Folk Music Radio Airplay Chart
December 2025

Compiled by Richard Gillmann
From Playlists Submitted to FOLKDJ-L

TOP ALBUMS of December 2025
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 10976 plays from 366 playlists from 100 Folk DJs

  1: "The Blue Rock Session," Amy Speace [Windbone, 12/2025] (74)
        "On a Monday in London" (18)
        "Kindness - Acoustic" (15)
  2: "unentitled," John Gorka [Red House, 10/2025] (63)
        "First Snow On The Mountains" (15)
        "Particle & Wave" (11)
        "Favorite Place" (8)
  3: "Wrapped in Paper," Sofia Talvik [Self, 12/2025] (38)
        "Let Peace Be The Song" (10)
        "At Christmas" (5)
        "Poem At Year's End" (5)
  4: "Safe, Sensible & Sane," Alison Brown & Steve Martin [Compass, 10/2025] (34)
        "Girl, Have Money When You're Old" (9)
        "Dear Time" (6)
  5: "From Here to the Sea," Meredith Moon [Compass, 10/2025] (29)
        "Lulu Gal" (6)
        "No Closing Time" (5)
        "Sapphire Blue" (5)
  6: "Memory Mountain," Max Gomez [Marveltone, 11/2025] (28)
        "Good Friends" (10)
        "New Mexico" (5)
        "Too Afraid To Fall In Love" (5)
  6: "Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle," Willie Nelson [Legacy, 11/2025] (28)
        "If We Make It Through December" (14)
        "Mama Tried" (4)
  8: "Together on a Rock," The Pairs [Self, 4/2025] (26)
        "Little Light" (8)
        "Honey I" (8)
  8: "Waiting for Christmas to Come," The Twangtown Paramours [Self, 12/2025] (26)
        "Waiting for Christmas to Come" (25)
 10: "Bones of Trees," Tim Grimm [Vault, 4/2025] (23)
        "Christmas in the Trenches" (7)
        "Up In The Attic" (4)
        "Broken Truth" (4)
        "Woody's Landlord Revisited" (3)
 11: "Avec Elodie," Eloise & Co [Self, 10/2025] (21)
        "Avant-Deux De Vitteaux" (3)
        "Humours of Trim / Humours of Kilclogher" (3)
        "Moonflower" (3)
 11: "Long Journey Home," Various Artists [Appalsongs, 9/2025] (21)
        "900 Miles," Tim O'Brien (5)
        "House Carpenter," Jake Blount (3)
 11: "You Climb the Mountain," The Onlies [Self, 8/2025] (21)
        "Waves on the Sea" (3)
        "Matty Groves" (3)
 14: "Hill Country Folk Music," Terry Klein [Self, 11/2025] (20)
        "Try Again" (6)
        "Hopelessness is Going Around" (4)
        "If You Go" (3)
 14: "Voisinages," Le Vent Du Nord [La Compagnie du Nord, 10/2025] (20)
        "La Lettre" (4)
        "Du Nord au Sud" (3)
 16: "The Commuter," Jenna Nicholls [Royal Potato Family, 11/2025] (19)
        "All Those Days You Won't Remember" (3)
 16: "Songs From a Secret Room," Chris Rusin [Rushing River, 11/2025] (19)
        "Life is Easy" (4)
        "Leave It In The Snow" (3)
        "Cinders" (3)
 18: "The Kasambwe Brothers," The Kasambwe Brothers [Hen House Studios, 11/2025] (18)
        "Atate Athu" (4)
        "Ndibwino" (4)
        "Mtima Wanga" (3)
 18: "Returning to Myself," Brandi Carlile [Interscope, 11/2025] (18)
        "Church & State" (4)
        "A War With Time" (3)
