Welcome to the fragrance free, chemical free, hydro-powered studios of WJFF.  Folk Plus has been planned and hosted since 1993 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. 
Folk Plus is mostly lyrically and theme based. Check a decade of playlists at http://www.wjffradio.org/FolkPlus .

  We are Hydro-Powered Public Radio, run mostly by volunteers and funded by members. We have two week archives at http://www.wjffradio.org/wjff/index.php?section=38 . See our site and listen to our stream online at WWW.WJFFRADIO.ORG 

Thanks to staff and station management for accommodating my health issues which allow me to continue to volunteer Saturday mornings 

PETE SEEGER

1. Pete Seeger- Nameless Banjo Riff .38 - At 89 - Appleseed 

2.  Jim accepting Pete's award
Jim Mussleman of Appleseed recordings accepted the award for Pete on the pre-telecast webcast. Here is the announcement as it happened, followed by Jim reading a very short statement from Pete.  Thanks to Steve Ramm for a heads up on that link about 2 hours and 13 minutes into the grammy feed on the web at http://www.grammy.com/grammy_awards/GRAMMY_Live.aspx
"Keep singing songs of hope and social justice. Music can change the world."

3.  Pete Seeger - False From True - At 89 - Appleseed

Pete Seeger told our localTimes Herald-Record  "Oh no, good gosh," He felt that the other nominees deserved to win. "I feel like apologizing to them," he said. 
This was the third Grammy nomination for Seeger,  who won a "Best Traditional Folk Album" Grammy for his 1996 CD, "Pete." The 2003 2-CD set by Pete Seeger & Friends, "Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Volume 3," on Appleseed was a nominee for "Best Traditional Folk Album." 

4 & 5. Pete Seeger - Pete's Greeting .32 & Visiions of Children 2:12
At 89 - Appleseed

6 & 7. Pete Speaks about Involvement 0.13 & Or Else! 3:20
At 89 - Appleseed

Our joyful congratulations to Tom and Pete, as well as the other Grammy  nominees in the folk categories and the many, many worthy musicians who escaped Grammy recognition!  ~ Alan Edwards -  Appleseed Recordings

TOM PAXTON

Tom Paxton won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys. Former recipients include some of the most famous of all folkies: Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and the Weavers, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan.

"One of the things with Tom Paxton is that while he might not be as much of a household name as some of the people we've honored, his music has been really influential," says Bill Freimuth, vice president of awards for the Recording Academy, which gives out the Grammys. "He's very much considered a mentor to many, many musicians; he's been an inspiration to so many other folks who've continued the tradition of making great music.

". . . And Tom always stuck to his heart, sometimes perhaps at the cost of his wallet. He did not go the commercial route. People really respect that about Tom."

6. Tom Paxton - What Did you Learn in School Today
Best of Tom Paxton - Elektra

What did Paxton say about winning....... "The English have a word for it: gob-smacked. It's recognition I never thought I'd get. You think of the Grammys as billion-selling artists. I've never had a hit record myself; other people have had hits with some of my songs, but I haven't. Not even close. I'm stunned."

For the uninitiated (basically, anybody who doesn't have a subscription to Sing Out! magazine), Paxton's catalogue is filled with both satirical songs and serious songs, almost all of which have choruses constructed for sing-alongs. They're songs about adult relationships, children's songs and pointedly topical songs. Lots and lots of those, including "Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation," "The Ballad of Spiro Agnew" and "I Don't Want a Bunny Wunny," about Jimmy Carter and the "killer" swamp rabbit that the president said attacked his fishing boat in 1979. (That one still gets requested in concert, though Paxton is down to about 40 dates per year. Loves the interchange; hates the travel.)  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/06/AR2009020603708.html

7. Tom Paxton - Last Thing on my Mind 308
Best of Tom Paxton - Elektra

8.  Tom Paxton - Daily News 221
Best of Tom Paxton - Elektra

CHRISTINE LAVIN AND TOM PAXTON

Last Saturday evening, Christine Lavin appeared in our area at the RiverFolk concert series. (You may want to get your tickets for March 7th, by calling 845-252-6783   as so far, the venue has sold out for its complete history of existence. March 7th afternoon, guitar workshop, ask about that when you call) The Saturday before that she shared the stage with Ed Trickett and Mark Dvorak.  She was introducing Tom's song "Peace Will Come," and according to WKAR's host of  "folk tradition" in East Lansing, Mi. someone yelled out "Call Tom!"  Christine asked if someone could get her cell phone from the dressing room while she taught the song to the audience.  We sang it through, it sounded fabulous, and someone brought out CL's phone.  She called Tom, explaining that he was probably out in L.A. for the Grammys. When Tom answered (Christine held the phone by the microphone so we could all hear him), the crowd went nuts, cheering and applauding. She asked if he was in L.A. and he said that he was home because he needed to be with Midge, but that he'd sent his daughter to accept his award.  Christine then led us all in singing "Peace Will Come" again, and calling out "Goodbye, Tom" to end the phone call.  The crowd, again, cheered and applauded wildly.  As Christine said later, Tom stole the show (by merely answering his phone!).

9. TOM PAXTON-  Peace will come
Paxton Live in the UK - Pax Records

Christine Lavin - Thanked everyone for coming to her show here last saturday, she sent a note to me yesterday saying " I'm doing a show with Gorka tonight -- (that would have been last night) been a long time since we did a co-bill.  Then I'm in NH Saturday night -- and last night (thursday night) Sutton Foster sang "Air Conditioner" at Lincoln Center -- wheeeeee --" [an older song of Christine's.]

But here she is from her newest cd, doing a song youheard her do last satuday if you were there....

10. Christine Lavin - The most Polite city in the World 419
I don't make this stuff up, I just make it rhyme - christinelavin.com  yellowtrailrecords.com

Legacy Artist Lifetime Achievement Award: Phil Ochs
Ochs moved to New York’s Greenwich Village shortly after graduating Ohio State University. His first album, 1964s All The News That’s Fit To Sing. He went on to record four more studio albums before, in 1973, he was traveling in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania and got mugged and strangled by a group of locals. His lost material possessions mattered little, as Ochs suffered a great deal of vocal chord damage. Depressed and beat up over his lack of commercial success, he took his own life in 1976 in Far Rockaway, NY. (folkmusic.about.com/od/artistskr/p/PhilOchs.htm)

The  Lifetime Achievent award was presented on Wednesday night at Folk Alliance in Memphis.  Afterwards Sonny, Phil's sister, organized a tribute concert of about 12 musicians singing Phil's songs.  It was fantastic and well attended. They opened with Power & Glory and closed with I Ain't Marching Anymore.  Some of the contributing musicians were:

Greg Greenway - Small Circle of Friends, Magpie - There But For Fortune, John Flynn - Pleasures of the Harbor, Pat Wictor - That's the Way It's Gonna Be, Joe Jencks - Bracero, Si Kahn - Bound For Glory, Ken Whiteley - What's That I Hear, Freebo - Draft Dodger, John McCutcheon - When I'm Gone. Maria Dunn- Chords of Fame, Zach Stevenson - Changes, David Ferrard - Flower Lady,

14. Magpie - Power and the Glory 306
Songs fo Phil Ochs - Sliced bread

15. Phil Ochs - (Lennon/Mccartney) I Shoulda Known Better 332
Broadside Tapes 1 - Smithsonian Folkways

16. John Flynn - (Ochs) - Pleasures of the harbor 601
Two Wolves - Metta Four Records

17. Zachary Stevenson - Changes
When I'm Here - zacharystevenson.com

Dylan said of Ochs, "I just can't keep up with Phil. And he just keeps getting better and better and better" On another occasion, when Ochs criticized of one of Dylan's songs, Dylan threw him out of his limousine, saying, "You're not a folksinger. You're a journalist"

DANCING
Tonight is the WJFF Winter Blues dance party with Annie Hat and the Vantwistics at the Nutshell in Lake Huntington NY