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  1. Edmonton Folk Music Festival

    infobox music festival music festival name Edmonton Folk Music Festival image caption location Edmonton , Alberta , Canada br small Coord 53.534 113.472 display inline,title small years active 1980 dash present founders Don Whalen genre Folk music website URL efmf.ab.ca The Edmonton Folk Music Festival is an annual four day outdoor music event held the second weekend of August in Edmonton , Alberta , Canada , established in 1980 by Don Whalen. ref name CE cite web title Edmonton Folk Music Festival work The Canadian Encyclopedia publisher Historica Dominion url http www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com index.cfm?PgNm TCE&Params U1ARTU0001097 accessdate 23 November 2011 ref The festival continues to draw many people from around the world as both spectators and performers. The current producer of the festival is Terry Wickham. The festival showcases performers in many genres. Most years, folk, celtic, bluegrass, blues, gospel, roots, and worldbeat acts perform. Past main stage performers include k.d. lang , Joni Mitchell , Stan Rogers , Great Big Sea , Oysterband , Loreena McKennitt , Norah Jones , Steve Earle , The Blind Boys Of Alabama , David Gray musician David Gray , Neko Case , Van Morrison ... here? The origins of the Edmonton Folk Music Festival work Music Story Archive publisher VUE Weekly date 3 August 2011 url http vueweekly.com music story how did we get here accessdate 23 November 2011 ... of the Edmonton Folk Music Festival . Edmonton B. Evan White Publishing. 1994. ISBN 0 9698357 0 1 Refend External links http www.efmf.ab.ca Edmonton Folk Music Festival Official website Category Folk festivals in Canada Category Music festivals in Edmonton Category Recurring events established in 1980 Category 1980 establishments in Canada music festival stub Edmonton stub ... for the stage. In recent years, a fifth evening of music has been added, with revenue from that concert ... Wickham ref name CE See also Portal box Music of Canada cl Music festivals in Canada Festivals ...   more details



  1. Richard Meyer (folk music)

    Richard Meyer born 1952 is an United States American Folk music folk singer songwriter , writer , Painting painter , and set design er. Meyer was active in the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the 1980s and 1990s 90s and did much to promote other artists. As one of the leaders of a musicians cooperative in the Village he handled booking at the SpeakEasy club SpeakEasy and edited Fast Folk Musical Magazine 1986 1997 . He has since written reviews for various media such as Allmusic . He has also worked extensively as a lighting scenery designer in theater . As of summer 2008, Richard is suffering from advancing Parkinson s disease and living at a nursing home in the New York area. Discography Laughing Scared 1987, Old Forge The Good Life 1992, Shanachie Records Shanachie Letter from the Open Sky 1994, Shanachie First Aid for the Choking Victim ? Works in Progress ? Strange Generosity Bitter Moon 2001, Old Forge 2 CD ref McGrath, T J, Recordings Richard Meyer Strange Generosity Bitter Moon , Dirty Linen , 93 , April May 2001, p.65 ref References reflist Further reading Allmusic class artist id p2074 pure url yes Richard Meyer entry at Allmusic Dirty Linen , No. 40, June July 1992 http www.dirtynelson.com linen special backiss.html link to back issues http web.archive.org web http www.rmeyerhere.com internet archive of rmmeyerhere.com now defunct official web site http richardmeyer.wordpress.com 2008 06 13 at the age of 56 he is trapped in his own body At the age of 56, Parkinson s Disease has trapped Richard in his own body. We can help free him. by Torin Peterson, Wordpress.com June 13, 2008 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Meyer, Richard ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1952 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Meyer, Richard Category American folk singers Category American singer songwriters Category Fast Folk artists Category Music journalists Category 1952 births Category Living people music bio stub US singer ...   more details



  1. Philippine folk music

    cleanup date May 2009 Infobox Music genre bgcolor goldenrod color white name Filipino folk stylistic origins Traditional music cultural origins Individual ethnic groups of the Philippines instruments See Folk instrument popularity Relatively limited within individual ethnic groups, some forms have achieved ... Tagonggo regional scenes other topics Original Pilipino Music OPM The traditional music of the Philippines, like the traditional music folk music of other countries, reflects the life of common, mostly ... and folk dance music of the Islam in the Philippines Muslim Filipino groups have somewhat preserved ... . Genres shares characteristics with other Southeast Asian court and folk music Indonesian Gamelan ... Ilocano language Ilocano folk song s. Unlike folk music in Ireland , Hungary , the Czech Republic .... Perhaps, the most important collection of Folk Songs is the Philippine Progressive Music Series ... music in the Primary School. It also ensured that folk tunes from every part of the country is preserved ... music ians have also recorded folk songs but none yet have made a folk song so successful that it would ... Folk Music by Mauricia Borromeo Philippine Progressive Music Series by Norberto Romualdez. The Encyclopedia ... node 331 Filipino Folk Songs OPM Folk music Category Philippine folk music ancient phil. music ... scale rather than the more Asian pentatonic scale . Classification Traditional Philippine music is reflective ... Indian and Arabian. It is thus difficult to strictly classify the whole corpus of Philippine music ... or cultural divisions for example, traditional Tagalog music, which is somewhat more Hispanic in flavour, differs from Ifugao people Ifugao music and Maranao people Maranao kulintang music. Vocal Music A commonality is that vocal music is of significant import to every Ethnic groups of the Philippines ethnic group in the country. Although there is some music intended for dance, the best preserved form of traditional music is that intended for the voice, with chanting epic poetry as having been ...   more details



