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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Roots Music News--4.22.12

 
Heartbeat and voice of Old Dixie in the Band that redefined American roots music
The Australian
Neither was Helm around when Dylan retreated to Woodstock, where in 1967 other members of the Hawks (now called the Band) rented a nearby house called Big Pink and started making looser, more roots-based music with Dylan, released several years later ...
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Classical Roots mixes spiritual, secular
Cincinnati.com
Classical Roots, an annual program celebrating African-American musical traditions, returned to Music Hall for a matinee performance with a concentration on spiritual music. The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, directed by John Morris Russell, ...
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Music Review: Various Artists - Jail House Bound: John Lomax's First Southern ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
While Lead Belly doesn't appear on any of these recordings, nor is any of the material as polished as his work, you hear the roots of his songs in almost every track. Which, of course, was the point of these recordings after all.
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Anti-Crew crosses hip-hop, indie genres
South Bend Tribune
Well, if you guessed that Anti-Crew has a stage show that features rapping, singing and musicians playing instruments kind of like The Roots, you'd almost be there. "Essentially, Anti-Crew is a cross-genre band with a live instrument band (and) hip-hop ...
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Kathleen Edwards' bon voyage
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Thanks in part to those north-country roots -- but more to her Dylanesque musical leanings and "A Prairie Home Companion" appearances -- Edwards has enjoyed a sizable Upper Midwest following going back to her acclaimed 2003 debut, "Failure.
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Questlove's 'Shuffle Culture' at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
RollingStone.com (blog)
By Rolling Stone April 21, 9:49 AM ET "The idea is to re-create the experience of someone flipping through their collection of music," Ahmir Thompson, aka the Roots' drummer and bandleader Questlove, told the New York Daily News about his two-night ...
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Docs that showcase niche topics: music, urban farming, gay pride
Detroit Free Press
Movies about Detroit's music legacy have been prominent recently. "Searching for Sugar Man," a Swedish documentary about the Mexican-American Detroit singer-songwriter known as Rodriguez, earned two prizes at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
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Richmond area arts and entertainment events for April 22
Richmond Times Dispatch
Richmond Divas Debra Wagoner, Cathy Motley-Fitch and Desiree Roots, from left, pay tribute to music legends Judy Garland, Julie Andrews and Ella Fitzgerald, and collaborate in duets and trios, on Wednesday at the Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen.
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Questlove's Electrifying BAM 'Shuffle Culture' Concert
Fuse
Not quite knowing what to expect, I went to a multi-artist concert curated by the Roots' Questlove at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Thursday (April 19). The hip hop drummer brought together an intriguingly disparate collection of electronic, ...
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Bay Area arts and entertainment picks, April 22
San Francisco Chronicle
S MUSIC Jean-Yves Thibaudet The pianist who combines wild virtuosity with relaxed grace plays Camille Saint-Saëns "Egyptian" Piano Concerto No. 5. Conductor Stéphane Denève leads the Orchestra in a performance that includes Hector Berlioz's Roman ...
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Exhibit explores America's roots music - aberdeennews.com
Northern State University, in cooperation with the South Dakota Humanities Council, will explore America's roots music as it hosts the local showing of "New ...
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