Happy Memorial Day! Here's the playlist for this week's Memorial Day
special, celebrating Memorial Day, the end of a school year and the
beginning of summer with music from Yola, Dar Williams, Iris DeMent, Ana
Egge, Tracy Grammer, Lucy Wainwright Roche and more. It's available via PRX
and can be streamed any time at  Hope you get to
enjoy a much-deserved day off, and thanks for all y'all do! -Ellen Stanley

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WOMENFOLK RADIO (5-20-26)
Memorial Day Special

HOUR #1 PLAYLIST:
*New Releases
**Womenfolk Theme Song

HOUR #1 PLAYLIST:
*New Releases
**Womenfolk Theme Song

**Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem / Cocktail Swing / Cocktail Swing / Signature Sounds / 0:50 (2001)
Lucy Wainwright Roche  / Spring Song / 8 More / Self / 3:14 (2008)
The Nields / That's What We Do / Circle of Days / Self / 3:13 (2023)
Dar Williams / You Give It All Away / I'll Meet You Here / Self / 2:47 (2021)
Valerie June / Imagine / The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers / Fantasy / 3:08 (2022)
Valerie June / Joy, Joy! / Owls, Omens, and Oracles / Fantasy / 3:02 (2025)

[Instrumental Bed]
Ellis Delaney / Bde Maka Ska / Break the Spell / Self / 1:00 (2008)

Chastity Brown / Like the Sun / Sing to the Walls / Red House / 4:40 (2022)
Kashimana / Sun Baby - Acoustic Version / Love From the Sun / Self / 2:27 (2017)
Ana Egge / Sitting in the Midday Sun / Lazy Days / Grace/Parkinsong / 3:42 (2007)
Nikki Matteson and Rich Rue / Get Along / Sugar in the Rock / Self / 4:14 (2022)
Marcia Ball / Peace, Love & BBQ / Peace, Love & BBQ / Alligator / 4:06 (2006)

[Instrumental Bed]
Mother Banjo Band / Rise Up, Sinner / The Devil Hasn't Won / So Low Recordings / 1:00 (2013)

Megan Bee / Used to Be / Cottonwood / Self / 3:13 (2022)
Tracy Grammer / The Verdant Mile / The Verdant Mile / Self / 3:25 (2004)
Cheryl Wheeler / Rainy Road Into Atlanta / Sylvia Hotel / Philo / 3:56 (1999)
Meg Hutchinson / Ready / Come Up Full / Red House / 3:31 (2008)
Rachael Kilgour / Ready Freddie / Rabbit in the Road / NewSong Recordings / 3:57 (2017)


HOUR #2 PLAYLIST:
*New Releases

[Womenfolk Find]
*Dawn Landes / Little Red Boat / Catch a Little Sun / Fun Machine Music / 2:43 (2026) - comes out 6/12
Kate Rusby / If I Had a Boat / Hand Me Down / Pure Records / 4:34 (2020)
Ruth Moody / Already Free / Wanderer / Self / 3:41 (2024)
Jilian Rae / Free / Wanderlust / Self / 3:00 (2018)
Sammie Jean Cohen / Wild Horse / Wild Horse - Single / Self / 3:57 (2025)

[Instrumental Bed]
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez / Elzick's Farewell / Live From Ruhr Triennale / Train Wreck Records / 1:00 (2007)

Nikki Lemire / Leave Me / Leave Me - Single / Self / 3:32 (2025)
Heather & Ivan / Summer, Highland Falls / Songs From Home / Self / 3:48 (2021)
Eliza Gilkyson / Peace Call / Land of Milk and Honey / Red House / 3:54 (2004)
Rhiannon Giddens, Resistance Revival Chorus & Crys Matthews / How I Long
for Peace / How I Long for Peace - Single / Nonesuch / 4:30 (2024)
Yola / Diamond Studded Shoes / Stand for Myself / Concord / 3:25 (2021)

[Instrumental Bed]
JoJo Green / Holding On / The Line / Self / 1:00 (2021)

*Turn Turn Turn / Magnolia Tree / All Hat No Cattle / Simon Recordings / 2:45 (2026)
Monica Rizzio / Suns hine Is Free / Sunshine Is Free / Washashore Music / 2:53 (2019)
Iris DeMent / There's a Wall in Washington / The Way I Should / Warner Bros / 5:19 (1996)
Mavis Staples / I'll Be Rested / We'll Never Turn Back / Anti / 5:44 (2007)

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WOMENFOLK, hosted by Ellen Stanley (she/her)
~the best in folk/americana music from women & non-binary artists~

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