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Monday, April 2, 2012

Folk Music News--4.2.12

 
SLOFolks keeps folk music alive
San Luis Obispo Tribune
For more than 30 seasons, SLOFolks, the San Luis Obispo Folk Music Society, has hosted entertainers from all over the globe — Iraq, Argentina, France, England, Canada, Australia, the Czech Republic, Italy, Africa — and across the US, from Appalachia ...
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Folk Legend Peggy Seeger Visits Rider University
Patch.com
The visit by Seeger to Rider's Lawrence Township campus was through a partnership between the university and the Princeton Folk Music Society. American folk singer Peggy Seeger visited Rider University's Lawrence Township campus as an ...
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Live review: Abigail Washburn at the Getty Center
Los Angeles Times
She repeatedly showed her appreciation for the banjo's percussive abilities and for its history in rural folk music as a tool of rhythm used as much to drive and meander the beat as to weave melody through it. Her sense of the banjo's journey was ...
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Scruggs has left musical legacy
Palladium-Item
Bob Dylan shocking the staid American folk music scene by going electric on stage at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival, setting the stage for folk rock that would marry great beats with great lyrics and redefine a rock standard.
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Promoting our culture via song and the arts
New Straits Times
The partnership aims to introduce Malaysia's diversity in culture to foreign tourists, while promoting interest in traditional Malaysian folk music among the younger generation. The entertaining musical performance, Music For Life, started in February, ...
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UNC Chinese folk recital a product of collaboration
The Daily Tar Heel
By Kathryn Muller | The Daily Tar Heel So when she received a fellowship from the China Scholarship Council, she decided to use it to study with professors in UNC's music department. Tonight she will sing a medley of Chinese and American folk songs ...
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Johnny Cash, 'Bootleg Vol. IV: The Soul of Truth' Spotlights Legend's Love for ...
The Boot
The two-CD collection includes a selection of previously unreleased traditional hymns, folk songs and original tunes written by the Man in Black and other songwriters. The various songs were recorded in several different places, including Columbia ...
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Married folk rule at the CMAs
The Province
By Vernell Hackett, Reuters April 1, 2012 9:00 PM It was a night for married couples at the Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday as husband and wife Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert won several honours and a couple of country music fans married ...
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'It's either B'wood or the woods'
Bangalore Mirror
Known for his deep, insightful, stirring lyrics and urban folk music, Rabbi Shergill is back with his third album — uniquely named III — after four years. Remember, Rabbi is the lanky-bearded sardar who took the Indian music scene by storm in 2005 ...
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The House List » A Folk Music Revival
In keeping with the ideals of the tour, which was conceptualized from folk music's openness and sense of camaraderie and years of on-the-road experience that ...
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Japanese Folk Music - LyngSat
Japanese Folk Music © LyngSat, last updated 2012-03-30 http://www.lyngsat. com/tvchannels/Japanese-Folk-Music.html. Satellite, Position, Frequency, System ...
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