Hudson River Sampler WAMC

12/01/2025

With Kathy Mattea – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉 Now, if only one day, I could wake up and sing like she does! THAT would be a miracle! LOL

12/01/2025

Hi Everyone--Here's the playlist from last night's (November 29, 2025) show:

Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme) Working on Wings to Fly

The tradition has been to begin the show on the Saturday after Thanksgiving is, and always will be:

Arlo Guthrie / Alice's Restaurant (The Massacree Revisted) / Alice's Restaurant (The Massacree Revisited)

Set #1:

Alien Folklife / Pictures / Down to Earth

Wendy Beckerman / A Light Inside / Wendy Beckerman

Cathie Ryan / The Lights of San Francisco / The Music of What Happens

The Pairs / Little Light / Together ona. Rock

Sloan Wainwright / I Can See Now / Upside Down and Under My Heart

Wes Weddell and Ailisa Newhall / Thanksgiving / Pushing Forward

Set #2:

Lou and Peter Berryman / Uncle Dave's Grace / House Concert

Guy Davis / Thanksgiving Day / Call Down the Thunder

Set #3:

Mary Chapin Carpenter / Thanksgiving Song /Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs of Christmas

Shawna Caspi / Take This Mountain / Forest Fire

The New Agrarians / Warm Springs / The New Agrarians

John Doyle / The Path of Stones (Song) / The Path of Stones

Jay Ungar and Molly Mason / Thanksgiving Waltz / The Quiet Room

Set #4:

Brad Yoder / At the Table / Excellent Trouble

Rosalie Sorrels / Bread and Fishes / An Imaginary Christmas in Idaho

Toiny Trischka / Good King Wenceslas / Glory Shone Around

Vi Wickham / Sitting at the Table / The Thanksgiving Album

David Roth / May the Light of Love / Rising in Love

Set #5:

Si Kahn / Thanksgiving / Thanksgiving

David Roth / Earth / Rising in Love

Amy Speace / Kindness / The Blue Rock Session

Bob Franke / Thanksgiving Eve

Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme) / Working on Wings to Fly

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11/17/2025

Here's the playlist for the November 15, 2025 show:

Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme) / Working on Wings to Fly

Set #1:

Lou Dominguez / Record Store / We the People

Teri Scheinzeit / Daddy's Record Store / This Time

Billy Crockett / Record Player / Rabbit Hole

Ash & Eric / Simon, Taylor, Denver, Cash / Sure

The Bombadils / Records and Rent / Dear Friend

Set #2 (remembering Archie Fisher):

Archie Fisher / South Wind / The Man with a Rhyme

Stan Rogers / Dark Eyed Molly / Turnaround

Archie Fisher and Garnet Rogers / Border Lass / The Best Times After All (Live)

Archie Fisher / Witch of the West-Mer-Lands / The Man with a Rhyme

Bill Staines / Bill Hosie / Looking for the Wind

The House Band / The Final Trawl / Stonetown

Set #3:

Tom Paxton and John McCutcheon / Old Dog / Together Again

Bill Staines / Old Dogs / Old Dogs

Set #4:

Peter Mulvey & SistaStrings / Pray for Rain / Love is the Only Thing

Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem / Fire in the Sky / Some Bright Morning

Annie & the Hedonists / Buckets of Rain / Women Be Wise

Grosse Isle / The Reverend Brother’s Jig/The Coming of Spring / Homérique

Alastair Fraser and Natalie Haas / The Wee Man from Uist/The High Drive / Highlander's Farewell

Set #5:

John Gorka / Favorite Place / Unentitled

Cosy Sheridan / The Kind Words / The Breathing Room

Weary Travelers / Kinder Waters / Driftwood

Betty & The Baby Boomers / Music of Healing / Quite Early Morning

Bob Franke / A Healing in This Night / In This Night

Set #6:

Patty & Craig / You're the River / Look to the Moon

Anne Hills / We Become Birds / Every Town

Ron Gordon / From Dublin with Love / Get Back Change

Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme) / Working on Wings to Fly

Don't forget: If you missed the show, it's archived on www.MixCloud.com/wamc!

11/13/2025

Wild Ones is a national nonprofit organization with local chapters that seek to improve the environment by connecting people and native plants. There will be a Native Plant Celebration and Seed Swap this Saturday, November 15 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Helderberg Room at John Boyd Thacher State P...

11/03/2025

NERFA, the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance, will be meeting in Albany beginning on Thursday, November 7th. Hope to see you there!

11/03/2025

On November 8, 2025, The Hudson River Sampler will feature a very special concert! A broadcast of a show recorded at Music Haven in Central Park, Schenectady on August 16, 2025, featuring Michael Jerling - Fool's Hill Music, Kate McDonnell, Dan Berggren, and Joe Jencks! This is part of WAMC's new initiative, WAMC On the Road.

The show will air from 8-10 pm ET and will be available online at www.wamc.org. It will also be available the next day on www.MixCloudcom!

Trust me when I tell you, it was a wonderful show! Hope you will tune in!

