Tag: arts
group name: folkalley
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September 04, 2007 11:12 AM EDT --
Patti Scialfa performed this morning on The Today Show in support of her new release, "Play It As It Lays." With every introduction it was emphasized that she was, of course, the wife of . . .
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August 07, 2007 02:07 PM EDT --
I recently picked up a copy of Mandy Moore's Coverage. It's a cover album of '80s pop hits and, I hate to admit, I love it! It's super poppy, but Moore has a good voice for . . .
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May 08, 2007 10:54 AM EDT --
It's that time of the year... time to unearth your hippie skirt and hemp sandals and load up the old SUV for a few days experiencing more music than your brain can take in at one time. I've . . .
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July 31, 2007 06:16 PM EDT --
Ah, Nickel Creek, three kids from California with a talent for trad music and a high tolerance for each other. But time changes things and Sean wants to write movie music and Sara and Chris both . . .
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October 22, 2009 08:03 PM EDT --
I will be taking on the challenge of hosting a "guerrilla showcase" at the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance ( NERFA ) conference next month -- just weeks away -- yikes!
What's a "guerrilla showcase"? . . .
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July 03, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
I came across this video on YouTube of John singing his song which was my children's lullabye. More than any other living person , John and his music have dramatically influenced . . .
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January 02, 2008 07:49 AM EST --
The Boston Celtic Music Festival is coming up on the 11th and 12th of January, with day and evening music at Club Passim and First Church around Harvard Square and a Friday night ceilidh . . .
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June 04, 2008 07:54 PM EDT --
In an earlier conversation, award winning banjo player and composer Alison Brown spoke about her career as a musician. There's another side to her musical coin, though: more than dozen years ago, . . .
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March 24, 2007 04:50 AM EDT --
This certainly looks like an office building doesn’t it. Apparently, it’s a five-star prison located in Styria, Austria.
If you look at these figures comparing crime in Austria and crime in . . .
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March 25, 2007 09:15 AM EDT --
I have so much to say, because I feel so much, but somehow words are not enough to express what I feel when I feel them. Maybe its the Prozac, makes me numb to all that I am sensing, it does make the . . .
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May 14, 2007 08:53 PM EDT --
Once, on a too quiet night I was fiddling around with my old FM radio that my Dad had sent to me from half a world away. This after spending the day tearing the roof off a Mafia brother-in-law built hospital . . .
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March 13, 2008 10:44 AM EDT --
A singer from the western shore of Kerry, a band with members from Galway and New Zealand, Irish language songs from a range of artists including Van Morrison and Sinead O'Connor, music from . . .
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August 16, 2007 07:04 AM EDT --
The lives of Cape Bretoners are shaped by mountain and sea, by their Irish and Scottish heritage, and by their isolation from the rest of Canada, and indeed the rest of the continent. So is their . . .
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May 17, 2007 07:20 AM EDT --
"There are all kinds of passages in life, and this is the one where we have to wake up and be grown up, we're not kids any more, we've children to raise, countries to run -- or mis run --responsibilities . . .
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July 12, 2007 07:14 AM EDT --
On any given evening, a concert by Austin based duo Christine Albert and Chris Gage might take you from the dusty backwoods of Texas to a bistro along the Seine, from a Louisiana jive joint to a high . . .
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December 19, 2007 08:33 AM EST --
Thinking about the light, the work, and the music, of winter. A time for celebration and reflection, for community and silence, for hope and joy at the year's . . .
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December 13, 2007 08:07 AM EST --
Pam Tillis has always been both a maverick and a traditionalist in country music. She brings that trademark insight and diversity to her holiday album, Just in Time for Christmas.
There's . . .
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September 20, 2007 08:13 AM EDT --
"This music is the real deal. Really, it's just amazing where it's taken us." That's whistle and flute player Joanie Madden talking, and she's speaking about Irish . . .
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October 26, 2007 06:20 PM EDT --
The long awaited moment came just after last nights cold full moon.
Today as if called forth again is this beautiful wonder.
I stand in awe of its beauty and I am intoxicated by . . .
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October 04, 2007 07:13 AM EDT --
Emmylou Harris remembers her first guitar. "The strings were set so high off the neck that it hurt to push them down!" she recalls. "But I didn't know anything about guitars, I thought . . .
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Folk Alley
Location: Kent, OH
Created: May 08, 2007
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