The Friendly Coffeehouse

Dick Waterman's career as a music promoter and manager provided access most ...
Nashville Scene
"Back in the '60s, when you talked about folk music, it really meant the entire spectrum of acoustic roots material," Waterman says. ...

Mick Moloney & Friends Return For 16th Year
NJ TODAY
Today he performs the folk music and songs from the 18th and 19th centuries that deal with themes such as the great famine, emigration to America, ...

Anchorage Press
Past, Present and Future
Anchorage Press
None of that is really fair to polka, whose traditions have become embedded in folk music from Germany to Ireland to Mexico. The Alaska Button Box Gang put ...
Sweet Sunny South heads north to AlaskaDelta County Independent

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What's goin' on in Metro Detroit this week
The Detroit News
A fundraiser for nonprofit venue the Ark, this annual festival is a huge event for fans of folk music. Friday night headliners include Iron and Wine, ...

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A.V. Club Milwaukee
Death Cab for Cutie members set songs to Jack Kerouac's prose for Ann Arbor's ...
The Detroit News
And while he says he's never been a connoisseur of folk, he says over the years he's grown an appreciation for it. "It seems to me that folk music set out ...
Music: To 'Big Sur,' with loveMinneapolis Star Tribune

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Bristol's Stone Church Coffee House attracts regional favorites like Pendragon
Fall River Herald News
Stone Church Coffee House season rounds out with Atwater Donnelly Duo playing folk music on Feb. 27; the all-women honky-tonk group Girl Howdy Band on March ...

Classical concert spiced with European folk music
Western Wheel
“It's arrangements of folk music from Hungary, Romania, Ukraine and Jewish music otherwise known as klezmer music. That's fun, folk-based music,” said ...

Singer-songwriter delivers songs with soul
Western Wheel
As a singer-songwriter, Myles' music often gets classified as folk music. However, he has lived on a steady stream of music by black musicians, ...
Going miles and MylesCochrane Times

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New Haven Advocate
Hartford's dance scene features an organic crowd that's neither glossy nor ...
New Haven Advocate
She plays traditional folk music that sounds less like it comes from the '60s and more like it comes from the 1600s. Fans of the Joanna Newsom school of ...

This time around, Laura speaks in a more confident voice
Sydney Morning Herald
... from the second album we won't see until March were played, against five from her debut – which have only deepened her immersion in English folk music. ...

'Why can't Rajasthani folk win the Grammys?'
Times of India
Why can't Rajasthani folk win the Grammys? The folk music of Rajasthan is beyond tourist hotels... yeh koi natak nahin hai ki side mein logon ko bitha diya ...

Put Your Music Hats On, Grab a Quilt and Join the Picking Party
Chattarati (blog)
Folk music is social music, and if you haven't experienced it before, you're missing out. So I am pleased to announce the Mountain Music Folk School has ...

Mmegi Online
Folk music night slated for end of Feb
Mmegi Online
"Basically, we intend to bring some of the outstanding guitarists together for an evening of folk music entertainment and the hope is that this concept will ...

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Big Issue in Scotland
How a tribute tour by folk supremo Joe Boyd is further enhancing tragic icon's ...
Big Issue in Scotland
He remained a footnote of British folk music until concerted efforts were made to document his life. Previously, there was only the music. ...
UK musicians pay tribute to songs of Nick DrakeReuters

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Folk Music Society of Midland jams at Mt. Haley Township Hall
The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com
The Folk Music Society of Midland is offering a series of jams, concerts and open dances in Jan., Feb. and March at ...

Events calendar
Monterey County Herald
Folk music meets musical comedy. Lou and Peter have performed together for more than 20 years. $12, $6 for children. 726-2322. Keith Greeninger, Dayan Kai, ...

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A cure for winter blues
TheChronicleHerald.ca
And our parents are happy that we put out a happy record," chuckles Good Lovely Kerri Ough, who describes the experience of being in the Canadian Folk Music ...

Dallas Symphony Orchestra to perform work by Czech composer Bedrich Smetana
Dallas Morning News
Punctuated with suggestions of folk music, the individual movements are alternately grand, dramatic, dreamy and dancelike. 1. "Vysehrad": a rocky precipice ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
'Bonanza,' 'Trapper John, MD' star Pernell Roberts dies
Washington Post
Mr. Roberts had a robust baritone that he displayed on folk and western albums with cast members from "Bonanza." He also recorded an album of folk music, ...
Pernell Roberts Dead: 'Bonanza' Star Pernell Roberts Deadnewsgone (blog)

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Midweek Music News Roundup 1.27.10: Looking Like A Fool Wit Yo Pants on Da Ground
411mania.com
Folk music is kind of dormant these days, but folk fans can rejoice at this news. The Tallest Man on Earth has announced his second album, to be titled Wild ...