Tag: voices
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October 06, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
Martina McBride, Lorrie Morgan, Vonda Shepard, John Mellencamp, Nanci Griffith, Bill Miller, Faith Hill, Janis Ian, Kathy Mattea, Steve Wariner, Diamond Rio, Reba McEntire --that roll call of musicians . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 . . .
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April 19, 2007 07:42 AM EDT --
One of Marty Stuart's earliest memories is of music, church bells, ringing across the fields in Philadelphia, Mississippi. That southern Philadelphia where Stuart grew up was a crossroads of . . .
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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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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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September 20, 2007 08:13 AM EDT --
"This music is the real deal. Really, it's just amazing where it's taken us." That's whistle and flute player Joanie Madden talking, and she's speaking about Irish . . .
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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, . . .
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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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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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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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