Hudson River Sampler WAMC

01/06/2026

Hello Everyone! Here's the playlist for the January 3, 2025 show. And don't forget, if you missed it, you can tune in to www.MixCloud.com to hear it!

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

Set #1 (New Year it is)

Paton Family, Dave Para & Cathy Barton / New Year Round / 'Twas On a Night Like This (A Christmas Legacy)

Nowell Sing We Clear / The Door of the Year / Bidding You Joy

Jennifer Cutting's Ocean Orchestra / The Turning Year: A New Year's Toast (Unaccompanied Version) / The Turning Year - EP

Diane Taraz and Jonathan Gilbert / Carol for the New Year / The Old New Year

Nowell Sing We Clear / Carol for New Year's Day / The Best of Nowell Sing We Clear, 1975-1986

Doug Mishkin / Pour Me Another Year (feat. Tracy Grammer) / Tip of the Spear

Set #2 (acts playing in the area):

Old Blind Dogs / The Wisest Fool / The Gab O Mey

Joe Crookston / Bird By Bird / Able Baker Charlie & Dog

Sara Milonovich & Daisycutter / Northeast / Northeast

Livingston Taylor / Call Me Carolina / Last Alaska MoonCall Me Carolina

Set #3:

Pete Seeger / Waist Deep In the Big Muddy / At 89

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

Betty and the Baby Boomers / Turn, Turn Turn / Just the Motion

Set #4:

The Brandywine Singers / Jamaica Farewell (listener Request) / World-Class Folk

Valerie Smith / That Was a Long Time Ago / Maggie's Journal

Priscilla Herdman / Walls and Windows / Darkness Into Light

Maria Dunn / Immigrant Dreams / Piece by Piece

Set #5:

Tom Paxton and John McCutcheon / Every Moneday At Two / Together Again

Charlie King and Karen Brandow / If You Want Peace / So Far So Good

Jon Shain / Peace Like a River / Reupholstered

Chris Pierce / American Silence / American Silence

Susan Hagan / Marchin' On / Marchin' On (Single)

Judy Kass / Look At Us Marching Now / New Skin

Set #6:

Schooner Fare / We the People / We the People

Bill Staines / A Song of Peace / One More River

Tom Paxton / Peace Will Come / Live in the UK

One standalone song to end the show (listener request)

Kate Taylor / Auld Lang Syne / Beautiful Road

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

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12/28/2025

Hello Everyone! Can't believe that 2025 is about to close! Here's my playlist for the December 27, 2025 show Don't forget, it's archived on www.MixCloudcom.

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

Set #1:

Ruth Hill / Pine Cone Angel / Single (on Hudson Harding Collection)

Lunch at Allen's / Zuzu's Petals / A Lunch At Allen's Christmas - Zuzu's Petals

Friction Farm / A Fine Christmas Present / Single (on Hudson Harding Collection)

Jubilant Bridge / My Mother Gave the World to Me / A Bell A Bird A Star

Lunch at Allen's Old Tin Star / A Lunch At Allen's Christmas - Zuzu's Petals

Schooner Fare / What Christmas Means to Me / LL Bean's Home for the Holidays

One Standalone Song:

John McCutcheon / Christmas In The Trenches (Live At The Barns Of Wolf Trap / 1990 & 1991) / Live at Wolf Trap

Set #2:

Zoe Mulford / One Little Partridge / Single (on Hudson Hardin Collection)

Priscilla Herdman, Anne Hills and Cindy Mangsen / Joy Health Love & Peace / The Wren / Voices of Winter

Nowell Sing we Clear / The Wren Boys' Song / Nowell Sing we Four

Nowell Sing We Clear / APple Tree Wassail / Bidding You Joy

Set #3:

Kerry Patrick Clark / Fruitcake Round (feat. Amy Clark & Robbie Clark) / The Heart of Christmas

Mick Moloney and Eugene O'Donnell / Miss Fogarty's Christmas Cake / Uncommon Bonds

Christopher Shaw and Bridget Ball / At Our House On Christmas / Mountain Snow and Mistletwo

Set #4:

Danny Quinn / Mary Did You Know / A Danny Quinn Christmas

Mike, Peggy and Penny Seeger / Mary What You Gonna Name That Pretty Little Baby / American Folk Songs for Christmas

Mary Chapin Carpenter / On a Quiet Christmas Morn / Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs of Christmas

Thomas and Barbara Webber / Have You Found Him Yet / Humble Night

Mara Levine / Straw Against the Chill / Single (on Hudson Harding Collection

Set #5:

Craig Werth / Beside the Tree / Single (on Hudson Harding Collection)

Christopher Shaw and Bridget Ball / Ten Dollar Christmas / Mountain Snow and Mistletoe

Erik Balkey / Christmastime on Mission Street / Single (on Hudson Harding Collection)

Finest Kind / Homeless Wassail / Heart's Delight

Set #6:

Women of the Calabash / Seven Principles / The Kwanzaa Album

Sultans of String / Sing for Kwanzaa (feat. Richard Bona & Waleed Abdulhamid) / Christmas Caravan

Set #6:

David Wilcox / Miracle / A Very Blue Rock Christmas

Rebecca Loebe and David Wilcox / Count Your Blessings (Live) / A Very Blue Rock Christmas, Volume 2 (Live)

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

12/17/2025

Hi Everyone--Here's my playlist from the December 13, 2025 show. Sorry it's taken me a few days to post it.

