Folk Music News--4.10.12

Calgary Folk Music Festival announces lineup, bans bottled water but scraps ... Tiny Mix Tapes By Kid Midnight on Apr 10 2012 Calgary, Alberta, Canada-based music preservationists, The Society For The Preservation of Folk Music, has taken to the airwaves to announce the first round of artists slated to play this year's Calgary Folk Music ... See all stories on this topic »

Unlucky for some but not for folk fans Banbury Guardian BANBURY is in luck on Friday 13th when the undisputed queen of folk music, Maddy Prior, makes a rare visit to the town. Folk fans will not want to miss this show as Maddy teams up with the multi-talented instrumentalist and singer Giles Lewin and fresh ... See all stories on this topic »

Donovan Q&A: Catching Up With a Folk Rock Superman Billboard Before India in '68 I was always looking for songs where people could sing along. It's part of the job to be a poet, folk singer -- children's songs, rounds, circular songs. And so I made this circular song "Happiness Runs" and it directly references ... See all stories on this topic » Billboard

Folk fest returning to Mansfield Wicked Local By Susan Parkou Weinstein The 68 th annual New England Folk Festival returns to Mansfield for the sixth year on April 20 and will keep residents and visitors from across the world singing and dancing for three days. The festival features folk music ... See all stories on this topic »

Calgary Folk Fest Brings Out Jeff Mangum, Randy Newman, Beirut, Iron & Wine ... Exclaim! By Gregory AdamsCalgarians may need a bit of a breather this June after Sled Island wraps up, but festival season kicks up hard and heavy again in July via the 33rd annual Calgary Folk Music Festival. While some details are pending, the long-running ... See all stories on this topic »

Can 'My Heart Will Go On' Be Resuscitated? The Atlantic But someday it'll be like "This Land is Your Land"—just another folk song. It's been said in a thousand "... and on and on and on" wisecracks, but it's true: Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" never stops, as if its launch sequence of peaks and ... See all stories on this topic » The Atlantic

Barney McKenna, Banjo Player in the Dubliners, Dies at 72 New York Times Performing alongside other rising groups like the Fureys and the Chieftains, the Dubliners helped make O'Donoghue's the hub of an Irish folk music revival. Two of their earliest hits were "Black Velvet Band," which describes the deportation of a ... See all stories on this topic »

April 13, 7:00-10:30, Slonim Living Room: The 5th Annual Sarah Lawrence Folk ... SLC News & Events Come out and see some of the most exciting people making folk music today! Performers come from New York, Philadelphia, Alabama, Chicago, Vermont, Arizona, and beyond for this growing tradition. This year's line-up includes: Joe Pug, Bevel Summers, ... See all stories on this topic »

Blogs

One Little Plane: Playing on Prefix | KCRW Music Blog By admin The lines between folk music and electronic music get blurrier every year, thanks to robust audio editing programs arriving pre-loaded on laptops and readily accessible (read: pirate-able) software that enables endless modifications, ... KCRW Music Blog

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Plaza Mariachi Rally Inspires Folk Music | Save Adult Ed! Plaza Mariachi Rally Inspires Folk Music. Posted on April 8, 2012 by Admin. Another amazing ... saveadulted.wordpress.com/.../folk-music-from-plaza-mariachi...