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News Articles: folk music

John Cohen, courtesy Deborah Bell, New York.

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  • Arts & Life

How Elizabeth Cotten's music fueled the folk revival

Although inducted into the 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, her contributions haven't always been properly acknowledged.

June 29, 2022
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By:
  • Allyson McCabe
John Cohen, courtesy Deborah Bell, New York.

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  • Arts & Life

How Elizabeth Cotten's music fueled the folk revival

Although inducted into the 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, her contributions haven't always been properly acknowledged.

June 29, 2022
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By:
  • Allyson McCabe
Mazel Tov Cocktail Party's influences are global, but the sound they create is uniquely their own.

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  • Arts & Life

Mazel Tov Cocktail Party: Take an ounce of hip hop, dash of polka, then square dance

Finding a thriving dance culture in the Adirondacks Mountains inspired the band to take its sound in an unexpected direction.

May 02, 2022
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By:
  • Jon Kalish
Norma Waterson receives the Lifetime Achievement award at the BBC Folk Awards at Royal Albert Hall on April 27, 2016, in London.

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  • Music

Norma Waterson of English folk royalty has died at 82

Waterson was from the renowned English folk family The Watersons. She was married to musician Martin Carthy. Her daughter, singer and fiddler Eliza Carthy, announced her mother's death.

January 31, 2022
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  • Elizabeth Blair
The Lincoln Center campus, presently adorned in a green carpet of synthetic grass, hosts a Juneteenth experience June 19.

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  • Music

In New York City, A Juneteenth Event Examines The Meaning Of Freedom

Lincoln Center observes Juneteenth, now a federal holiday, with "I Dream a Dream That Dreams Back at Me," an ambulatory experience conceived by Carl Hancock Rux.

June 19, 2021
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By:
  • Jeff Lunden
Rana Sulaiman Halo (center), performs with a traditional <em>daf</em> drum with the Ashti (Peace) Choir.

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  • World

'We Will Never Break': In Iraq, A Yazidi Women's Choir Keeps Ancient Music Alive

Women from Iraq's Yazidi minority get together to perform centuries-old sacred songs. They've survived captivity by ISIS and loved ones' deaths. "They are trying to heal," says a Yazidi politician.

April 04, 2021
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  • Alice Fordham
Singer-songwriter, activist, and author Billy Bragg is out with a new work: a political pamphlet titled "The Three Dimensions of Freedom."

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  • News

Musician And Author Billy Bragg Says Free Speech Depends On Accountability, Music On Empathy

Billy Bragg is many things: a poet, punk rocker, folk musician, and singer-songwriter. He’s also an activist, music historian, and best-selling author....

May 01, 2020
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By:
  • Emilia Brock and
  • Virginia Prescott
An illustration of the 1914 Christmas Truce from The Illustrated London News.

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  • Music Features

How Folk Song 'Christmas In The Trenches' Memorializes A WWI Ceasefire

Atlanta-based folk musician and multi-instrumentalist John McCutcheon has had a long career of writing and performing folk music all over the world. One...

December 20, 2019
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott and
  • Jake Troyer
The middle school students of the Global Village Project during a visit to the Tubman African American Museum in Macon.

For Learning English, A Song Of Freedom

Learning English is not easy. That can be true even for immigrants to the United States who have had the benefit of the best education available in the...

September 05, 2019
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship

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  • Music

Lily & Madeleine On Leaving Home, Finding Their Sound And Creating 'Canterbury Girls'

The folk-pop duo Lily & Madeleine are touring the country with their fourth album, "Canterbury Girls." They're a family duo, too – Lily and...

February 27, 2019
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  • Leighton Rowell and
  • Virginia Prescott

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  • Music

Singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier On Healing War Wounds Through Music

Some say music holds the power to heal, and, on her album " Rifles and Rosary Beads," Nashville-based singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier directs that...

February 08, 2019
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  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • Sean Powers ,
  • and 1 more

For The Sake Of The Story, For The Love Of The South: The Bitter Southerner And GPB Make A Podcast

In New York in the 1980s, Chuck Reece had his first job in journalism covering the media industry for Adweek magazine. That meant he got the first look...

December 09, 2018
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  • Leighton Rowell ,
  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • and 1 more

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