Roots Music Report Folk Radio Chart, 05-01-09
Roots Music Report compiles weekly radio airplay charts for various roots-related genres. These are based on spin totals reported by music directors and DJs from more than 400 terrestrial and Internet radio stations. The latest Folk radio airplay chart is posted on AcousticMusicScene.com with permission.
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Roots Music Report Folk Radio Chart, 04-23-09
Roots Music Report compiles weekly radio airplay charts for various roots-related genres. These are based on spin totals reported by music directors and DJs from more than 400 terrestrial and Internet radio stations. The latest Folk chart is posted here with permission.
[To view the latest Folk radio airplay chart compiled by Roots Music Report, click on the headline.]
Roots Music Report Folk Radio Chart, 4-16-09
Roots Music Report compiles weekly radio airplay charts for various roots-related genres. These are based on spin totals reported by music directors and DJs from more than 400 terrestrial and Internet radio stations. The latest Folk chart is posted here with permission.
[To view the latest Folk radio airplay chart compiled by Roots Music Report, click on the headline.]
Roots Music Report Folk Radio Chart, 04-09-09
Roots Music Report compiles weekly radio airplay charts for various roots-related genres. These are based on spin totals reported by music directors and DJs from more than 400 terrestrial and Internet radio stations. The latest Folk chart is posted here with permission.
[To view the latest Folk radio airplay chart compiled by Roots Music Report, click on the headline.]
Roots Music Report Folk Radio Chart, 04-03-09
Roots Music Report compiles weekly radio airplay charts for various roots-related genres. These are based on spin totals reported by music directors and DJs from more than 400 terrestrial and Internet radio stations. The latest Folk chart is posted here with permission.
[To view the latest Folk radio airplay chart compiled by Roots Music Report, click on the headline.]
Roots Music Report Folk Radio Chart, 03-26-09
Roots Music Report compiles weekly radio airplay charts for various roots-related genres. These are based on spin totals reported by music directors and DJs from more than 400 terrestrial and Internet radio stations. The latest Folk chart is posted here with permission.
[To view the latest Folk radio chart compiled by Roots Music Report, click on the headline.]
Roots Music Report Folk Radio Chart, 03-20-09
Roots Music Report compiles weekly radio airplay charts for various roots-related genres. These are based on spin totals reported by music directors and DJs from more than 400 terrestrial and Internet radio stations. The latest Folk chart is posted here with permission.
[To view the Folk radio chart compiled by Roots Music Report, click on the headline.]
Roots Music Report Folk Radio Chart, 03-13-09
Roots Music Report compiles weekly radio airplay charts for various roots-related genres. These are based on spin totals reported by music directors and DJs from more than 400 terrestrial and Internet radio stations. The latest Folk chart is posted here with permission.
(To see the Folk radio chart compiled by Roots Music Report, click on the headline.)
New York Songwriter Joe Crookston Earns Album of the Year Award
Joe Crookston, an Ithaca, New York-based singer-songwriter and guitarist, received the prestigious Album of the Year Award during the 21st annual International Folk Alliance Conference, Feb. 18, in Memphis, Tennessee. His 2008 recording, Able Baker Charlie & Dog, ended the year as the #1 most-aired recording by folk/acoustic radio DJs in the United States.
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Dailey & Vincent Visit A Prairie Home Companion, Feb. 7
Dailey & Vincent, the 2008 Entertainers of the Year in the International Bluegrass Music Awards, will appear on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion on Saturday, Feb. 7 at 5 p.m. CST. They are musical guests for a live broadcast performance that emanates from the show’s home base, the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota. Several million people tune in to the popular radio variety show each week when it airs on nearly 600 public radio stations in the U.S., as well as on America One abroad and the Armed Forces Networks in Europe and the Far East.
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“Woody’s Children” Turns 40; “The Session” Ends Nine-Year Run
“Woody’s Children,” Bob Sherman’s folk radio program that airs Sundry afternoon from 4-5 p.m. on WFUV in New York, marks its 40th anniversary in January, while “The Session,” an hour-long Celtic music program that Ron Olesko hosted from the studios of WFDU in New Jersey, bowed out Jan. 2 after a nine-year run.
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XM Satellite Radio Puts The Village on “Vacation”
In this guest commentary, Ron Olesko, host of WFDU-FM's long-running folk music radio programs "Traditions" and "The Session" and president of the Hurdy Gurdy Folk Music Club in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, expresses dismay over the recent decision by the management of XM/Sirius Radio to give its folk music channel a "vacation" for the holiday season. "I'm hoping that this is just a simple error in judgment," writes Olesko, and "that satellite radio can set itself on the right track once again and live up to the promise that created the need."
Maintains Olesko, "Should the merger [of XM and Sirius] turn their offerings into a mirror of the commercial mess that has passed for terrestrial radio in...
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