  1. Australian folk music

    Australian music Australian folk music is a term which may be applied, relatively narrowly, to traditional of, also called or more broadly to traditional music from the large variety of immigrant ... Wyndham Read and Eric Bogle . In adapted forms Indigenous Australian music influenced the development of Australian country music and particularly after the folk revival, Australian folk music. Citation ... of folk music still present in many contemporary artists including those generally thought ... more durable in this period. 1951 2000 Folk music in the 1950s onwards lost popularity in mainstream ... traditional music, contemporary folk music and pop, an illustration of the rapid evolution and diversification of folk music than began in the mid 1960s. 2001 Present There has been somewhat of a revival of Australian folk music in recent years with many folk bands and musicians becoming quite successful ... Max Klubal Music for Australian Folk Dancing with Instructions , The Australian Folk Trust, 1979 Jan ... Oceania topic Music of Australia topics DEFAULTSORT Australian Folk Music Category Australian music Category Australian music history Category Performing arts in Australia Category Folk music ... people English , Germans German and Scandinavian folklore Scandinavian folk traditions predominated in the first wave of European immigrant music. The Australian tradition is, in this sense, related ... Zealand , Canada and the United States . Bush music File Gumtreebushband.jpg thumb right 300px ... Bush dance For much of its history, Australia s bush music belonged to an oral and folkloric tradition .... The distinctive themes and origins of Australia s bush music or bush band music can be traced ... Stockman and Moreton Bay. ref name ReferenceA http www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au articles music bush Bush songs and music Australia s Culture Portal . Cultureandrecreation.gov.au. Retrieved on 2011 ... Australian folk song, influenced by Celtic folk ballads. Country and folk artists ...   more details



  1. French folk music

    . Folk music and dance now has an established place as a popular pastime in its own right with innumerable ... devoted to it. ref http www.tradmagazine.com ref Provence & Alps Main Music of Provence The most iconic form of Proven al folk music is a duo of Fife musical instrument fife and drum, or ensembles of galoubets tambourins the most prominent characteristic of the region s folk music, however, is the music ... of folk music called Songs of the Auvergne . Limousin Main Music of Limousin Limousin is known for its violin music, as well as the chabrette bagpipe. Eric Montbel is the biggest star of Limousin ..., French Folk music Traditional music of Europe Category French folk music fr Chanson traditionnelle ... music. Brittany , Limousin r gion Limousin , Gascony , Corsica and Auvergne province Auvergne were among the regions that experienced a notable resurgence in the popularity of folk music. Traditional styles of music had survived most in remote areas, such as the island of Corsica and mountainous ..., folk traditions were revived in relatively recent years to cater to tourists. These groupes folkloriques ..., the Bacchu ber performed yearly in Brian on . Roussillon Main Music of Roussillon The southwestern region of Roussillon s music is shaped by its unique ethnicities, and includes forms of music of Catalonia Catalan and Gypsy music . The former includes the sardana and is based around the city of Perpignan ... Music of B arn B arn s revivalist scene has been quite limited in scope, though it has produced the nationally .... Languedoc Main Music of Languedoc Languedoc is home to several unusual instruments, including ... include Calabrun , Trencavel , Laurent Audemard s Une Anche Passe and Trioc . Gascony Main Music ... interest in the traditional music of Gascony. Gascon small pipes, called boha bouhe , are a well ... to Gascon, and are made out of sheepskin with the fleece showing. Auvergne Main Music of Auvergne ... both regrets slow airs , bourr es typical auvergne danse and swift, 3 8 dance music. Joseph Canteloube ...   more details



  1. Live Celtic Folk Music

    Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Live Celtic Folk Music Type live Artist The Battlefield Band Cover Live Celtic Folk Music.jpg Released February 3, 1998 Recorded December 13, 1980, at the Winterfolkfestival in Dordrecht , The Netherlands Genre Celtic music Celtic Length 34 37 Label Munich Records Munich Producer Ben Mattijssen Reviews Last album Across the Borders This album Live Celtic Folk Music Next album Rain, Hail or Shine Live Celtic Folk Music is a live album by Battlefield Band , released in 1998 on the Munich Records label. It was recorded in 1980 at the Winterfolkfestival, held in Dordrecht , The Netherlands . Track listing Lord Huntly s Cave The Lady in the Bottle Stewart Chisholm s Walkabout 5 26 The Gallant Grahams 3 08 I Hae Laid a Herrin in Salt My Wife s a Wanton Wee Thing The Banks of the Allan 3 34 Blackhall Rocks 2 54 Athole Highlanders 2 46 Miss Drummond of Perth Fiddler s Joy Traditional Reel The Shetland Fiddler 3 10 The Lads O the Fair 3 55 74th Highlanders Farewell to Edinburg The Cup of Tea 4 08 Joe McGall s Fiddle Center s Bonnet 5 46 Credits Ged Foley Brian McNeill Duncan MacGillivray musician Duncan MacGillivray Alan Reid musician Alan Reid Sources and links Allmusic class album id r341184 label Live Celtic Folk Music Category Battlefield Band albums Category 1998 live albums ...   more details



