Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: Previewing the 2025 Ann Arbor Folk Fest, plus a Temptations classic, new Lady Blackbird and Bon Iver + more

Listen to “Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music” every Saturday from 2-4 p.m. ET on Detroit Public Radio 101.9 WDET.

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Ann Arbor Folk Fest 2025

On this episode of Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music, we preview a bunch of artists who will be performing at the 2025 Ann Arbor Folk Festival. This benefit for The Ark happens Jan. 24-25, 2025 at Hill Auditorium.

Plus, a banger from Lady Blackbird, a classic from The Temptations, new Bon Iver and much more.

See the playlist below and listen to the episode for two weeks after it airs using the media player above.

Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music Playlist for Oct. 19, 2024

  • “If I Told You” – Lady Blackbird
  • “Kollapse” – Jean Dawson
  • “Much Ado About Nothing” – Waxahatchee (2025 A2FF, 1/24)
  • “The Torch Committee” – Josh Ritter (2025 A2FF, 1/24)
  • “Sweet” – Jobi Riccio (2025 A2FF, 1/24)
  • “She Cleans Up” – Father John Misty
  • “Short Skirt/Long Jacket” – Cake
  • “Here To Stay” – Jalen Ngonda
  • “Method Actor” – Nilufer Yanya
  • “Long Distance Winner” – Madison Cunningham & Andrew Bird
  • “Hard Man To Please” – Baby Charles
  • “Eyelids” – Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men
  • “We’re Having Some Fun Now” – Neil Young w/Nicolette Larson
  • “Lotta Love” – Nicolette Larson
  • “Last Night Of The World” – Bruce Cockburn (2025 A2FF, 1/25)
  • “Walk On The Ocean” – Toad The Wet Sprocket (2025 A2FF, 1/25)
  • “One Step In The Right Direction” – Joy Clark (2025 A2FF, 1/25)
  • “Dreaming” – Marshmello, Pink and Sting
  • “Fields Of Gold” – Sting (Acoustic Cafe in-studio performance)
  • “Somebody New – Thee Sacred Souls
  • “You Ain’t The Only One” – Mary J. Blige
  • “Arrow” – The Head & The Heart
  • “The Deepest Part” – Jo Serrapere
  • “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg” – The Temptations
  • “If You Can’t Rock Me” – Rolling Stones (It’s Only Rock & Roll released 1974)

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  • Rob Reinhart
    Rob Reinhart is host of WDET's "Essential Music" and the syndicated program "Acoustic Cafe," heard on 125 stations around the country, and stations from Greece to New Zealand. He's voted in 11 presidential elections: 5 wins, 6 losses.