Blue Navigator

18/07/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA8foSAUi1M

Recorded in the summer of 2022 in the woods of the Snow Fork Event Center as it was being developed into NMF’s new home, Founder and Artistic Director Tim Pe...

08/07/2025

Michael Hurley liked the colouring job we did on his Pe**te Pete and Uncle Gaspard drawing so much that he chose it for his new LP cover. 'Broken Homes and Gardens', his final album, will be released September 12th on the No Quarter label. Photo taken Feb 2025 by Jill Storthz, who also did the ink lettering for the LP based on Michael's pencil sketches.

26/05/2025

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On May 4th a public memorial for Michael Hurley took place in the park across the street from Mississippi Records in Portland, Oregon. The sun managed to shi...

22/04/2025

MICHAEL HURLEY MEMORIAL
CHERRY SPROUT PARK
(Across the street from Mississippi Records + Sweedeedee )

SUNDAY, MAY 4th
12 - 4 PM

Come on down to celebrate the life of the great Michael Hurley. There will be free food and music. Dogs shall frolic and children shall dance. All are welcome.
If you'd like to play a song or say something, please sign up here
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WL0KmJERxtg00MvMLNICBN4luUjrUHM3kK4mtDRqniE/edit?gid=0 =0

EVERYONE IS INVITED TO SING, PLAY MOUTH TRUMPET OR TALK, but please limit it to one song and speak for under three minutes. And - The Croakers will be on hand to back you up! Please indicate if you'd want that on the sign up form. Also - if you have printed pictures of Michael you'd like to hang on the clothesline, please bring them. We got plenty of clothespins.

This is a public celebration, so even if you didn't know Michael personally but were touched by his music, art and/or the general concept of his singular being - YOU ARE WELCOME.

For questions you can email Eric at [email protected]

19/04/2025

Folk Radio host Edward Haber reprises from the archives a 1984 extended interview with 'songwriter, singer, guitarist, fiddler and artist Michael Hurley' on WBAI Free Speech Radio, New York City.

https://www.wbai.org/archive/program/episode/?id=57158

17/04/2025

Join Mississippi Records founder, store owner, and old pal of Michael's Eric Isaacson for a four hour deep dive into the music of Michael Hurley. Expect the hits, as well as songs you've never heard.

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05/04/2025

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Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytThe legendary folk singer Michael Hurley has died at the age of 83. Born in Bucks County Pennsylv...

03/04/2025

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03/04/2025

It is with a resounding sadness that the Hurley family announces the recent sudden passing of the inimitable Michael Hurley. The “Godfather of freak folk” was for a prolific half-century the purveyor of an eccentric genius and compassionate wit. He alone was Snock. There is no other. Friends, family, and the music community deeply mourn his loss.

10/03/2025

Blue Navigator 12 gets an appreciative, glow-in-the-dark review from Americana UK, by Paul Kerr.

The latest edition of ‘Blue Navigator’, a publication which essentially started off as a “fanzine,” dedicated to the life and music of the celebrated American singer/songwriter Michael …

14/06/2024

https://americana-uk.com/essentials-top-ten-michael-hurley-songs

Michael Hurley is one of those rare artists who merit the term unique. Now in his 80s (and still performing and recording) Hurley is a living reminder of what Greil Marcus called “the old wei…

06/06/2024

A couple of shots from Michael Hurley's show at The Rockwell, Somerville, Wed 24 April. Very warm audience gave him a standing ovation at the end.