 20: "The Breathing Room," Cosy Sheridan [Self, 10/2025] (17)
        "I'm Feeling Like Seattle" (6)
        "All The Pretty Horses Want To Go" (5)
 20: "Saving Grace," Robert Plant [Nonesuch, 10/2025] (17)
        "As I Roved Out" (5)
 20: "Where We Go," Jesse Appelman [Self, 12/2025] (17)
        "Glacier Song" (8)
        "Anna Lee" (3)
 23: "All Hearts Are Free," Forest Sun [Painted Sun, 12/2025] (16)
        "All Hearts Are Free" (6)
        "Walk the Path That's Yours" (2)
        "Let Them Shine" (2)
        "Brother and Brother" (2)
 23: "Sad & Beautiful World," Mavis Staples [anti, 11/2025] (16)
        "We Got to Have Peace" (5)
        "Human Mind" (4)
        "Hard Times" (2)
        "Beautiful Strangers" (2)
        "Everybody Needs Love" (2)
 23: "Winter's Grace," Laurie Lewis And Tom Rozum [Signature Sounds, 2011] (16)
        "If We Make It Through December" (3)
        "Hot Buttered Rum" (3)
        "Winter Grace" (3)
        "Christmas Time's A-Comin'" (3)
 23: "The First Christmas Gift," Robin And Linda Williams [Red House, 2005] (16)
        "Shotgun Shells On a Christmas Trees" (4)
        "Old Toy Trains" (2)
        "Rise Up Shepherds and Follow" (2)
        "Nothing But a Child" (2)
 27: "American Noel," Dave Carter And Tracy Grammer [Signature Sounds, 2007] (15)
        "American Noel" (7)
        "Giddyup Said Santa Claus" (4)
 27: "Christine Lavin Presents Just One Angel," Various Artists [Yellow Tail, 2016] (15)
        "Is It Hanukah Or Chanukah?," Ruby & Ava Locknar (2)
        "Christmas In Brooklyn," Erik Frandsen (2)
        "Jewish Kid Born On Christmas Day Talkin' Blues," Sally Fingerett (2)
        "Won't You Please Stay for Christmas, Santa Claus?," Jeff Daniels (2)
        "Light The Lamp," Emily Kurn (2)
 27: "Gold & Coal," Cassie & Maggie [Self, 5/2025] (15)
        "I Long to Return" (3)
        "Dougie's Set" (2)
        "Nancy" (2)
        "The Big Hewer" (2)
        "Fool's Gold" (2)
        "Bow down" (2)
 27: "Hardscrabble Hope," Maria Dunn [Distant Whisper, 12/2025] (15)
        "Another Year" (7)
        "Leave it on the Ice" (3)
        "Coal is a Thirsty Business" (2)
 27: "Jingle All The Way," Béla Fleck And The Flecktones [Rounder, 2008] (15)
        "Sleigh Ride" (2)
        "River" (2)
        "Jingle Bells" (2)
        "Linus and Lucy" (2)
        "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies" (2)
 27: "Seventy," Paul Kelly [Cooking Vinyl, 11/2025] (15)
        "Tell Us A Story" (3)
        "I'm Not Afraid Of The Dark" (2)
        "Sailing to Byzantium" (2)
        "The Body Keeps the Score" (2)
        "Tell Us A Story Part A" (2)
 27: "Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah," The Klezmatics [Jewish, 2007] (15)
        "Hanukah's Flame" (4)
        "Hanukah Tree" (2)
        "Spin Dreydl Spin" (2)
 34: "Christmas," Bruce Cockburn [Columbia, 1998] (14)
        "Early On One Christmas Morn" (4)
        "Mary Had A Baby" (3)
        "Adeste Fidelis" (2)
 34: "Close to Home," Maggie's Wake [Self] (14)
