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~ To be held at Upland Brewing Company on Saturday, May 14

WFHB announces the fourth annual Acoustic Roots Festival, to be held on Saturday, May 14th, hosted by Upland Brewing Company at 350 West 11th in Bloomington. Festival gates will open at 2pm, with music from 3pm-10pm.

WFHB’s Acoustic Roots Festival is a fundraiser for Bloomington Community Radio, focusing on the rich heritage of American acoustic roots music. The festival is a showcase for local and regional acoustic roots artists, along with a touring headliner.

Indiana artists featured on the 2011 Acoustic Roots Festival line up are Tim Grimm, White Lightning Boys, Bobbie Lancaster, Blue Cut, Davy Jay Sparrow and His Well-Known Famous Drovers, The Calumet Reel, Jennie Devoe and The Millbranch String Theory.

Headlining the festival will be Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys – IU alum Leverett joining forces with other stars of klezmer and bluegrass to explore the shared musical spirit of two genres originally formed worlds apart.

Listed below are WFHB's most played CDs of 2010, based on the song selections of our 100+ volunteer DJs. Thanks to the musicians for making the music, thanks to the labels and promoters for sending the music, and thanks to the WFHB DJs for playing the music - not to mention all the WFHB volunteer genre directors and CD reviewers who helped get the good stuff into the studio. Happy New Year!

Data compiled by Steve Volan from WFHB's weekly airplay reports from 2010.

WFHB TOP 100
Rank / Artist / Disc / Label
1.      Carolina Chocolate Drops / Genuine Negro Jig / Nonesuch
2.      John Mellencamp / No Better Than This / Rounder
3.      Various Artists / Coal Country Music / Heartwood
4.      Tom Roznowski / This Place In Time / Blazing Stump
5.      Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings / I Learned the Hard Way / Daptone
6.      Mavis Staples / You Are Not Alone / Anti
7.      Dave Rawlings Machine / A Friend of a Friend / Acony
8.      Richard Thompson / Dream Attic / Shout Factory
9.      The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band / The Wages / Side One Dummy
10.     Otis Taylor / Clovis People Vol. 3 / Telarc

WFHB once again has a great lineup for our Fund Drive Live in-studio performances set for our Spring Fund Drive!

Sunday 4/25

• 1pm – Reggae Children: Green Room Rockers
• 3pm – Planetary Caravan: Bernard Woma
• 5pm – Classical Spot: Maarten Bout and Friends

In 2002 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the next generation of radio broadcast technology called HD Radio. It’s been called the most significant advancement in radio broadcasting since the introduction of FM stereo more than 50 years ago. HD Radio technology enables AM and FM radio stations to broadcast their programs digitally – a tremendous technological leap from the analog broadcasts of the past, providing a number of dramatic benefits for listeners:

~ determined by the airplay selections of WFHB's volunteer DJs

Jim Manion, Music Programming Director
Compiled by Steve Volan

WFHB Top 100 of 2009
artist / album title / label

TOP 10
 1. Eilen Jewell / Sea of Tears / Signature Sounds
 2. Neko Case / Middle Cyclone / Anti-
 3. Amadou & Mariam / Welcome to Mali / Because/Nonesuch
 4. JJ Cale / Roll On / Rounder
 5. Andrew Bird / Noble Beast / Fat Possum
 6. Steve Earle / Townes / New West
 7. Booker T. / Potato Hole / Anti-
 8. Early Day Miners / The Treatment / Secretly Canadian
 9. M. Ward / Hold Time / Merge
10. A.A. Bondy / When the Devil’s Loose / Fat Possum

THE REST
11. Cotton Jones / Paranoid Cocoon / Suicide Squeeze
12. Wilco / (the album) / Nonesuch
13. Monsters of Folk / Monsters of Folk / Shangri-La

~ determined by the airplay selections of WFHB's volunteer DJs

 1. Ani DiFranco
 2. Bob Dylan
 3. Yo La Tengo
 4. Dr. John
 5. Steve Earle
 6. Lucinda Williams
 7. Wilco
 8. Neil Young
 9. Neko Case
10. Andrew Bird

~ determined by the airplay selections of WFHB's volunteer DJs

 1. Magnolia Electric Co
 2. Carrie Newcomer
 3. Early Day Miners
 4. Mysteries of Life
 5. Jason Wilber
 6. John Mellencamp
 7. Lisa Germano
 8. Krista Detor
 9. Tim Grimm
10. Jason Fickel

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