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Anne Bredon (born 1930 in Berkeley, California as Anne Loeb) is an American folk singer, best known for composing the song Babe I'm Gonna Leave You while she was a student at University of California, Berkeley in the late 1950s.
Cary has performed shows/festivals with or opened for: Rocky Votolato, Of Montreal, Owen, Margot and The Nuclear So and So's, Joshua James, Tristan Prettyman, Citizen Cope, Isaac Hayden, Graham Colton, Pedro The Lion, Tyler Hilton, Ryan Shupe & the RubberBand, Raining Jane, Five Times August, among others, and has played concerts at numerous colleges including Brescia University.
Musicians such as Kelly Russell, Noel Dinn, Pamela Morgan and Jim Payne have cited Benoît as an influence on their own music.
Ignez Magdalena Aranha de Lima (born March 4, 1925 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian folk singer and TV host (since 1980 she is the hostess of Viola, Minha Viola at TV Cultura, a Brazilian television network) who has also done some acting.
In late 2008, Lei Jia was invited as a special guest to perform in the recital concert of Wang Hongwei, a well-known Chinese folk tenor, at the famous Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.
Lloyd Arntzen (born September 19, 1927) is a jazz clarinetist, folk singer, and soprano saxophonist from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Folk singer Billy Edd Wheeler wrote and performed a song titled "The Little Brown Shack Out Back", a sentimental look at the outhouse.
The managing director of the channel was comedian and folk singer Richard Digance, a talent popular on variety shows such as the Sunday evening Live from... (Her Majesty's/the Piccadilly/the Palladium) series (produced by LWT for ITV) and also on Summertime Special, a moderately popular variety showcase of the 1980s.
The Night That Made America Famous is a 1975 musical revue featuring the songs of folk singer Harry Chapin.
"You Are the Best Thing" is the lead single of the album Gossip in the Grain by American folk singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne released on August 26, 2008 by Stone Dwarf Music, LLC, under license to RCA/JIVE Label Group, a unit of Sony Music Entertainment.
You’ll Sing a Song and I’ll Sing a Song is an album by folk singer Ella Jenkins.
Gurmeet Bawa (from Punjab) is another famous folk singer to use the instrument in her songs.
Andrew also headlined a national tour, "Under the Radar presents The Angel Band Tour" with Nashville folk singer/songwriter, Julie Lee.
Near the village of Arda, in the neighbourhoods of Gudevitsa and Lagat (birthplace of folk singer Valya Balkanska) there are springs from one of the largest Bulgarian rivers, the Arda, from which the village takes its name.
He and fellow folk singer İsmail Türüt had been on trial for a song allegedly praising the assassination of Hrant Dink.
At Last, Okemah! is a comedic retelling of Don Quixote featuring Jeff-nominated actor Kevin Viol in the lead role of Winston Thomas, a former hipster who becomes the self-styled greatest, most authentic folk singer of all time.
A fellow folk singer who guested on The Midnight Special, Janet Smith, took up the song and developed it further, playing it live at hootenanny folk-song events at Oberlin College, one performance of which was attended by Joan Baez.
The battle is commemorated in the song Billy Green from the 2000 album From Coffee House to Concert Hall by the late Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers.
Vocalist Jennifer Gill studied contemporary and classical music at university, citing jazz singer Roberta Flack, folk singer Eva Cassidy and pop singer Beyoncé amongst her influences.
Alcibiades Antonio Acosta Agudelo (June 6, 1965 in Soledad, Atlántico, Colombia) is a Colombian folk singer.
Devon folk singer Seth Lakeman sang about Childe the Hunter on his 2006 album Freedom Fields.
The folk singer John McCutcheon set the poem to music, sang and recorded "Claudette Colvin Goes to Work," with Rita Dove speaking one line, on his CD Mightier than the Sword (2006).
Notable former residents of College Terrace include the architect Birge Clark, theologian Robert McAfee Brown, and folk singer Joan Baez.
Ms Daniela Radkova-Aleksandrova is a Bulgarian folk singer, performing folklore from the Balkans, who became world known as a soloist at the Filip Kutev Ensemble, and at the orchestra of Goran Bregovic.
The song is best known as performed by Bulgarian folk singer Valya Balkanska.
She went on to become a folk singer and songwriter, appearing many times at famed San Francisco folk clubs, such as The Holy City Zoo, The Drinking Gourd, and The Coffee Gallery, where she would play her distinctive Gibson J-50 guitar and sing her self-penned songs.
Francisco Javier extended the entertaining work his father had done by founding a series of shows called “Noches Tapatias” which frequently featured folk singer Pedro Vargas.
Don McLean (born 1945), American folk singer, singer-song writer
The Edwin Hawkins Singers made a second foray into the charts exactly one year later, backing folk singer Melanie on "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)".
Two songs on this LP are a result of her collaboration with the influential, 1970s British folk singer/guitarist, Bridget St John.
They accepted Emanuel, but since the age limit was 16, he was sent to the Institute of Musical Art, where he studied under Constance Seeger, mother of folk singer Pete Seeger.
Exu is the birthplace of the famous Luiz Gonzaga (1912/1989) which was a very prominent Brazilian folk singer, songwriter, musician and poet.
