Probably yes, if we have enough to choose from! Grassy Hill is committed to helping listeners discover excellent new music from around North America and the rest of the planet. That means going beyond the "usual suspects" and well known artists, and streaming lots of lesser known and self released songs.

Here's how to submit your music: send a compact disc (no tapes please) to

     Submissions Manager
     Grassy Hill Radio
     PO Box 160
     Lyme, CT 06371

We don't return discs, so please don't send your only copy. The more songs you send, the more likely we are to find ones that we like. When we do, we'll add them to the playlist and include the author and title information you provide.

Please don't send 'inquiries' asking whether it's OK to send a disc. Listen to the station and/or look at the playlist - if you make acoustic folk or world music, just go ahead and send. (We get a ton of submissions from people who do take the time to read these instructions - if you can't be bothered, that's OK, you just won't get played.)

Make sure you're on the web somewhere too, because on the Grassy Hill Radio playlist, every song is a "click through." We search Google for your name and the keyword "music." So make sure you have a site of some kind with your name in the Title and the front page, and the word "music" in there too. That way your "spins" on GHR will translate into new listeners who learn more about you.

Is a CD-R all right? Yes, as long as you provide full information on the name of the album or EP, the song titles, and of course your band's name. Please make sure it's not scratched or cracked! (And be careful of thick paper labels, they can gum up people's players.) Also, please have mercy and put the track list on a separate insert - not just on the disc label - it's hard to read when the disc is playing!

What about submitting MP3's? We always make our own MP3's from uncompressed originals for two reasons:

1. We encode at 56Kbps ourselves using a top quality professional "codec" in "maximum quality crunch" mode - it takes longer, but the results sound superb even at our bitrate. Most folks who encode MP3's use a lower quality encoder - the results are not good enough at 56K. And if you encode at a higher bitrate (usually 128Kbps) we have to "transcode" downwards, which sounds downright awful.
2. Also, we reserve the right to change our bitrate at some point in the future, and we'll need the originals to do it.

One other note - This does not mean we are asking to join your mailing list. If you add our email address (or anything@grassyhill.org) to your mailing list anyway, without us having asked you to, we will pull your songs from the station. Thanks.