        "Song for a Winter's Night" (8)
        "Christmas is Coming" (3)
 34: "A Holiday Celebration With The New York Choral Society," Peter, Paul & Mary [Gold Castle, 1992] (14)
        "Light One Candle" (9)
        "A' Soalin'" (3)
 34: "Little Deaths," Sage Christie [Dignified Deathlings, 11/2025] (14)
        "Rabbit Through the Woods" (4)
        "Medicine" (3)
        "Maybe I'm Learning" (3)
 38: "Christmas Day on Planet Earth," Lennie Gallant [Self, 2022] (13)
        "Christmas Day on Planet Earth" (9)
 38: "Come Darkness, Come Light," Mary Chapin Carpenter [Zoe, 2008] (13)
        "Come Darkness, Come Light" (4)
        "Hot Buttered Rum" (3)
        "The Longest Night of the Year" (2)
 38: "Drum School Dropout," Christine Lavin [Self, 8/2025] (13)
        "Grumpy Grampy Santa" (8)
 38: "Every Town: More Songs by Michael Smith," Anne Hills [Hand & Heart] (13)
        "We Become Birds" (3)
        "Memory of August" (3)
        "What's the Sea Done to the Sailor" (2)
 38: "Further From the Country," William Prince [Six Shooter, 10/2025] (13)
        "For The First Time" (3)
        "Damn" (3)
        "All the Same" (2)
 38: "Keep Me In Your Heart: the Songs of Warren Zevon," Various Artists [Paradiddle] (13)
        "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me," Freedy Johnston (3)
        "Mohammad's Radio," Tricycle (2)
        "Keep Me In Your Heart," Richard Barone (2)
 38: "Midwinter," Peter Mayer [Blue Boat, 2005] (13)
        "Where is the Light" (4)
        "The Longest Night" (4)
        "Christmas Morning" (2)
 38: "Songs That Sing Me," Becky Buller [Dark Shadow, 8/2025] (13)
        "A Hazy Shade of Winter" (5)
        "Muddy Waters" (2)
        "Reach" (2)
 46: "Blue," Joni Mitchell [Reprise, 2002] (12)
        "River" (10)
 46: "Don't You Ever Give Up on Love," Brennen Leigh [Signature Sounds, 11/2025] (12)
        "Alone In The Lone Star" (2)
        "Don't You Ever Give Up on Love" (2)
        "Thank God You're Gone" (2)
 46: "Marchin' On," Susan Hagan [Self, 11/2025] (12)
        "Marchin' On" (12)
 46: "Merry Christmas," Shelby Lynne [Everso, 2010] (12)
        "On St. Stephen's Day" (10)
 46: "Pastures," Natalie Del Carmen [Self] (12)
        "Plans Upon Plans" (3)
        "El Cortez" (3)
        "June, Your On My Mind" (2)
        "Leanne" (2)
 46: "The Thanksgiving Album," Vi Wickam [Wickam, 11/2025] (12)
        "Grateful" (3)
        "Each New Day" (2)
        "Turkey in the Straw" (2)
        "Billy Bob" (2)
 46: "Wild & Clear & Blue," I'm With Her [Rounder, 4/2025] (12)
        "Wild And Clear And Blue" (3)
        "Sisters of the Night Watch" (2)
        "Find My Way to You" (2)
        "Standing On The Fault Line" (2)
 46: "A Parlor Guitar Christmas," Joel Mabus [Fossil, 2012] (12)
        "We Three Kings Of Orient Are" (4)
        "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing" (2)
        "Toyland" (2)
 54: "The Silver Wood," Krista Detor [Tightrope] (11/14)
        "Awake The Voice" (5)
        "Hot Buttered Rum" (4)
