DJ Registration link: https://folk.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5dc3050b8b64527eaa668e1e5&id=69ab3bd959&e=83f59e8afe

Artist Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSciWe5utH6beByhx1ahqyx_ldePD5PCowzDqVd5wvwWUvlr-A/viewform?mc_cid=5b95739262&mc_eid=83f59e8afe

During this virtual session, up to 50 artists (registered for the 2023 conference) who have filled out the form in advance will be randomly selected in real time to give a one-minute live pitch to the group via Zoom. Be as creative as you like — you can do anything during your time, including performing a bit! Even if you are not selected to give a pitch, the information you submit in the form will be passed along to the DJs after the event.

We encourage you to have your pitch ready and include your name, location, genre, and the title of your latest release. We look forward to seeing you at Folk DJs Unlocked!

I am deeply appreciative of the opportunity to promote to radio recordings so strong that for the second consecutive month I work with artists holding the top spots in FAI’s The Folk Chart for both Album and Song. The February chart also marked two months in a row for Frank & Allie Lee‘s Treat a Stranger Right as #1 album.

Matt Watroba’s The Far Si: The Si Kahn Funny Song Sing-Along Songbook surged to #3 album which with Eliza Meyer‘s Hello Stranger at #9 gives my clients three in the top ten albums. Love & Fire by Annette Wasilik remained high on the chart at #19.

Matt simultaneously grabbed the #1 slot on the song chart with Si’s composition, “You Can’t Say $%&# on the Air.” Frank and Allie enjoy three songs charting with Eliza’s “Hello Stranger,” #1 in January, in the eleventh spot.

Among artists for February, Matt debuted at #4 behind the Lees in their second straight month in the second spot. Eliza stood at #13 with Annette 22nd.

Art Menius Radio promotion clients Frank & Allie Lee, Eliza Meyer, and Annette Wasilik dominated The Folk Alliance International Folk Charts, formerly FolkDJ Charts, for January, 2020. They earned three of the top 6 albums, three of the top 8 artists, and, due to ties, a probably never-to-be-repeated seven of the top 5 songs.

Frank & Allie Lee, veterans recording together under their married names for the first time, became the first #1 folk album of 2020, while also reaching #5 on the NACC Folk Chart. Treat a Stranger Right included the #2, #3, #5 (twice), #10, & #23 songs while landing the Bryson City, NC couple at #2 on the artist chart.

At age 17, Eliza Meyer captured #1 on The FAI Folk Chart for songs with “Hello Stranger” with her moving cover of Iris Dement’s “Our Town” in the big tie at 5th. The album Hello Stranger debuted at #3 on the album chart, while Eliza ranked as the #4 artist. The album also stands at #17 on the most recent NACC folk chart.

Love & Fire, Annette Wasilik’s second album and first on Azalea City, debuted at #6 album on The FAI Folk Chart. On the song chart for January, “Chincoteague” also tied for fifth, and “The World is on Fire” tied for 10th. Annette also claims #8 artist for January.

Click below to download Art Menius’ 11-page ebook demystifying radio promotion of recordings. Basic Concepts about promoting folk recordings

Art Menius’ Current Clients at FAI

Antonio Andrade

WED** 12:00 – 12:45 AM Texas Sugarbaby (1027)

THU** 12:10 12:30 AM Access Film Music RED (1019)

FRI 11:15 PM – 12:00 AM Texas Sugarbaby (1027)

SAT 11:30 – 11:50 PM Access Film Music RED (1019)

Crys Matthews

Official Showcase: FRI 7:00 – 7:25 PM Nottoway (4^th Floor)

WED 10:30 – 10:55 PM Cantina Navarro (816)

WED** 2:10 – 2:30 AM MPress (922)

FRI** 1:10 – 1:30 AM Songs for Social Justice (1203)

SAT 11:00 – 11:25 PM Poets, Queer, and Radicals (1024)

SAT** 2:00 – 2:30 AM FAR-West (1219)

Annette Wasilik

WED** 12:30 1:00 AM Access Film Music BLUE (1212)

THU 11:30 – 11:50 PM Lonestar Music Live (1223)

FRI** 1:00 – 1:30 AM Access Film Music BLUE (1212)

Tiffany Williams

THU 11:30-11:55 PM FAI First Timers C (Room 906)

Art Menius

Thursday at Noon I’ll be on the “Timelines, To Dos, and Things to Remember When Releasing” panel in the Nottoway Room on 4th floor.

I’ll be seated at a table stacking CDs and business cards as a DJ Friday afternoon from 2 to 4. I’ll be part of the 11 AM B2B on Saturday, but I think my dance card is full.

You can most easily reach me by text to 919-675-2787.

Excellent feature about Si Kahn

https://www.ncmusicmagazine.com/home-1/2019/9/2/thoughts-si-kahn-amp-labor-day-in-nc

My guests on the 2019 SERFA Wisdom of the Elders panel were Norman and Nancy Blake and David Wilkes. Thanks for J.B. Nuttle, yet again, for the video.

You can find my article about Raleigh’s Black #Santa in the December OutreachNC magazine using this link https://issuu.com/outreachnc/docs/outreachnc_1218-issuu/54

Appeared in the September 2018 edition of OutreachNC

Download Peoples Pharmacy OutreachNC Sept 2018

The July OutReach  NC magazine includes my essay on growing older in the music business with photos by Becky Johnson and Betty Friedrichsen on pages 38-40.
You can read the Issu online replica or download a PDF of the issue at http://bit.ly/Outreach7-18