The Glendale Folk & Heritage Festival

Sat. & Sun., March 20th & 21st
Sahuaro Ranch Park Historic Area
The event will be free to the public
8 stages of great music all weekend long. Acts include 3 legged dog, The Artichoke Sisters, Hans Olsen, D-Squared, Halfway Home, and Soul Creek. Other unique event activities include: blacksmithing demonstrations, children’s crafts and games, authentic food, unique souvenirs, historic home and property tours and much more! with nominal charges for merchandise and food.
9802 N. 59th Ave. Glendale
Phone: (623) 930-4200
www.glendaleaz.com/ParksandRecreation

Bill and Kate Isles are on tour, and will be giving a concert in the Prescott College Chapel at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 21. A ”Pay-what-you-can” event, you can get more information about Bill and Kate, and hear some samples of their songs, at:
www.billandkateisles.com/.

The Folk Sessions Radio Special
for St. Patty’s Day - Sat, March 13
at 7pm on the KJAZZ Radio Network
The Chieftains & Ry Cooder tell the story of the “San Patricio Battalion” - Irish-born soldiers in the US-Mexican War who deserted their US posts to fight for the Mexican side.  Guests include Linda Ronstadt, Liam Neeson, Van Dyke Parks, Lila Downs, Los Tigres del Norte, Carlos Nunez and many others. The one-hour radio special contains with interviews of many of the artists involved.

Give a listen to Dennis Garvey’s new show,
Successful Aging Saturday mornings at 11am on KJZA 89.5fm. You can also listen to Tom Agostino on the Yavapai College Radio Hour, every Sat/Sun
4-5pm.

12/6 Tom Hosts

12/13 Our 6th Anniversary Spectacular

12/20 Folk Session’s Holiday Show
12/27 Don Charles Hosts

1/10 Ronnda Cadle Acoustic Instrumentalist/String Poet

If you’d like to appear on The Folk Sessions, Live! Radio Show or would like us to play your music on the air, please send us a CD or let us know how we can hear your music. contact usMail to: The Folk Sessions, c/o KJZA 89.5, 923 East Gurley Street, Prescott, AZ 86301

From the Folk Sessions Live! News Bureau in Clearwater Florida
North Korea News: After a national intelligence estimate revealed that Iran has halted its nuclear arms program, President Kim Jong-Il ejected Iran from the Axis of Evil. Kim said he was not sure who would replace Iran in the Axis of Evil, but he is looking at Venezuela, Syria, and Rupert Murdoch.
Turkey News: U.S. officials said they were unaware that Turkey was sending bombers to bomb northern Iraq. Turkish officials responded saying it was a part of their military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.Iowa News: The Iowa caucus was held last week. As you may know, caucus is a Greek word which means, “the only day anyone pays any attention to Iowa.”
New Hampshire News: Barack Obama lost the state’s primary race. He got nearly 55% of the youth vote, but less than 35% of the female vote, He did, however, get 100% of New Hampshire’s black vote, a guy named Harry.
Vermont News: A former home of poet Robert Frost was burglarized during the holidays. The thieves were captured nearby where two roads diverged in the woods, unable to decide which one to take.
Auction News: The Magna Carta was sold at auction. It was signed by King John eight centuries ago and established that the king is not above the law. Or as Dick Cheney calls it, “just a piece of paper”.
Hollywood News: The Writers Guild remains on strike. There appear to be two major issues unresolved. First the writers want a share of Internet revenues, and secondly they want four more years of President Bush.
Clinton Update: Hillary Clinton won the New Hampshire primary. She has always had a soft spot in her heart for the state. New Hampshire’s state motto is Live Free or Die, and Bill had it inserted in their marriage vows.
Huckabee Update: Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee apologized for “unfortunate” remarks he made about Mormonism, telling a reporter, “If they want to drink the blood of human babies, that’s their business.”
Obama Update: Pundits say that Barack Obam’s worship of Oprah Winfrey puts him in the mainstream of American theological belief, and that currently more than 30% of Americans define themselves as “Oprahists.”
Thompson Update: Fred Thompson continues to drop in the polls. First he was a lawyer, then he was an actor and now he is a politician. The descent into hell is easy; it is the climbing out that is tough.
Sports News: Delegates at a track and field convention called on baseball to erase Barry Bonds’ records because of his indictment for perjury. If that happens, the entire Library of Congress may have to go too.

Why a blog I ask. Aren’t there like 2 trillion of them already, with an average readership of one? Do I really have anything interesting enough to say to warrant this real estate in cyberspace? Is anybody out there…actually on sites these days you can tell that, they have little counters in the corner that register, well, never mind, the point is why commit anything to 1’s and 0’s that can come back to haunt me when I run for President. Well, there’s two reasons.One, as host of the Folk Sessions, Live! and The Yavapai College Radio Hour I certainly get to yack enough about all sorts of interesting things, but in both cases I need to reign in my personal opinions so as not to have the station taken off the air, (only kidding, kind of). Really, while listening to great music or interesting guests, who wants to hear a host blabber about their usually ill-informed opinions. While my opinions are neither ill nor informed…wait, let me rephrase that. Of course while MY thoughts are like manna flowing from above, I’ve learned to spare listeners that experience and slip in my subversive messages through the songs I play on the ray-dio (played backwards, they’ll end world hunger AND global warming). So here, with this weblog I can let my lefty, peacenik, tree-huggin’, buddha-lovin’, bush-hatin’ freak flags fly, however torn and tattered.

And two, as Don Charles would say, why the hell not. Got a site, why not have a blog. Heck, on D Squared’s home page there’s poetry for heaven’s sake! Gypsy Soul does live blogging, and Chuck Pyle has “Chuck’s Thoughts on Religion and Spirituality” for crying out loud.So occasional musings, rants, sharings, and interesting, to me at least, tidbits will find there way here from time to time…As I believe an informed electorate is essential to throwin’ the bums out here’s a good political website, and also the funniest political podcast around.www.truthdig.com digging beneath the headlinesThe Bugle An audio newspaper for a video world w/ John Oliver from The Daily Show and Andy Zaltzman, a Brit’s eye view of the world.Happy Birthday Dr. King.

TOM AGOSTINO & SOUL CREEK

Soul Creek, w/ Tom Agostino, Christa Agostino, Meg Bohrman & Kent Gugler

Soul Creek
Saturday, March 20, 2pm,
Glendale Folk Festival free
9802 N. 59th Ave. Glendale
Phone: (623) 930-4200
www.glendaleaz.com/ParksandRecreation

Tom Agostino
Sunday, March 21, 11am
Glendale Folk Festival free
9802 N. 59th Ave. Glendale
Phone: (623) 930-4200
www.glendaleaz.com/ParksandRecreation

Tom Agostino
April 18, 2pm
Highlands Center for Natural History
opening for
Laurie Lewis

Soul Creek
July 31, 7pm
Highlands Center for Natural History
opening for
Small Potatoes

Tom Agostino is pleased to announce the release of Seven Rivers, (Folk Sessions Records). This 12 song cd features Tom’s music w/ help from friends Alexa MacDonald, Jan Alexander, Lamar Hill, Kent Gugler, Christa Agostino and others.
To Order: email tom@folksessions.com w/ address for shipment. Pay on receiving CD and invoice. Cost is $10. You can listen right here

Yavapai College Radio Hour also on KJZA 89.5

Welcome to the Folk Sessions music store. This is the upfront value proposition. Each of the following products can be purchased via Paypal™.

Spirit in the Bone

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The Folk Sessions Live! 2004 Collection

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The Folk Sessions at the Highlands Center
“Special Afternoon Concert”

Grammy Winner

Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum

Sunday, April 18 2pm $15
The Highlands Center for Natural History 1375 S. Walker Rd. Prescott    776-9550

“Two of the finest singers/songwriters/instrumentalists in the acoustic music world” Nashville Public Radio

Legend is not always loud. Particularly in the beneath-the-radar substreams of American folk music and bluegrass, it is bestowed more by whispered word-of-mouth, over years and decades, than by the hurried hype and ballyhoo of the pop mainstream. You can’t measure Laurie Lewis’s 30-year career with the usual commercial yardsticks. She has won a Grammy (“True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe,” 1997), and twice been named Female Vocalist of the Year by the IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association).

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The Folk Sessions at the Highlands Center

Our 3rd Season Schedule

The line-up for the third season of the Folk Sessions at the Highlands Center for Natural History offers two grammy winners, some Small Potatoes, “Buddha raised on fry bread” and the Zen Cowboy himself.  We’ll be singing the “Botox Tango” with Cosy and TR and revisit a young and dynamic duo from Nashville that wowed the crowd last summer, mixing it up with a member of the legendary Limeliters. And we’ll celebrate the 7th season of the Folk Sessions. in the beautiful outdoor setting of the Highlands Center for Natural History’s Amphitheater.

Sunday, April 18  Grammy Winner  Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum

Saturday, May 29  from the Limeliters Gaylan Taylor,
from Nashville Trees Leave

Saturday, June 26 Utah singer-songwriter Cosy Sheridan
and TR Ritchie

Saturday, July 17 “An enlightening presence” Bernice Lewis & The Artichoke Sisters

Saturday, July 31 from Chicago  Small Potatoes, & Soul Creek

Saturday, Aug 29 from Burning Sky, flutist  Kel Mockingbird

Saturday, Sept 11 The Folk Sessions 7 Year All-Star Celebration

Sunday, Oct 9 “The Zen Cowboy”  Chuck Pyle

The Highlands Center for Natural History
1375 S. Walker Rd. Prescott    776-9550

Saturday Concerts: 7pm; Sunday concerts 2pm
Tickets: $15.00
Come on out and enjoy a great concert at the beautiful Highlands Center for Natural History, an environmental education organization, which features quality outdoor science education, reaching over 10,000 children and adults each year.

http://www.folksessions.com
http://www.highlandscenter.org
for more info: tom@folksessions.com;
Highlands Center: 776-9550