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Talking Nick Drake and Richard Thompson with author Rob Young
Jacket CopyAuthor Rob Young talks about icons and antecedents of the British Folk Movement.... -
Urban folk singer Emily Lacy drawn to experiment
Pop & HissL.A.-based Emily Lacy dips into the worlds of urban folk music and art to create a distinct sonic scene. What the larger public knows about L.A.-based singer and experimental composer Emily Lacy can be captured in a single scene: In...... -
Vic Chesnutt dies at 45; folk singer-songwriter
Vic Chesnutt, a singer-songwriter of spare, idiosyncratic folk songs tinged with melancholy, died Christmas Day in Athens, Ga., after taking an overdose of prescription muscle relaxants, a family spokesman said. He was 45.
Chesnutt had been admitted to...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Music Industry, Athens, Drunk Driving, Behavioral Conditions
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Suze Rotolo dies at 67; Bob Dylan's girlfriend was on iconic album cover
Suze Rotolo, Bob Dylan's former girlfriend in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, who appeared walking arm-in-arm with him on the iconic cover of his album "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan," has died. She was 67.
Rotolo, who played a role in the young...Tags: Human Interest, Harpo Marx, Communist Party of China, Italy, Greenwich Village
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Irish Heritage Festival expanding in Boyne City
BOYNE CITY -- For the past four years Boyne City has been celebrating St. Patrick's Day with a dinner at the Eagle's Club, but this year it has expanded the event to eight days of celebration. This year's Irish Heritage Festival will be more than a...Tags: Music Industry, Human Interest, St. Patrick's Day, Sean Connery, Arts and Culture
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Book review: 'Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World' by John Szwed
Special to the Los Angeles TimesAlan Lomax The Man Who Recorded the World John Szwed Viking: 438 pp., $29.95 Alan Lomax was a titanic figure whose ambitions were even greater than his formidable energies. Beginning his career as a folklorist in the 1930s with field recordings of...Tags: Human Interest, Culture, Columbia University, Literature, Arts and Culture
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Debbie Friedman, self-taught Jewish folk singer, dies at 59
Debbie Friedman, a self-taught Jewish folk singer and composer who transformed synagogue music and worship by infusing traditional prayers with a contemporary sensibility, died Sunday at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo. She was 59.
The cause was...Tags: Carnegie Hall, Colleges and Universities, Human Interest, Joan Baez, Santa Ana
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It's A Gray Area: Save the date for this year's music festival
On May 22, there will be a music festival from noon to 7 p.m. at the Heritage Museum of Orange County. Not only will there be bluegrass, folk and Americana music, there will also be a great barbecue and a number of fun and meaningful family activities....Tags: Music Industry, Human Interest, Kentucky, Bluegrass (genre), Big Band (genre)
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Peter Stampfel, freak-folk pioneer: 'I burned with desire to shove this into the face of the world'
Turn It UpBanjo and fiddle player, comic-book aficionado, music buff, cartoon-voiced singer, prolific songwriter -- Peter Stampfel was on the groundfloor of a couple of major musical movements (folk-rock, punk) in the ‘60s with the Fugs and the Holy Modal... -
Today's music pick: New LA Folk Festival's Murder Ballads
Brand XThe New LA Folk Festival explores the sinister side of folk music with an evening devoted to the dark tradition of murder ballads. Local acts as well as bands passing through L.A. on tour will be featured, along with some surprise “folk for a dayâ€... -
Coffee house still jamming after 40 years
TribLocal - Downers Grove » NewsDown a hallway and short flight of stairs, in a basement room of Downers Grove’s First Congregational Church, it's not unusual to find a standing …... -
Cigar box guitar revolution: 'It's like folk music turned inside out'
Pop & HissA quarter-century ago, when cigar-box guitar enthusiast Pat MacDonald was half of the Austin, Texas, alternative pop-rock duo Timbuk3, the singer, songwriter and instrumentalist’s moment in the pop spotlight came with the group’s breezy,...
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