Folk Music News--3.28.12

Shirley Collins/Courtesy of Alan Lomax Archive NPR (blog) Folklorist Alan Lomax spent his career documenting folk music traditions from around the world. Now thousands of the songs and interviews he recorded are available for free online, many for the first time. It's part of what Lomax envisioned for the ... See all stories on this topic »

Folk music, country and blues coming to the Clay Center in Charleston WOWK By April Kaull, Anchor - email Contemporary folk, retro pop and old school country music is coming to the Clay Center in Charleston. The concert on April 7 will include three accomplished Nashville singer-songwriters as part of the Woody Hawley Concert ... See all stories on this topic »

Folk musicians to perform at library April 11 Hudson Hub-Times Hirshon attended Grinnell College in Iowa, where she designed her own specialty "Traditional Music in American Culture" within the field of American studies, combining history, anthropology and music. She studied and was influenced by ragtime, ... See all stories on this topic »

How Communal Singing Disappeared From American Life The Atlantic Perhaps the vigils will inspire a powerful new folk song—one that's easy to sing, memorable, "viral"—to be written. Colin Goddard, a survivor of the Virginia Tech shooting who went on to become an activist against gun violence, said he couldn't ... See all stories on this topic »

Folk takes spotlight at Stouffville showcase YorkRegion.com Folk music has moved from the fringes of popularity to centre stage with performers such as Jason Mraz, Sarah McLachlan, Jann Arden and Blue Rodeo leading the charge. There are now folk festivals held all over the world, but when it comes to York ... See all stories on this topic »

Sandy Bull: the Sixties folk pioneer who burnt out too soon Telegraph.co.uk To listen to Live 1976 now is to remember a unique American talent who opened doors for other artists to rethink the boundaries and possibilities of music. Bull started as an orthodox folk guitarist, but from 1962 to the early Seventies, recorded four ... See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk

Alan Lomax's Massive Archive Goes Online New Hampshire Public Radio By Joel Rose Folklorist Alan Lomax spent his career documenting folk music traditions from around the world. Now thousands of the songs and interviews he recorded are available for free online, many for the first time. See all stories on this topic »

Chicago's Indie Festivals Face Increased Challenges Huffington Post "It's a Byzantine and quixotic process," said James "Bau" Graves, executive director of the Old Town School of Folk Music, which has canceled the Folk & Roots Festival it has run for the last 14 years and replaced it with a new, much smaller event this ... See all stories on this topic »

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Texas Folk Music on Saturday | KRTS 93.5 FM Marfa Public Radio On Saturday (March 31), the folk music program on Marfa Public Radio will be an expanded two hours session, looking at Texas folk music. The radio program ... www.marfapublicradio.org/.../texas-folk-music-on-saturday/

Malta Mediterranean folk music festival « MoroccoTomorrow ... Għanafest offers a unique opportunity to experience the different styles of Maltese folk singing. Besides Maltese folk music, the festival presents a programme of ... moroccotomorrow.org/.../malta-mediterranean-folk-music-fest...