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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Folk Music News--4.18.12

 
From Pete Seeger to Phil Ochs to oblivion: Folk music's westward drift
A.V. Club DC
by Noel Murray April 18, 2012 In the early 1950s, during one of the periodic booms in popularity for traditional folk music in the United States, Pete Seeger was in one of the biggest groups going, The Weavers. Then Seeger was tagged as a communist, ...
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A.V. Club DC
Dunes' 2012 Folk Music Series begins Saturday
Herald Times Reporter
TWO RIVERS — Woodland Dunes Nature Center and Preserve will open its 10th year of folk concerts on Saturday with a concert by Chicago singer and songwriter Reid Olson. Admission is $5 for adults and $2 for those younger than 12.
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Lucky night for folk music fans
Derbyshire Times
When Martin starts a set he never introduces the first song. You never really know what is going to happen – will it be an instrumental? Scottish traditional song? Blues? As it turned out he went straight into that classic of the American depression ...
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Derbyshire Times
American Folk Music Revival At The Library!
Lakewood Observer
by Andrea Fisher It's an American Folk Music Revival! Muszikat-Shalom will take the stage with their charismatic rendition of the story of America's folk renaissance, on Sunday, April 29 at 2:00 pm in the Main Library Auditorium. American folk music is ...
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Cambridge's Club 47 immortalized in film
Boston Herald
But she had an excuse: At a young age, her calling was traditional music and she found her real school across the Charles River at Cambridge's erstwhile Club 47. There she'd mix with other upcoming heavyweights in the fledgling folk scene, ...
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Auditions for 20th anniversary performance of "Sunday Rock: The Folk Musical ...
North Country Now
COLTON – Auditions for the 20th anniversary performance of "Sunday Rock: The Folk Musical," created by Evelyn Dickey Riehl and based on the lives of lumberjacks and communities along the Raquette River during the early 20th century, will soon take ...
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Folk fan James Canty kicks off first tour in home town Billericay
This is Total Essex
FOLK music is often seen as the preserve of American outlaws or Celtic troubadours, but in Billericay there is musician lending it a different voice. James Canty is only 22 but already making waves in the folk world with a single out next month and a ...
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Pete Seeger 1960 concert recording released by Smithsonian Folkways
Washington Post (blog)
By Jacqueline Trescott Back in the day folk music was all the rage. And, Pete Seeger was the architect of many of the best political and sing-a-long songs. Folk music legend Pete Seeger joined Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in 2011.
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The Byrds' Roger McGuinn Works To Preserve Folk
WBUR
Each week, Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame singer and guitarist Roger McGuinn, best known as the front man for The Byrds, is considered a pioneer of folk rock. The band blended traditional folk songs with a rock beat and scored major hits in the 1960's ...
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Get ready for folk music with wind
Ashbourne News Telegraph
Featuring Derby musician Andy Cutting, BBC Folk Musician of the Year 2009 and 2011 on the diatonic accordion, the band also boasts the talents of Jo Freya on clarinet and saxophones; Paul James on bagpipes and saxophones; Gregory Jolivet playing the ...
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Ashbourne News Telegraph

Blogs
 
mudcat.org: Lithuania folk music?
Has anyone found any venues in Palanga or Kaunus that have song, dance and music? We'll re-visit the lovely ladies in the Folk Museum in Kaunus, offering a few songs and tunes and a gift of a tin whistle, in the hope of being allowed to play ...
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Web
 
See Trampled By Turtles Folk Music Live | Central New York ...
Concerts, concerts, concerts, blah, blah, blah… Well guess what? Here's another one. The ...
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Borderline Folk Music Club | The Journal News | LoHud.com ...
Work O'The Weavers, the quartet of James Durst, Marta Sandifer, Mark Murphy and David Bernz recreate the favorite songs of the original Weavers. Concert is ...
www.lohud.com/article/.../Borderline-Folk-Music-Club

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