The Friendly Coffeehouse

Jolie Holland: The Living and the Dead
Pitchforkmedia.com, IL - 34 minutes ago
... became clear that they had a more narrow (and more treacly) idea of what folk music is, just as they started to hit the top of the middle of the road. ...

Artist Profile: Jeff Ellis
Huntington Herald Dispatch, WV - 6 hours ago
“Todd Burge is a staple of West Virginia folk music. He has played Mountain Stage more times than I can count and he just has this really super-unique sound ...

Blow, man, blow
Ha'aretz, Israel - 9 hours ago
But that wasn't important, because I discovered that when it comes to folk music or music nurtured by folk music, it's inside me. ...

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Greek News, New York - 10 hours ago
Axion Estin will honor Mr. Chronis Aidonidis for his life-long contribution in the field of Greek folk music in an extended concert program demonstrating ...

FOLK MUSIC: Rattle on the Stovepipe at Willows
Shoreham Today, UK - 23 hours ago
THE Famous Willows Folk Club in Arundel is kicking off the new year with a new season of music. The club, based at Arundel Football Club, will be welcoming ...

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Night Life
New Yorker, United States - 16 hours ago
... the bandleader and percussionist Armando Sanchez formed Son de la Loma, a band devoted to preserving the dulcet sounds of Cuban folk music. ...

Harlem Globetrotters, folk music concert at Kalamazoo Valley ...
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com, MI - Jan 4, 2009
FOLK MUSIC: A concert, Friends of Folklife, will be held at 1:30 pm today at the Stryker Theatre at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum, 230 N. Rose St., ...

Listening Post /Brief reviews of select releases
Buffalo News,  United States - 21 hours ago
Dave Alvin likes to say that there are two kinds of folk music — quiet and loud — and that he plays both. This 18-song collection from his days with the ...

Best shows to be found in smaller venues
Chicago Tribune, United States - 3 hours ago
24 at Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln Ave. $18, $20; 773-728-6000. Metallica: Coming off its best-received album in more than a decade, ...

Hartford Courant
Soulful Performer's Path Has Always Returned To Music
Hartford Courant, United States - Jan 4, 2009
Step two was coming here and getting hooked into this whole acoustic, folk music scene that's here. With the radio that supports us like WWUH in Hartford ...

MY OTHER LIFE By Betsy Feldstein
Albany Times Union, NY - Jan 3, 2009
Her math teacher helped her and her friends start a folk music club. She graduated from high school in 1969 at the height of the folk revival and political ...

Intimate home settings for concerts attract artists, appreciative ...
Knoxville News Sentinel, TN - Jan 3, 2009
"It goes back to the '60s tradition when folk music had a resurgence and people gathered at each other's homes," Meyers said. "It's a growing trend, ...

Music and dance come together in Colonial Symphony concert
Hunterdon Review, NJ - Jan 3, 2009
Throughout the ballet, de Falla used traditional folk music of Andalusia to tell what a light-hearted story. Various Spanish folk dances are reflected in ...

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Spreading the word through music
Hindu, India - Jan 3, 2009
Photo: AP Close to the demise of Mariam Makeba, Odetta Holmes, the Queen of American folk music, died recently of a heart attack. Her music with all its ...
The voices of resistance still singing Seattle Post Intelligencer
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The “Golden Voice of the Great Southwest”: Legendary Folk Musician ...
Democracy Now, NY - 15 hours ago
For the past twenty-one years he lived in Nevada City, where he started a nationally syndicated folk music radio show. He also helped found the Hospitality ...

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Jackie Morris: Where The Legends Grow Like Weeds - Music Review
HotIndieNews.com, NY - Jan 3, 2009
By Michael Johnson , HOT INDIE NEWS .com Jackie Morris can be summed up as what I would call Mid Western Eastern Country Folk. I say this because Folk music ...

What's happening Sunday: Folk music; 'Winter Discovery Walk'
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com, MI - Jan 3, 2009
by Kalamazoo Gazette A Friends of Folklife Concert and an acoustic jam are scheduled in the Stryker Theatre, Kalamazoo Valley Museum, 230 N. Rose St. There ...

Scots band celebrates 10th anniversary
Aberdeen Press and Journal, UK - 1 hour ago
By Leanna MacLarty A SCOTS band whose songs are inspired by traditional folk music from Aberdeenshire and Angus enjoyed their first successes across the ...

Andrew Bird Discovers His Inner Operatic Folkie
New York Times, United States - Jan 2, 2009
His songs have a pastoral, homespun feel, but they also have a darkness and emotional complexity not typically associated with folk rock. ...

Pete Seeger, Still Singing His Message at 89
New York Times, United States - Jan 2, 2009
The coffeehouse brought the effort inland, drawing hundreds of folk music fans every month to sing-alongs at a school in Katonah and later at the Memorial ...