Episode 2582: 26-29 It's Festival Time!

It's summer time and that's the time to go to your favorite music festival or better yet, try out a new one. We'll hear classic music from the first Newport Folk Festival in 1959, travel to Galax, Virginia for the Fiddler's Convention and visit Colorado for two of the Centennial State's finest events. Celebrate summer music with us … this week on The Sing Out! Radio MagazinePete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian FolkwaysBascom Lamar Lunsford / “Rye Straw” / Ballads, Banjo Tunes, and Sacred Songs / Smithsonian FolkwaysBlue Ridge Mountain Ramblers / “Grey Eagle” / In the Field Behind the Stage / Old Blue RecordsRoan Mountain Hilltoppers / “Sally Ann” / In the Field Behind the Stage / Old Blue RecordsKirk Sutphin with the New Ballards Branch Bogtrotters / “Belle of Lexington” / In the Field Behind the Stage / Old Blue Tommy Jarrell / “Sourwood Mountain” / The Brandywine Mountain Music Convention / Chubby DragonSmokey Valley Boys / “Cricket on the Hearth” / The Brandywine Mountain Music Convention / Chubby DragonBarbara Dane with Frank Hamilton & Bill Lee / “Dink's Blues” / The Newport Folk Festival 1959 / Not NowPete Seeger / “The Bells of Rhymney” / The Newport Folk Festival 1959 / Not NowMississippi John Hurt / “Candy Man” / Folk Music at Newport Part.1 / VanguardBascom Lamar Lunsford / “Ten Steps” / Ballads, Banjo Tunes, and Sacred Songs / Smithsonian FolkwaysJohn Gorka / “Love is Our Cross to Bear” / Folks Live / Blue Plate MusicNorman & Nancy Blake / “Battleship of Main” / Folks Live / Blue Plate MusicClaire Lynch and the Front Porch String Band / “It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing” / Rockygrass / Blue Plate MusicBill Monroe & Doc Watson / “Watson's Blues” / Off the Record Volume 2 / Smithsonian FolkwaysBill Monroe & Doc Watson / “Paddy on the Turnpike” / Off the Record Volume 2 / Smithsonian FolkwaysBill Dillof / “All I Got's Gone” / Bluff Country Gathering 2000-2004 / JawbonePete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways