Tag: acoustic music
member name: Kerry Dexter
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December 23, 2008 02:53 PM EST --
check out a favorite photo essay from last December, a thought about Advent, and great holiday music suggestions, sit in on a pair of Christmas concerts and hear what it’s like to make holiday . . .
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December 03, 2008 04:31 PM EST --
A look at several new seasonal recordings...
Alison Brown is known for creating music that crosses borders between jazz, bluegrass, folk, and Celtic, and making all that work with stellar musicianship. . . .
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January 02, 2008 07:49 AM EST --
The Boston Celtic Music Festival is coming up on the 11th and 12th of January, with day and evening music at Club Passim and First Church around Harvard Square and a Friday night ceilidh . . .
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August 16, 2007 07:04 AM EDT --
The lives of Cape Bretoners are shaped by mountain and sea, by their Irish and Scottish heritage, and by their isolation from the rest of Canada, and indeed the rest of the continent. So is their . . .
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November 05, 2008 01:34 PM EST --
A song about a woman who steps up with courage and finds that her neighbors join her, one about living through dark and lonely aspects of night and reaching the hope of a new dawn, a many faceted . . .
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June 04, 2008 07:54 PM EDT --
In an earlier conversation, award winning banjo player and composer Alison Brown spoke about her career as a musician. There's another side to her musical coin, though: more than dozen years ago, . . .
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August 14, 2008 08:51 AM EDT --
A Del Suggs set might include James Taylor's song Fire & Rain, Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade of Pale, or the traditional folk song Shenandoah, but most of the songs you’d hear him do . . .
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August 19, 2009 03:16 PM EDT --
From Ireland to Iraq, from Wisconsin to Texas, musicians are drawing on landscape, history, and family to create lots of great music this summer. Here are several recordings for you to check out:
Tish . . .
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July 24, 2008 07:37 AM EDT --
"It's got to come from the heart if you want it work" is a line Kathy Mattea sings in one her country hits. Mattea has always been good at that, whether she's singing about the love . . .
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May 05, 2008 10:50 AM EDT --
Roads, highways, journeys begun, and what lies at the end of the road, and how to make it through the trip -- all ideas which inspire songwriters and musicians. Writers, as well -- Phil and Carol White, . . .
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October 04, 2007 07:13 AM EDT --
Emmylou Harris remembers her first guitar. "The strings were set so high off the neck that it hurt to push them down!" she recalls. "But I didn't know anything about guitars, I thought . . .
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January 23, 2008 01:32 PM EST --
The category notation on the back of Alison Brown's recording Stolen Moments reads 'bluegrass (more or less).' The music is, actually, that: it ranges from Andrea Zonn singing Brown's . . .
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March 03, 2008 06:26 PM EST --
Singer and songwriter Cathie Ryan builds bridges between Ireland and America, between past and present, and between the stuff of daily life and the spiritual and emotional dimensions that give . . .
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April 09, 2008 11:04 AM EDT --
Tim O'Brien's latest recording, called Chameleon, came out of a decision to take a break from the way he'd been handling his career in recent years. Not that he stopped performing, or producing, . . .
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May 21, 2008 05:32 PM EDT --
Good Thing Going, the title cut of Rhonda Vincent's latest album, had its start, as many good songs do, in a conversation. The bluegrass musician was on the road, getting ready for a gig in . . .
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October 25, 2007 08:55 AM EDT --
Musicians Gillian Frame, Findlay Napier, Hamish Napier, and Ali Hutton have each worked on other projects, but when they joined together as the band Back of the Moon they found musical connections . . .
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November 08, 2007 08:29 AM EST --
Sharing songs, stories, and tunes through the evening is a common thing in Ireland and Irish America. Irish band Teada along . . .
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November 21, 2007 08:06 AM EST --
The crunch of snow under my boots high in the Sangre de Cristos mountains of northern New Mexico, the clear blue sky through the piney wood hills of north Florida, the wild winds and cold rain of the . . .
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February 13, 2008 05:01 PM EST --
It started with the sound of bagpipes from the Scottish Power Pipe Band and in the light of torches carried by musicians, politicians, and music fans, and ended with a collaboration among players . . .
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March 08, 2008 04:16 PM EST --
A few suggestions for Irish music beyond the pub songs and sentimental favorites often heard this time of year, a dvd of a very fine concert held at Vicar Street in Dublin, and a look back at the work . . .
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