FolkBlog

This week’s Featured Artists of the Week (February 27-March 6) are Redbird. I use the plural deliberately, since Redbird is a joint effort from three singer/songwriters who are established solo artists: Kris Delmhorst, Jeffrey Foucault, and Peter Mulvey. Since the moronic regulations of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act do limit how often I [...]

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The highlights of this next batch of CDs added to the Online Folk Festival are performers from north of the border.
The Duhks - The Duhks
The Duhks are a versatile group capable of playing in a wide variety of folk-related styles, including bluegrass, traditional and Celtic. Their self-titled CD takes on covers of traditional tunes, including [...]

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Mary Travers (Mary of Peter, Paul and Mary) has been admitted to a New York-based hospital for a relapse of leukemia. Doctors are currently exploring the possibility of a bone marrow transplant.
More details about how you can help or send greetings to Mary via email or cards via snail mail can be found at [...]

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It’s Train Week on the Online Folk Festival (Feb. 20-27). A song about a train, passengers on a train, or someone working on the railroad all the livelong day every half hour or so, all week.
We’ll have songs about late night trains, peace trains, trains to heaven, trains to hell, British trains, American trains, Australian [...]

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Cheryl Wheeler is this week’s Featured Artist of the Week (February 13-20). Ms. Wheeler just released her first studio CD in several years, Defying Gravity, and you’ll hear most of the tracks from that CD, as well as tracks spanning mosrt of her distinguished folk career.
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… is the title of the newest CD from The Malvinas, one of the most widely geographically dispersed folk trios in North America. Beth Cahill (Quebec), Lisa Markley (Texas) and Gina Forsyth (Lousiana) have put together a really fine folk album full of insightful songs and oustanding playing. Highlights include a scathing take on the [...]

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I’m sure this is old news, but Jim Hightower recently did a commentary on library closures and I did a little searching on the issue. It strikes me that one of the easiest ways to increase the number of children left behind is to limit their access to libraries by cutting library funding and closing [...]

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Nanci Griffith is the new Featured Artist of the Week on the Online Folk Festival. Music spanning Nanci’s entire career, all week, including many tracks from Hearts in Mind.
My cable provider recently added CNN International. It is nice to have another news source that is not quite so Americacentric. And, may I add, that it’s [...]

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In the first installment of what will become, I hope, a regular feature of the FolkBlog, I have scoured the internet to being you some recent news and articles about folk music and musicians.

U2 singer Bono thrusts folkie Tom Rush into the news again by quoting his lyrics in a Saturday Night Live performance. [...]

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Peter Yarrow (Peter of Peter, Paul and Mary) had his guitar turn up missing four years ago in an airport. It was found this week when someone recognized it in an Ebay auction. Full story here:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=peopleNews&storyID=7504436

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