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No WUMB Music Festival (née Boston Folk Festival) in 2012

Ron Newman — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:20:33 +0000

WUMB radio has sponsored a music festival since 1998, called 'Boston Folk Festival' through 2009 but renamed 'WUMB Music Festival' for 2010 and 2011.

But not this year. The festival web site announces:

The 2012 WUMB Music Fest scheduled for Sunday, June 3rd has been cancelled.

The site says a 'Member Concert Marathon' will replace it on that date, but this appears to be for WUMB members only rather than for the general paying public.

WUMB's festival has been in decline for several years. Formerly a two-day event, it was reduced to one day starting in 2007. In 2009 it was nearly cancelled, then hurriedly revived as an indoor-only event. In 2010 its name was changed and the date moved from September to June. In 2011, the festival's annual songwriting contest was cancelled.

Local folk fans seeking an outdoor festival will need to travel to Lowell or New Bedford this summer.

Oh, dreidel, dreidel, dreidel

adamg — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:30:43 +0000

Need an alternative to WODS and WROR? WUMB is streaming Chanukah music 24/7.

Rest in Peace, Passim Folk Music and Cultural Center

notloB — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:09:56 +0000

What do WGBH-fm, WUMB-fm and now Club Passim all have in common? An aversion to the peoples' music. Each has gone to great lengths to re-invent themselves, scrubbing their programming and websites of the F word (folk, that is).

Highway 61 unvisited

adamg — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:03:21 +0000

Notlob reports the death of "Highway 61 Revisited" on WUMB.

WUMB folk fans want their music back

adamg — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:44:10 +0000

Notlob decries changes to WUMB - and the newly rebranded WUMB Music Festival (nee Boston Folk Festival).

WGBH plans to stay unique by doing the same thing as other stations

adamg — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:27:50 +0000

WGBH tells the Globe that when the purchase of WCRB goes through, it will eliminate folk and blues programs because there are other outlets for that in Boston (so good news for WUMB, Boston's other other public radio station) and it wants to keep its programming "unique." And by unique, it means adding news and information shows just like the ones WBUR and WBZ already broadcast.

No Boston Folk Festival in 2009

Ron Newman — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:33:14 +0000

Bad weather washed out ticket sales for this year's festival, leaving WUMB radio with a $12,000 loss. So there will be no festival next year.