Folk Music News--4.17.12

1960s Folk Revival Comes To Light WBUR Siggins played a roll in starting Club 47, was the executive director of Club Passim and helped found the New England Folk Music Archives. (WBUR) In the late 1950s, a tiny coffeehouse in Cambridge became a Mecca for folk music in the US Dozens of stars ... See all stories on this topic » WBUR

Chicago tea party Tax Day event becomes Wisc. pep rally, folk music concert ... Daily Caller Loesch was followed on stage by Breitbart.com editor Joel Pollak, who channeled his inner Pete Seeger by picking up an acoustic guitar and playing an original '60s-style protest song about the virtues of small government and the US Constitution. See all stories on this topic »

Needham Filmmaker's 'For The Love of the Music' to Premiere Tonight at Boston ... Patch.com Documentary feature tells the story of Cambridge's Club 47 and the folk music revival of the 1960s. By Becca Manning A promotional poster for the new documentary film, "For the Love of the Music." Courtesy photo A new documentary film chronicling the ... See all stories on this topic »

Music aficionados enjoy Punjabi folk tunes The News International As part of its special programmes, the Asian Study Group (ASG) organised an evening of music titled 'Folk Music of the Punjab' featuring Javed Niazi, son of the legendary vocalist, Tufail Niazi, who entertained aficionados of Punjabi folk music for ... See all stories on this topic »

East Coast music comes to the Highlands Haliburton County Echo By Haliburton Folk Society Much of Canada's best music comes from our East Coast. This vibrant Maritime sound combines traditional Celtic music with country and folk music. And over the next few weeks and months some of the East Coast's finest will be ... See all stories on this topic »

Woody Guthrie's music welcomes new multitudes Boston Herald Springsteen's latest album, "Wrecking Ball" (Columbia), is essentially an electric folk album, inspired by the Guthrie who saw and wrote about two visions of America: one defined by inclusion, and another divided along lines of class, ... See all stories on this topic »

Folklorist, banjoist talk at MU about digitizing humanities Columbia Missourian He and Perlman were in town following the weekend's Big Muddy Folk Festival, at which they both appeared. Hear Alan Jabbour and Ken Perlman join 13 local musicians in the Reynolds Journalism Institute Lobby playing traditional folk music. See all stories on this topic »

Festival organisers hope to attract more folk The Oxford Times OXFORD'S dreaming spires will be filled with the sounds of folk music and morris dancing again at the weekend as an impromptu folk festival returns. Folk Weekend Oxford was quickly organised last year after rising costs and the recession forced the ... See all stories on this topic »