Playlist: Folk Roots/Folk Branches - March 15-21, 2014

Folk Roots/Folk Branches with Mike Regenstreif is a thematic program streamed on the radio service at Roots Music Canada. – http://www.rootsmusic.ca/

A new show debuts every Saturday and repeats daily through the rest of the week.

March 15-21, 2014

Theme: Irish and Irish-inspired Songs.

Aoife Clancy- Are You Sleepin’, Maggie

Silvery Moon (Appleseed)

The Fretless- Waving to Ryan: The Rolling Waves/The North Star/Sean Ryan's Jig

The Fretless (The Fretless)

Brendan Nolan w/Colin Farrell- Lanigan’s Ball/The Side Door Jig

Live at the Side Door (Ould Sagosha)

Laura Smith- Horses and Ploughs

Everything is Moving (Borealis)

Seán Tyrrell- Cry of the Dreamer

The Best of Seán Tyrrell (Arc)

Danny Doyle- Kilkelly, Ireland

Spirit of the Gael (Cracker Barrel)

Garnet Rogers- Farewell to Music

Garnet Rogers (Snow Goose)

James Keelaghan- McConnville’s

History: The First 25 Years (Borealis) or House of Cards (Borealis)

Tom Russell- Fields of Athenry

Museum of Memories Vol. 2: 1972-2013 (Frontera)

Dolores Keane- Mary Clare Malloy

The Man from God Knows Where (HighTone)

Dolores Keane & Iris DeMent- When Irish Girls Grow Up

The Man from God Knows Where (HighTone)

The Chieftains & Doc Watson- Fisherman’s Hornpipe/The Devil’s Dream

Further Down the Old Plank Road (RCA)

Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy- Town of Ballybay

The Makem & Clancy Collection (Shanachie)

Teresa Doyle- Jimmy’s Jig

Song Road (Bedlam)

The Wailin' Jennys- The Parting Glass

40 Days (Jericho Beach)

This show can be heard at http://www.rootsmusic.ca/ on:

Saturday, March 15 – 10-11 am

Sunday, March 16 – 10-11 am

Monday, March 17 – 9-10 pm

Tuesday, March 18 – 9-10 pm

Wednesday, March 19 – 11 pm-12 am

Thursday, March 20 – 11 pm-12 am

Friday, March 21 – 11 pm-12 am.

The times listed are Eastern Daylight Time. Please adjust the schedule for whatever time zone you’re in.

Next week: New Release Roundup.

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--Mike Regenstreif

This week in Folk Roots/Folk Branches history (June 1-June 7)

Folk Roots/Folk Branches with Mike Regenstreif was a Thursday tradition on CKUT in Montreal for nearly 14 years from February 3, 1994 until August 30, 2007 (and around the world via the web for most of those years). Folk Roots/Folk Branches continued for some time as occasional features on CKUT, and is now a blog. Here’s the 40th instalment of “This week in Folk Roots/Folk Branches,” a weekly look back continuing through next August at some of the most notable guests, features and moments in Folk Roots/Folk Branches history.

June 2, 1994: Show theme- Remembering the Golem, the Montreal folk club I ran from 1974-1976 and 1981-1987, 20 years after I first took over.
June 1, 1995: Show theme- The legacy of Lead Belly.
June 6, 1996: Extended feature- Songs of Jesse Winchester.
June 4, 1998: Guest- David Amram.
June 3, 1999: Guest- Dar Williams.
June 7, 2001: Extended feature- A tribute to the late John Hartford.
June 6, 2002: Extended feature- Songs of Wade Hemsworth.
June 5, 2003: Guest- Brendan Nolan.
June 2, 2005: Guest- Seán Tyrrell.
June 1, 2006: Guest- Penny Lang.
June 5, 2008 (Folk Roots/Folk Branches feature): A tribute to the late Bruce “Utah” Phillips.

Pictured: Utah Phillips and Mike Regenstreif at the 2005 Champlain Valley Folk Festival.

--Mike Regenstreif