Blagica Pavlovska, a famous Macedonian folk-singer was born in Govrlevo.
Legendary folk singer Joan Baez brought the song to the American audiences in 1974 when she included a cover of the song on her Spanish language album of the same name.
However, Miike's portrayal of the character (or rather his spirit) transcends reality (and time and space) and is more of a surrealist exposé of Izo's exceedingly bloody yet philosophical encounters in an afterlife heavy on symbolism, occasionally interrupted by stock footage of World War II accompanied by acid-folk singer Kazuki Tomokawa on guitar.
In 1983 he moved in Požarevac in order to meet Novica Urošević, the folk hit-maker, and start a professional folk singer career.
In 1964, the American country singer Johnny Cash recorded the song "As Long as the Grass Shall Grow" (composed by the Native American folk singer Peter La Farge) about the Senecas' plight; the Seneca nation's owned-and-operated radio station, WGWE, plays the song at least once a week in remembrance, as does WPIG, the local country music station.
It has also published the writings of people associated with the music world, such as critic Byron Coley, folk singer Michael Hurley and punk rock icon Mike Watt.
Some adults gradually began to believe Big Bird, the first being folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie who sang Big Bird a song about her belief in Mr. Snuffleupagus.
In 1982, she met Müslüm Gürses (1953-2013), a talented folk singer at that time, during a concert tour in Malatya, where she shared the stage with him.
No Kinda Dancer is the first album by Texas-based Folk singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen, originally released in the United States on Philo Records in 1984) and re-released in 2004 by KOCH Records with additional tracks.
Toton was the birthplace and home of English folk singer-songwriter Anne Briggs, well known for her song 'Black Waterside'.
Brown was born in New York, the daughter of Charlotte née Huber and Thomas J. Brown, and is the aunt of folk singer Christine Lavin.
Folk singer Kate Wolf included a slow, acoustic cover of "Peaceful Easy Feeling" on her 1982 live album "Give Yourself to Love."
The marriage produced two daughters, who are now both musicians: Arianna Zukerman is a classical soprano, while Natalia Zukerman is a folk singer and guitarist.
He also included banjo player Billy Cudmore, folk-blues singer Terry Cudmore, folk singer Dolan Ellis, jazz singer Peggy Connelly, and singer/guitarist Art Podell.
Consequently, rara groups and other musicians have been banned from performing and even forced into exile—most notably, folk singer Manno Charlemagne who later returned to Haïti and was elected mayor of Port-au-Prince in the 1990s.
On their eponymous 1998 album, Cry Cry Cry covered an eclectic mix of songwriters, from the well known (R.E.M.) to the lesser known (folk singer James Keelaghan).
English folk singer Billy Bragg released a song entitled "St. Swithin's Day" on his 1984 LP Brewing Up with Billy Bragg.
Shazia as Sindhi folk singer; having been an avid fan of folk-songs of Sindh about Marvi and poetry of renowned poet of Sindh Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai.
Soledad "La Sole" Pastorutti (born October 12, 1980 in Arequito, Santa Fe) is an Argentine folk singer, who brought the genre to the younger generations at the end of the 20th century, and the beginning of the 21st.
So far, the Pakistani folk singer has parodied Ataullah Essa Khan Khailvi, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistani Ex-President Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani Ministers Rehman Malik, Parvez Ashraf, Pakistani Opposition Leaders Imran Khan, Maulana Fazlul Rahman, TV Persons Talat Hussain, Tariq Aziz, Cricketer Inzimam-Ul-Haq and anchors such as Dr. Shahid Masood.
The title of the song refers to Winnie the Pooh as well as folk singer Fred Neil: parts of the lyric are taken from A. A. Milne's first book of children's poetry When We Were Very Young, including the poem "Halfway Down," which includes the words "Halfway down the stairs Is a stair where I sit" and the poem "Spring Morning."
Jacques Wilson wrote the album's narration, and folk singer Cyrus Faryar was chosen (suggested by Hassilev) to narrate over the album's exotic instrumentation.
Tom Sankey is an American folk singer, playwright and actor known for the 1967 off Broadway production The Golden Screw.
Trusham is also famous for being the ancestral home of the Causley family whose descendants include the poet Charles Causley and the folk singer Jim Causley.
Tufail Niazi (1916 – September 21, 1990) was a Pakistani folk singer whose songs include "Sada Chiryan da Chamba," "Akhiyaan Lagiyaan Jawaab Na," "Layee Beqadran Naal Yaari," and "Mein Nai Jana Kheriyan de Nal." He gave many performances on PTV and Radio Pakistan.
20 Inch by Master P (featuring Jamaican reggae artist Cutty Ranks and rap artist Kobra Khan) included tumbi played by Toronto, Ontario, Canadian native Shawn Ramta (grandson of the famous Punjabi folk singer, Hazara Singh Ramta).
Rumors also circulated that the funds were donated by an internationally known female folk singer in Los Angeles or by Elephant's Memory, which was John Lennon's backup band in New York City and was a factor with the attempted deportation of Lennon, who had donated bail money for radical groups.
The song was in a traditional Zulu choral style, which soon came to the attention of American musicologist Alan Lomax, who brought to the song to folk singer Pete Seeger, then of The Weavers.