Folk Music

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• Video: This is Indias most magical festival

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Sarah Phillips travels to the city of Jodhpur for the Rajasthan International Folk festival, which celebrates Indias musical heritage Sarah Phillips Laurence Topham
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• David Wiffen - Sydenham-Canadian singer

  
  Transpontine — Authority: 499
  Thanks to Bob from Brockley for providing me with a rare opportunity to weave The Cowboy Junkies into the Transpontine Mythos, albeit via a rather indirect link with South East London. For, as Bob notes, Canadian singer-songwriter David Wiffen was actually born in Sydenham in 1942 and spent his childhood in ...
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• Rob Sherman’s Balcony TV Session

  
  RouteNote Blog — Authority: 439
  Rob Sherman is a very tall young man who owns a lot of musical instruments, including a ukulele, mandolin, thumb piano and full size glockenspiel. He uses them (along with his trusty Takamine acoustic guitar) to write beautiful, intriguing contemporary folk music, influenced by the likes of Mumford and Sons, Johnny ...
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• Simon Reynoldss Notes on the noughties: Beard here now

  
  Music: Music blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 133
  A series of oblique angles on the past musical decade, beginning with how an entire generation of hipsters wore their musical preferences on their faces Standing on a subway platform waiting for the L train, I saw a group of young men with that slightly scruffy, indeterminately hip look that screams "Williamsburg". I ...
  1 day ago

• #3: Hundreds of Lions

  
  SuperSave Price.com — Authority: 164
  Hundreds of Lions by Erin McKeown 5 days in the top 100 (3) Download: $6.99 (Ranking is updated hourly. Continued here: #3: Hundreds of Lions
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• Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers | Folk review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Royal Festival Hall, London Music and comedy can make a fine combination, as Ronnie Scott would have agreed, but when the musician in question is Steve Martin – far better known as an actor and comedian – matters get more complex. Martin first began playing the banjo as a standup comedian, but he has also been a ...
  2 days ago

• James Yorkston | Folk review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Hanbury Ballroom, Brighton Their most famous scion, singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, once protested that the problem with Fife-based folky amalgam the Fence Collective was their lack of commercial ambition. Their de facto leader, Kenny "King Creosote" Anderson, once said that Fence was "a label encouraged to lose ...
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• Mary Travers Is Praised for Her Voice and Words

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Mary Traverss band mates Noel Paul Stookey, left, and Peter Yarrow at her memorial service on Monday at Riverside Church.
  2 days ago

• Contemporary Klezmer - A Solo Clarinet

  
  A Diary Left Open — Authority: 121
  I now have a "series" of cool contemporary Klezmer pieces, so this is the second one that I wanted to share with you. Klezmer seems perfect to enjoy during the onset of the holiday season. I also found some funny little archival clips that seemed to work well in three of the pieces because Klezmer celebrates laughter. ...
  2 days ago

• tunesday

  
  Free People Clothing Boutique Blog — Authority: 483
  i saw the monsters of folk last night at the academy of music in philly, and i was so impressed that i felt compelled to write about them today. MOF is a “supergroup” consisting of jim james (frontman of my morning jacket), m. ward, conor oberst and mike mogis (brighteyes), all of whom have had great success ...
  2 days ago

• Fiddlefolk international concert at Strachur

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 144
  [ November 15, 2009; 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm. ] You get two great international trios for the price of one – musicians from Scotland, USA, Sweden and Denmark join forces for a great afternoon out.at FiddleFolk’s last international concert of the year at Strachur,Mairi Campbell (left) on fiddle & vocals has picked ...
  3 days ago

• CD Review: Gabriel Sullivan – By the Dirt

  
  Lucid Culture — Authority: 469
  Gabriel Sullivan knows a lot of styles and he’s adept at them. More specifically, his new cd By the Dirt runs through a whole bunch of stylized genres, pretty successfully – the playing is generally good, he’s got a good sense of melody and a feel for vintage Americana styles. Mixed by Craig Schumacher of ...
  3 days ago

• Guster

  
  indi.E.geste — Authority: 106
  Guster é uma banda norte-americana de rock alternativo, conhecida por suas ótimas performances ao vivo. Ela foi formada por Adam Gardner, Ryan Miller e Rosenworcel Brian, em 1991, enquanto cursavam Universidade. A banda ficou no cenário "Underground" apenas nos seus dois primeiros álbuns, "Parachute" (1994) ...
  3 days ago

• Music Review | Monsters of Folk: As Existential as Jaunty Old Pals Can Be

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Monsters of Folk: Members of theroots-rock band performing at theUnited Palace on Friday.
  4 days ago

• NHPR Folk Calendar 11.8.09

  
  New Hampshire Public Radio — Authority: 564
  Tune in for "The Folk Calendar" on The Folk Show Sunday nights at NHPR!
  4 days ago

• CD Review: The Asylum Street Spankers – God’s Favorite Band

  
  Lucid Culture — Authority: 469
  Things like this happen with bands who’ve been around awhile and have the good sense to record themselves in fortuitous circumstances. Back in 2006, the Asylum Street Spankers – the world’s smartest, most deliriously fun oldtimey Americana band – recorded some live performances at the Saxon Pub in their ...
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• CD Review: Frank London/Lorin Sklamberg – Tsuker-zis

  
  Lucid Culture — Authority: 469
  Perhaps the greatest thing about Jewish music is that it’s so well-traveled. In a sense, it could be said that it embodies the best of all worlds. The new collaboration between the “legendary trumpeter of the klezmer underground,” as one recent concert flyer described Frank London , and former Klezmatics ...
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• OMNIVORE’S DELIGHT 7: Q&A WITH THE HAUNTED WINDCHIMES

  
  OurStage Blog — Authority: 481
  Sure as the overflowing soul in their nomadic tunes, The Haunted Windchimes give folk music yet another modern revitalization. These Colorado natives (and others like them) are steadily introducing young listeners all over the country to the nostalgia of folk music with a fresh twist, all while maintaining the same ...
  5 days ago

• Chthonic Live At Rock City 04/11/2009

  
  BigDistraction — Authority: 124
  There is a feeling that you get, at certain gigs, that you are witnessing something special, the like of which will probably not be seen again. Standing here, in Rock City’s smallest room with only a handful of devotees in attendance and watching Chthonic give it their all, you have that feeling – this band are ...
  5 days ago

• Musicians Volume 1- Kevan Christine The Musicians Photographer

  
  The Institute for Quantum Living and Conscious Design — Authority: 114
    Join the Unstoppable Frankie Picasso and the Irresponsible Johnny Collin on Monday, November 9th at 8:00pm for the Frankie & Johnny Music Hour on www.blogtalkradio.com/frankie–johnny . Our guests this evening include Kevan Christine, a photographer of note from San Diego who specializes in ...
  6 days ago

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