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Happy New Year everyone. I hope 2008 was good for you and I sincerely hope that 2009 brings you everything you wish for. Things are bleak for a lot of people in many parts of the world, but November brought us hope with a historic election and January will bring certain change. Lets hope the change is the kind of change we need. I have a feeliing things will slowly start to get better all over the world. On today's show you heard 1. Ronnie McCoury - Barefoot Nellie - Little Mo' McCoury 2. Kathy Mattea - Green Rolling Hills - Coal 3. Rhonda Vincent - Midnight Angel - All American Bluegrass Girl 4. Luar Na Lubre - Gaivota - Galicia, 20 anos de Folk 5. Miriam Makeba - The Click Song - The World Of Miriam Makeba 6. Albert Lee and Hogan's Heros - The Skip Rope Song - Like This 7. Alejandro Escovedo - Always a Friend - Real Animal 8. Pat Flynn - All On A Rainy Day - Request 9. Leon Redbone - Settin' By The Fire - Whistling in the Wind 10. Maria Muldaur - Cajun Moon - 30 Years Of Maria Muldaur I'm A Woman 11. Little Feat - Spanish Moon (Feat. Vince Gill) - Join The Band 12. Dwight Yoakim - Give Back The Key To My Heart 13. Jim Lauderdale - Almost Next to Nothing - Jim Lauderdale Listen to the show on icrfm.ie on Thursdays at 6pm GMT and Sundays at 2pm GMT
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As I mentioned a few days ago today's show is a special with banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck. His latest CD with the Flecktones is an album of Christmas and other festive songs done in some of the most weird and wonderful ways. Oprah has chosen it as her favourite Christmas record this year and it remains top of the jazz charts since its release in September. The CD has also gained two Grammy nominations. Bela and the Flecktones have been on tour for the past month and I was very pleased to catch up with him as he braved the cold snows of Maine. We spoke via Skype and talked about his new cd, his work with the Sparrow Quartet and his forthcoming documentary movie about his musical travels in Africa. But mostly we let the music do the talking. So enjoy the show.