Online Folk Radio: Favorites?

Subject: Tech: Online Folk Radio: Favorites?
From: mousethief
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 06:30 PM

Anybody in the cathood listen to online radio? I was listening to a "pure folk" station and they played "Bridge Over Troubled Waters." Now I understand the tension between traditional and modern singer-songwriter folk, and I'm a hugely huge S&G fan: but power ballads just don't fit anybody's definition of "folk." Time to find a new place to turn.

So do any of y'all listen to online folk? Where do you tune?

Subject: RE: Tech: Online Folk Radio: Favorites?
From: GUEST,Morgana
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 06:41 PM

Well, these are all through the itunes music stream, so I can't give websites, but I like Folk Alley, Green Mist Radio, Grassy Hill Radio, and, for 60's era folk-rock, Campfire Radio is a pretty good station.

Subject: RE: Online Folk Radio: Favorites?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 08:11 PM

Hungarian Folk Radio:

http://www.folkradio.hu/

Subject: RE: Online Folk Radio: Favorites?
From: BanjoRay
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 09:15 PM

If you like Old Time fiddle tunes and songs then try
Sugar In The Gourd. Not really a radio station but a continuous stream of good old tracks. Excellent stuff.
Ray

Subject: RE: Online Folk Radio: Favorites?
From: mousethief
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 11:00 PM

Thanks very much everybody -- but ESPECIALLY for the Hungarian station! I'm writing a book about a Hungarian vampire who was born in the 16th century, and nearly all of this music definitely sounds early renaissance at the youngest: virtually no polyphony except a drone; voices all solo or in unison; what little drums there are, are played on the beat and on every beat. Fascinating! Wonderful! Some,maybe most, of the melodies sound very Greek/Turkish, but some sound distinctly klezmer, and one sounded Cajun!