Thursday, January 1, 2026 • 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
I pre-record Folk Directions at home and rarely get to the station.
If you plan on sending music there for me, please email me with a
preview/download link. As well, in order to be promoted, notices of
upcoming gigs should be sent to me at least two weeks in advance.
SHEESHAM & LOTUS & SON – Up the Wooden Hill
The High Stepping Music of Sheesham & Lotus & Son (self)
CRAIG CARDIFF – Bridge
Floods & Fires (self)
LOREENA MCKENNITT – Down by the Sally Gardens
The Wind that Shakes the Barley (Quinlan Road)
NOAH ZACHARIN – Done Gone Gone
Points of Light (Sonic Peach)
ROSE COUSINS – All the Time It Takes to Wait
The Send Off (Old Farm Pony)
NAMING THE TWINS – Sea Fever
Sweet Transitions (Duet Right Records)
THE MAMMALS – Going Away
Touch Grass Vol. 2 (Humble Abode Music)
JESSE APPELMAN – Anna Lee
Where We Go (self)
ABIGAIL LAPELL – Shape of a Mountain
Getaway (Coax Records)
CHAIM TANNENBAUM – Coal Man Blues
Chaim Tannenbaum (Storysound Recordings)
FRIDA’S BROW – The Way I Feel
Frida’s Brow (self )
IAN & SYLVIA – Royal Canal
Four Strong Winds (Vanguard)
ALISON BROWN & STEVE MARTIN – New Cluck Old Hen
Safe, Sensible and Sane (Compass Records)
BRUCE MURDOCH –Rompin’ Rovin’ Days
Singer Songwriter Project (Elektra)
BALL & CHAIN AND THE WRECKERS – Business
Surrender (self)
BROOM BEZZUMS – Reincarnation
Rouse and Raise Your Voice (Steeplejack Music)
LIZZY HOYT – V’la L’bon Vent
New Lady on the Prairie (Blue Crown)
OLD MAN LUEDECKE – Sorry If I Let You Down
I Never Sang Before I Met You (True North)
PHARIS & JASON ROMERO – Poor Boy
A Wanderer I’ll Stay (Lula Records)
CHRIS RUSIN – Life is Easy
Songs from a Secret Room (Rushing River Records)
THE ONLIES – Roll On Buddy
You Climb the Mountain (self)
RAGHU LOKANATHAN – Homeless
Blue Girl (self)
THE GRUFF – Siren Smile
The Gruff (self)
PAUL WEBER BAND – Cecil Peoli
Ghost Beer Train (self)
MEREDITH MOON – Louisiana Trees
From Here to the Sea (Compass Records)
IAN BELL – Little Shack Up the Pontiac
My Pious Friends… and Drunken Companions (self)
JONI MITCHELL – You Turn Me On I’m a Radio
Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced (Rhino)
MARIA DUNN – Reach Out
Hardscrabble Hope (self)
LE VENT DU NORD – Bienvenue
Voisinages (La Compagnie du Nord)
Thursday, January 8, 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.
I pre-record Folk Directions at home and rarely go to the station.
If you plan on sending music there for me, please email me with a
preview/download link. As well, in order to be promoted, gig notices
should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
JESSE APPELMAN – Lyell Fork
Where We Go (self)
CAROLINE HERRING – Joy Never Ends (Auld Lang Syne)
Camilla (Signature Sounds)
THE WATERBOYS – When Ye Go Away
Fisherman’s Blues (Chrysalis)
JENNY RITTER – Lost and Found
Raised by Wolves (Fiddle Head Records)
CRICKET TELL THE WEATHER – Briar
Tell the Story Right (self)
DAVID FRANCEY – Annie’s House
Skating Rink (Festival Distribution)
CAITLIN CANTY – Thorn
Golden Hour (self)
ZACHARY LUCKY – Ramblin’ Kind
The Wind (Wroxton Recordings)
STONECRAFT – Seven Hunters
Seven Hunters (self)
BENJAMIN DAKOTA ROGERS – Fare Thee Well
Better By Now (self)
KATE & ANNA MCGARRIGLE – Mais quand tu danses
French Record (Hannibal)
LEVON HELM – The Mountain
Dirt Farmer (Vanguard Records)
GOITSE – Ireland’s Green Shore
Inspired By Chance (Wb3 Records)
WESTERN CENTURIES – Borrow Time
Songs from the Deluge (Free Dirt)
GILLIAN FRAME – Lovely Molly
Pendulum (Cheerygroove)
JOHN COHEN – Danville Girl
Stories the Crow Told Me (Acoustic Disc)
JILL BARBER – Box of Wishes
Box of Wishes (Outside Music)
DAVE VAN RONK – Lady Gay
Inside Dave Van Ronk (Fantasy Records)
KAT GOLDMAN – Angel Child
Sing Your Song (self)
JODY STECHER – Short Life of Trouble
Stay Awhile (Rounder Records)
THE MCDADES – Peggy-O
Peggy-O (Free Radio Records)
POWELL O’BRIEN HERRMANN – The Drunkard’s Hiccups (Jack of Diamonds)
Songs From The Mountain (Howdy Skies Records)
DOMESTIC SCIENCE CLUB – Peaches and Cream
The Women of Kerrville (Silverwolf/Kerrville)
RUTH MINNIKIN – Song Mill
Folk Art (self)
RAY BONNEVILLE – Mississippi
Bad Man’s Blood (Red House Records)
THE STRAY BIRDS – Shining in the Distance
Magic Fire (Yep Roc)
PETE SEEGER – Introduction / We Shall Not Be Moved
Singalong: Live at Sanders Theatre (Smithsonian Folkways)
GENTICORUM – Violon Guérisseur
Nagez Rameurs (Roues et Archets)
Thursday, January 15, 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.
I pre-record Folk Directions at home and rarely go to the station.
If you plan on sending music there for me, please email me with a
preview/download link. As well, in order to be promoted, gig notices
should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
THE LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND – Uncle Henry
Uncle Henry (self)
JOE JENCKS – Hands
Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers (Turtle Bear Music)
EMILY TRIGGS – Highway Girl
When Guinevere Went Under (self)
TOM PAXTON & JOHN MCCUTCHEON – Artie’s Last Stand
Together Again (Appalsongs)
DEBRA COWAN – The Old Changing Ways
Greening the Dark (Muzzy House Music)
ZACHARY LUCKY – Everywhere a Man Can Be
The Lost River Session (Wroxton Recordings)
HELENE CRONIN – Humankind
Old Ghosts & Lost Causes (self)
ROB LUTES – Rocky Mountain Time
Walk In The Dark (Lucky Bear Records)
LUCY KAPLANSKY – Some Day Soon
Over the Hills (Red House Records)
ERIC BRACE & THOMM JUTZ – 10 to 4
Circle and Square (Red Beet Records)
MARIA DUNN – Accordiona / Over the Hills
Hardscrabble Hope (self)
CHRIS RUSIN – Cinders
Songs from a Secret Room (Rushing River Records)
CARRIE NEWCOMER – Lean in Toward the Light
The Beautiful Not Yet (Available Light Records)
PETE SEEGER – Quite Early Morning
The Essential Pete Seeger (Sony)
CROOKED STILL – Look On and Cry
Hop High (True North)
IAN BELL – Bonnie Light Horseman
My Pious Friends … and Drunken Companions (self)
THE MAMMALS – Luna Light
Touch Grass Vol. 2 (Humble Abode Music)
ERIK DARLING – True Religion
I’d Give My Life: Best of Erik Darling (Man Alive Records)
KAREN DALTON – Same Old Man
In My Own Time (Light in the Attic Records)
JERRY DOUGLAS & PETER ROWAN – Wayside Tavern
Yonder (Sugar Hill)
MEREDITH MOON – Six Strings
From Here to the Sea (Compass Records)
GRISMAN • GILL • PEDERSEN – Lonesome River
Here Today (Rounder Records)
KIM BEGGS – Not a Mermaid Song
Beauty and Breaking (self)
BROOM BEZZUMS – Winter is the Coldest Time
Rouse and Raise Your Voice (Steeplejack Music)
THE ONLIES – Pretty Little Miss
You Climb the Mountain (self)
ALISON BROWN & STEVE MARTIN – Wall Guitar (Since You Said Goodbye)
Safe, Sensible and Sane (Compass Records)
KATE & ANNA MCGARRIGLE – Green Green Rocky Road
The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)
RUSS BARENBERG – The Man in the Hat
When at Last (Compass)
Thursday, January 22, 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.
I pre-record Folk Directions at home and rarely go to the station.
If you plan on sending music there for me, please email me with a
preview/download link. As well, in order to be promoted, gig notices
should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
JESSE APPELMAN – Valley Springs
Where We Go (self)
TIM ROGERS & BARRY LUFT – Drill Ye Tarriers Drill
Songs of the Iron Trail (self)
CLANNAD – Of This Land
Landmarks (Atlantic)
BROOM BEZZUMS – Beg, Blag and Steal
Rouse and Raise Your Voice (Steeplejack Music)
KARINE POLWART – The Death of Queen Jane
Threshold (Borealis)
TROUT STEAK REVIVAL – They Sang to Us
Spirit to the Sea (self)
EVE GOLDBERG – Cold Wind Blowing
Ever Brightening Day (Sweet Patootie Music)
MAC BENFORD & THE WOODSHED ALL-STARS – Freight Train Boogie
Willow (Rounder Select)
EL COYOTE – Come Around
El Coyote (self)
TOM PAXTON & JOHN MCCUTCHEON – Ran Away with the Circus
Together Again (Appalsongs)
MEREDITH MOON – Freight Train
From Here to the Sea (Compass Records)
SLEEPY JOHN ESTES & YANK RACHELL – Expressman Blues
Anthology of American Folk Music (Smithsonian Folkways)
HARDENED AND TEMPERED – Hold the Line
Hold the Line (self)
ARTISTS FOR ACTION – Which Side Are You On?
Which Side Are You On?
THE MAMMALS – O the Cruelty
Touch Grass Vol. 1 (Humble Abode Music)
FLYNN COHEN & THE DEADSTRING ENSEMBLE – Black is the Color
The Lazy Farmer (Wepecket)
AMY HOPWOOD – Breadcrumbs
Gone to Flowers (self)
THE BAND – The Saga of Pepote Rouge
The Band: A Musical History (Capitol)
UNCLE EARL – Walker
Raise a Ruckus (Uncle Earl)
I DRAW SLOW – Queen of the Wasteland
I Draw Slow (Compass)
LAL & MIKE WATERSON – Red Wine and Promises
Bright Phoebus (Trailer)
PRESSGANG MUTINY – Stormalong John
Across the Western Ocean (self)
MADDY PRIOR – Winter: Red and Green
Year (Park)
ERIC BRACE & THOMM JUTZ – Beckmann in the Frame
Circle and Square (Red Beet Records)
MARIA DUNN – West Cork Hills
Hardscrabble Hope (self)
WILLIE P. BENNETT – One Vessel
Heartstrings (Bnatural Records)
WOODY GUTHRIE – Rambling Round
This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings (Smithsonian Folkways)
THE BRIGHT SIDERS – Forever Friends
A Mind of Your Own (Smithsonian Folkways)
BILLY STRINGS & DON JULIN – Salt Creek / Old Joe Clark
Fiddle Tune X (self)
Thursday, January 29, 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.
I pre-record Folk Directions at home and rarely go to the station.
