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Thursday, January 2, 2025 • 9:00-11:00 a.m (eastern)

Folk Directions, hosted and produced by Gerry Goodfriend, airs on
CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, is streamed and archived on the web at
www.ckutfolk.com and is a Sing Out! Radio Partner.

Because I pre-record Folk Directions at home I seldom get to the station.
If you plan on sending music there for me, please also email me with a
preview/download link. As well, in order to be promoted, notices of
upcoming gigs should be sent at least two weeks in advance.

HANNEKE CASSEL – The Marathon (For Boston)
Dot the Dragon’s Eyes (self)

FRED EAGLESMITH – Last Six Dollars
Indiana Road (Outside Music)
KATE MACLEOD – Shadows of Avalon
At Ken Sanders Rare Books (Waterbug)
WYATT ELLIS – Winds of Rowan County
Winds of Rowan County (Knee High Records)

KRISTA DETOR – Flat Earth Diary
Flat Earth Diary (Tightrope)
RALPH STANLEY – Girl from the Greenbriar Shore
Ralph Stanley (DMZ/Columbia)
AMELIA CURRAN – Act of Human Kindness
Watershed (Six Shooter)

TIM BUCKLEY – Phantasmagoria in Two
Goodbye and Hello (WEA)
LAKE OF STEW – The Sioux
Ain’t Tired of Lovin’ (Woodhog Recording Company)
THE STAPLETONS – The Bigler
The Bigler (self)

EMMYLOU HARRIS – One Paper Kid
Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town (Reprise)
BRUCE MURDOCH – Through the Rain
Bruce Murdoch (Radio Canada International)
LASAIRFHÍONA – Johnny is the Fairest One
Flame of Wine (self)
JEFF DAVIS – Old Paint
Some Fabulous Yonder (self)

CRABTREE & MILLS – Prairie Nights
Freedom (Free and Easy)
DAVID MASSENGILL – Madou
The Return (Plump Records)
UNCLE EARL – One True
Waterloo, Tennessee (Universal Music Group)
RAMBLIN’ JACK ELLIOTT – Rising High Water Blues
A Stranger Here (Anti-)

EVE GOLDBERG – Waiting for a Train
Ever Brightening Day (Sweet Patootie)
DANNY SCHMIDT – The Night’s Beginning to Shine
Instead the Forest Rose to Sing (Red House)
CINDY KALLET – The Poet
Ride in the Light (Sleepy Creek Music)
CARY MORIN – Indian Hunters Return
Indian Hunters Return (self)

MIKE & RUTHY – My New York City
The NYC EP (Humble Abode Music)
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III – The Deal
High Wide & Handsome (2nd Story Sound Records)
WINTER WILSON – The Ballad of Little Mary
Home (self)
BOB DYLAN – The Wicked Messenger
John Wesley Harding (Columbia)

CALEB KLAUDER – REEB WILLMS – Sad Songs
Gold in Your Pocket (Free Dirt)
ATWATER DONNELLY TRIO – Will the Weaver
The World Is Old Tonight (Rabbit Island)
GORDON LIGHTFOOT – Baby Step Back
Songbook (Warner Archives / Rhino)

CHERISH THE LADIES – The Out and About Set
Out and About (Green Linnet)

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Thursday, January 9, 2025 • 9:00-11:00 a.m (eastern)

Folk Directions, hosted and produced by Gerry Goodfriend, airs on
CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, is streamed and archived on the web at
www.ckutfolk.com and is a Sing Out! Radio Partner.

Because I pre-record Folk Directions at home I seldom get to the station.
If you plan on sending music there for me, please also email me with a
preview/download link. As well, in order to be promoted, notices of
upcoming gigs should be sent at least two weeks in advance.

THE FRETLESS – Bixie’s
Live from the Art Farm (self)

DARRYL PURPOSE – Dreams of Life
Next Time Around (Blue Rock)
TERESA DOYLE – Maggie Lachlin’s Last Storm
Song Road (Bedlam)
BROOM BEZZUMS – The Liberties / Lilburn Reel
Wine from a Mug (Steeplejack)

CONNIE KALDOR – Harsh and Unforgiving
Wood River (Coyote Entertainment Group)
MATT HARLAN – Elizabethtown
Tips & Compliments (Berkalin Records)
CALEB KLAUDER – REEB WILLMS – Faraway Skies
Gold in Your Pocket (Free Dirt)

BOB DYLAN – Positively 4th Street
Dylan (Columbia)
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER – What To Keep And What To Throw Away
Ashes and Roses (Rounder)
THE BAND – Rockin’ Chair (live)
The Band - A Musical History (Capitol)

