WTMD 2019 Events
First Thursday Festival Baltimore’s largest free, live outdoor music festival series Each First Thursday from May through September local and national artists attract [...]
Paul “Detour” Hartman’s Top 10 Songs of 2018
Paul Hartman, Host of Detour 1. Minyeshu “Wolayta” (Ethiopia) 2. John McCutcheon “The Machine” (USA) 3. Dàimh “Donald MacLeod Reels” (Scotland) [...]
The 5 O’Clock Shadow – Apr. 11th
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame describes the original artist as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music." The cover [...]
The 5:00 Shadow – Jan. 23
The original group steamrollered their way though only two albums in two years before breaking up in 1968, but still ended up in the [...]
Detour Top 10 Songs of 2016
This week on Detour, the folk, roots and world music show — Detour's Top 10 Songs of 2016. Tune in on Sunday, [...]
The annual Detour April Fool’s Day show!
April Fool's Day on April 3rd? Why not? Today is the annual April Fool's Day laughapalooza on Detour, the folk, roots and world music [...]
Paul “Detour” Hartman’s Top 10 of 2015
Sorry, I cheated and added #11, which is a new release of a 1987 concert. Two bands from the Baltimore area made this list: [...]
Today on Detour 11/29/15
Time for a Detour tradition: Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. This is "The Massacree Revisited," a revised version released in [...]
Today on Detour
Tune in to Detour, the folk, roots & world music show today at 5:00 for live music from Baltimore's own Charm City Junction. We'll [...]
Paul “Detour” Hartman’s Top 10 Songs of 2014
As heard on Detour, the Folk, Roots and World Music show, Sundays 5-7pm on 89.7 WTMD. 10. James Hill “Promenade” The Old Silo [Borealis] [...]
Paul “Detour” Hartman’s Top 11 Songs of 2013
Note that there aren't any numbers. It's tough to rank them 1-10, so these are not in any particular order. Artist -- song -- [...]
Paul “Detour” Hartman’s Top 10 Songs of 2012
In no particular order: 1. White Freightliner Blues by Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott 2. Heartland Sea by Cahalen Morrison & Eli West 3. [...]
September First Thursdays lineup
The Nighthawks Join WTMD for the final First Thursdays Concert in the Park of 2012 on Thursday, September 6th in West Mt. [...]
Free world music sampler download
ARC Music is offering a free 19-track world music sampler download. To access the download all you need to do is sign up for [...]
Alice’s Restaurant (The Massacree Revisited) on Detour
It's a Detour tradition for the Sunday after Thanksgiving — "Alice’s Restaurant (The Massacree Revisited)," Arlo Guthrie's epic story of a Thanksgiving feast gone awry. [...]
Detour gets hammered! (dulcimer, that is)
Baltimore’s Ken Kolodner has been called a major part of the rebirth of the hammered dulcimer in the US [...]