Folk Alley Radio Show

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week, the good craic is coming your way. It's all about Irish music and Irish musicians in anticipation of St. Patrick's Day. Join Elena See to hear the latest from Karan Casey, John Doyle & Mick McAuley, and Seamus Eagan with Moira Smiley; plus favorites from The Chieftains, Planxty, Luka Bloom, Cathie Ryan, Heidi Talbot, Mary Black, Runa, We Banjo 3, Gerry O'Connor, Dolores Keane, and much more.

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, we kick off Women's History Month by celebrating remarkable women musicians and their contributions to folk, roots, and Americana music. Hear songs from The Roches, Iris DeMent, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joan Baez, Cassandra Wilson, Bobbie Gentry, Janis Ian, Indigo Girls, Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris, Odetta, Ani DiFranco, Mavis Staples, Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, and much more.

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, as Black History Month winds down and we look ahead to Women's History Month, we celebrate the contributions of amazing Black women of folk, roots, and Americana - both historical and contemporary. Hear music from Bessie Jones, Odetta, Etta Baker, Joan Armatrading, Tracy Chapman, Our Native Daughters, Yasmin Williams, Valerie, June, and more.

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, it’s another great show celebrating Black History Month and honoring legendary artists who have influenced so much of our contemporary folk, roots, and Americana music. Hear from Muddy Waters, Son House, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, and Mississippi Fred McDowell; plus Levon Helm, Amythyst Kiah, Corey Harris, Taj Mahal, Precious Bryant, and more.

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, we continue our celebration of Black History Month by exploring music by legends Robert Johnson, Nina Simone, Sleepy John Estes, Jesse Fuller, The Staple Singers, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, and much more.

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, join host Elena See to celebrate Black History Month with music by six pillars of early Black folk music and modern artists they have influenced. Hear songs by Memphis Minnie, Lead Belly, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mississippi John Hurt, Elizabeth Cotten, Sippie Wallace, and more.

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, we honor the late folk rock pioneer, David Crosby with music by The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Plus, we'll dig in to Folk Alley's recently published expanded list of 100 Essential Folk Songs with music by Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Phil Ochs and more. You'll hear new music from Iris DeMent, H.C. McEntire, the Gibson Brothers, Margo Price, Ruth Wyand, and - in honor of what would have been her 60th birthday on February 2 - a newly released song by the great Eva Cassidy with the London Symphony Orchestra; classics from Blind Willie McTell and Koerner, Ray, and Glover; favorites from Ana Egge, Watchhouse, Molly Tuttle, Rachel Baiman; and more.

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, join Elena See for an encore broadcast of a show first heard last year at this time with music by Keb' Mo', Drew & Ellie Holcomb, Eric Brace and Last Train Home, Maya de Vitry, Aoife O'Donovan, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Punch Brothers, and The Whitmore Sisters; classics from John Hartford, Townes Van Zandt, and James Taylor; plus favorites from Mandolin Orange (now Watchhouse), Hawktail, Rosanne Cash, Mipso, Joy Oladokun, Tré Burt, and much more.

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on the Folk Alley Radio Show, join Elena See honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the struggles of the Civil Rights Movement. Hear songs from Nina Simone, Richie Havens, Ruthie Foster, Mavis Staples and the Staple Singers, Odetta, Resistance Revival Chorus, Rhiannon Giddens, Patty Griffin, and more.

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, it's all things "new" for a new year. Join Elena See for a show featuring songs from debut albums by many of our folk favorites and legends including Bob Dylan, Tony Rice, Planxty, Alison Krauss, Tracy Chapman, Iris Dement, Gillian Welch, Crooked Still, The Milk Carton Kids, Kaia Kater, Williams Prince, and much more.

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, join Elena See for songs for the new year by Over the Rhine, Al Petteway, and H.C. McEntire; we celebrate Noel Paul Stookey's 85th birthday and remember more folk legends - John Hartford, Odetta, and John Denver - on their birthday too. There's more new music from Karan Casey, Frances Luke Accord, Michael Cleveland and The Milk Carton Kids, plus we share the results of the Best of 2022 Folk Alley Listener Poll too!

{The audio for this episode is no longer available.} This week on Folk Alley, an encore presentation of a show first heard in July of 2022. This week, join Elena See for a throwback show to 1972. Hear what was popular in the world of folk 50 years ago, with songs by Don McLean, Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, The Staple Singers, Bill Withers, Nick Drake, John Denver, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Townes Van Zandt, Jimmy Cliff, Richard Thompson, Tom Rush, and so much more.