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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Folk Music News--3.27.12

 
A Silent Film, 'Danny, Dakota and the Wishing Well' -- Song Premiere
Spinner
Like the bluesmen of England in the 1960s who were inspired by American songwriters Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf and many others, A Silent Film have taken British sentiments toward American folk music and turned it into something special.
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Documentary focuses on 'Folk Revival,' Club 47 in Cambridge
Enterprise News
By Stephen Ide Joan Baez, a still from the film "For the Love of the Music: The Club 47 Folk Revival." If you are a follower of folk and traditional music, you probably have heard of the legendary Club 47 in Cambridge, Mass. If you are a music lover ...
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'Detroit Music: A Photographic Retrospective' Offers Snapshots Of Motor City's ...
Huffington Post
Detroit music runs deep. It's a river of sound with changing currents that carry many traditions: blues, techno, jazz, hip-hop, noise and the many strains of rock and roll, from punk to metal to garage to folk. And as fun as Detroit music is to listen ...
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Faberge Egg Festival
Washington Post
They will also be introduced to the egg's Russian roots through storytelling, folk music and games. A Tsar Nicholas II impersonator will even make an appearance to tell children all about Easter traditions that were popular during his reign.
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BofA hops into $1.9B EMI deal
New York Post
The three catalogs are: Universal Music Classical; the Koch catalog, a collection of German folk music; and Brentwood Benson, a collection of Christian and gospel music rights, these sources said. The three catalogs are expected to raise upwards of ...
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An Irish-American Epic Told in Comic Book Form
Wall Street Journal (blog)
So after the challenges Mr. McCulloch and Ms. Doran faced in telling their story – from the research needed to depict a 19th-century immigrant's New York to finding how to convey the sound of Irish folk music on the printed page – they're looking to ...
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Folk festival with a difference coming to Crowcombe
This is The West Country
SOMERFEST, a new one day festival celebrating Somerset folk traditions will be held at Halsway Manor in Crowcombe on Saturday, April 7. The new event has been organised by and for young people and aims to celebrate traditional music through the eyes ...
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The Bakersfield Sound gets its due in Nashville
Los Angeles Times
With them came old folk songs, traditional country, gospel and blues. Hits started trickling up from the Bakersfield dirt like oil from an underground seep with Shepard's "A Dear John Letter" in 1953, Tommy Collins' "You Better Not Do That" the ...
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Kingston Trio Lives On
Patch.com
After nearly 55 years, multiple incarnations and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the group that turned on many people to folk music comes to 142 Throckmorton Theatre. By Jim Welte The Kingston Trio - George Grove, Bill Zorn and Rick Dougherty ...
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'My music has been a bit schizophrenic'
Bangalore Mirror
(Asian Underground is a term associated with British-Asian musicians who blend elements of Western music with Asian music). Karsh has been hugely successful in mixing Indian classical and folk music with electronica, rock and ambient music, ...
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french folk music | KALW
Our special guest this Saturday is French musician Gabriel Yacoub, the talented singer-guitarist who spearheaded the French folk revival movement of the 70's ...
kalw.org/term/french-folk-music
roots: some folk musical contemplations « Dan Cull Weblog
I spent some of this weekend at the excellent 'Glendale Folk & Heritage Festival', it's a ...
dancull.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/englishness/
What Do you understand About Folk Music | Lawyer Free 4 U . com
Folk music as being an art form is actually a tradition passed down to us all down the years. Not something found inside history textbooks, this tunes reflects the ...
lawyerfree4u.com/.../what-do-you-understand-about-folk-mus...


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