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1. The Laily Worm and other evil stepmother stories This peculiar ballad was collected by Francis James Child and was published in his compendium called The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published in 1802. He wrote: There is only one version of this ballad, which was recorded in the north of...
2. 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...
3. The Alice's Restaurant Massacree by Arlo Guthrie For me, it wouldn't be Thanksgiving without listening to this classic performance piece by Arlo Guthrie, released in 1967.  The Alice's Restaurant Massacree relates a largely-true story of small-town drama, clashing cultures, and the str...
4. 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. ...
5. A Christmas Songbook: Three Log Night Now you can own a collection of holiday music you don't often hear; this book is a compilation of my favorite non-standard Christmas and Hannukah songs - by which I mean, not the top fifteen Christmas tunes that cycle endlessly through the mistle-toe...
6. 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...
7. 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...
8. Lamkin, a musical news flash of the 16th century: artisan gets stiffed, gets even. Over the years a lot of people have asked me where my bands (the Pratie Heads and Mappamundi) get new material, and how we get it concert-ready. In this lens I can give you an example of how I arrange a complicated song. I fell in love with "Lamkin...
9. Burl Ives - Singer, Actor, Star Burl Ives, 85, a 20th-century minstrel and balladeer who brought new life and popularity to some of America's oldest folk music with songs of children, history, animals, insects and loves won and lost, died of complications related to cancer of the m...
10. 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...
11. 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...
12. 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...
13. 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...
14. James Taylor's--Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight--Lyrics, Video, and MP3 James Taylor's greatest hits albums cover 40 years of music from Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter and guitarist, James Taylor. Taylor's career began in the mid-1960s, but he found his most devoted audience in the early 1970s, singing...
15. 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...
16. Walk The Line Movie This lens is about the movie Walk the line and how well it was made compared to Johnny Cash's life. The purpose of this lens is to tell you about the music, J.R's Life in General and Joaquin Phoneix that played his role in this great movie. "Walk the...
17. The Kingston Trio, unique and influencial folk group I'm making this page about The Kingston Trio because they are without a doubt one of the best folk groups ever, second only to Peter Paul and Mary if that. They have a unique and wonderful great folk sound. Two of the group's original memebers had be...
18. Bela Bartok Béla Bartók was one of the leading Hungarian and European composers of his time, proficient also as a pianist. He joined his friend Zoltán Kodály in the collection of folk-music in Hungary and countries of the Balkan. His...
19. baby boomers This is where we celebrate the life and times of baby boomers. We are the largest and most notable generation on the planet. Between the end of World War II and 1964, 78 million babies were born in the United States alone, and are now known...
20. Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Man and His Music What do Charles Darwin, Wedgwood pottery, and The English Book of Hymns have in common? Keep reading to find out the answer to this burning question! Ralph Vaughan Williams, Order of Merit, (October 12, 1872-August 26, 1958) was an influential Engli...