Folk Music News--4.16.12

Folk Music Coming to the Playhouse Patch.com Catch popular folk musicians Tim Tedrow, Terry Vreeland, The John Zipperer Band and more this coming Sunday. The Sierra Madre Playhouse will host a night of folk music this Sunday, April 22. The popular folk duo Tim Tedrow and Terry Vreeland are ... See all stories on this topic »

Magos' music has familiar ring The INDsider The Magos Hungarian Folk Band and their generation of folk musicians may be the last link who learned from the great masters of folk music who lived and preserved folk music for decades. Magos will play authentic Hungarian folk music today, 7:30 pm, ... See all stories on this topic »

Campus gets folksy at annual festival The Brown Daily Herald Sponsored by the student group Folk Musicians of Brown, this year's event featured a variety of local and on-campus bands that played 30-minute or hour-long sets. The festival kicked off with John Conley, who played guitars made out of suitcases. See all stories on this topic »

Pop-folk band spurred through campus event The Statesman Melody Sanchez photos Since their first performance at Poetry and a Beverage on the USU campus, the Logan music scene has given pop-folk band Children of the North an enthusiastic welcome. Tyler Andrews, who plays keyboard in the band, said fans showed ... See all stories on this topic »

New York Woman Reluctantly Thumbs-Down Favorite Pandora Tune The Spoof (satire) Pandora listeners are learning that their thumb-upping of songs can sometimes have painful, unforeseen consequences. Kelsey Logue of New York City has always loved the folk music scene. Her love of folk developed in her hometown of Northampton, ... See all stories on this topic »

Fifty Years Ago Today: Bob Dylan Premiered 'Blowin' In The Wind' RollingStone.com By Andy Greene Exactly 50 years ago today, Bob Dylan walked onstage at Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village and played a brand new song called "Blowin' In The Wind." The song was based off the old Negro spiritual "No More Auction Block" (a song in ... See all stories on this topic » RollingStone.com

Music review: Jason Mraz celebrates love on his 4th album, 'Love is a Four ... Washington Post He also expands his folk-pop sensibilities to include reggae and jazz rhythms layered with horns and vocal harmonies. Mraz is at his best with his guitar and silky, lilting voice front and center, as on the soaring "93 Million Miles," where he sings ... See all stories on this topic »

Did Humans Invent Music? The Atlantic Miller: A lot of music's features vary across cultures, especially in elite/pretentious music like Arnold Schoenberg, Indian ragas, or Chinese opera. But every culture includes singing, drumming, and dancing, and many aspects of folk music look fairly ... See all stories on this topic » The Atlantic

Step inside Julie Murphy's Quiet House The Guardian (blog) Julie Murphy is a towering talent, both in traditional music and as a singer-songwriter. She possesses a voice of stark, spectral beauty that recalls Shirley Collins and Sandy Denny. Her singing is hypnotic and trance-like, a serene stream of sound ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian (blog)

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