If you plan on sending music there for me, please email me with a
preview/download link. As well, in order to be promoted, gig notices
should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
TOMMY EMMANUEL & DAVID GRISMAN – Waltzing Matilda
Pickin’ (Acoustic Disc)
SARAH JANE SCOUTEN – Breaking and Entering
Confessions (Light Organ Records)
ED SWEENEY – Distant Shore
A Sunday Drive (self)
JOAN BAEZ – Barbara Allen
How Sweet the Sound (New Razor & Tie)
PETE SEEGER – Ariran
Folk Music of the World (Legacy International)
MEREDITH MOON – East City Blues
From Here to the Sea (Compass Records)
Lost Cause Lover Fool (Thirty Tigers)
MARIA DUNN – Essential
Hardscrabble Hope (self)
JEFF DAVIS – Old Paint
Some Fabulous Yonder (self)
NEPTUNE’S CAR – By the Time It Gets Dark
The 45th Parallel (self)
BROOM BEZZUMS – Wine from a Mug
Rouse and Raise Your Voice (Steeplejack Music)
KATE & ANNA MCGARRIGLE – Side of Fries
Pronto Monto (Warner Bros)
ERIC BRACE & THOMM JUTZ – Wide Open
Circle and Square (Red Beet Records)
Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers – Middle of Nowhere
Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers (self)
RY COODER – Goin’ to Brownsville
Ry Cooder (Reprise Records)
BREABACH – Lochaber No More
The Big Spree (Breabach Records)
NAMING THE TWINS – The Last Song
Turn Styles (Duet Right Records)
JACKIE OATES – Brigg Fair
Saturnine (ECC)
TOM PAXTON & JOHN MCCUTCHEON – Rebel Gal
Together Again (Appalsongs)
FRAZEY FORD – Firecracker
Obadiah (Nettwerk)
THE ONLIES – Waves on the Sea
You Climb the Mountain (self)
AMELIA CURRAN – Soft Wooden Towers
Spectators (Six Shooter Records)
THE MAMMALS – Rolling Stone Refugee
Touch Grass Vol. 1 (Humble Abode Music)
CAROLYN HESTER – There’s an English Cowboy
We Dream Forever (Crazy Creek Records)
STEEL RAIL – Right of the Moon
A Thousand Miles of Snow (self)
ELLA JENKINS AND FRIENDS – To Stop the Train
Camp Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)
WINDBORNE – Song on the Times
Recollections | Revolutions (Wand’ring Feet Records)
IAN CAMPBELL FOLK GROUP – Cushy Butterfield
The Times They Are a-Changin’ (Sanctuary Records)
PENNY LANG – Three O’Clock Ride
Gather Honey (Borealis)
CATRIN FINCH – 13
Notes to Self (Bendigedig)
Thursday, February 5, 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.
I pre-record Folk Directions at home and rarely go to the station.
If you plan on sending music there for me, please email me with a
preview/download link. As well, in order to be promoted, gig notices
should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
ADRIANNA CICCONE & ELLEN GIBLING – The Golden Goose
The Golden Goose (self)
NIGEL WEARNE – Right Now
Drawing Circles (self)
ATLANTIC UNION – Loch Tay Boat Song
Homeward (Blue Island Records)
USHER’S ISLAND – Cairndaisy
Usher’s Island (Compass)
MAVIS STAPLES – Satisfied Mind
Sad and Beautiful World (Anti-)
DOYLE LAWSON – Banks of the Ohio
Big Bend Killing: The Appalachian Ballad Tradition
(Great Smoky Mountains Association)
MARIA DUNN – Leave it All on the Ice
Hardscrabble Hope (self)
DANNY SCHMIDT – The Night’s Beginning to Shine
Instead the Forest Rose to Sing (Red House)
HEARTWOOD – Lonesome City
Heartwood – Live at Blue Grouse (self)
YE VAGABONDS – The Flood
All Tied Together (River Lea Records)
LIV GREENE – Wild Geese
Deep Feeler (Free Dirt)
MICHAEL JEROME BROWNE – Frisco Town
Sliding Delta (Borealis)
LUCY KAPLANSKY – Ten Year Night
Ten Year Night (Red House)
GREG RUSSELL AND CIARAN ALGAR – All Fall Down
Utopia and Wasteland (Rootbeat Records)
LULA WILES – Love Gone Wrong
What Will We Do (Smithsonian Folkways)
ERIC BRACE & THOMM JUTZ – Thomas Hart Benton
Circle and Square (Red Beet Records)
SUZIE UNGERLEIDER – Amsterdam
Among the Evergreens (MVKA)
THE JELLYMAN’S DAUGHTER – Giving Up
Dead Reckoning (Boat Duck Records)
GENTICORUM – Les Tisserands
Malins Plaisirs (Roues et archets)
EMMYLOU HARRIS – Evangeline
Duets (Reprise)
CINDER WELL & JIM GHEDI – Pulling Bracken/Highlander’s Farewell
I Am a Youth That’s Inclined to Ramble (Free Dirt)
DERVISH feat. ABIGAIL WASHBURN – The Parting Glass
The Great Irish Songbook (Rounder Records / Concord)
THE FUGITIVES – Northern Lights
The Promise of Strangers (Borealis)
KYLE CAREY – Tillie Sage
The Art of Forgetting (Riverboat)
KEN WHITELEY – At the End of the Day
Keep Going (self)
THE BOTHY BAND – Do You Love an Apple
1975: The First Album (Polydor)
TOM PAXTON & JOHN MCCUTCHEON – The Future
Together Again (Appalsongs)
THE ONLIES – I Ne’er Shall Wean Her/Páidin Ó Raifeartaigh
You Climb the Mountain (self)
Thursday, February 12, 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.
