Tag: singer
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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January 09, 2009 12:29 PM EST --
Corrina Hewat is an artist whose vision encompasses both solo performance and composing for large ensembles, who believes in the interconnectedness of jazz and folk music, and who relishes the . . .
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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, . . .
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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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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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