Ron Olesko's Folk Music Notebook

Neale Eckstein (www. NealeEckstein.com) performs from his home for a Folk Music Notebook "Shelter in Place Showcase", streamed over www. FolkMusicNotebook.com on April 1, 2020

Ordinary Elephant (www. OrdinaryElephant.net)performs from their home for a Folk Music Notebook "Shelter in Place Showcase", streamed over www. FolkMusicNotebook.com on March 31, 2020

Jeff Hyman (www. JeffHymanMusic.com)performs from his home for a Folk Music Notebook "Shelter in Place Showcase". Broadcast on March 30, 2020. (www. FolkMusicNotebook.com)

Carla Ulbrich performs from her home for a Folk Music Notebook "Shelter in Place Showcase", streamed over www. FolkMusicNotebook.com on March 25, 2020

Genevieve performs from her home for a Folk Music Notebook "Shelter in Place Showcase", streamed over www. FolkMusicNotebook.com on March 27, 2020

James Lee Stanley performs from his home for a Folk Music Notebook "Shelter in Place Showcase", streamed over www. FolkMusicNotebook.com on March 26, 2020

Scott Wolfson & Other Heroes perform a set from their homes for Folk Music Notebook's "Shelter in Place Showcase". Broadcast March 24, 2020 over www. FolkMusicNotebook.com

Joe pays a visit to Sonny Ochs, host of "Folk Music & Other Stuff" heard here on Folk Music Notebook every other Monday night. Joe and Sonny sit down to talk about her amazing live as a folk DJ, community leader, concert producer as well as a parent, teacher and inspiration and ally to countless musicians.

This NYC-based quartet has been a band for more than ten years, and never has their growth been more apparent than in their fourth studio album "Chasing the Sun." Since Bobtown's first, eponymous release in 2010, an obvious transformation has occurred in their instrumentation, but a more subtle musical journey is reflected in their stories. The folksy narratives that dominated much of their earlie...

After years spent "lost in the wilderness" of music and commerce (i.e. building and running a venue in Larchmont, NY, the famed Watercolor Cafe), Bruce T Carroll has returned to his roots and his first and abiding love: lyric songwriting. With the release last year of his first official album Ruckus and Romance, hailed by No Depression Magazine as "devilishly brilliant" and "intensely beautiful",...

Born of Italian immigrants and union activists, Joe Iadanza understands the passionate struggle of the American dream. With a voice that recalls Cat Stevens and Harry Chapin, and songs that hearken to the impassioned storytelling of Springsteen and Leonard Cohen, this Long Island native’s music is rooted in classic folk: honest and raw. Joe’s return to the road in 2019 is marked by the July releas...

Jean Rohe writes one-of-a-kind narrative songs, concerned as much with the internal world as with the external. Her latest record as a bandleader, Sisterly, produced by longtime collaborator Liam Robinson, is a collection of songs about communication and missed connections, and tackles topics from love, lust, and longing to prisons, police violence, and migration. Sisterly won best Adult Contempor...

Host Joe Jencks visits with Sally Rogers and Howie Bursen. Rogers began her career as a full-time touring musician in 1979, after encouragement from Stan Rogers, the legendary Canadian singer-songwriter. That was followed by an invitation from Garrison Keillor to appear on A Prairie Home Companion. She appeared more than a dozen times on that show, which launched her performing career. Her travels...

George Mann returns to the WFDU studio for a visit with host Ron Olesko. A former union organizer and activist based in Ithaca, New York, George sings songs from the last century of the labor and social justice movements, and his own songs are powerful and funny takes on the state of the nation.

Sharon Katz on Traditions and Folk Music Notebook 9-1-19 by FOLK MUSIC NOTEBOOK - Ron Olesko

Singer-songwriter Marion Halliday (www. MarionHalliday.com) visits the studios of WFDU-FM to perform songs from her new CD "Rings Around Saturn" and to chat with host Ron Olesko about songwriting. Aired on WFDU on7/7/19 and Folk Music Notebook on 7/24/19

Author and singer-songwriter Jane Ross Fallon discusses her new book "The Girls Go To Montreal" (www.townforestbooks.com) with host Ron Olesko. The book is a musical ghost story, incorporating original song lyrics into the story. Recordings of the song enable the listener to experience the music.

Ron Olesko speaks with Karen Kramer, director of the documentary "Renegade Dreamers" "Renegade Dreamers" is a window into the New York protest poets and folk singers of today who use their art for social change, interwoven with a look back at the Beat poets and radical protest singers of the legendary Greenwich Village coffee house scene of the ‘60s that started it all. Music from Matt Pless, a co...

Singer-songwriter Joe Jencks visits the Traditions studio to share a new song about Martin Luther King among other songs live in the studio,

Legendary singer-songwriter Eric Andersen visits the WFDU-FM studio with guitarist/producer Steve Addabbo. They perform Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner" and Lou Reed's "Dirty Boulevard" among other songs and discuss Eric's 50+ year career and recent projects.

Singer-songwriter Marc Berger joins Ron Olesko in the studio of WFDU-FM to share some live songs and recordings from his CD "Ride".

Dave Fry - folksinger, songwriter, children & family music performer, educator and co-founder of the iconic Godfrey Daniels venue visits Traditions to share music from his new CD "Troubadour" and preform live in the studio.

Eli Smith visits the WFDU studios to discuss the 2019 Brooklyn Folk Festival (www.brooklynfolkfest.com). Eli gives listeners the radio premiere of a new recording from the Ozark Highballers. Eli, founding member of the Down Hill Strugglers, also performers some classic songs live in the studio.

This week's guest is Richard Barone. Richard, founder of the seminal indy band The Bongos, discussed his project "‘MUSIC + REVOLUTION: GREENWICH VILLAGE IN THE 1960s’. Based on his recent recording "”SORROWS & PROMISES: GREENWICH VILLAGE IN THE 1960s”- a celebration of the trailblazing troubadours of that pivotal decade, featuring guest appearances by legendary artists from then and now. Richard B...

Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Barry Oreck (www.barryoreckmusic.com)and Jesse Miller visited Ron Olesko to perform live and share songs from Barry's new CD "How the Bright Earth Spun". Barry discusses growing up in the Chicago folk and blues tradition studying with folk luminaries at the famed Old Town School of Folk Music and soaking in the exploding blues scene. Barry has had a long career in...