Why do folk music radio programs fail?

Subject: RE: Why do folk music radio programs fail?
From: kendall
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 07:39 PM

WERU in Blue Hill Maine. Their signal must reach at least 100 people.

Subject: RE: Why do folk music radio programs fail?
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 07:24 PM

Ok fail:when a program calling itself "folk"or "traditional"is axes even though most folkie listeners approve of it

Subject: RE: Why do folk music radio programs fail?
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 07:20 PM

Ok let me clarify-why do progeria fail-not which shows are on the air

Subject: RE: Why do folk music radio programs fail?
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 07:19 PM

I know mary-is she still on ordinary radio

Subject: RE: Why do folk music radio programs fail?
From: johnadams
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 06:31 PM

Joe, many thanks for that link to Utah Phillips. He's one of my all time heroes. What a treasury!

Subject: RE: Why do folk music radio programs fail?
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 06:27 PM

Ask Mary Cliff on WAMU, Conrad.
She's been on the air for 30-odd years with her Traditions show.first on WETA and then on WAMU.

Then ask Gene Shay at WXPN in Philadelphia. Same thing.

Subject: RE: Why do folk music radio programs fail?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 06:24 PM

There was a long-running folk radio program in Detroit - Matt Watroba's Folk Like Us. It was one of those legendary programs, but yet it died. I think there just weren't enough people listening, despite the fact that it was a terrific program.

Utah Phillips had the Loafer's Glory program. It was terrific, but I think that eventually he just ran out of material. Luckily, it's being made available at http://www.thelongmemory.com/ - 28 of the 99 programs are now available for download.

Oscar Brand's Folksong Festival has been on the air since December, 1945, and is broadcast every Saturday, 10pm-11pm (Eastern Time), on WNYC-AM 820 in New York City and can be heard live worldwide in streaming audio: http://www.wnyc.org/stream/am.asx. Now, if we could download every one of Oscar's programs that has been broadcast since 1945, would we need anything more?


-Joe-

Subject: RE: Why do folk music radio programs fail?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 06:10 PM

Define fail..... (then have a think about defining "folk music radio program")

Subject: RE: Why do folk music radio programs fail?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 06:07 PM

Can I buy a vowel . . . .

Subject: RE: Why do folk music radio programs fail?
From: GUEST,aeola
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 06:02 PM

don't know but I hear Folkwaves on East Midlands BBC radio is being axed!

Subject: RE: Why do folk music radio programs fail?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 05:48 PM

Nice try. Take yer meds.

Subject: Why do folk music radio programs fail?
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 05:46 PM

Ok I hope this is general enough:

Add in your suggestion and we will see what we all get!

1. Blending of too much singer songwriter and off topic music with older trad under a program categorized as " folk " or "traditional" too muc "folk Like"

ok I will wait and see...

Conrad

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Yeah, we'll let it go. -Joe Offer-