THE EARLY MAYS – Amelia
Chase the Sun (Bird on the Wing Records)
KEIRAN KANE & RAYNA GELLERT – I Don’t Know Why
The Ledges (Dead Reckoning Records)
ROSE COUSINS – White Flag
Natural Conclusion (Outside Music)
DAVID MASSENGILL – Rider on an Orphan Train
The Return (Plump Records)

DIANA JONES – Evangelina
Better Times Will Come (Proper American)
JACK MARKS – Two of Everything
Two of Everything (self)
ANNALIVIA – Wherever We’re Bound
The Same Way Down (self)

PETER PAUL and MARY –Stewball
In the Wind (Warner Bros)
PETER PAUL and MARY – Long Chain On
In the Wind (Warner Bros)
PETER PAUL and MARY – Puff the Magic Dragon
Moving (Warner Bros)

MALLORY CHIPMAN – Big Sky Country
Songs to a Wild God (Tunnel Mountain Records)
TERENCE MARTIN – Steel Rail Nightingale
Sleeper (Good Dog Music)
THE WAIFS – Done and Dusted
Ironbark (Compass)

LUCIA COMNES – On the Farm
Held in the Arms (self)
JOHN MCCUTCHEON – Only Ones Dancing
Field of Stars (Appalseed)
THE TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS – The Garden
The Wind Will Change Again (Inside Edge Records)
JAYME STONE – There Is More Love Somewhere
Jayme Stone’s Folklife (Borealis)

THE GRUFF – The Ginger Set
The Gruff (self)

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Thursday, January 16, 2025 • 9:00-11:00 a.m (eastern)

Folk Directions, hosted and produced by Gerry Goodfriend, airs on
CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, is streamed and archived on the web at
www.ckutfolk.com and is a Sing Out! Radio Partner.

Because I pre-record Folk Directions at home I seldom get to the station.
If you plan on sending music there for me, please also email me with a
preview/download link. As well, in order to be promoted, notices of
upcoming gigs should be sent at least two weeks in advance.

THE ANDREW COLLINS TRIO – The Long Dusty Road
Groove (Sytesounds Music)

CHAIM TANNENBAUM – Belfast Louis Falls in Love
Chaim Tannenbaum (Storysound Records)
KATE & ANNA MCGARRIGLE – Matapedia
Matapedia (Hannibal)
B.B. and GROUP – Old Alabama
Negro Prison Songs (Tradition)

CARPENTER • FOWLIS • POLWART – A Heart That Never Closes
Looking for the Thread (Thirty Tigers)
TERENCE MARTIN – Down from Sacremento
The Last Black and White TV (Good Dog Music)
MARIA DUNN – Flora
Gathering (self)

TIM O’BRIEN – John Riley
The Crossing (Alula)
KATE & ANNA MCGARRIGLE – Just Another Broken Heart
Pronto Monto (Warner Bros)
THE WATERBOYS – Fisherman’s Blues
Fisherman’s Blues (Chrysalis)

MOTHER BANJO – The Fixer
Eyes on the Sky (So Low Recordings)
MARTIN GROSSWENDT – Mournin’ Blues
Payday! (self)
AMELIA CURRAN – Every Woman Every Man
Watershed (Six Shooter)
GUY CLARK – My Favorite Picture of You
My Favorite Picture of You (Dualtone)

ANTJE DUVEKOT – Noah’s Titanic
New Siberia (self)
JACK HARDY – Dead Man’s Hand
Bandolier (Great Divide Records)
KATE & ANNA MCGARRIGLE – Talk to Me of Mendicino
Tell My Sister (Nonesuch)

JOEL RAFAEL BAND – Stepstone
Appleseed’s 21st Anniversary (Appleseed)
THE WHISTLEBINKIES – Jock O’Hazeldean
Celtic Divas (Claddagh/Atlantic)
JOHN WORT HANNAM – Good Nite Nova Scotia
Love Lives On (self)
ANNE LISTER – Vindolanda
Astrolabe (Hearthfire)

TEDDY THOMPSON – Tonight Will Be Fine
I’m Your Man (Verve)
RUTH MINNIKIN – Nanny Jones
Folk Art (self)
JESSE TERRY & ABBIE GARDNER – River Carry Me
Joyful Noise Tour • 2016 (self)

NEW COUNTRY REHAB – The Log Train
New Country Rehab (self)
DIANA JONES – Drunkard’s Daughter
Museum of Appalachia Recordings (Goldmine Records)
WILL BEELEY – The Homeless Ain’t Just Hobos Anymore
Highways & Heart Attacks (Tompkins Square)
KATE & ANNA MCGARRIGLE – Come a Long Way
Tell My Sister (Nonesuch)

BEPPE GAMBETTA & TONY MCMANUS – The Manitoulin Set
Round Trip (Borealis)

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Thursday, January 23, 2025 • 9:00-11:00 a.m (eastern)

Folk Directions, hosted and produced by Gerry Goodfriend, airs on
CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, is streamed and archived on the web at
www.ckutfolk.com and is a Sing Out! Radio Partner.

