Folk Music & Beyond

Highlighting three fabulous new CDs by The Chieftains, Loreena McKennitt, and the Carolina Chocolate Drops.  In the first hour of Folk Music & Beyond, a concert recording by Loreena McKennitt and her trio from her new CD "Troubadours On The Rhine." 

A preview of three fabulous new releases:  The Chieftains are celebrating their 50th anniversary with the release of their new CD "Voice Of Ages."  Celtic artist Loreena McKennitt has a new live concert recording "Troubadours On The Rhine."  And highlighting our program is a recent interview with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, talking about their new CD "Leaving Eden."   Listen anytime this week via KALW's Local Music Player.

KALW's Saturday music hosts join forces to present a five-hour folk extravaganza of continuous live music performed  by some of the Bay Area's finest talent.   Enjoy the Scottish fiddling of Alasdair Fraser, the powerhouse vocals of Teresa Trull and Barbara Higbie, the original songs of Caren Armstrong, and the homegrown bluegrass of Them Boys and the Sycamore Slough String Band.  Here's the schedule:

3:00 pm  Alasdair Fraser & his Scottish Fiddlers
Alasdair Fraser was our very first live performer back in 1989.  He's making a return appearance to the KALW studios after a 23 year absence ....and bringing his fiddling friends with him!

The KALW programmers who comprise the station's "Folk Zone" - JoAnn Mar and Bob Campbell of Folk Music & Beyond, Kevin Vance of A Patchwork Quilt, and Peter Thompson of Bluegrass Signal - recognized a common commitment to presenting live music on the radio featuring some of the Bay Area's finest local talent.  In 1999, they decided to dedicate one Saturday of programming to a combination of the three shows: a live broadcast, direct from the KALW studio. They called it the "On Air Folk Festival," and it was such a success that they've repeated it at least twice a year ever since.  Here's what aired last Saturday...listen anytime this week via KALW's Local Music Player!

The French-Canadian band Genticorum from Quebec performed live this Saturday (4/14)  on Folk Music & Beyond.  This talented trio is at the forefront of  Quebecois music and is among the many young bands leading the revival of interest in the old folk traditions of Quebec.  Members of Genticorum are Pascal Gemme on fiddle and foot percussion, Yann Falquet on guitar, and Alexandre de Grosbois-Garand on flute and bass.

Listen anytime this week via KALW's Local Music Player.