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1. 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. ...
2. A Christmas Songbook: Three Log Night In the late 1980s I decided to throw a yearly Christmas Revels-type event called the "Solstice Extravaganza" in Page Auditorium at Duke (and later, at Playmakers Theatre on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus). It featured many local bands and music...
3. 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...
4. 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...
5. 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...
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. Celtic Music: Enya Enya first gained notice as a solo artist with her work on the BBC Scotland series The Celts. The music was released as a self-titled album and later remastered and released with the series title. Her four latest albums of new material have each won...
8. 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...
9. 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...
10. Celtic Music: Golden Bough Paul Espinoza and Margie Butler, founding members of Golden Bough, started performing together in 1976 and formed Golden Bough in the San Francisco area in 1980. After some changes in lineup, Golden Bough is currently a trio with Butler (harp, bodhra...
11. 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...
12. Celtic Music: Lenses ☺ This lens points to other lenses I've made highlighting Celtic music performers as well as radio shows, both broadcast and Internet, that play the traditional music of the Celtic lands. Celtic music covers a lot of territory and many performers. Each...
13. Celtic Music: Sean-Nós Nua In 2002, following an often controversial career, Dublin-based pop singer Sinead O'Connor released Sean Nos Nua, and album of traditional Irish songs. "Sean nos" (literally "old style") is an ornamented style of unaccompanied singing. O'Connor has ad...
14. Celtic Music: Kim Robertson Kim Robertson is a pioneer of the American folk harp movement. She has combined a passionate sense of tradition with a love of innovation that brings a modern sound to the ancient Celtic harp. Her concerts and recordings include traditional tunes as...
15. Nowell Sing We Clear Nowell Sing We Clear is a concert of traditional English carols and seasonal songs started in 1975 by English ex-patriates John Roberts and Tony Barrand and American musicians Fred Breunig and Steve Woodruff. Roberts and Barrand, who met as students...
16. Celtic Music: Danú Danu was formed in an Rinn, County Waterford, Ireland in 1996. They performed at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient in France, then decided to stay together to perform and record. While not afraid to experiment and expand their repertoire, Danu re...
17. 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...
18. Celtic Music: The Bothy Band The Bothy Band came together in late 1974 at a musical celebration of 25 years of the record label Gael Linn. When Donal Lunny left Planxty to start his own label, Mulligan Records, in 1975 he got the group together again. While their history only sp...
19. Celtic Music: De Dannan De Danann was formed in 1974 in Spiddal, County Galway by Frankie Gavin (fiddle), Alec Finn (guitar, bouzouki), Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh (bodhrán) and Charlie Piggott (banjo). They took their name from the mythical Irish tribe Tuatha De Danann. Along...
20. Celtic Music: Boys of the Lough It's a good thing there's the term "Celtic music" to encompass music from Ireland, Scotland and other lands the Celts settled, otherwise it would be hard to classify The Boys of the Lough. Current members hail from County Kerry in the Republic of Ire...