Because I pre-record Folk Directions at home I seldom get to the station.
If you plan on sending music there for me, please also email me with a
preview/download link. As well, in order to be promoted, notices of
upcoming gigs should be sent at least two weeks in advance.

ANDREW MARLIN – Window Shopper
Phthalo Blue (Thirty Tigers)

JOHN MCCUTCHEON – Field of Stars
Field of Stars (Appalseed)
FRIDA’S BROW – Sleep On
Frida’s Brow (self)
BOB DYLAN – Jokerman
Infidels (Columbia)

ALISON NOTKIN – My Country
The Vermont EP (self)
CALEB KLAUDER – REEB WILLMS – We’ve Got It Made
Gold in Your Pocket (Free Dirt)
ELAINE MAHON – Denali
Reach for the Stars (self)

ERYNN MARSHALL w/SKIP GORMAN – Fugitive’s Lament
Tune Tramp (self)
BARBARA DANE – ‘Way Behind the Sun
Classic Blues vol. 2 from Smithsonian Folkways (Smithsonian Folkways)
TERENCE MARTIN – Augustine Creek
Waterproof (Good Dog Records)

STEEL RAIL – I Wonder If You’re Sleeping Tonight
River Song (Crossties Music)
DAVID MASSENGILL – Rider on an Orphan Train
The Return (Plump Records)
CLAUDIA RUSSELL – Driving to Las Vegas
All Our Luck Is Changing (Radio Rhythm Records)
GREG BLAKE – Bluefield Mountain Wind
Bluefield Mountain Wind (Turnberry Records)

ZOE MUTH AND THE LOST HIGH ROLLERS – Country Blues
Old Gold (Signature Sounds)
THE TREELINE – This Old Fishing Tug
This Old Tug (self)
NAOMI SOMMERS – Now He’s Gone
Gentle as the Sun (American Melody)

ROB LUTES – Ithaca Waterfall
The Bravest Birds (Lucky Bear)
WINTER WILSON – Anyone’s High Street
Home (self)
OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW – CC Rider
Best of Old Crow Medicine Show (Nettwerk)

SWARME OF BEESE – Gone on the Wing
Waiting for a Sign (Backwoods Modern Recordings)
THE FRIENDS OF FIDDLERS GREEN – All Around My Hat
Old Inventions (self)
CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER – Dancin’ in the Kitchen
Dancin’ in the Kitchen (self)

CAHALEN MORRISON & ELI WEST – All I Can Do
Our Lady of the Tall Trees (self)
CINDY KALLET – Ambergate
Ride in the Light (Sleepy Creek Music)
APRIL VERCH – That’s How We Run
The April Verch Anthology (Slab Town Records)

RUSS BARENBERG – The Drummers of England
When at Last (Compass)

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Thursday, January 30, 2025 • 9:00-11:00 a.m (eastern)

Folk Directions, hosted and produced by Gerry Goodfriend, airs on
CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, is streamed and archived on the web at
www.ckutfolk.com and is a Sing Out! Radio Partner.

Because I pre-record Folk Directions at home I seldom get to the station.
If you plan on sending music there for me, please also email me with a
preview/download link. As well, in order to be promoted, notices of
upcoming gigs should be sent at least two weeks in advance.

MIKE SEEGER w/MICHAEL DOUCET & MARC SAVOY – Savoy Family Waltz
Third Annual Farewell Reunion (Rounder)

STAN ROGERS – The Jeannie C.
The Very Best of Stan Rogers (Borealis)
CALEB KLAUDER – REEB WILLMS – T & J’s Lullaby
Gold in Your Pocket (Free Dirt)
CHUCK BRODSKY – Half the People
Gravity, Wings, and Heavy Things (self)

CLAIRE LYNCH – That’s What Makes You Strong
Whatcha Gonna Do (Rounder)
JEFF TALMADGE – Katie’s Got A Locket
Sparrow (Berkalin Records)
MARIA DUNN – When I Was Young
Gathering (self)

TILLER’S FOLLY – Apple Box Belles
Way Out West (self)
ELIZA GILKYSON – Touchstone
The Nocturne Diaries (Red House)
PETE SEEGER – Boll Weevil
American Favorite Ballads Vol 3 (Smithsonian Folkways)

STRING SISTERS – The Matchmaking Song
String Sisters Live (Compass)
JOHNSMITH – Sing Him to the Shore
Backroads (Blue Pine Music)
LOREENA MCKENNITT – The Bonny Swans
Troubadours on the Rhine: A Trio Performance (Quinlan Road)

