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Hannah Shira Naiman

Depression-era recipe brings musicians together in 4 different cities to record Hannah Shira Naiman’s newest song

22 July 2021 by Hannah Shira Naiman

I am pleased to announce the recent release of my newest single, Vinegar Pie! Vinegar Pie was written in a fleeting few hours of time alone during the height of Ontario’s vaccine shortage crisis this spring. Every day I felt pummelled with news of canceled deals, new dangers and mismanaged plans. I stumbled upon a …

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New Eventually Brothers Album out

New Eventually Brothers Album out now!

29 April 2021 by Tim Readman

ALBUM TITLE: The Ancient Art of Weaving ARTIST: The Eventually Brothers LABEL: Big City CONTACT: Tim Readman [email protected] www.timreadman.com Facebook: tim.readman.77 Twitter: @TimReadman1 The Ancient Art of Weaving, the third Eventually Brothers album, is out now. You can hear it any time on our HearNow site here: https://theeventuallybrotherstaaow.hearnow.com There are a variety of musical styles …

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Besos Kisses New album

Besos Kisses New album

24 February 2021 by colleenkatt

I released a new album in February 2020 called Besos Kisses. It is a labor of love especially informed by where i live in Central New York. It includes songs of nature (When I walk in the woods), of deep tribute to my native neighbors the Haudenosaunee ( Her voice is a river and To …

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Steve Eulberg Muir Woods

Hal Leonard Book Deal Signed

23 February 2021 by seulberg

Hal Leonard has contracted with Steve Eulberg to arrange and publish “50 First Songs on Mountain Dulcimer” which will feature 80% tunes that are under copyright and 20% tunes in the Public Domain. The anticipated publication date is later this year.

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JPF Awards and New CD

JPF Awards and New CD

12 February 2021 by Tom Neilson

At the 2020 Just Plain Folks International Awards, Tom Neilson of Greenfield was awarded 1st Place for Best Traditional Folk Album, “Between The Rivers” and 1st place for Best Political/Social commentary Album, “It’s A Crime To Tell The Truth”. He also received Finalist awards for song and album. He had a total of 12 nominations …

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Stone by Stone: my 17th album

“Stone by Stone: my 17th album!

11 February 2021 by Tret Fure

In November I released. y 17th album on my label, Tomboy girl Records. I waited to submit to the folk DJs until after the holidays as per Erik Balkey’s suggestion. I’m proud to announce that my song “Monuments” was the #1 song for the month of January, my CD was #2 and I was the …

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Besos Kisses cover art

New Album Release

21 February 2020 by colleenkatt

I have a new album out called Besos Kisses. it includes “Amen to the Freedom Rides” which won a GLAE Jon Fromer String-buster award, and other original songs honoring the Haudenosaunee Nation, women’s suffrage, nature, and the Latin American new song movement with a cover of “Caminando, caminando” by Victor Jara. thank you for all …

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Cathy Fink

48th CD

14 October 2019 by Cathy Fink

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer have released their 48th recording. “WAHOO!” is a ukulele-centric tour de force. The songs and tunes traverse multiple styles: western swing, calypso, jazz standard, Appalachian, Celtic and Tango. The duo’s vocals are dreamy, their arrangements are masterful and their playing shows a deep love of the ukulele and it’s vast …

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Cathy Fink

Songwriting Award + Mountain Stage

17 July 2019 by Cathy Fink

Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer and Sam Gleaves are delighted to announce that the single they recorded, “Maybelle Played Guitar” took first place in the Common Ground on the Hill songwriting competition. Written by Cathy Fink, the song honors Mother Maybelle Carter for her groundbreaking guitar playing. Download at www.cathymarcy.com The trio will perform live on …

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Mara Levine

New Release Facets of Folk doing well on the charts!

11 April 2019 by Mara Levine

I’m excited to share that my new release Facets of Folk, reached #1 album, #1 artist, and #1 song for January 2019, #5 album for February 2019 , and # 8 album for March 2019. It also hit #5 on the NACC chart the week of Feb 12, 2019. Facets of Folk has a number …

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Time and Truth, new Joel Mabus CD

Time & Truth, new Joel Mabus CD released in Feb, and debuts at #3 on Folk Charts

14 March 2019 by jmabus

I released my 27th album on February 1, 2019. My latest songwriting excursion, Time & Truth, is on my own “Fossil Record” label (I was going to be an anthropologist in college!). When the FAI Folk Chart (alias FOLKDJ-L) was compiled for February, Time & Truth came in at #3 for most airplay. Hats off …

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Roses in November

Roses in November

15 January 2019 by Tret Fure

My latest and 16th album, “Roses in November” has been on the Folk Charts for 7 months. I am so proud. In June, I had the #1 song, the #4 album and I was the #2 artist. And I am still on the charts!

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