  1. Occitan folk music

    Orphan date February 2009 The traditional Occitan music in the Occitan Valleys of Italy , along with the language and religion are a fundamental element of aggregation for the local community. They mostly consist of ballads , mainly in the Occitan territories of Piedmont performed during almost all occasions of celebration in the valleys and are well known even outside the boundaries of Occitan Valleys of Italy. The ruggedness and impervious nature of the valleys has resulted in each valley having kept its own melodies and dances, different steps and patterns from those of adjacent valleys. A few of the instruments traditionally used are the accordion , clarinet , violin , organ music organ , as well as the hurdy gurdy vioulo , the diatonic button accordion semitoun with pinfre various wind instruments and the harmonica ourganin . Ballads in the valleys Valle Vermenagna Courenta, Courenta dei coscritti e Balet Valle Maira Courento dla Rocho Val Varaita Countradonsa, Courento, Bur o vi io, Gigo, Tresso, Courente de Coustiole, Grondo Gigo, Moulinet, Guiouno and Cadrio Po Valley Giga and Bour a Val Germanasca and Val Chisone Courento, spouzino, Bour o de Ruclar t Discography 1998 Silvio Peron and Gabriele Ferrero Dance of Occitan valleys of Italy Robi Droli Related Items Occitania Ba o French folk music Italian folk music External links http www.occitania.it http digilander.libero.it occt http www.ladanco.net danze.htm http www.folkworld.de 10 e occi.html http www.danzeoccitane.eu DEFAULTSORT Occitan Folk Music Category Occitan music Category Italian folk music Category Piedmont it Danze occitane ...   more details



  1. American folk music revival

    Use mdy dates date April 2012 The American folk music revival was a phenomenon in the United States that began ... in square dancing and folk dancing and musicians like Pete Seeger being involved providing the music ... music in New York and spearheaded the revival of folk dancing and square dancing there in the 1940s ... Party candidate Henry A. Wallace Henry Wallace , a folk music aficionado his running mate was a country ... by other successful albums. Folk music, which often carried the stigma of left wing associations during ... and summer camps, and the folk music scene became a phenomenon associated with vaguely rebellious ... War, folk music would very likely have entered mainstream American culture in even greater force in the early ... redundant. ref Ron Eyerman and Scott Barretta, From the 30s to the 60s The Folk Music Revival in the United .... Often associated with political dissent, folk music now blended, to some degree, with the so called ... jazz and recitations of highly personal beatnik poetry. It was not long before the folk music category ..., no folk music category existed in the Grammy s scheme. The next year, largely as a result of The Kingston ... of the commercialized version of folk music represented by these groups emboldened record ... Smith s Anthology of American Folk Music , such as The Wagoner s Lad and The Butcher Boy folk song ... with Odetta , whom Martin Luther King introduced as the queen of folk music , when she sang Oh, Freedom ..., gave folk music tremendous new visibility and prestige. ref See Guy and Candie Carawan, Sing For Freedom ... among Greenwich Village folk music enthusiasts, but he was discovered by an immensely larger audience when a pop folk music group, Peter, Paul & Mary had a hit with a cover of his song Blowing in the Wind ... Ashley , for example, introduced folk revivalists to the music of friends of his who still actively ... Young Archive of Folk Culture American Folklife Center During the 1950s, the growing folk music crowd ... LP records increased the availability of folk music field recordings originally made by John Lomax ...   more details



  1. Vancouver Folk Music Festival

    Infobox music festival music festival name Vancouver Folk Music Festival image Image Folkfest2006.png 200px caption Logo for the 2006 festival location Jericho Beach , Vancouver , British Columbia BC , Canada years active 1978 present dates third weekend of July genre folk music folk , world music world , singer songwriter , bluegrass music bluegrass , hip hop music hip hop website http www.thefestival.bc.ca www.thefestival.bc.ca The Vancouver Folk Music Festival is an outdoor multistage music festival. It takes place annually, on the third Workweek weekend of July. Founded in 1978, this annual festival uses eight outdoor stages, located at Jericho Beach Jericho Beach Park on the west side of Vancouver , British Columbia . In the past it has attracted musician artists from all over the world and from all walks of life, including Ani Difranco , Utah Phillips , Overtone singing Tuva Tuvan Throat singers, Sarah Harmer , Veda Hille , Leslie Feist Feist , K naan , and Ferron , among many others. In recent years, the festival has added more Hip hop music hip hop and spoken word to the standard collection of singer songwriter s and world music ethnic musicians . Historically, the VFMF has eschewed corporate sponsorship, which has led to various unusual advertising gimmicks on the part of companies not related to or supported by the VFMF but wishing to take advantage of a large captive audience most notoriously, advertising planes buzzing festival goers with low level bannered fly bys . The VFMF is produced with the help of over 1,200 volunteers each year, and attracts an audience of over ... Vancouver Folk Music Festival year 2008 accessdate 2008 03 20 Dead link date October 2010 bot H3llBot ... Vancouver Folk Music Festival Official site http vancouverfolkmusic.blogspot.com Vancouver Folk Music ... in 1978 Category Folk festivals in Canada Category Music festivals in Vancouver music festival stub de Vancouver Folk Music Festival ...   more details