DAVE RICHARDSON –Annie
Carry Me Along (self)
ASHLEY CONDON – Long Long Moon
Can You Hear Me (self)
JIM REID – The Wild Geese
The Music and Song of the Great Tapestry of Scotland (Greentrax)

CINDY KALLET – Graduation
Ride in the Light (Sleepy Creek Music)
JOHN MCCUTCHEON – Hell and High Water
Field of Stars (Appalseed)
ABIGAIL LAPELL – Yellow Rose
Great Survivor (self)

DICK GAUGHAN – Land of the North Wind
Roots and Branches - Appleseed’s 21st Anniversary (Appleseed)
THE BOTHY BAND – Do You Love an Apple
1975: The First Album (Polydor)
PETER KATZ – No Natural
We Are the Reckoning (Universal Music Canada)
POSSUMHAW – Six White Cadillacs
Waiting and Watching (self)

SWARME OF BEESE – Red House
Waiting for a Sign (Backwoods Modern Recordings)
THE DEER – Hawkmoth
Tempest & Rapture (self)
KEN DUNN – Hills of Strathavon
Anthology, Volume 1 (Trespass Music)

KATE & ANNA feat. JANE MCGARRIGLE – Bon Voyage
The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)

THE CLIFFHANGERS – Boyne Water/The Hog-Eyed Man
On the Edge (5-String Productions)

Laury Jane McGarrigle, Mountain City Girl

Born: April 26, 1941 in Montreal
Died: January 24, 2025 in Montreal

From a youth playing organ at the funerals of Polish aristocrats, to a stint in the Bay Area during the birth of the internet, to a carnival ride as a collaborator with her little sisters, Jane McGarrigle’s life as a writer, a businesswoman, and a musician, was big and full of adventures. 

The first of three daughters born to Gabrielle Latremouille and her husband Frank McGarrigle, Jane was born in Montreal, but raised in the red-and-white house her father built in the Laurentian town of Saint Sauveur-des-Monts.

Lovingly called “The Duchess” by her doting parents, she learned to play piano and sing harmonies in the family home.  Scouted by local nuns, she began her career as the 14-year-old organist at  l’Église de Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts, where her propensity for playing Great Balls of Fire on the church organ gave the first hints of both the extraordinary musical ability and the rock-and-roll attitude that would define her. 

A few years after skirting expulsion from boarding school at Combermere for her overplaying of Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel,” she married David Dow in Montreal. Together they hit the road, racing their MGB in sports car rallies, setting up life in Fredericton, NB, and ultimately heading west, crossing the Rocky Mountains and moving to San Francisco in 1964. 

With a knack for turning the everyday into an adventure, she reveled in the heyday of counter culture there, nurturing many lifelong friendships at happy hours, après-ski, beach excursions and be-ins and riding their motorcycle to the infamous Rolling Stones concert at Altamont. Settling down, she and Dave had a couple of children, while Janie continued writing music and playing  piano gigs with local artists such as Dick Oxtot’s Golden Age Jazz Band.

She had an exceptional love for California and maintained her connection to it for the rest of her life. The couple moved about pretty California with their young family, eventually winding up in the Lake Tahoe area. In 1979, Janie felt the pull of Montreal and returned to her McGarrigle family. Back in Montreal, she was a regular on the Main, managing her now successful kid sisters, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, while joining them on tour and in-studio.

In 2015 she and Anna wrote a book about their Laurentian upbringing, “Mountain City Girls,” which the Globe and Mail described as “a non-regretting, red-wine read full of anecdotes and antiquity, with the well-turned phrases of a generation who took care of language.”

A rare musician who deeply understood the complexities of the music business, Janie was a friend to many the singer, picker and player on the dusty road, and spent two decades managing artists, serving as a board member of the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) where she defended publishing rights for musical authors. Most recently, she played dobro and piano with her partner Peter and their band, The What Four, while fighting off the heartless beast that is ovarian cancer.

Jane is survived by her children, Anna Catherine Dow (Robert McMillan), Ian Vincent Dow (Kathleen Weldon); her grandchildren, Gabrielle McMillan, Islay McMillan, Anna Sophia “Fifi” Dow; her cherished sister, Anna Mcgarrigle; much-adored Carmichael, Wainwright, and Lanken nieces & nephews, and her sweetheart, Peter Weldon. 

Heartfelt thanks to the extraordinary Gynecologic Oncology team at the JGH Segal Cancer Centre. A special thank you to Drs. Gottlieb, Salvador, and Lau, whose expertise, dedication, and compassionate care kept Jane alive and thriving. We will forever be grateful for their care.

Funeral services will be held Monday, February 3, 2025 at 11 a.m.
L'église Saint-Viateur d’Outremont,1175 Av. Laurier O., Outremont, QC