Folk Music News--3.26.12

Peter Yarrow of Folk Music Trio Peter, Paul and Mary Comes to the ECC Arts ... TribLocal By Jennifer Rehm Today at 12:21 pm Peter Yarrow of the legendary folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, brings his words and music to the ECC Arts Center on Saturday, April 21 at 7:30 pm In this intimate show, Yarrow will perform iconic songs such as ... See all stories on this topic » TribLocal

Alasdair Roberts, Mairi Morrison Urstan Prefixmag The long musical journey of Scottish singer and songwriter Alasdair Roberts began in earnest with his group Appendix Out, which emerged in the mid '90s as something like Scotland's answer to Will Oldham's Palace Music, twisting folk influences into ... See all stories on this topic » Prefixmag

Winnipeg Folk Festival: SCENE's guide to the 2012 lineup CBC.ca While the full festival lineup remains to be rounded-out, there is already a glut of talent on the list with enough folk, blues, world, indie, urban and rock music to suit the most discerning of tastes. Here is SCENE's early guide to what we consider ... See all stories on this topic »

O Sahiba, Once More Indian Express In the '70s, Miguel and Lisette Cotta were music teachers, and for many years before that, they entertained Goan audiences by singing popular folk songs. After their children, Franz Schubert — named after the famous Austrian composer, and Chantale ... See all stories on this topic »

Sinead O'Connor to play this year's Calgary folk fest Calgary Herald She may have been in the news for all the wrong reasons recently — and in the past — but the Calgary Folk Music Festival is bringing Sinead O'Connor to this year's event so she can do what she does best: sing. Organizers have announced that the Irish ... See all stories on this topic »

Joey Only not just about the music Caledonia Courier Joey Only performed some Canadiana folk music for folks at the Legion on Saturday, March 17 as part of a St. Patrick's Day event in support of Music on the Mountain. By Ruth Lloyd - Caledonia Courier Joey Only came to Fort St. James on Saturday, ... See all stories on this topic »

What is going on with The Futureheads? Watch them sing a folk song in a pub Holy Moly! It's not all folk songs. As well as the traditional The Keeper, and this one by music hall writer Harry Wincott (and a cover of Richard Thompson's Beeswing). Oh and Sumer Is Icumen In, thought to be the oldest example of counterpoint in music (yeah, ... See all stories on this topic »

Donal Lunny's musical legacy Irish Post It scarcely seems possible, but Donal Lunny, a one-time member of Folk's Fab Four, Planxty, became an OAP this month. He's now able to collect his bus pass were it not for the fact that he lives in Japan with his musician wife Hidebo Itami, ... See all stories on this topic »

Saskatoon band on their way to the Junos News Talk 980 CJME Ottawa will be crawling with country's top musicians including some Saskatoon faces this week in the hype leading up to the Juno Awards. The Deep Dark Woods, 5 member alt-country band from Saskatoon, has been nominated for Roots and Traditional Album ... See all stories on this topic »

Bob Dylan's back pages: Looking back at Robert Zimmerman's first album, 50 ... National Post "Before Dylan, it was all pop music and love songs. What Dylan started doing is writing about subjects that mattered on a wider level," says Mike Heron, of The Incredible String Band, a psychedelic Scottish folk band formed in the '60s who were ... See all stories on this topic » National Post

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