Folk Music News--4.28.12

Folk musicians harmonize in new school River Forest Leaves By Myrna Petlicki Contributor April 27, 2012 11:06PM 4/20/12 Berwyn Oak Park resident Rob Pierce, a long-time professional musician is opening a new folk music school on 6733 Roosevelt Road on May 1, 2012. Pierce plays his first guitar in one of the ... See all stories on this topic »

Upcoming Irish traditional music events around New York IrishCentral The May 4 edition of the Blarney Star Concert Series in Manhattan pairs two of the finest singers in the Irish folk tradition you will find anywhere in Robbie O'Connell and Dan Milner, who are long-time friends in the close-knit folk song fraternity in ... See all stories on this topic »

Andrea Clearfield's songs from high mountains Philadelphia Inquirer ... who teaches composing at University of the Arts, has become all the more distilled as it is increasingly influenced by travels to the loftiest regions of Tibet, where she collected folk music and Buddhist songs in 2008 and 2010. See all stories on this topic »

Couple has introduced a generation of Manitobans to traditional Irish music Winnipeg Free Press Along the way, they swapped their madrigals and concertos for reels and jigs and ended up introducing a generation of Manitobans to traditional Irish music. Anyone who has tried their hand at the tin whistle, concertina or bodhran over the past 30 ... See all stories on this topic »

Jewish song pioneer Gladys Gewirtz dies at 84 Jewish Telegraphic Agency (blog) Gewirtz, a graduate of the Juilliard School became the first music director of Camp Ramah. She and her sister, Roz Grossman, developed children's folk songs based on traditional fairy tales and nursery rhymes. The recordings' "simple sing-along tunes ... See all stories on this topic »

Joe Muranyi, Clarinetist for Louis Armstrong, Dies at 84 New York Times He also had, to his surprise, a hit record in 1963 when the feel-good instrumental "Washington Square," an unusual blend of Dixieland and folk music recorded by the Village Stompers, an eight-piece ensemble of which he was a member, reached No. See all stories on this topic » New York Times

2012 Rutgers spring game preview On The Banks (blog) The campus-wide event combines the long-standing Rutgers traditions of Ag Field Day and the New Jersey Folk Music Festival with a smattering of events around the other campuses, capped off with the Scarlet-White football spring game scrimmage on Busch. See all stories on this topic »

Girl from Iwate town debuts as singer The Daily Yomiuri Usuzawa started learning folk music when she was a third-year primary school student and has received many prizes including the grand prix prize at the national youth folk music contest in 2010. After the quake, Usuzawa visited shelters to sing folk ... See all stories on this topic »

Banging the Drum For New Classical Wall Street Journal When the two found themselves in the same Yale composition class several years later, they became friends; Ms. Wolfe, coming from a folk-music background in Michigan, joined them soon after. "We were all really open-minded and curious," Ms. Wolfe said. See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal