Saturday April 7, 2007: Junos & Canadians Part One

Folk Plus is hosted and planned by Angela Page and airs Saturdays from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm on WJFF, at 90.5 fm in Jeffersonville, N.Y. and 94.5 in Monticello N.Y. We are Hydro-Powered Public Radio, run mostly by volunteers and funded by members. We stream online at WWW.WJFFRADIO.ORG  and have archives at that site for two weeks. Welcome new web listeners, especially those with MCS and other disabilities which render one mostly housebound . THANKS SO MUCH to the station management fo accommodating  my health issues which allow me to continue to volunteer Saturday mornings and bring you the music that 'moves and sustains me. '

2007 Juno Awards, Saskatoon, SK  March 30 - April 1 2007    
http://www.junoawards.ca/

Songwriter Of The Year
1. Gordie Sampson - Sailing  By 319
Stones - turtlemusik (from cape Breton)


Roots & Traditional Album Of The Year: Group
2. The McDades - Ma Bonne Dame 337
Bloom - Free Radio Records  www.themcdades.com
(Siblings Shannon, Solon and Jeremiah joined by Andy Hillhouse and Francois Taillefer.  Celtic-rooted music fused with jazz improv and global rhythms)

Roots & Traditional album of the year: Solo
3. Stephen Fearing -  Yellowjacket 513
Yellowjacket - True North Universal
www.stephenfearing.com    (20 years since his selt titled debut. He produced this one.)

International Album Of The Year
4. Dixie Chicks - The Long Way Around 435
Taking The Long Way -  SONY BMG  www.dixiechicks.com

“To announce there must be no criticism of the President, and to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, it is morally treasonous to the American public.” – President Theodore Roosevelt

Blues Album Of The Year
5. Jim Byrnes - Last Fair Deal Gone Down 308
House Of Refuge -  Black Hen www.blackhenmusic.com
(Moved from St. Louis to Vancouver. He  has played with the greats – Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Robert Cray. House Of Refuge covers old-timey gospel (Didn't It Rain), straight-up blues (Big Bill's Blues) and traditional jazz (Hoagy Charmichael's Stardust). Three originals, including the eclectic mix of Latin and blues on The Death Of Ernesto Guevara, and he covers of Robert Johnson's Last Fair Deal Gone Down and Nick Lowe's The Beast In Me )

6. Les Charbonniers de l'enfer - Au Diablle les Avocats
En Personne - www.latribu.ca

7. Eileen Laverty - Tread Softly 348
Dancing with Angels - eileenlaverty.com

8. David Francey - Over You 304
Waking Hour  - Red House

9. Nancy White - leonard Cohen is never gonna bring my groceries in
Momnipotent -  www.nancy-white.com/

10. Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrap - St Johns' Waltz 323
Red Shoes - Borealis

11 Eve Goldberg - Let Me Rise

12. Lynn Miles - I know It was Love
Slightly Haunted - Philo

13. Allister MacGillivray - Song for the Mira -
The Mira River is a Canadian river located in southeastern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia and is the longest river in Nova Scotia- approximately 55 km. The Mira River has also been the inspiration for local songwriter Allister MacGillivray's Song for the Mira which has become a renowned folk song.   the Mira has a very slow flow rate.

14. Ron  Hynes - Picadilly Sand Farewell 247
Ron Hynes Borealis

15. Moxy Fruvous - Gulf War Song
Bargainville - www.fruvous.com/

16. Tanglefoot - Loyal Americans/ Seven a Side 51. 431
Captured Alive - Borealis

17. John Wort Hannam - Blue Collar 244
Dynamite And Cozers - johnworthannam.com

18. James Keelaghan - Abraham 448
My Skies - Green Linnet

19. Jory Nash - Summer Hunter
Folk Jazz Blues and Soul - jorynash.com

20. Steel Rail - Thats How the Summer Slips Away 350
River Song - steelrail.ca

21. Garnet Rogers - The Beauty Game 357
Summer Lightning - Snow Goose

22. Stan Rogers - Forty-Five Years 329
Fogarty's Cove -

23. Crabtree and Mills - Do Right Daddy
Flight of Fancy - Free and Easy Music

24. Tamarack - Maynard's Big Front Porch 307
13 - Folk Era

25. Laura Smith - No Cry For Mercy 339
Between the Earth and My Soul -

26. Ian Robb - Green Groves 159
From Different Angels - Fallen Angle Music

27. Rose Vaughan Trio - Sally's Song 423
Sweet tarragon - Wild Rose Records

28. Maria Dunn - What Did I do? 429
For A Song - Mariadunn.com

29. Barra McNeals - Rattlin' Roarin' Willie (fade) 456
Racket in the Attic - Barratone


Folk Plus is hosted and planned by Angela Page and airs Saturdays from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm on WJFF, at 90.5 fm in Jeffersonville, N.Y. and 94.5 in Monticello N.Y. We are Hydro-Powered Public Radio, run mostly by volunteers and funded by members. We stream online at WWW.WJFFRADIO.ORG  Welcome new web listeners, especially those with MCS who are housebound.


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