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• 25 Christmas Actvities Shows & Events for Families in Chicago

  
  Chicago Weekend Fun! — Authority: 104
  25 Christmas Actvities Shows & Events for Families in Chicago is a post from: Chicago Weekend Fun! The L decked out for Christmas with lights and lots of decorations. Adapted from all the listings I have collected this is the 25 best things to do in Chicago this Christmas . Take note, many of these ...
  19 hours ago

• Review of the “Guthrie Family Rides Again” concert (they’re playing again, today!)

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 482
  Audience response to the November 2009 “Guthrie Family Rides Again” concert at Carnegie Hall on Saturday, November 28th. Arlo Guthrie and his friends will be at NJPAC in Newark, NY today! Sunday, November 29th at 3pm. For info go to http://www.njpac.org
  21 hours ago

• The Mountain Music with Sheesham and Lotus

  
  Guitar Licks and Tips — Authority: 117
  The musical style of Sheesham and Lotus is called mountain music. That is what Sheesham told me when I met him while walking my dog Midnight. The music is simple and refreshing. Toe tapping is another phrase to describe the band’s genre but right now I can’t find the proper words to define these guys. I just ...
  1 day ago

• You are just a journalist Dylan told Phil Ochs

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 148
  Phil Ochs Yesterday’s newspaper is today’s fish wrap Listening to Phil Ochs in the Concert for Amchitka reminded me of the old quote from Bob Dylan about his friend Phil Ochs. Both Dylan and Ochs were folk singers in the early 1960s. Both were middle-class Jewish who drifted to New York and Greenwich ...
  2 days ago

• Arlo Guthrie and family have two apearances this weekend: Carnegie Hall and NJPAC

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 482
  On this Saturday after Thanksgiving, November 28, 2009, Arlo Guthrie and his family will be performing at Carnegie Hall. My guess is, it would be nearly impossible to get tickets if you don’t have them already. The Carnegie Hall tradition dates back to Pete Seeger and the Weavers. Although, Arlo Guthrie has been ...
  2 days ago

• A year’s gigging with LFW

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  FiddleFolk, based a the Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop, has put on a number of concerts this year in different locations inside and outside the National Park area of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs.Seven of these concerts have been part of their ‘Hands Across the Seas’ concert series, which have brought a flavour of ...
  2 days ago

• Take afternoon tea with Sir Harry Lauder

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  [ December 6, 2009; 2:00 pm; ] And no, this is not a seance, its an entertainment, blending performed narrative with live music, taking place in the Burgh Hall in Dunoon on Sunday 6th December at 2.30pm - and the afternoon tea is real. You start with that.Harry Lauder (1870-1950), born into humble circumstances, was ...
  2 days ago

• James Taylor, Joni Mitchell and Phil Ochs – Amchitka Concert

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 148
  Travel back to 1970 for the concert that started Greenpeace The hot news for those folks who made it though the 60s is the newly discovered Vancouver concert for Amchitka from October 17, 1970. Remember when the world was young and we were young in it. When things were changing for the better, when old ways were ...
  3 days ago

• Lyle Lovett AUSTRALIAN TOUR MARCH 2010

  
  Entertainment News — Authority: 125
  AT LAST!DIRECT FROM THE LONE STAR STATEWith special guest KASEY CHAMBERSLyle Lovett takes to the road for his first-ever Australian tour playing dates nationally in March 2010.The four-time Grammy winner is one of America’s finest singer-songwriters, leading a remarkable 20-year career spanning 13albums and over ...
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• Lisa Hannigan | Folk review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Royal Festival Hall, London The stage has been set with fairy lights and one of those childrens bedside lights in the shape of a large toadstool. Its an image to strike fear into the heart of anyone who feels that Lisa Hannigan is a little too winsome for her own good. This, after all, is the singer who decorated ...
  4 days ago

• Singles club

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  A lyrical feast for you this week, with Lady Gaga, Paramore, and Flo-Rida and Akon serving up their meagre morsels. While Sting offers us a piece of his soul cake. Yuk! Lady Gaga – Bad Romance It seems the Gaga may need a bit of a break. Shes clearly being worked to the limit, and if the "ra-ra-ro-ga-ga" in the ...
  6 days ago

• Disc of the day: 23-11-09

  
  thejazzbreakfast — Authority: 134
  Christian Wallumrod Ensemble: Fabula Suite Lugano (ECM 271 1269) With each release by his ensemble, the Swedish keyboardist and composer seems to have widened his stylistic scope even further. The group started out as a quartet, expanded to a sextet with their previous CD The Zoo Is Far , and maintains that size ...
  6 days ago

• Eliwagar | Hyperborean Winter -- Blood-and-Soil Paganism: Only Way to Purify Racial Body from Jewish Poison Xianity

  
  Kentuckyanna true news — Authority: 152
  Eliwagar | Hyperborean Winter -- Blood-and-Soil Paganism: Only Way to Purify Racial Body from Jewish Poison Xianity
  6 days ago

• Get folked up

  
  Mark McNulty Photography — Authority: 134
  Starting last Saturday and finishing this coming Saturday is the first ever Liverpool Folk and Roots Festival which has been lovingly put together by the wonderful Random Family  who also run the regular Family Folk Up nights at St.Brides Church. Im going to be out filming/photographing some of the events later in ...
  1 week ago

• A Lower East Side Anniversary

  
  Tenement Museum Blog — Authority: 124
  One hundred and forty-five years ago this month, Mr. John Schneider opened his lager-beer saloon at 97 Orchard Street. On November 11, 1864 he placed an ad in the New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung, a leading German-language newspaper, which read: The undersigned makes announcement to his fine friends and ...
  1 week ago

• The special relationship thrives - in music

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Folk music reinforces the cultural ties between Britain and America.
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• holiday gift list: American harvest

  
  Music Road — Authority: 459
  From the California coastline to the Arizona deserts to the Rockies in Montana, from the Kansas plains to the Texas hill country to the lakes of Minnesota, from the apple orchards of Michigan to the peach trees of South Carolina, from the Gulf Coast to the Maine Coast. the United States is a beautiful and varied ...
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• New and different instruments

  
  Fresno Famous - Discover local life — Authority: 435
  One place where something new is happening in music is the folding in of different instruments into the traditional American folk/rock band setting. I saw some of this at the Fusefest with read more
  1 week ago

• Tea Party with Local Folksters

  
  Providence Daily Dose — Authority: 439
  I’ve only recently heard of “The Mill,” a converted factory that serves as a cross between Stone Soup in Pawtucket and Passim in Cambridge, MA.  Its no smoking/no alcohol location houses great music, hosts workshops and classes, rents recording space to artists, and has tasty refreshments (and, apparently, ...
  1 week ago

• Dave Rawlings Machine: A Friend of a Friend | CD review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Gillian Welchs musical partner steps into the solo spotlight with a more boisterous version of the "old timey" sound that he and Welch have perfected. Welchs mountain harmonies and co-writing skills are rarely far away, but Rawlingss reedy, Dylanesque voice dominates, and his proteges, Old Crow Medicine Show, lend an ...
  1 week ago

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