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member name: Kerry Dexter
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December 19, 2007 08:33 AM EST --
Thinking about the light, the work, and the music, of winter. A time for celebration and reflection, for community and silence, for hope and joy at the year's . . .
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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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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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November 20, 2008 06:06 AM EST --
The bright colors of holiday parties, the quiet celebrations of the spirit, the understandings that come from a lonely holiday, the unexpected connections, the oft told stories, the new challenges . . .
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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 . . .
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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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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 --responsibilities . . .
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July 12, 2007 07:14 AM EDT --
On any given evening, a concert by Austin based duo Christine Albert and Chris Gage might take you from the dusty backwoods of Texas to a bistro along the Seine, from a Louisiana jive joint to a high . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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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. . . .
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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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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 . . .
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