  1. Anthology of American Folk Music

    Infobox album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Anthology of American Folk Music Type Compilation ... music Country Folk music Folk blues Length 252 50 Label Folkways Records Folkways Producer Harry Smith Chronology Anthology of American Folk Music Last album This album Anthology of American Folk Music br 1952 Next album Harry Smith s Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 4 Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 4 br 2000 The Anthology of American Folk Music is a LP album six album compilation ... American folk music folk , blues music blues and country music recordings that were originally issued ... due to its role as a touchstone for the American folk music revival in the 1950s and 1960s. The Anthology ... and Growth of the Anthology of American Folk Music, liner note essay. Anthology of American Folk Music ... halted folk music sales. ref name anthology1952 Smith, Harry. Foreword, liner note essay. Anthology of American Folk Music , 1952 edition, Folkways Records. ref When the Anthology was released ... s Anthology, liner note essay. Anthology of American Folk Music , 1997 reissue, Smithsonian Folkways ... note essay. Anthology of American Folk Music , 1997 reissue, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. ref ... worked with the Harry Smith Archive to recreate and release a Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol ... of American Folk Music Review url http www.robertchristgau.com get album.php?id 778 publisher ... directly and indirectly responsible for the aforementioned folk music revival. The music on the compilation provided direct inspiration to much of the emergent folk music revival movement. The Anthology ... of folk music during the late 1950s and early 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene. As stated in the liner ... America, liner note essay. Anthology of American Folk Music, 1997 reissue, Smithsonian Folkways ... Folk Music By Harry Smith with covers from Charlie Parr , Orso , and others. http www.harrysmitharchives.com ... Folk Music Revisited a 2 CD 2 DVD box set culled from a series of concerts staged by Hal Willner ...   more details



  1. Cuban folk music

    Main Music of Cuba Citations missing date May 2009 Cuba n folk music is very diverse and has been influenced .... Classification of genres The Cuban folk music is the traditional music that persisted up to the first decades of 20th century. Many of this genres entered the popular music sphere. The Cuban folk music is classified in complejos by musicologists ref Orovio, Helio. 1981 . Diccionario de la M sica ... in the Cuban folk music tradition are still played in modern Cuban folk music. Instruments such as the Congas ... to traditional Cuban folk music. Musicians Ibrahim Ferrer Two well known artists that played ... part in the documentary The Buena Vista Social Club . Cuban folk music traditions are still alive ... Cubamusic Folk music Category Cuban music Category Folk music by nationality es M sica ... , mambo music mambo and chachach . Complejo del son music son , with its variants chang , sucu sucu and guaracha . One of the main styles used is the son music son . The son consists of many repeating ... rhythms as well as percussion . ref Sublette, Ned 2004. Cuba and its music from the first drums ... rolling clubs, or baseball clubs, as well as music clubs. Entrance to these clubs was based on ethnicity ... he was quite fond of the traditional Cuban music , particularly son , a guitar led fusion of African ... of the leading pioneers of Cha cha cha music Cha cha cha and the Mambo music Mambo in the early 1960s ... in the film did not get recognition for their traditional music until right before their deaths. When you listen to this music you can hear a strong sense of nationalism . There are no political songs ... Reflist Carpentier, Alejo 2001 1945 . Music in Cuba . Minniapolis MN. Cuban music up to 1940. Lemonick ... Vol. 152 Issue 16. White, Timothy. String of Pearls Cuba s Music Revolution. Billboard . February 19, 2000. Chanan, Michael. Play it Again, or Old Time Cuban Music on the Screen. New Left Review . No. 238. Nov Dec 1999. Brozensky, Jennifer Cabrera, Esperanza Collins, Kristi. Cuba and its Music. Online ...   more details



  1. Jamaican folk music

    songs arranged and annotated by Dr. Olive Lewin . Her book, Rock It Come Over the Folk Music of Jamaica ... is of relatively recent origin and should be classified as popular music rather than folk. Linkages from folk music to mento are described in http homepages.nyu.edu dtn9606 Daniel T. Neely s dissertation, Mento, Jamaica s Original Music Development, Tourism and the Nationalist Frame New York University, 2007 . Among the best known Jamaican folk songs are Day O Banana Boat Song , Jamaica Farewell ... Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 3 July 1926 , 340 358. Folk music DEFAULTSORT Jamaican Folk Music Category Jamaican music Folk music Category Folk music by nationality Category Jamaican styles of music Folk music ...Lead rewrite date September 2008 A notable year in the history of Jamaican music was 1907, when Walter Jekyll s http books.google.com books?id mNwb65fmvqUC&pg PA108&lpg PA108&dq 22Leah and Tiger 22&source web&ots Ltp89l2Cre&sig VY3mLKgEHgBsStMleE03lVCcNK8&hl en&sa X&oi book result&resnum 1&ct result PPR3,M1 Jamaican Song and Story was first published. The http books.google.com books?id mNwb65fmvqUC&pg PA108&lpg PA108&dq 22Leah and Tiger 22&source web&ots Ltp89l2Cre&sig VY3mLKgEHgBsStMleE03lVCcNK8 .... She concludes that although Jekyll s interest extended beyond music to Jamaican folklore, it was by his ... too neglected field of scholarship. In her book Forty Folk Songs of Jamaica, Lewin classifies the songs ... has come a long way since its appearance among Jekyll s 108 Jamaican folk songs. Not only ... Bibliography of Selected Sources on Jamaican Music, The Black Perspective in Music, vol. 8, no. 1 Spring ... pbk 9780486437200 pbk , 2005. Olive Lewin, Forty Folk Songs of Jamaica, General Secretariat of the Organization of American States, Washington, D. C., 1973. Olive Lewin, Rock It Come Over the Folk Music of Jamaica, University of the West Indies Press, Kingston, 2000. Anand Prahlad, Jamaica Musical ...   more details



  1. Italian folk music

    Italianmusic Italian folk music has a deep and complex history. Italian unification National unification ... styles to coexist in close proximity. Today, Italy s folk music is often divided into several spheres .... The music of the island of Sardinia is distinct from that of the rest of Italy, and is best known for the polyphonic chanting of the tenores. Italian folk revival The modern understanding of Italian folk music has its roots in the growth of ethnomusicology in the 1940s and 1950s and in the resurgence ... Approach to the Study of Folk Song. Journal of the International Folk Music Council , VIII, 48 50. References ... migrantes , In Folio, Gen ve, 2005, pp.  197 210. Folk music Traditional music of Europe Category Italian folk music ar eo Itala muziko fr Musique italienne ko ... homogenized until quite recently compared to many other European countries. Moreover, Italian folk music reflects Italy s geographic position at the south of Europe and in the center of the Mediterranean Sea arab music Arabic , African music African , Celtic music Celtic , Persian traditional music Persian , Music of Venice Venetian , Roma music Roma , and Music of Southeastern Europe Slavic influences ... Leydi among others. Toward the end of the decade, a special effort was made to capture the folk ... popular music, including a vast number of releases by the I Dischi del Sole label. Several important ... a large number of records and concerts. The Italian folk revival was accelerating by 1966, when ... and traditional music. With the emergence of the Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare in 1970, the notion of a musical group organized to promote the music of a particular region in this case, Campania was clearly gaining momentum. Many of the best known Italian folk revival bands got their start ... completely improvised, and sometimes competitive in nature. Tuscan folk poetry is closer in form ... in the same field include Lucilla Galeazzi , La Piazza and La Macina . Southern Italy A folk dance ...   more details



  1. Banjax (folk music band)

    required, as so many folk dance bands were prone to do, but to make the music interesting enough so that even those who were not dancing would find it worth listening to. The arrangements of the music ..., whose background was more in rock music than folk, and who added a distinctive drive and power to the sound ... Swinging Safari . The folk standard Jenny Lind transforms into the calypso of Yellow Bird . The music ... British folk music groups References http www.folkmusic.net htmfiles webrevs grmncd01.htm http ...unsourced date October 2010 notability date October 2010 BANJAX was a folk and ceilidh dance band based in Hastings on the south coast of England and mainly active during the 1990s. The name Banjax was a play on words. Its members were initially drawn from the members of the local Mad Jacks Morris dancers ... melodeon player who for some years had been a member of the folk super group Blowzabella before ... folk dance band. By this time, Banjax had begun to attract wider attention. In April 1989 they had already appeared at a folk music day at Butlin s holiday camp in Bognor Regis as the support act for Whippersnapper band Whippersnapper , the band formed by folk fiddle superstar Dave Swarbrick following ... ceilidh at Cricklade, in Wiltshire. Then in August they performed at the massive Sidmouth Folk Week ... folk festival in May 1991, and in May 1992 they played for a ceilidh on the pier at the Jack in the Green ... reviews at home and abroad, in the premier British folk magazine Folk Roots note 1 and also in Dirty Linen published in Maryland, USA note 2 and In Folk Us in South Australia note 3 . Radio Two s Jim Lloyd Folk on Two , writing in Folk Roots , chose it amongst his Top Ten releases of 1992, and it was even ... after Sidmouth. By this time another local folk musician Dave Levett had joined the band playing melodeon ..., and the band kept going. In August they not only played Sidmouth Folk Festival again but had the honour ... had gone from it, and before the end of the year they agreed to call it a day. SOURCE NOTES 1 Folk ...   more details



  1. Folk music of Ireland

    people Irish folk music from the 18th century, but it was not until the 19th century that ballad ... the forces of cinema, radio and the mass media than the indigenous folk music of most Europe an countries ... the end of the second world war until the late fifties folk music was held in low regard. Comhaltas ... music festival helped lead the revival of the music. The Folk music of England English Folk music scene ... Brothers in the USA in 1959, Irish folk music became fashionable again. The lush sentimental ... . Irish showband s presented a mixture of pop music and folk dance tunes, though these died out during ... has made Irish folk music a global brand. Historically much old time music of the USA grew out of the music ... , and Van Morrison . Music for singing Like all traditional music , Irish folk music has changed ... or the living tradition of Irish music. A separate Belfast tradition of harp accompanied folk singing ... of Irish folk music in the 1960s, followed by Planxty , The Bothy Band and Clannad musical group Clannad ... Gold Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collection performed by Aaron Morgan ... 6841. Joyce, Patrick Weston, Old Irish Folk Music and Songs a Collection of 842 Irish Airs and Songs ... Traditional Music http www.tradtune.com TradTune.com is another database of traditional folk music from Ireland and elsewhere http unitedireland.tripod.com Martin Dardis Web Site Irish folk and ballad ... http www.ceol olta.com Ce l lta News and actual information on Folk Music, with an accent on Irish ...For Irish music more generally Music of Ireland Refimprove date January 2010 Cleanup date October 2010 The folk music of Ireland also known as Irish traditional music , Irish trad , Irish folk music , and other variants is the generic term for music that has been created in various genres in Ireland ... Barri conceded that the Irish were more skilled at playing music than any other nation he had seen ... see bodhr n , that their music was fast and lively, and that their songs always began and ended with B ...   more details



  1. Nordic folk music

    Nordic Traditional music folk music includes a number of traditions in Northern Europe an, especially Scandinavia n, countries. The Nordic countries are generally taken to include Iceland , Norway , Finland , Sweden and Denmark . The Nordic Council , an international organization, also includes the autonomous territories of land , Greenland and the Faroe Islands . Historically, the term Nordic was also applied to Baltic countries of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania . The many regions of the Nordic countries share certain traditions, many of which have diverged significantly. It is possible to group together the Baltic states or, sometimes, only Estonia and parts of northwest Russia as sharing ... Gypsy population helped to keep traditional Finnish music alive when ethnic Finns failed to do so, a role played by the Roma throughout much of Europe Cronshaw, 99 . See also Nordic popular music References Nettl, Bruno. Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents . 1965. Prentice Hall. Eaglewood ... traditional music has a more prominent guitar than the northern neighbors. Gammaldans are a kind ... and early 20th century. Circle dance Circle dancing while singing ballad s are a historic part of the folk ... and organum . Greenland s Inuit population has their own Inuit music musical traditions , which have been melded with elements of Nordic music, such as the kalattuut style of Danish polka . Finland was long ... Nystr ms . Balto Finnic music Finland s musical ties are primarily to the Balto Finnic peoples ..., Roma and other minorities Main articles Sami music and Roma music The Sami are found in Norway ... Ed. , World Music, Vol. 1 Africa, Europe and the Middle East . Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books. ISBN 1 85828 636 0 Further reading cite book author Smith, Frederick Key title Nordic Art Music From ... book author Yoell, John H. title The Nordic Sound Explorations into the Music of Denmark, Norway, Sweden year 1974 publisher Crescendo Pub. Co isbn 0 87597 090 7 Nordic music Category Nordic music ...   more details



  1. Assyrian/Syriac folk music

    Wikify date April 2011 Refimprove date April 2011 Assyrian Syriac folk music lang syr is the traditional music of the Assyrian people also called Syriac and Chaldean . It claims descedency from the music of ancient Mesopotamians that has survived in the liturgical music ... mm&type history&purpose modernmusic History of the Syriac Folk music , Syriacmusic.com Folk music DEFAULTSORT Assyrian Syriac Folk Music Category Folk music by nationality Category Assyrian Syriac ... and Folkloric Period Music, is omnipresent in the village scene. A Musician is not necessarily a professional, and whoever can sing in any manner is considered a singer . Most of the time, music is learned ... music or listen to it. Village music may be categorised, basically, into four groups Local secular music not related to specific occasions functional music religious music music adopted from other areas. Here are few types of tribal Assyrian Music that has survived to this day, especially in the villages ... These are two traditional music instruments, literally meaning a drum and wind pipe or flute . They are played ... Another tribal music instrument, a string instrument with long neck, originated in ancient Assyria ... Assyrian Music World War One drove Assyrians out from their mountainous region of Hakkaree South East ... the most influence on modern Assyrian Music, especially the period after the independence of Iraq in 1932 ... Assyrians. At this time they came in contact with western Music and Instruments. Assyrian youth started ... Gramophones 78rpm with 2 songs on each church hymns and folk songs . Called Karuzuta d khasha . Hanna Petros 1896 1958 . Later became the music director at the conservatory in Baghdad. There were church ... Bashir Violin and Ud melodies can be heard on most of the tracks on these records. Music Arrangements ... around an Arabic Iraqi folk beat, after many Assyrian singers began singing Arabic Iraqi Chobe songs ... music was mainly influenced by western artists. Awrahim Gewargis Yaqoub Nona Roosevelt Shaul Oshana ...   more details



  1. Canadian Folk Music Awards

    Music of Canada The Canadian Folk Music Awards are an annual music awards ceremony, presenting awards in a variety of categories for achievements in both traditional and contemporary folk music , and other roots music genres, by Music of Canada Canadian musicians . ref http www.cbc.ca arts music story 2010 10 06 folk music awards.html Folk music award nominations released . CBC News , October 6, 2010. ref The awards program was created in 2005 by a group of independent label representatives, folk music presenters, artists and enthusiasts, to celebrate and promote Canadian folk music. ref http www.thestar.com entertainment music article 894138 top canadian folk music awards announced Top Canadian Folk Music Awards announced . Toronto Star , November 21, 2010. ref Winners 2005 Best Album Traditional Le Vent du Nord , Les Amants du Saint Laurent Best Album Contemporary Nathan band Nathan , Jimson Weed Best Singer Traditional Ian Robb , Jiig Best Singer Contemporary Lynn Miles , Love Sweet Love Best Instrumental Solo J. P. Cormier , X8 A Mandolin Collection Best Instrumental Group Beyond the Pale band Beyond the Pale , Consensus Best Songwriter English Lynn Miles , Love Sweet Love Best Vocal Group Nathan band Nathan , Jimson Weed Best Solo Artist Harry Manx , West Eats Meet Best World Artist Solo Alpha Yaya Diallo , Djama Best New Emerging Artist Karla Anderson , The Embassy Sessions Producer of the Year Steve Dawson musician Steve Dawson Jenny Whiteley , Hopetown and Jordy Sharp Harry Manx , West Eats Meet Pushing the Boundaries Creaking Tree String Quartet , Side Two 2006 Best ... Mauvais Sort , Koru Best solo artist Penny Lang , Stone & Sand & Sea & Sky Best group World Music ... , Beauty Queen References reflist External links http canadianfolkmusicawards.ca Canadian Folk Music Awards Canmusicawards Category Canadian music awards Category Canadian folk music Category 2005 in Canadian music award stub ...   more details



  1. Calgary Folk Music Festival

    Infobox recurring event name Calgary Folk Music Festival logo image Crooked Still 2.jpg caption Crooked Still performing at the 2007 Calgary Folk Music Festival location Prince s Island Park Calgary Prince ... July genre Music festival attendance 50,000 2009 ref name cbc2009 patron website http www.calgaryfolkfest.com Calgary Folk Fest The Calgary Folk Music Festival also known as Calgary Folk Fest is held ... both established and up and coming folk music , the festival features a wide variety of artists ..., family area, as well as a wide array of local food and beverage vendors. The Calgary Folk Music ... Folk Ensemble Cosmotheka Eye Music Stephen Fearing Garnet Rogers Vin Garbutt Great Western Orchestra ... calgary story 2009 07 27 calgary folk festival record sales.html?ref rss title Calgary folk festival ..., dedication, and hard work of its 1300 volunteers. Workshops A popular feature of the Calgary Folk Music Festival is the inclusion of workshops into its programming. Workshops take place throughout ... format. Folk Boot Camp In addition to the main festival on Prince s Island Park, the Calgary Folk Music Festival runs a series of three day intensive workshops, taught by festival artists, in guitar ... their skills and receive constructive feedback from the instructor and peers. Folk Boot Camp ... studies with guidance from some of the world s finest musicians. Past acts 1980 The Travelling Folk ... col end 1988 The Calgary Folk Festival presented an evening as part of the Olympic Arts Festival ... Oh Susanna Pedro the Music Man Kelly Joe Phelps Del Rey musician Del Rey Kimmie Rhodes Freddie ... Bette & Wallet Debashish Bhattacharya Greg Brown folk musician Greg Brown The Burning Hell band The Burning ... United Steel Workers of Montreal Div col end See also Portal Music of Canada List of festivals in Calgary References reflist External links http www.calgaryfolkfest.com Calgary Folk Fest Web Page Coord 51.055 114.069 display title Category Recurring events established in 1980 Category Music festivals ...   more details



  1. G?ana (folk music)

    folk music http www.provincia.venezia.it levi ma index number5 ciantar cia 0.htm From the Bar to the Stage DEFAULTSORT Ghana folk music Category Maltese folk music mt G ana it G ana fi G ana ... section accompanied by the strumming of triad music triad ic, diatonic chords provided ...   more details



  1. John Bell (folk music)

    Folk Archives http books.google.co.uk books?id oJg9AAAAIAAJ&pg PA14&lpg PA14&dq john bell newcastle ... DEFAULTSORT Bell, John Junior Category English music publishers Category English antiquarians Category ...   more details



