Tag: folk music
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September 17, 2009 02:31 PM EDT --
In addition to being a powerhouse singer, Mary Travers was a woman and an artist committed to peace and justice all her life. Thanks for the courage and the music, Mary.
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November 24, 2009 07:11 AM EST --
Is there a young child, or the parent or grandparent 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 . . .
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August 19, 2008 04:51 PM EDT --
Glasgow, Scotland, has just been named an official Unesco City of Music, it was announced today. Join me for a short visit to a bit of that music, as seen during the Celtic Connections Festival
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December 10, 2008 04:10 PM EST --
Anticipation, celebration, new beginnings, old friends, holiday greetings to strangers and those just met, short days. long nights, gifts given and received, matters of the spirit -- these are all part . . .
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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 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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February 12, 2009 02:33 PM EST --
Country star Kathy Mattea has done some thinking about the people who listen to her music. They range across the spectrum of age, race, nationality, and lifestyle, she finds, but they have one . . .
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April 04, 2009 06:31 PM EDT --
This event has been reset for June 14th. All other details remain the same. Check out the online site if you aren't able to attend --it's a great cause.
Terri Allard's music . . .
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September 12, 2008 09:11 AM EDT --
Jeff Talmadge is a Texas born, Atlanta based poet turned lawyer turned songwriter.
This song is called Wrong Train, and he’s recorded on his most recent album, At Least This Much Was True, a recording . . .
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November 28, 2008 03:29 PM EST --
Learning music is fun any time of year, so ways to do that make especially good gifts, for yourself and others. Here are several ideas:
Ellery Klein’s Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing the . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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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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