Hearth Music Radio airs every Wednesday from 10am-Noon PST on Cascade Community Radio. We run an online radio show that presents folk music of all kinds. Go to www.radio23.org/ccr to listen.

SOLSTICE & CHRISTMAS MUSIC (12/22/2010)

Music for the Solstice's Lunar Eclipse and the Christmas Season. Pagan folk from Cascadia, acoustic Christmas carols and some strange surprises.
 

New Discovery: By the Hum of Ullr's Bow, A Collection of Winter Songs from Hex Magazine. The Northwest is home to a little-known community of pagan and heathen musicians actively creating a new form of folk music based on our rich, organic landscape. Inspired by medieval texts, seasonal rituals, shamanic philosophies and back-to-the earth living, these musicians range from raging folk metal band Fauna to the deeply introspective atmospherics of a minority of one or the obscure ritualism of Waldteufel. This compilation CD features NW and European neo-folk bands.

 

London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir: The People That Walked In Darkness
+ haven +: blood colored moon
a minority of one: black winter's wheel
Irij: domovoj
Gunnfjauns Kapell: En Gang I Bredd
Jean-Paul Guimond: C'est Aujourd'hui Grande Fête
Les Charbonniers De L'enfer: Le Kyrie
Luke Abbott: Wind and Rain
Mike Seeger & Paul Brown: Green Icy Mountain
Rhys Jones & Christina Wheeler: Jenny Run Away in the Mud in the Night
Frankie Gavin: Tommy Coen's Christmas Eve
The Chieftains: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Steeleye Span: Gaudete
The Haints Old Time Stringband: Old Christmas Morning
The Persuasions: Silent Night
Alison Brown Quartet With Joe Craven: Carol And The Kings
Liz Carroll & John Doyle: Little Christmas/The Old Course/The Twilight Child
The Government Issue Orchestra: A-Roving On A Winter's Night
Kate Rusby: Sweet Bells
Benny Goodman and His Orchestra: Jingle Bells
11 Acorn Lane: Mazinka
Porky Pig: Blue Christmas
La Bottine Souriante: Si L'hiver Peut Prendre
Earl Scruggs: Jingle Bells
Vin Bruce: Christmas On The Bayou 
Tommy Jarrell and Kyle Creed: Breaking Up Christmas
Jack White: Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over
Dirk Powell: It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
Charlie Parker: White Christmas
sangre cavallum: gado meu
Rayna Gellert & Susie Goehring: Fine Times at Our House
Duke Ellington: Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of Sugar Plum Fairies)
Dirk Powell: Silent Night

SEATTLE FOLK FESTIVAL PREVIEW (12/08/2010)

A preview of the artists performing at the first annual Seattle Folk Festival, Dec 12 at Town Hall Seattle.

New Discovery: Blitzen Trapper video w/Alela Diane. Somehow I missed that Alela Diane was guesting on Blitzen Trapper's new album, but I'm glad I didn't miss this beautiful video.

 

Blitzen Trapper: The Tree (feat. Alela Diane) 
Cahalen Morrison: Ode To Autumn 
Kevin Burke's Open House: And When I Die
Wake The Dead: Lady with a Fan 
Jason & Pharis Romero, w/Armin Barnett: Halifax
The Hurricane Ridgerunners: Prodigal Son
De Temps Antan: La Bizoune
Jim Page: Tent City
Mark Graham: Old Joe Clark 
Cahalen Morrison & Eli West: My Lover, Adorned
Alela Diane: Lady Divine
De Temps Antan: Jeune et joli 
Mr. Lif:  The Sun
Brass Menazeri: Phirava, Daje
Paul Anastasio: Lopin' Along 
Juan Barco & Paul Anastasio: Ni Por Favor
Nils Olof Söderbäck And Peter Michaelsen: Lorichs polska from Orsa, Dalarna
Alela Diane: The Ocean 
Cahalen Morrison & Eli West: Cutting In | Weymann's Last Run
Jim Page: Key to my Soul 
Jim Page: Lightnin' Hopkins
The Hurricane Ridgerunners: Glory In The Meetinghouse
The Hurricane Ridgerunners: Rye Whiskey
Jim Page: This Land
Mr. Lif:  What About Us?
The Perceptionists: Black Dialogue
De Temps Antan: Petipetan
Nils Olof Soderback: Guruji's Love Song

SING-ALONG SONGWRITERS (12/01/2010)

Some of our favorite singer-songwriters. We get a lot of submissions in this genre, and we've picked carefully through all our CDs for the best tracks. Enjoy!

New Discovery: The Daytrotter Sessions. Daytrotter is a great website that offers live sessions with a whole slew of nationally famous acts for free download. The sessions are recorded by Daytrotter and in a number of cases they sound better than the actual studio recordings.

It's mostly indie and indie rock, unfortunately, but they do have some good folk or alt-country or indie folk artists. Here are my suggestions for listening:

Alela Diane, Tumbledown, The Builders and the Butchers, Ani Difranco, Avett Brothers, Blind Boys of Alabama, The Cave Singers, Frank Fairfield, Dave Rawlings Machine, Laura Veirs, Mariee Sioux. The Tallest Man on Earth

Check it out and enjoy!
 

Lucy Schwartz: Life In Letters
Olentangy John: Daniel
The Builders & The Butchers: When It Rains
Aesop Rock: Catacomb Kids
Sassparilla: Ticket To Ride
Water Tower Bucket Boys: Wide Open Spaces
Ruth Dornfeld, Keith Murphy & Joel Bernstein: There Ain't No Ash Will Burn
Kris Drever: Steel And Stone (Black Water)
Danielle Doyle: Salome
Olentangy John: Davidian
Tumbledown: Son of a Gun
Lincoln Crockett: Sawdust Settler
Alicia McGovern: I'll Keep Tryin'
Alela Diane: Oh! My Mama
Jes Raymond: On the Road
Raina Rose: Bluebonnets
Jim Page: Hole In The Air
Dave Rawlings Machine: Sweet Tooth
Danny Schmidt: Better Off Broke
Wes Weddell: The Gap
Lucy Schwartz: I Want The Sky
Mighty Ghosts: Mayfly
Walter Spencer: Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap
Tumbledown: Butcher of San Antone
Mighty Ghosts: The Type Of Gals I Know
Playing For Change: All You Need Is Love
Joan Baez: Scarlet Tide
Danielle Doyle: My Bird

IRISH CHRISTMAS (11/24/2010)

Music from an Irish christmas. All traditional Irish tunes and songs. LIVE interview with Irish fiddler Oisin Mac Diarmada of the group Teada. He's bringing his show, Irish Christmas in America, to Portland, OR (and around the US) this holiday season.
 

Ciarán Ó Maonaigh : The Cat the Kittled in Jamie's Wig / South of the Grampians
Various Artists: Doctor Gilbert's Reel / Queen Of The May
Téada: Poitín March/Devlin's/Basket of Oysters/Croty's Glory
Téada: Thíos I Dteach An Tóraimh
Seamus Begley and Tim Edey: Amhran Na Leabhar 
John Williams: Miss Hamilton (18th Century Harp Music)
Grey Larsen & Andre Marchand: First Snow
Kevin Burke, Johnny Cunningham & Christian Lemaître: Melodie/Rondes De Loudeac
Frankie Gavin: Tommy Coen's Christmas Eve
Hanz Araki: The Snows
The Haints Old Time Stringband: Old Christmas Morning
Matt Molloy & Friends: Baile Mh irne (Ballyvourney)

INTERVIEW W/OISIN MAC DIARMADA

Seamus Begley and Tim Edey: Sibin Slides
Oisín Mac Diarmada: the Bloom of Youth / Big Pat's
Irish Christmas in America: Reels: The Ivy Leaf/The Snow on the Hills/The Morning Star
Irish Christmas in America: Set Dance: An Súisín Bán
Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill: The Clare Reel
Mícheál Ó'Súilleabháin: Christmas Eve
Matt Molloy & Friends: over the moor to Maggie / Fred Finn's reel / the hunter's house
Seamus Egan: Bird In The Tree
John Williams: The Humours Of Kilclogher - Mrs. O'Sullivan's
Grainne Hambly: The Stack of Barley / the Blackbird

RAINY DAY MUSIC (11/17/2010)

Finally got a rainy Wednesday in Seattle to play my favorite tracks for a wet Northwest day.

Bonsoir Catin: Un Bouquet De Camelias
Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet: Captain
Hanz Araki: Raining Night In Soho
Frank Solivan II: Dirty Kitchen
Michael J. Miles: Come On in My Kitchen
Ray Charles: Lonely Avenue
Blind Willie Johnson: The Rain Don't Fall On Me
Gus Viseur: Ballade Rabouine
Yves Lambert: Le Lys Tigré
Mr. Lif and Akrobatik are The Perceptionists: The Best Route
Feufollet: Au Fond Du Lac
Kongar-ol Ondar: Kaldak Hamar (The Other Side Of The Mountain)
Paul Pena: Tras D'Orizao (Beyond The Horizon)
Cahalen Morrison & Eli West: Lost Lovin Gal
Keren Ann: Que N'ai-je?
Dave Tarras: Dem Trisker Rebns Khosid (1925)
Brass Menazeri: Mejra na Tabutu
Kosher Red Hots: Bessaraber Khosidl
Mishka Ziganoff: Bessarabia Doina
The Roots, Joanna Newsom & S.T.S.: Right On
Cahalen Morrison & Eli West: Jealous Sea
Laura Veirs: Ether Sings
Didier Allain: Laridé De La Côte
Matt Bauer: Florida Rain
Frightened Rabbit: Swim Until You Can't See Land
ocnotes; jungle book
ocnotes: i love cambodia #1
Tau Cam Doan Khuc : Doan Khuc Lam Giang
Joni Mitchell: Stormy Weather
The Hurricane Ridgerunners: Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie
Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet: The Sun Didn't Shine

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