Folk Music & Beyond Thank-You Gifts

KALW Fall 2026 Fundraising Drive

GIVE THE GIFT THAT KEEPS GIVING and support Folk Music & Beyond! Contribute this Saturday (October 17th) between 2:00 and 4:00 P.M. and select any of our fine thank-you gifts by going on-line KALW.org or by calling (800) 525-9917!

For $60—

Rhiannon Giddens’s New CD Hope Is the Thing with Feathers

For those of you who love folk music, this is the album for you! Rhiannon went back to basics and recorded all songs live with few overdubs. Four original songs inspired by crisis, loss, grief, and hope plus familiar classics by Ola Belle Reed and Elizabeth Cotton. The title song’s lyrics are from the Emily Dickinson poem.

1. “Angel Fire Rise”
2. “Hope Is the Thing with Feathers”
3. “Step Away Blues”
4. “Wish in Vain”
5. “Carolina Rain”
6. “High on a Mountain”
7. “Freight Train”
8. “Walk with Me”
9. “Cluck Old Hen”
10. “Going Home”