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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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!

Fiddler and composer Jeremy Kittel, longtime member of Local 1000, has been nominated for a Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition for his piece “Chrysalis”. The composition can be heard on his latest CD, released in 2018 on Compass Records, named “Whorls.”

My band 3 Ravens has just released an album with author Jane Yolen, called The Infinite Dark, centered around Jane’s poetry. I’ve been setting Jane’s poems to music since the 1980’s when I first read her poem “Ballad of the White Seal Maid” and heard the melody clearly in my head. This project, something very …

Please see below some details about our latest release. Artist: Fear of Drinking Album: Live in Zurich label: Big City If you would like to listen to the songs please go here: https://fearofdrinking.hearnow.com Tim Readman is a musician, songwriter, producer and music journalist originally from County Durham, England. Songwriter and guitarist, Gerard Kerr, is from …

New CD by Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer & Sam Gleaves (FINK, MARXER & GLEAVES) called “SHOUT AND SHINE”. “a perfect illustration of cross-generational mind melds — and musical melds. Messages of social justice, feminism, working class empowerment, and activism through music are so viscerally powerful because the trio shows that anyone can connect with each …

Mara Levine’s latest single “You Reap What You Sow,” written by Susan Shann, was the #1 single on the Folk DJ Chart for November 2017, and was subsequently #16 for 2017. It was also on the Bluegrass Today “Grassicana” chart for 7 weeks in 2018, peaking at #9!  The song is a preview from her …

Fiddle Whamdiddle is Back with a Brand New Album. It features a bunch of great old-time instrumentals, in the same vein as Old School Old Time, and a couple of songs, including the title track, an original by Vi Wickam and Steve Eulberg, John Denver’s Matthew, Aura Lea (written in 1861 by a relative of …

On Sunday, May 21st, 2017 The New Mexico Awards announced their winners for 2017. Local 1000 member and West Coast Board representative Gary Paul was awarded the 2017 NMMA Award in the Singer/Songwriter category for his song, “Delaware County.” This is Gary’s second NMMA Award; in 2016 he received the award in the Western Category …