ-L)

Post published:July 6, 2012
Post author:Michael Kornfeld
Post category:Acoustic Radio Waves

AcousticMusicScene.com is pleased to publish the monthly Top Albums and Songs charts compiled by Richard Gillmann from radio playlists submitted to FOLKDJ-L, an electronic discussion group for DJs and others interested in all folk-based music on the radio. The Honey Dewdrops, a duo that hails from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, top the albums chart for June 2012 with Silver Lining. The duo's third album also sports several of the month's most-played songs on folk radio. {To view the top folk albums and songs for June 2012, click on the headline.]

Two Music Festivals in July Have Mass. Appeal

Post published:July 1, 2012
Post author:Michael Kornfeld
Post category:Festival Focus News - Northeast U.S.

A couple of music festivals of note take place in Massachusetts in July: the Greater New Bedford Summerfest, July 6-8, along the cobblestoned streets of the old whaling city, and the Green River Festival featuring music, hot air balloons and more at the community college campus in Greenfield, July 14-15. [To read the full article previewing these festivals, click on the headline.]

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 06-29-12

Post published:June 30, 2012
Post author:Michael Kornfeld
Post category:Acoustic Radio Waves

Carolina Chocolate Drops' Leaving Eden --a collection of original compositions, covers and traditional tunes -- tops the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week, while Texas-based singer-songwriter Alejandro Escovedo's June release Big Station moves into the #1 position on the roots country chart. [To view the latest Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]

American Roots Music Festival Set for June 30 at Caramoor in Westchester County, New York

Post published:June 27, 2012
Post author:Michael Kornfeld
Post category:Festival Focus

Acoustic Hot Tuna and the David Bromberg Quartet headline the second annual American Roots Music Festival at Caramoor -- a day-long, family-friendly celebration of bluegrass, folk, string band and country blues music, on Saturday, June 30, 2012. Set on 90 acres of Italianate architecture and gardens in Katonah, Westchester County, NY – 40 miles northeast of New York City -- the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is well known for its summer music festivals. [To read the full article, click on the headline.]

2012 Falcon Ridge Emerging Artists Showcase Lineup Set; 24 Acts to Perform on July 27

Post published:June 25, 2012
Post author:Michael Kornfeld
Post category:Festival Focus News - Northeast U.S.

Twenty-four artists/bands have been selected from among hundreds of applicants to perform in the Emerging Artists Showcase during the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in Hillsdale, New York on Friday afternoon, July 27, 2012, from noon to 4:30 p.m. [To read the full article, see the list of showcasing artists, and learn more about the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival and the FRFF Most Wanted Tour, click on the headline.]

National Folk Festival on Hiatus in 2012

Post published:June 24, 2012
Post author:Michael Kornfeld
Post category:Festival Focus News - U.S. National

The National Council for the Traditional Arts, a Maryland-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the presentation and documentation of folk and traditional arts in the United States, which launched and has hosted annual multi-ethnic folk festivals since the 1930s, announced that the National Folk Festival will take a hiatus in 2012. [To read the full article, click on the headline.]

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 06-22-12

Post published:June 23, 2012
Post author:Michael Kornfeld
Post category:Acoustic Radio Waves

Intersection, the new album by Grammy -winning singer-songwriter and Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award winner Nanci Griffith, climbed into the #1 position on the Roots Music Report folk radio chart this week. Fellow Texan Ray Wylie Hubbard's The Grifter's Hymnal continues to top the roots country chart. [To view the latest Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, click on the headline.]