        "Christmas In My Hometown" (2)
 54: "Fallen Angel," The Unfaithful Servants [Self, 10/2025] (11/13)
        "Fallen Angel" (3)
        "Adeline" (2)
        "Buried in the Snow" (2)
        "Endless Highway" (2)
 54: "The Bells of Dublin," Chie [RCA, 2021] (11)
        "The Rebel Jesus" (4)
        "& Jackson Browne The" (2)
        "with Jackson Browne \ The Rebel Jesus \ The" (2)
 54: "Blue Tapestry," Veronneau [Antidote, 10/2025] (11)
        "River" (6)
 54: "The Christmas Album," Various Artists [Pelican] (11)
        "Jingle Bells," Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (3)
 54: "Dark Ages," Eliza Gilkyson [Realiza Records, 5/2025] (11)
        "Times Like These" (5)
        "Holy" (2)
 54: "A Feather in a Hurricane," Oliver the Crow [Self] (11)
        "Doing My Best" (2)
        "Shore Song" (2)
        "Believe It" (2)
 54: "The Harder They Come," Jimmy Cliff [Mango] (11)
        "The Harder They Come" (5)
        "Many Rivers to Cross" (2)
        "Sitting in Limbo" (2)
        "You Can Get It If You Really Want" (2)
 54: "In the West," The Horsenecks [Tiki Parlour, 6/2025] (11)
        "In the West" (3)
        "Trouble on the Mainline" (2)
        "Good Times Gone" (2)
 54: "Just One Angel," Christine Lavin And Friends [Yellow Tail, 2010] (11)
        "Is it Hanukah or Chanukah?" (2)
 54: "Know You From Old," Steve Howell & Fats Kaplan [Out Of The Past] (11)
        "Gospel Plow" (3)
        "Cold Haily Windy Night" (2)
        "Mood Indigo" (2)
 54: "Lavender Moonshine," Tret Fure [Tomboy Girl, 2023] (11)
        "With You" (10)
 54: "Memories & Empties," Colter Wall [LaHonda, 11/2025] (11)
        "Memories and Empties" (4)
        "My Present Just Gets Past Me" (2)
        "Summer Wages" (2)
 54: "O Christmas Tree," Various Artists [Rounder, 2003] (11)
        "Call Collect On Christmas," James King (2)
        "The Friendly Beasts," Johnson Mountain Boys (2)
        "My Little Silver Bells," Bill Grant, Delia Bell (2)
 54: "Perennial," Kate Macleod [Westmoon, 9/2025] (11)
        "The Longest Night" (4)
        "Early Fields" (2)
        "Fair Winds and Following Seas" (2)
        "Beneath the Night Sky" (2)
 54: "The Runaway Christmas Tree," Christine Lavin And The Mistletones [Appleseed, 2004] (11)
        "A Christmas/Kwanzza/Solstice/Chanukah/Ramadan/Boxing Day Song" (5)
 54: "So Much I Still Don't See," Sam Robbins [Nine Athens, 3/2025] (11)
        "I Will" (3)
        "The Real Thing" (3)
        "Piles of Sand" (3)
 54: "Songbird," Waylon Jennings [Son of Jessi, 10/2025] (11)
        "Wrong Road Again" (3)
        "Dink's Blues" (2)
 54: "Voices Of Winter," Herdman, Hills & Mangsen [Gadfly, 1997] (11)
        "Mister Santa" (2)
 54: "John Prine Christmas," John Prine [Oh Boy, 1993] (11)
        "\ Silver Bells \ A" (4)
 54: "Wintersong," Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem [Signature Sounds, 2016] (11)
        "Maybe This Christmas" (2)
        "A Christmas Carol" (2)

TOP SONGS of December 2025
