Tag: american folk music
member name: Kerry Dexter
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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, . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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, . . . more
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November 14, 2007 09:31 AM EST --
Is there a young child, or the parent of one, on your gift list? Here's music to consider for them.
Both parent an child will likely enjoy Down at the Sea Hotel. By turns as whimsical as the . . . more
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March 13, 2008 10:44 AM EDT --
A singer from the western shore of Kerry, a band with members from Galway and New Zealand, Irish language songs from a range of artists including Van Morrison and Sinead O'Connor, music from . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 Oregon, . . . more
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November 15, 2007 06:44 AM EST --
Light and darkness, warmth and cold, connection and reflection, preparation and celebration, community and solitude, journey out and coming home -- all these are part of the work and the joy of winter. . . . more
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November 29, 2007 07:49 AM EST --
Matt and Shannon Heaton made their holiday album, Fine Winter's Night, "just because we wanted to," Shannon says. "There's no contest you're going to win, or festival . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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June 19, 2008 07:12 AM EDT --
Mark O'Connor has been thinking about what America sounds like almost since he first picked up guitar and fiddle as a child growing up in Seattle. When he went back to his hometown lthis summer, it . . . more
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July 08, 2008 07:53 AM EDT --
"I'm going to have to put in some beans. We might get a beanstalk and climb up to Nirvana!" Adrienne Young says with laughter. Though it's not the easiest thing for a touring musician . . . more
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July 23, 2008 10:05 AM EDT --
Heidi Talbot is the singer, Kris Dever on guitar, John McCusker on concertina and fiddle.
The song is called Bedlam Boys and Talbot has recorded it . . . more
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