Wireless

To have your show listed (or to update a listing more than a year old), send us a brief description (less than 150 words or so). Include location, frequency, time of broadcast, name of host, and something about the focus of the show. Send it on station letterhead to: Nelson the Radio Hound, c/o Dirty Linen, P.O. Box 66600, Baltimore, MD 21239-6600. If you can, please include a program guide from the station.

Dirty Linen also wants to help non-commercial radio stations with their fundraising efforts. Please drop us a note at nelson@dirtylinen.com and we'll tell you all about it.

Other Resources

WMBR in Cambridge, MA used to keep the most comprehensive list online of radio stations online. Now it has been moved to a new address and made more searchable. Check them out if you want to see who in your area is Web-ed.
For a roots oriented radio listing, check out The Gumbo Pages, edited by Chuck Taggart.
The Internet Folk Radio List Database.
If your show is broadcast over the internet, we also recommend adding your information to the Rootster.Com internet radio database.

From issue #114 October/November 2004

Carbondale, IL “Celtic Connections” is a weekly hour of music from the Celtic traditions, heard on 96 public radio stations in 23 states. The program is produced in the studios of WSIU-FM at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and is hosted by Bryan Kelso Crow, whistle and flute player with local Celtic band the Dorians. Listings include a monthly roundup of new releases, programs spotlighting a particular musician or band, and original concert recordings of groups and singers such as Old Blind Dogs, Altan, Cherish the Ladies, Bohola, Martin Carthy, Andy Irvine, Cathie Ryan, and Karan Casey. Interview guests have included Mary Black, Paddy Moloney, Riverdance composer Bill Whelan, uilleann piper Mick O’Brien, Scottish singer Jim Malcolm, Irish poet Thomas Kinsella, and many more. If you would like to encourage your local public radio station to start carrying “Celtic Connections” (available free of charge), more information about the program is on the website, or write the host at bcrow@siu.edu. © 2004 Dirty Linen, Ltd., Baltimore MD
No reproduction in any form is permitted without written permission from the editors.