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 10976 plays from 366 playlists from 100 Folk DJs

1. "Waiting for Christmas to Come" (25)
     from "Waiting for Christmas to Come" (The Twangtown Paramours)
2. "On a Monday in London" (18)
     from "The Blue Rock Session" (Amy Speace)
3. "Light One Candle" (17)
     from "A Holiday Celebration With the New York Choral Society" (Peter, Paul & Mary)
4. "First Snow On The Mountains" (15)
     from "unentitled" (John Gorka)
4. "If We Make It Through December" (15)
     from "Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle" (Willie Nelson)
4. "Kindness - Acoustic" (15)
     from "The Blue Rock Session" (Amy Speace)
7. "Marchin' On" (12)
     from "Marchin' On" (Susan Hagan)
8. "Angel Wings" (11)
     from "Goodnight Regret" (Tom Prasada-Rao)
8. "The Christians and the Pagans" (11)
     from "Mortal City" (Dar Williams)
8. "Let Peace Be The Song" (11)
     from "Wrapped in Paper" (Sofia Talvik)
8. "Particle & Wave" (11)
     from "unentitled" (John Gorka)
12. "Christmas Day on Planet Earth" (10)
     from "Christmas Day on Planet Earth" (Lennie Gallant)
12. "Christmas In The Trenches" (10)
     from "Live At Wolf Trap" (John McCutcheon)
12. "Coal Dust" (10)
     from "Coal Dust" (Irene Kelley)
12. "Good Friends" (10)
     from "Memory Mountain" (Max Gomez)
12. "On St. Stephen's Day" (10)
     from "Merry Christmas" (Shelby Lynne)
12. "River" (10)
     from "Blue" (Joni Mitchell)
12. "Song for a Winter's Night" (10)
     from "Close to Home" (Maggie's Wake)
12. "With You" (10)
     from "Lavender Moonshine" (Tret Fure)
20. "Christmas in the Car" (9)
     from "Christmas in the Car - single" (Hot Tamale)
20. "December Sky" (9)
     from "The Raven & the Moon" (Sherie Davis)
20. "Grumpy Grampy Santa" (9)
     from "Drum School Dropout" (Christine Lavin)
20. "Look Down That Lonesome Road" (9)
     from "Look Down That Lonesome Road - single" (Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands)
20. "The Victim Tree" (9)
     from "Kindred Spirits" (John Flynn)
20. "The Weight of the World" (9)
     from "The Blue Rock Session" (Amy Speace)
26. "Favorite Place" (8)
     from "unentitled" (John Gorka)
26. "Girl, Have Money When You're Old" (8)
     from "Safe, Sensible & Sane" (Alison Brown & Steve Martin)
26. "Glacier Song" (8)
     from "Where We Go" (Jesse Appelman)
26. "Honey I" (8)
     from "Together on a Rock" (The Pairs)
26. "I Found a Halo" (8)
     from "The Blue Rock Session" (Amy Speace)
26. "Little Light" (8)
     from "Together on a Rock" (The Pairs)
26. "Longest Night of the Year" (8)
     from "Poets, Philosophers Workers & Wanderers" (Joe Jencks)
26. "The Sea & the Shore" (8)
     from "The Blue Rock Session" (Amy Speace)
34. "First Christmas" (7)
     from "Between The Breaks...Live!" (Stan Rogers)

TOP ARTISTS of December 2025
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 10976 plays from 366 playlists from 100 Folk DJs

1. Amy Speace (86)
        "The Blue Rock Session" (74)
2. John Gorka (68)
        "unentitled" (63)
3. Sofia Talvik (52)
