Tag: music
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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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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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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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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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September 03, 2008 04:43 PM EDT --
Country singer Patty Loveless grew up in the hills of Appalachia, in Pikeville, Kentucky, where she learned the mountain sounds of bluegrass, gospel, and folk music. She also heard, over her radio . . .
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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 01, 2009 06:21 AM EDT --
Chris Fontaine is a gifted luthier - a builder of stringed instruments. He's also a father of three (soon to be four) and is battling a rare form of cancer, and has no health insurance.
If you . . .
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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 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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September 17, 2008 01:11 PM EDT --
“Dale Ann Bradley is one of the most gifted vocalists bluegrass and country music has ever heard. She is a dream.” When Alison Krauss, who has won just about every award there is for her own singing, . . .
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June 08, 2009 07:24 AM EDT --
Today is World Ocean Day.
For more about World Ocean Day, and . . .
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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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February 28, 2009 12:53 PM EST --
As Saint Patrick’s Day is celebrated across the Irish Diaspora, in America and elsewhere, the ideas, and the music, sometimes go into sentiment and stereotype. But there’s really no need for that. There's . . .
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