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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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September 05, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
Choosing love, choosing hope, celebrating those choices through life's twists and turns: if there's a theme running through the thirteen cuts on t Terri Allard's latest release, Live . . . 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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December 13, 2007 08:07 AM EST --
Pam Tillis has always been both a maverick and a traditionalist in country music. She brings that trademark insight and diversity to her holiday album, Just in Time for Christmas.
There's . . . more
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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 . . . 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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April 04, 2007 02:20 PM EDT --
"I have the best conducting job in the world," says Paul Gambill, music director of the Nashville Chamber Orchestra . "It's way too much fun!" A typical evening Gambill . . . more
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May 17, 2007 07:20 AM EDT --
"There are all kinds of passages in life, and this is the one where we have to wake up and be grown up, we're not kids any more, we've children to raise, countries to run -- or mis run . . . more
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June 14, 2007 07:13 AM EDT --
The Photo Essay Experience: Thinking about music through image is the subject of this edition of Voices.
This is a quiet photograph, showing two people connecting with the music, each other, . . . more
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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, . . . more
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July 26, 2007 05:59 AM EDT --
"I'm not a romantic about it at all, but I think the music in my blood, and there's nothing I can do about it," Michael Black says, laughing. He holds a doctorate in sociology and . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . 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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