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The 53rd annual Philadelphia Folk Festival is August 14-17 on the Old Pool Farm near Schwenksville, PA. If you've always wanted to do the Festival full monty, or if you're suddenly morbidly curious about a brand new temptation, this is your gilt-edged invitation. Click the "Camp with us!" tab below to find out more.

Monday, June 16, 2014

Oh, wow! The entire run of Fast Folk Musical Magazine is streaming for free on Spotify!

Well, to be honest, I haven't double checked every single album. But nothing I searched for wasn't found. This is a treasure trove of singer-songwriter greatness.

What it is, is they started recording the shows and open mics at the Speakeasy in Greenwich Village, and at the end of each month they'd press an LP with the best songs from the previous month, which was sold at the venue and by subscription. So these include the very first recordings of an amazing number of '80s folk artists. Later, they took the tape recorders on the road to other cities and to festivals across the country. The LPs eventually gave way to CDs, and eventually the internet supplanted compilation CDs as the place to hear emerging artists. 

So fire up your Spotify Player, search for "Fast Folk Musical Magazine" and be prepared to be amazed.
Or this link seems to work in Windows. Fast Folk Musical Mag albums

Full disclosure: I designed most of the album covers during the 2000s. You can see my wondrous works in little 1-by-1-inch windows on the Spotify Player screen. 

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