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September 17, 2009 02:31 PM EDT --
In addition to being a powerhouse singer, Mary Travers was a woman and an artist committed to peace and justice all her life. Thanks for the courage and the music, Mary.
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August 19, 2009 03:16 PM EDT --
From Ireland to Iraq, from Wisconsin to Texas, musicians are drawing on landscape, history, and family to create lots of great music this summer. Here are several recordings for you to check out:
Tish . . .
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August 01, 2009 06:21 AM EDT --
Chris Fontaine is a gifted luthier - a builder of stringed instruments. He's also a father of three (soon to be four) and is battling a rare form of cancer, and has no health insurance.
If you . . .
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June 08, 2009 07:24 AM EDT --
Today is World Ocean Day.
For more about World Ocean Day, and . . .
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April 04, 2009 06:31 PM EDT --
This event has been reset for June 14th. All other details remain the same. Check out the online site if you aren't able to attend --it's a great cause.
Terri Allard's music . . .
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February 28, 2009 12:53 PM EST --
As Saint Patrick’s Day is celebrated across the Irish Diaspora, in America and elsewhere, the ideas, and the music, sometimes go into sentiment and stereotype. But there’s really no need for that. There's . . .
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February 12, 2009 02:33 PM EST --
Country star Kathy Mattea has done some thinking about the people who listen to her music. They range across the spectrum of age, race, nationality, and lifestyle, she finds, but they have one . . .
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January 29, 2009 05:31 AM EST --
A singer and percussionist from Senegal shares the stage with the first Scottish traditional group to add African elements to Scottish trad, a singer from Norway joins forces with a fiddler from Inverness . . .
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January 09, 2009 12:29 PM EST --
Corrina Hewat is an artist whose vision encompasses both solo performance and composing for large ensembles, who believes in the interconnectedness of jazz and folk music, and who relishes the . . .
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December 23, 2008 02:53 PM EST --
check out a favorite photo essay from last December, a thought about Advent, and great holiday music suggestions, sit in on a pair of Christmas concerts and hear what it’s like to make holiday . . .
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December 10, 2008 04:10 PM EST --
Anticipation, celebration, new beginnings, old friends, holiday greetings to strangers and those just met, short days. long nights, gifts given and received, matters of the spirit -- these are all part . . .
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December 03, 2008 04:31 PM EST --
A look at several new seasonal recordings...
Alison Brown is known for creating music that crosses borders between jazz, bluegrass, folk, and Celtic, and making all that work with stellar musicianship. . . .
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November 28, 2008 03:29 PM EST --
Learning music is fun any time of year, so ways to do that make especially good gifts, for yourself and others. Here are several ideas:
Ellery Klein’s Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing the . . .
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November 20, 2008 06:06 AM EST --
The bright colors of holiday parties, the quiet celebrations of the spirit, the understandings that come from a lonely holiday, the unexpected connections, the oft told stories, the new challenges . . .
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November 05, 2008 01:34 PM EST --
A song about a woman who steps up with courage and finds that her neighbors join her, one about living through dark and lonely aspects of night and reaching the hope of a new dawn, a many faceted . . .
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October 06, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
Martina McBride, Lorrie Morgan, Vonda Shepard, John Mellencamp, Nanci Griffith, Bill Miller, Faith Hill, Janis Ian, Kathy Mattea, Steve Wariner, Diamond Rio, Reba McEntire --that roll call of musicians . . .
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September 17, 2008 01:11 PM EDT --
“Dale Ann Bradley is one of the most gifted vocalists bluegrass and country music has ever heard. She is a dream.” When Alison Krauss, who has won just about every award there is for her own singing, . . .
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September 12, 2008 09:11 AM EDT --
Jeff Talmadge is a Texas born, Atlanta based poet turned lawyer turned songwriter.
This song is called Wrong Train, and he’s recorded on his most recent album, At Least This Much Was True, a recording . . .
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September 03, 2008 04:43 PM EDT --
Country singer Patty Loveless grew up in the hills of Appalachia, in Pikeville, Kentucky, where she learned the mountain sounds of bluegrass, gospel, and folk music. She also heard, over her radio . . .
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August 19, 2008 04:51 PM EDT --
Glasgow, Scotland, has just been named an official Unesco City of Music, it was announced today. Join me for a short visit to a bit of that music, as seen during the Celtic Connections Festival
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