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		<title>Nettle Honey: Wild Greens and the Old Path (MP3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Mason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another band we heard and met at NW Folklife. Nettle Honey is an old-time quartet from Seattle, WA that plays equal parts classic standards and original compositions. Their sound is as pure as the Northwest rain that falls on &#8230; <a href="http://fiddlefreak.com/2011/06/16/nettl-mp3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiddlefreak.com&#038;blog=3709969&#038;post=1315&#038;subd=fiddlefreaker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Colleen Raney: Lark (MP3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dark and rainy Pacific Northwest continues to produce an endless stream of brilliant folk music, and it was on display everywere at the recent Northwest Folkife Festival. The seething mass of humanity that is NW Folkife was held recently &#8230; <a href="http://fiddlefreak.com/2011/06/07/colleen-raney/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiddlefreak.com&#038;blog=3709969&#038;post=1301&#038;subd=fiddlefreaker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Mason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 11th annual San Francisco Bluegrass &#38; Old-Time Festival (SFBOT), a nine-day festival occuring at various locations around the Bay Area, will happen February 12-21, 2010. Featuring some of the most talented musicians on the Americana and roots music scene &#8230; <a href="http://fiddlefreak.com/2010/01/25/sgbgotf/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiddlefreak.com&#038;blog=3709969&#038;post=724&#038;subd=fiddlefreaker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pickathon Is Coming!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Mason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to start planning for Pickathon 2009, which happens this year on July 31—August 2 at Pendarvis Farm just outside Portland, Oregon. Fiddlefreak attended a couple years back and was deeply wowed by its unique combination of down-home folksy &#8230; <a href="http://fiddlefreak.com/2009/07/16/pickathon-is-coming/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiddlefreak.com&#038;blog=3709969&#038;post=601&#038;subd=fiddlefreaker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Old Blind Dogs at Live Oak (photos)</title>
		<link>http://fiddlefreak.com/2009/07/06/oldblinddogs-liveoak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Mason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fiddlefreak was in attendance at Live Oak Music Festival 2009, a fundraiser for KCBX, Public Radio for the Central Coast in California. Being the folkie that I am, my favorite band this year was Scotland&#8217;s Old Blind Dogs, who performed &#8230; <a href="http://fiddlefreak.com/2009/07/06/oldblinddogs-liveoak/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiddlefreak.com&#038;blog=3709969&#038;post=580&#038;subd=fiddlefreaker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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