I pre-record Folk Directions at home and rarely go to the station.
If you plan on sending music there for me, please email me with a
preview/download link. As well, in order to be promoted, gig notices
should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
BILL BOURNE – Amazing Grace
Hummingbird (self)
TANNIS SLIMMON – There’s a Lift
Oak Lake (self)
JEZ LOWE & THE BAD PENNIES – Glad Rags Again
The Parish Notices (Tantobe Records)
SIOBHAN MILLER – Chasing Shadows
Davy Steele~Steele the Show (Greentrax)
PETE SEEGER – Lua Do Sertao (Moon of the Backland)
The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert, June 8, 1963
(Sony Music Canada Entertainment Inc.)
PETE SEEGER – The Miserlou
The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert, June 8, 1963
(Sony Music Canada Entertainment Inc.)
PETE SEEGER – Polyushke Polye (Meadowlands)
The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert, June 8, 1963 (Sony Music Canada Entertainment Inc.)
PETE SEEGER – Genbaku O Yurusumagi (Never Again the A Bomb)
The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert, June 8, 1963
(Sony Music Canada Entertainment Inc.)
KATE AND ANNA MCGARRIGLE – Kiss and Say Goodbye
Kate and Anna McGarrigle (WEA International)
KATE & ANNA MCGARRIGLE – La Belle s’est étourdie
Entre Lajeunesse et la Sagesse • French Record (Hannibal)
KATE AND ANNA MCGARRIGLE – Southern Boys
Dancer with Bruised Knees (Warner Bros)
KATE & ANNA MCGARRIGLE – Petite annonce amoureuse
La vache qui pleure (Tribu)
JOHN DOYLE & KARAN CASEY – Sally Grier
Exiles Return (Compass)
CARLA MULLER – Hold the Door
In Between (self)
TIM EASTON – Don’t Let Your Mind Grow Dark
fIREHORSE (Truly Handmade Records)
JACKIE OATES & JOHN SPIERS – Death and the Lady
Needle Pin, Needle Pin (Oates & Spiers)
PAUL KAPLAN – Heather on the Moor
King of Hearts (Old Coat Music)
JULIE PARISI KIRBY – World That’s Safe
In Her Dream (Jaiya)
TERRY JOE BANJO – My Father’s Song
Mountain Calling (self)
EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – The Fairest View
Appalachia (Oh Boy Records)
LENNIE GALLANT – Sable Island Horses
Shelter from the Storms (self)
THE WEAVERS – Greenland Whale Fisheries
Wasn’t That A Time Disc two (Vanguard)
ERIC BRACE & THOMM JUTZ – On the Back of a Horse
Circle and Square (Red Beet Records)
ANNA LYNCH – Beer in Jars
Anna Lynch (self)
ZACHARY LUCKY – Sell All You Have
The Lost River Sessions (Wroxton Recordings)
ANNALIVIA – Wherever We’re Bound
The Same Way Down (5-String)
YE VAGABONDS – On Sitric Road
All Tied Together (River Lea Records)
MARIA DUNN – Walking the Miles
Hardscrabble Hope (self)
ARTHUR DAVENPORT – The Rich Man Always Gets His Pay
Jonathan Leviathan (Good Read Music)
TOM CHAPIN – It Feels Like Home
Songs of Hope (Sundance Music)
THE CLIFFHANGERS – Boyne Water / The Hog-Eyed Man
On the Edge (5-String Productions)