Sing Out! Radio Magazine

We welcome spring on this week's program, after gray and challenging winter weather and too much rain and snow. We have music from Anne Hills, Claudia Schmidt, Tom Rush, Friction Farm, Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem. “Glad for the Spring,” thanks to Anne Hills and all the rest of the musicians … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithso...

In folk and country music much attention is given to brother duets, like the Everlys and the Delmores, but less mention is made of sister sibling harmony. In counterpoint, this week on the Magazine we'll present Musical Sisters. We'll hear from Roni and Donna Stoneman, Lily May and Rosie Ledford, The Quebe Sisters, The Boswell Sisters, Shirley & Dolly Collins and many more. Sweet sisters singing … this week on The Sing...

This week we complete our two-week feature, Send the Singer Home, with instrumental selections from a variety of sources. I'm always searching for interesting instrumentalists for the theme music for each week's program – while some artists are all-instrumental, others tuck hidden gems away, one to a recording project. This time we'll hear the Acousticats, banjo master Bill Evans, Bruce Cockburn, Brass Lassie, Sharon Isbin...

There has usually been an abundance of singer-songwriters on the folk music scene. Many are quite talented but in this age of self-produced recordings many are less so. But there is not is an abundance of great instrumental recordings. It takes quite a bit of talent and compositional ability to construct a fine instrumental recording - the project must be a cohesive creation and not just a series of jams. This week on the ...