SiriusXM radio programmer Mary Sue Twohy has been selected to be inducted into the Folk Radio Hall of Fame this year. The award will be given out at the 2025 Folk Alliance International Conference on Wednesday, February 19 at the Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel. More information on this year’s nominees is available HERE.
Twohy has been a member of the folk community for decades — Robert Aubry Davis gave her first break in radio. She started as an acoustic artist, recording and touring, then as a publicist and then got into radio as a volunteer. Her enthusiasm and dedication to the genre paid off when she asked for — and got — a contemporary folk show on The Village. She started her show in 2005 and was hired on full time in 2006 as her listenership took off. Since then, she’s interviewed nearly everyone in the folk world from SiriusXM’s DC studios, from Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and Cat Stevens to the Indigo Girls, Richard Thompson and Billy Bragg to Rhiannon Giddens, Iron and Wine and Madison Cunningham and many more.
Twohy has also been instrumental in channel building for SiriusXM over the years. The Joni Mitchell Channel, the Yoga Channel, Classic Folk, Bridge Deep Cuts and The Bridge, and, of course, The Village, are just some of the channels she’s been a part of at SiriusXM.