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11/03/2025

Hi Everyone--Here's the playlist for the November 1, 2025 show:

Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme) / Working on Wings to Fly

Set #1 (All Saints Day/Dia de Los Mu***os)

Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys / La Toussaint / La Toussaint

The Pines / Avenue of the Saints / Tremolo

The Weavers / When the Saints Go Marching In / Best of the Vanguard Years

John McCutcheon / Field of Stars / Field of Stars

Bob Franke / Day of the Dead / The Other Evening in Chago

Set #2:

Stan Rogers / White Squall / The Very Best of Stan Rogers

Gordon Lightfoot / The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Live at Massey Hall, Toronto, CA) / All Love

Lee Murdock / We Shall Always Rememeber / What About the Water

Set #3 (mostly people who are performing in the area)

Cantrip / Tom Tom / The Crossing

Danny Schmidt / Dark-Eyed Prince / Parables and Primes

Dan Navarro / Rose in the Window / Horizon Line

Chris Smither / Magnolia / Happier Blue

Set #4:

Pete Seeger / Froggie Went A-Courtin' / American Folk, Game and Activity Songs for Children

Meredith Moon / Lulu Gal / From Here to the Sea

Sally Rogers / What Can One Little Person Do / What Can One Little Person Do

John Gorka / Particle & Wave (Goodness In The World) / Unentitled

Leslie Evers / Along the Rocky Way / Bound for Land

Set #5:

Jane Fallon / Where the River Meets the Trees / Sweet Resilience

Eddie Dillon / The Water and the Wind / All for a Song

The Wailin' Jennys / Bring Me Li'l Water Silvy (Live) / Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House

Eli West / All The Saints / The Shape of a Away

Bob Franke / A Healing in This Night / In This Night

Set #5:

Claudia Schmidt / Old Devil Time / Out of the Dark

John McCutcheon / This is Our Country Here / This Land: Woody Guthrie's America

John McCutcheon / This Land is Your Land / This Land: Woody Guthrie's America

Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme) / Working on WIngs to FLy

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10/24/2025

I am in Naperville, Illinois at the (FOLK ALLIANCE REGION MIDWEST) conference, surrounded by fellow , musicians, presenters, and more! What a great group of people!

10/19/2025

Hi Everyone--A sad week for folk music, with the recent deaths of Bob Franke, Danny Thompson, and Peter Amidon. Here's my playlist from last night:

Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme) / Working on Wings to Fly

Intro song by Pete Seeger / Quite Early Morning /Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection: This preceded a 15-minute interview with Margie Rosenkranz, executive director of the Eighth Step in Schenectady, which will be presenting a tribute show to the late Jackie Alper on Saturday, November 1, 2025 at the Eighth Step. Jackie was a longtime area folk DJ, as well as someone who worked with the Weavers, Alan Lomax, and more, and was a political activist. Her late husband, Joe Alper, was a famous photographer of folk musicians. They also opened their Schenectady home to the likes of early Bob Dylan, Pat Sky and others.

Set #1 (dedicated to the people who marched at the No Kings rallies across the country):

Judy Kass / Look at Us Marching Now / New Skin

Shawna Caspi / Brave Parade / Forest Fire

Eric Andersen / The Street Was Always There / The Street Was Always There (Great American Song Series, Vol. 1)

Magpie (Terry Leonino and Greg Artzner / Raise Your Voice

Set #2 (Remembering Bob Franke):

Bob Franke / A Still, Small Voice / Brief Histories

Claudia Schmidt / Hard Love / Out of the Dark

Bob Franke / For Real / The Other Evening in Chicago

Garnet Rogers / Thanksgiving Eve / Garnet Rogers (LP)

Kim and Reggie Harris / Walkin' in the Wilderness / Rock of Ages

Bob Franke / Alleluia, the Great Storm is Over / The Other Evening in Chicago

Set #3 (first two songs for Danny Thompson of the Pentangle, who also passed away last week):

Pentangle / Wedding Dress / A Maid That's Deep in Love (LP)

Pentangle / Child of the Winger / Open the Door (LP)

I Draw Slow / Same Old Dress Will Do / Turn Your Face to the Sun

The Pairs / Honey I / Together on a Rock

Le Vent du Nord / La lettre / Voisinages

Set #4 (remembering Peter Amidon, who also left this earth):

Peter and Mary Alice Amidon / Chilly Winds / Hymns and Ballads

The Amidons / Just a Little More Time / I'll Never Forget

Phil Henry / Extraordinary Woman / Single

Anne Hills / The Ghost of Lash LaRue / Every Town

Brooks Williams / London Road / Diamond Days

One standalone song to end the show:

Charlie Mosbrook / I Am a Patriot / What Are We Waiting For? It's Time

Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme) / Working on Wings to Fly

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10/17/2025

So sorry to hear of the passing of Susan Stamberg, one of the original "Mothers of NPR." She was inspirational to those of us who wanted to break into radio in "the old days" of the 1970s. Whether reporting the news or giving recipes on Thanksgiving, she lent her voice to the nation at a time when women were not on the national airwaves. RIP, Susan.

10/15/2025