  1. North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance

    Image FolkAlliance logo.png right The North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance is a non profit organization that sponsors an annual conference that is an industry focal point for folk music and dance. As of 2006, the Alliance had a membership of approximately 2000, and a budget of 800,000 USD , ref name chronicle http www.austinchronicle.com gyrobase Issue story?oid oid 337553 What the Folk? For the Sake of the Song Folk Alliance 2006 , Austin Chronicle , February 10, 2006 ref , and is one of the five largest music conferences in North America. Fact date June 2007 Members include record companies , publishers , presenter s, talent agent agents , management managers , music support services, manufacturers and artists that work in the folk world. History In 1989, Clark and Elaine Weissman and the California Traditional Music Society invited presenters and business people to a retreat in Malibu, California to discuss formation of a coalition of folk organizers. In 1990, a steering committee approved a set of bylaws that officially formed the North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance. ref http www.folkalliance.org about us A Short History of the Folk Alliance , from their official site ref References references External links http www.folkalliance.org North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance official site http www.press.uillinois.edu books catalog 48nks6er9780252033339.html The Never Ending Revival Rounder Records and the Folk Alliance by Michael F. Scully University of Illinois Press, 2008 Folk music DEFAULTSORT North American Folk Music And Dance Alliance Category American folk music Category Canadian music industry Category Non profit organizations based in the United States Category Folk dance Category Folk festivals in the United States Category Folk music organisations Category Music organizations based in the United States music org stub folk dance stub ...   more details



  1. English folk music (1950?59)

    Use dmy dates date September 2010 Unreferenced date December 2009 Births and deaths Births Mike Oldfield 1953 Kirsty MacColl 1959&ndash 2000 Martin Simpson 1953 Clive Gregson 1955 Jez Lowe 1955 Deaths Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872&ndash 1958 Recordings 1957 Sings English Folk Songs Steve Benbow 1959 Sweet England Shirley Collins See also Music of the United Kingdom 1950s English folk music DEFAULTSORT English Folk Music 1950 1959 Category English folk music by date ...   more details



  1. Irish folk music (1500 ? 1899)

    Unreferenced date December 2009 Births and deaths Births Francis O Neill 1848&ndash 1936 Irish collector of tunes John J. Kimmel 1866&ndash 1942 Irish musician Elizabeth Cronin 1879&ndash 1956 Irish folk singer Michael Coleman musician Michael Coleman 1891&ndash 1945 Irish fiddler James Morrison fiddler James Morrison 1893&ndash 1947 Irish fiddler Collections of songs or music 1796 General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland by Edward Bunting 1773&ndash 1843 1800 Collection of National Irish Music for the Union Pipes by O Farrell 1831 Irish Minstrelsy by James Hardiman 1840s, 1850s Manuscript Collection by Canon James Goodman 1855 Music of Ireland by George Petrie artist George Petrie See also List of Irish music collectors Irish folk music DEFAULTSORT Irish Folk Music 1500 1899 Category Irish folk music history 1500s ...   more details



  1. List of Asian folk music traditions

    Lists of folk music traditions This is a list of folk music traditions , with styles, dances, instruments and other related topics. The term folk music can not be easily defined in a precise manner it is used ... and demagogue s may often have occasion to address which fields of folk music are distinct ... such peoples will likely use different criteria to decide what constitutes a folk music tradition . This list ... boundaries. Very few, if any, music scholars would claim that there are any folk music traditions ... by contact with the music of other peoples thus, the folk music traditions described herein overlap ... playing a shamisen Image Sanjo gayageum.jpg A sanjo music sanjo gayageum , a traditional Korean folk instrument gallery Folk country table start Folk country row Tradition Hakka music Hakka ref name ReferenceA ... music nanguan Dance Instrumentation dongxiao erxian pipa sanxian suona yueqin Other quguan Folk ... er Dance Instrumentation Other Folk country row Tradition Music of Japan Japanese ref Clewley, John ... Korean folk music Korean ref Hwang, Okon and Andy Kershaw, Our Life Is Precisely a Song , in the Rough ... komungo p iri puk Other kyemonyonjo Folk country row Tradition Li music Li ref name Rees, Helen pg. 44 48 Styles Dance pole dance Instrumentation xylophone Other Folk country row Tradition Miao music ... Other Folk country row Tradition Naxi music Naxi ref name Rees, Helen pg. 44 48 Styles Baisha xiyue Dongjing music Dongjing music Dance Instrumentation jizi juelie lengnong qiben suona Other Folk country ... Folk country row Tradition Salar music Salar ref name Rees, Helen pg. 44 48 Styles hua er Dance Instrumentation ... drum gallery Folk country table start Folk country row Tradition Baluchi music Baluchi ref Broughton ... Dance Instrumentation sorud tanburag Other Folk country row Tradition Baul music Baul ref Hunt, Ken ... rattle Other Folk country row Tradition Garo music Garo ref Hunt, Ken and Simon Broughton, Everything ... horsehair fiddle trumpet Other Folk country row Tradition Music of Gujarat Gujarati ref Hunt, Ken and Simon ...   more details




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