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1. The Yale Women's Slavic Chorus: an appreciation This young woman is Corrinne Sykes, the conductor of the Yale Slavic chorus in 2009 when a great many of us Slavic Chorus alumna gathered in New Haven CT for a reunion concert celebrating forty years of Slavic singing at Yale. This lens is going to t...
2. The Dubliners - a Famous Irish Folk Band The Dubliners formed in 1962, and the band still exists. It still tours Europe every year. However there are only two musicians left who played from the beginning - Barney McKenna and John Sheahan. They sing and play traditional Irish Folk songs: Son...
3. Skylark Productions: folk and traditional cds and songbooks Skylark Productions was begun by Pat Sky when he was making field recordings of fiddlers and Irish pipers and whistle players in Ireland. (This was his logo.) He made quite a few well-regarded cassettes (yes, cassettes) but later lost interest and ga...
4. Folk Music I thought I would share some Folk Music we are listening to at juBo.  A, not quite totally random, collection of English Folk music. Allow yourself to be introduced to some new music - or listen to your favourites online -&nb...
5. Hurricane Fran: "That was a dreadful night" and other disaster ballads Eight trees fell on my house in 1996 when Hurricane Fran swept through Chapel Hill, NC. They crushed the roof, a tremendous amount of water poured into the house, and I had to deal with it as a single mom. It was a crazy experience, and maybe the odd...
6. Listen To Free Music Free MP3 Music - Free MP3 Player Music - Music Download Free - Listen To Music Free - Free Downloadable Music - Free Ipod Music Download - Download Free Ipod Music - Free Ipod Download - Rock Music - Punk Music - Country Music - Hip-Hop Music - Jazz...
7. I love Yiddish music! First, I fell in love with Yiddish folk and theater songs I've been singing music in Yiddish since the early 1980s, when I heard one of the first concerts given at the New England Conservatory by Hankus Netsky and his Klezmer Conservatory Band. ...
8. Transatlantic Sessions Video Showcase A  folk music collaboration between top musical artists from North America, Ireland and the UK. For the latest series (three), a beautiful old farm steading converted into a small concert/studio space at Strathgarry House near Killiecrankie in th...
9. Celtic wedding music "Celtic music" is an umbrella term used for instrumentals rooted in country dance styles which can range from Irish step dancing to Scottish country dancing and strathspeys; many people even include the English Playford country dances in th...
10. Renaissance wedding music Welcome to the Wedding Music in North Carolina "Olde Music" Department! A course called Medieval Music: Performance Practice which I took at Yale with Professor Alejandro Planchardt really inspired my love of early music. Almost a decade directing...
11. Mystery Ukrainian band of Paris: "Les Musiciens de Lviv" (Cabaret Slave) During my daily excursions in Paris this summer, I came across this Ukrainian band from Lvov. They were wonderful! They sing in full-throated harmony and sound like a real orchestra. I watched them with complete satisfaction for half an hour until t...
12. Transatlantic sessions A  folk music collaboration between top musical artists from North America, Ireland and the UK. For the latest series (three), a beautiful old farm steading converted into a small concert/studio space at Strathgarry House near Killiecrankie in th...
13. The Music of India     The Music of India is possibly one of the oldest in the World. It is a most important system of music that is essentially melodic, and what is of great meaning and interest is that it has retained this character to this days. This is...
14. The TJC Hanukah Songbook I was music director for the "Cantor Corps" at Temple Judea Reform in Durham and directed the Triangle Jewish Chorale for fourteen years. Before that, I directed a group called the Solstice Assembly which put on many winter shows incorporat...
15. The Very Best Music for Children A love of music is one of the greatest gifts you can give your children.
16. Awesome Non-Kid Music That Kids Won't Hate Parenting is great. But those first few years are an adjustment. (Okay, I won't lie. Every year is an adjustment.) Music, sad to say, is one of the things that can sort of slip away from you if you let it. If you're just getting into the game, great...
17. Traditional Croatian Music Croatia is country with wealthy cultural heritage which is mostly shown in it's folk music. The culture of Croatia has roots in a long history: the Croatian people have been inhabiting the area for fourteen centuries, but there are important remnant...
18. The Laduvane Songbook - Balkan singing for everybody This songbook was published by the a cappella Balkan ensemble Laduvane in 1977, after we'd made our first recording. It's amazing the difference one person can make. Recently a woman named Chris emailed me and said she'd lost her original copy of th...
19. Music for Jewish chorales: The Triangle Jewish Chorale Songbook My boss, Gayla Halbrecht, says it was 1994 when I took up the job of conducting our chorus; that means I spent  fourteen years at the helm. I love the people in the group very much, and I love the music. This lens showcases the songbook I put t...
20. I've been a Pratie Head for many's the long year... (Celtic Music) I'd been living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, singing Balkan music with the acappella women's ensemble Laduvane,and singing American folksongs in a band called "Rank Strangers." In 1981 I married and my husband moved us to Chapel Hill, NC. This lens i...