        "Wrapped in Paper" (35)
        "When Winter Comes - A Christmas Album" (8)
4. Joe Ely (47)
        "Joe Ely" (4)
5. Willie Nelson (44)
        "Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle" (28)
6. John McCutcheon (37)
        "Field of Stars" (10)
        "Winter Solstice" (7)
7. Alison Brown & Steve Martin (34)
        "Safe, Sensible & Sane" (32)
7. Peter, Paul & Mary (34)
        "A Holiday Celebration With The New York Choral Society" (14)
7. Phil Ochs (34)
        "All The News That's Fit To Sing" (5)
10. Jimmy Cliff (33)
        "The Harder They Come" (11)
11. Tim Grimm (32)
        "Bones of Trees" (23)
11. The Twangtown Paramours (32)
        "Waiting for Christmas to Come" (26)
        "The Wind Will Change Again" (6)
13. Bob Dylan (31)
        "Christmas In The Heart" (6)
        "New Morning" (4)
14. Meredith Moon (30)
        "From Here to the Sea" (29)
15. Mary Chapin Carpenter (29)
        "Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs of Christmas" (13)
        "Personal History" (9)
15. The Pairs (29)
        "Together on a Rock" (26)
17. Bruce Cockburn (28)
        "Christmas" (14)
17. John Prine (28)
        "John Prine Christmas" (7)
17. Max Gomez (28)
        "Memory Mountain" (28)
20. Cassie & Maggie (27)
        "Gold & Coal" (15)
        "A Very Very Cassie & Maggie Christmas" (5)
20. The Mavericks (27)
        "What A Crying Shame" (6)
20. Odetta (27)
        "Christmas Spirituals" (5)
23. Lennie Gallant (26)
        "Christmas Day on Planet Earth" (13)
        "Shelter From the Storms" (8)
24. The Onlies (25)
        "You Climb the Mountain" (21)
24. Todd Snider (25)
        "High, Lonesome and Then Some" (7)
        "Near Truths and Hotel Rooms Live" (4)
26. Dar Williams (24)
        "Mortal City" (8)
        "Hummingbird Highway" (7)
27. Becky Buller (23)
        "Songs That Sing Me" (13)
        "The Perfect Gift" (4)
        "Long Journey Home" (3)
27. Joni Mitchell (23)
        "Blue" (12)
29. Tom Prasada-Rao (22)
        "Goodnight Regret" (8)
        "Beautiful You: The Songs of Tom Prasada-Rao" (7)
        "Christmas In The Ashram" (4)
30. Eliza Gilkyson (21)
        "Dark Ages" (11)
30. Eloise & Co (21)
        "Avec Elodie" (21)
30. Le Vent Du Nord (21)
        "Voisinages" (20)
30. Maggie's Wake (21)
        "Close to Home" (13)
30. Paul Kelly (21)
        "Seventy" (15)
        "Paul Kelly's Christmas Train" (5)
35. Archie Fisher (20)
        "A Silent Song" (6)
        "Sunsets I've Galloped Into" (5)
        "Windward Way" (4)
35. Brandi Carlile (20)
        "Returning to Myself" (18)
35. Joe Jencks (20)
        "Poets, Philosophers Workers & Wanderers" (6)
        "I Hear Your Voice" (4)
        "The Coming of the Years" (3)
35. Joel Mabus (20)
        "A Parlor Guitar Christmas" (11)
        "How Like The Holly" (4)
35. Shelley Posen (20)
        "Mazel" (8)
        "Old Songs' Home" (5)
        "Manna" (3)
35. Terry Klein (20)
        "Hill Country Folk Music" (20)
41. Cosy Sheridan (19)
        "The Breathing Room" (17)
41. Dave Carter And Tracy Grammer (19)
        "American Noel" (14)
41. Forest Sun (19)
        "All Hearts Are Free" (16)
41. Jenna Nicholls (19)
        "The Commuter" (19)
41. Old Crow Medicine Show (19)
        "Ocms Xmas" (8)
        "O.C.M.S." (3)
41. Stan Rogers (19)
        "Between The Breaks...Live!" (7)
47. Christine Lavin (18)
        "Drum School Dropout" (13)
47. Chris Rusin (18)
        "Songs From a Secret Room" (18)
47. David Wilcox (18)
        "The Way I Tell My Story" (9)
        "A Very Blue Rock Christmas" (3)
47. Guy Clark (18)
        "The Dark" (3)
47. The Kasambwe Brothers (18)
        "The Kasambwe Brothers" (18)
47. Tony Trischka (18)
        "Glory Shone Around" (6)
        "Earl Jam" (4)
        "Lost John - single" (4)
53. Darryl Purpose (17)
        "The Gift of the Magi" (8)
        "Connected" (5)
        "Same River Twice" (3)
53. Jesse Appelman (17)
        "Where We Go" (17)
53. Joan Baez (17)
        "Noel" (5)
        "Dark Chords On A Big Guitar" (3)
53. The Klezmatics (17)
        "Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah" (15)
53. Maria Dunn (17)
        "Hardscrabble Hope" (14)
53. Woody Guthrie (17)
        "Woody At Home - Vol 1 + 2" (9)
59. Anne Hills (16)
        "Every Town: More Songs by Michael Smith" (13)
59. Mavis Staples (16)
        "Sad & Beautiful World" (16)
59. Robert Plant (16)
        "Saving Grace" (16)
59. Tim O'Brien (16)
        "Long Journey Home" (6)

TOP LABELS of December 2025
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 10976 plays from 366 playlists from 100 Folk DJs

1. Rounder (182)
2. Red House (134)
3. Columbia (124)
4. Compass (121)
5. Signature Sounds (94)
6. Windbone (74)
7. Smithsonian/Folkways (73)
8. Legacy (72)
9. Rhino (61)
10. Sugar Hill (54)
11. Nonesuch (50)
12. Hudson Harding (47)
13. Warner (45)
14. RCA (44)
15. Thirty Tigers (43)
16. New West (36)
16. Philo (36)
18. Reprise (33)
19. Borealis (32)
19. Elektra (32)
21. Vanguard (31)
22. Appalsongs (30)
22. Oh Boy (30)
22. Vault (30)
25. Appleseed (27)
25. Capitol (27)
27. Marveltone (26)
28. Yellow Tail (24)
29. Alligator (23)
29. Dark Shadow (23)
31. MCA (22)
31. Royal Potato Family (22)
31. Shanachie (22)
31. Waterbug (22)
35. Atlantic (21)
35. Fossil (21)
35. Pinecastle (21)
35. Rebel (21)
35. Sony (21)
35. True North (21)
41. Concord (19)
42. Yep Roc (18)
43. Bear Family (17/19)
43. Gadfly (17)
43. La Compagnie du Nord (17)
43. Makaki (17)
43. Painted Sun (17)
43. Shamus (17)
49. Mercury (16)
49. Rushing River (16)
51. Fantasy (15)
51. Hand & Heart (15)
51. SME (15)
51. Turtle Bear (15)

FOLK DJs - December 2025
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 10976 plays from 366 playlists from 100 Folk DJs

Al Kniola (WVPE-FM, IN)
Allen Larman (KPFK-FM, CA)
Angela Page (WJFF-FM & folkmusicnotebook.com, NY)
Annie Keville (WVBR-FM, NY)
Art Menius (WHUP-LP, NC)
Art Stevenson (WORT-FM, WI)
Arthur & Andrea Berman (CiTR-FM & podcast, BC)
Artie Martello (WIOX-FM & mixcloud.com, NY)
Bill "Rusty" Crowell & Jan Alba (WPPM-FM & mixcloud.com, PA)
Bill Revill (WESU-FM, CT)
Bob McWilliams (Kansas Public Radio)
Bob Weiser (WOMR-FM & WFMR-FM, MA)
Bruce Cameron (2MCE-FM, Australia)
Bruce Swan (WSFM-LP, NC)
Bud Johnson (KNBA-FM & syndicated, AK)
Carolyn VandeWiele (WFHB-FM, IN)
Charlie Backfish (WUSB-FM, NY)
Chris Kocher (WHRW-FM, NY)
Chris McGill (WSPN-FM, NY)
Colin Fielding (3INR-FM, Australia)
Craig Huegel (WMNF-FM, FL)
Dan Alloway (KTEP-FM, TX)
Dan Shramek (KBOO-FM, OR)
Daryana Antipova (WFHB-FM)
Dave Aton (WRFG-FM & mixcloud.com, GA)
David John (KAXE/KBXE-FM & KAVE/KBXE-FM, MN)
David Sears (WBGU-FM & syndicated, OH)
Denis McGilvray (KWGS-FM, OK)
Diane Hunt (KBOO-FM, OR)
Dick Hermans (WKZE-FM, NY)
Don Jacobson (KBOO-FM, OR)
Doug Tucker (KWVA-FM, OR)
Ed Mellnick (KBOO-FM, OR)
Ellen Stanley (KFAI-FM, MN)
Eureka Mike (KEXP-FM & thesonicplanet.com, FL)
Gerry Goodfriend (CKUT-FM, QC)
Gordon Nash (folkmusicnotebook.com, NY)
Graham Dean & Barbara Dean (WBCR-LP, MA)
Harlon Joye (WRFG-FM, GA)
Helen Leicht (folkmusicnotebook.com, PA)
Jack Dugan (WIOX-FM, NY)
Jan Vanderhorst (justusfolk.com, ON)
Jean Geiger (mixcloud.com, WA)
Jenny Flux (2BBB-FM, Australia)
Jim Canales (WWSP-FM, WI)
Jim Fisher (WGCS-FM, IN)
Jim Gilliland (WRUW-FM, OH)
Jim Marino (CFMU-FM, ON)
Jim Welsh (mixcloud.com)
Joe Pszonek (folkmusicnotebook.com, SC)
John Weingart (WPRB-FM, NJ)
Johnny Bazzano (KRCB-FM, CA)
Jon Stein (WTBQ-FM, NY)
Kate McNally (New Hampshire Public Radio)
Katrina Knight (3RFS-FM & mixcloud.com, Australia)
Ken Batista (WRCT-FM, PA)
Kevin Elliott (WEFT-FM, IL)
Kevin Vance (KALW-FM & KPFA-FM, CA)
Laurie DesJardins (KVMR-FM, CA)
Len Holton (KUAR-FM & mixcloud.com, AR)
Lilli Kuzma (WDCB-FM, IL)
Marc Albert (KMUZ-FM & mixcloud.com, OR)
Marilyn Rea Beyer (WFMT-FM, IL)
Mark Michaelis (WGDR/WGDH-FM, VT)
Mark Sahlgren and Darcy Wilkin (WRKF-FM, LA)
Mary Anne Moorman (KBCS-FM, WA)
Menachem Vinegrad (Radio Upper Galilee & folkmusicnotebook.com, Israel)
Michael Alzo (WSLU-FM, NY)
Michael Benson (WESU-FM, CT)
Michael Kane (WBRS-FM & WNCW-FM, MA)
Michael Park (mixcloud.com & PRX, NY)
Michael Stock (WLRN-FM, FL)
Mike Regenstreif (CKCU-FM, ON)
Mitch Park (Radio Kidnappers & newfolkrecords.com, New Zealand)
Nick Noble (WICN-FM, MA)
Norm Mast (WVPE-FM, IN)
Paul Hartman (WTMD-FM, MD)
Paul Hefti (KRCL-FM & live365.com, UT)
Paul Porzio (Cox Cable, VA)
Pete Thomas (WAER-FM, NY)
Peter Kernast (WTSR-FM, NJ)
Richard Gillmann (KBCS-FM & mixcloud.com, WA)
Richard Gordon (WRCT-FM & mixcloud.com, PA)
Richard Howard (KZMU-FM, UT)
Ron Cooke (KTAL-LP, NM)
Ron Olesko (WFDU-FM & folkmusicnotebook.com, NJ)
Sonny Ochs (folkmusicnotebook.com, NY)
Steve Brockway (KRFC-FM, CO)
Steve Edge (CiTR-FM & syndicated, BC)
Stu Weaver (WFCF-FM, FL)
Sue Kessell (WNUR-FM, IL)
Taylor Caffery (WRKF-FM, LA)
Terry B. Moses & Naomi Soule (KCLC-FM, MO)
Tom Coxworth (CKUA-FM, AB)
Tom Druckenmiller (WDIY-FM & podcast, PA)
Tom Funk (KGLP-FM, NM)
Wally Bowen (KOCF-LP, OR)
Wanda Fischer (WAMC-FM & mixcloud.com, NY)
Wayne Greene (KEOS-FM, TX)
Wendy Gregson & Renee McLachlan (CKUA-FM, AB)