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

Set #1:

(listener request from last week) Huxtable, Christensen and Hood / Lake George / Wallflowers

Moors and McCumber / Silver Lake / Live from Blue Rock

Michael Jerling / Fishtrap Lake / Music Here Tonight

Erica Wheeler / Spirit Lake / The Harvest

Happy Traum / Lakes of Ponchartrain / There's a Bright Side Somewhere

Set #2 (people performing in the area):

Joe Jencks / When the Moon Rises over Skibbereen / The Coming of the Years

Antje Duvekot / The Bridge / The Near Demise of the High Wire Dancer

Heather Pierson / Back To The Light / Back to the Light

The Milk Carton Kids / Star Shine / I Only See the Moon

Magpie / Solstice Carol / The Last Month of the Year

Set #3:

Si Kahn & The Looping Brothers / Aragon Mill / Aragon Mill: The Bluegrass Sessions

Jean Ritchie / In the Valley / Kentucky Christmas Old and New

Set #4 (Hanukkah):

Peter, Paul and Mary / Light One Candle (with The New York Choral Society) / A Holiday Celebration with The New York Choral Society

The Short sisters / My Candles / A Planet Dancing slow

The Klezmatics / Hanukah's Flame / Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukah

Emily Kurn / Light the Lamp / I'm Just Like You

Shelley Posen / Light One Candle / Manna

Set #5 (more Hanukkah):

Alexandria Kleztet / Hanukah Waltzing with You / single

The Klezmatics / Hanuka Dance / Woody Githrie's Happy Joyous Hanukah

Jay Ungar and Molly Mason / Lights of Chanukah / The Pleasures of Winter

Shelley Posen / Miracles / Mazel

Set #6:

Ellis Paul / You'll Never Be This Young Again / The Storyteller's Suitcase

Amelia Hogan / Come Away In / Burnished

Set #7:

(request) Steve Earle / Christmas in Washington / Live at Montreux

Schooner Fare / We the People / We the People (Monday, December 15 is Bill of Rights Day)

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

12/12/2025

Here's the playlist for the December 6, 2025 show. Sorry it's taken me so long to post it! If you missed it, you can listen to an archived version on www.MixCloud.com

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

Set #1 (December):

James Taylor / Sweet Baby James (Live) / James Taylor Live

Mae Robertson / Every December Sky / December Sky

Sherie Davis / December Sky / The Raven and the Moon

Rachel Bissex / December Moon / I Used to Be Nice

Diane Zeigler / December in Vermont / December in Vermont

Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum / If We Make It Through December / Winter's Grace

John McCutcheon / Detroit, December / Winter Solstice

Stone & Snow / This December / Single

Set #2:

Max Gomez / Good Friends / Memory Mountain

Michael Jerling / Grandpa's Ukulele / In Another Life

Louise Mosrie / Singing My Heart Out / Lay It Down

Janet Feld / Step by Step / Kerrvlle Covers

Joe Jencks / Let Me Sing You a Song / Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers

Set #3:

Vance Gilbert / Holiday Employment / Bad Dog Buffet

Tray Wellington and Victor Furtado / Cluck Old Hen / Long Journey Home

Set #4:

Amy Speace / I Found a Halo / The Blue Rock Session

Rags Rosenberg / Flower Time / Flower Time

Peter Muller / One Last Dance / One Last Dance

Reggie Garrett and Christine Gunn / The Road Ahead / The Road Taken

Set #5:

John Gorka / Welcome Home / Unentitled

Keith Murphy / Wisconsin Emigrant / Suffer No Loss

Archie Fisher / Borderlands / Windward Away

Janie Rothfield and Allan Carr / Birnie Bouzle/Bull at the Wagon / The Two of Us

Jim Malcolm / The Wild Geese / Sconeward

Set #6:

The Twangtown Paramours / Waiting for Christmas to Come / Single

Claudia Schmidt / These Stars / Hark the Dark

The Henry Girls / Far Beyond the Stars / Far Beyond the Stars

Friction Farm / Stars / So Many Stars

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

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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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