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5 unusual facts about folk


Country-Folk

The liner notes state that they were familiar to other musicians in the Las Vegas area.

Folk-Legacy Records

It was founded in 1961 by Sandy and Caroline Paton along with Lee Baker Haggerty.

Sandy and Caroline are singers in their own right, having been designated the Official Connecticut State Troubadours for 1993-1994.

Folk, Blues and Beyond

#"Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul" (Charles Mingus)

RTV BN

BN Radio mainly broadcasts news, popular talk shows and Serbian Folk or Turbo-folk music.


1988 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

September 17 — In Voronezh on Prospekt of Revolution was unveiled a monument to Mitrofan Pyatnitsky (1864—1927), Russian Soviet musician, actor and collector of Russian folk songs, the founder and a first artistic director of the Pyatnitsky Choir.

And Quiet Flows the Don

The lyrics for the folk song "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" by Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson were adapted from a cossack folk song mentioned in And Quiet Flows the Don.

Arif Şirin

He and fellow folk singer İsmail Türüt had been on trial for a song allegedly praising the assassination of Hrant Dink.

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

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.

Bambir

They soon morphed into their folk "bard rock" style, arranging pieces by Komitas and moving on to their own original material, changing their name to Bambir.

Beans in My Ears

"Beans in My Ears" is a song created and sung by protest singer and contributing editor to folk-centric Broadside Magazine, Len Chandler.

Big boli star

BIG Boli Star is a talent hunt contest aimed at promoting Punjabi Boliyan, a traditional Punjabi folk art.

Childe's Tomb

Devon folk singer Seth Lakeman sang about Childe the Hunter on his 2006 album Freedom Fields.

Daniela Radkova

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.

Dave Laing

His books have included The Sound of our Time (1969), Buddy Holly (1970), The Electric Muse: the story of Folk into Rock (with Karl Dallas, Robin Denselow and Robert Shelton, 1975), and One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock (1985).

Earl Okin

During the 1970s, Okin started to perform as support act in large venues, beginning with folk acts such as Ralph McTell and Fairport Convention, he progressed to open for such varied performers as Jean-Luc Ponty and Van Morrison.

Edgmond, Shropshire

The folk song "The Edgmond Man's Souling Song" was released by folk musicians John Kirkpatrick and Sue Harris on their 1976 album Among The Many Attractions at the Show will be a Really High Class Band.

Edwin Hawkins

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)".

Enrico Banducci

Banducci operated the hungry i nightclub in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, where he launched the careers of Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Bill Cosby, Jonathan Winters, and Barbra Streisand, and featured Woody Allen and Dick Cavett before they were well-known, as well as countless folk singers.

Eric Carbonara

Recent years have revealed a departure from his psych/krautrock-influenced work to a kaleidoscopic realm of minimalism, electro-acoustic improvisation, free noise guitar thrashing, the folk music of North Africa and Andalusia and Hindustani classical music.

Franjo Kuhač

Like Cecil Sharp, who did similar work in Britain and Appalachia, Kuhač published the folk songs with a piano accompaniment.

Fred Holstein

After seeing a Pete Seeger concert he decided he wanted to study folk music.

Goga

Gogaji', a folk deity of Rajasthan state in India also known as "Goga"

Grim Tower

Grim Tower is collaboration between Imaad Wasif and Stephen McBean "Death Folk" songs written from an exploration into detunings on acoustic guitars.

If I Only Had a Brain

Jackson Browne sang a folk music tempo of this song in the 1995 television special The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True when he performed as the Scarecrow.

Jayrem Records

In place of these sounds, Jayrem's repertoire extended into Urban Pasifika and Māori music, as well as folk/roots and reggae.

Jean Thomas

Jean Bell Thomas (1881–1982), an American folk festival promoter

Jhoomar

:For the Punjabi folk dance, see Jhumar.

Jim Post

Post was a regular performer at the Earl of Old Town and other Chicago folk music bars, and was a contemporary of notable singer-songwriters Steve Goodman, John Prine, Fred Holstein, and Bonnie Koloc, and a frequent collaborator with singer/songwriter & multi-instrumentalist Mick Scott and the late Tom Dundee.

Kasem Hallulli

Kasem Hallulli collaborated with many female artists like the famous singers Fitnete Rexha or Parashqevi Simaku about folk romantic songs.

Kathleen Chalfant

They have a son, David Chalfant, who was the bass player for the folk-rock band, The Nields, and a daughter, Andromache, who is a set designer in New York.

Lummis Day

The first event, on Sunday, June 4, 2006, featured East L.A. rock band Quinto Sol, musician Severin Browne, Ann Likes Red, Cuban-born musician Juan Carlos Formell, Danza Azteca Cuahtlehuanitl, the Tongva-Gabrielino Native American Dancers, Pilipino folk ensemble Panama Rondalla and poets B. H. Fairchild, William Archila and Suzanne Lummis.

Marian Lines

Tam Lin Choral folk fantasy based on the Scottish folk tale and a precursor of the "fables"; Blacksmith and the Changeling and Burd Ellen.

Mr. Snuffleupagus

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.

Nezumi Kozō

This, combined with the public humiliation he dealt out to the daimyo, resulted in the popular legend that he gave the money to the poor, turning the petty crook into a posthumous folk hero similar to Robin Hood.

Pat Crawford Brown

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.

Pavlo Tabakov

Mykola Lysenko (the Department of folk instruments; specialization Accordion and orchestra conducting).

Race Life of the Aryan Peoples

So of the Aryan folk; not the Vedas, not the Avestas, not the Iliad, or the Nibelungenlied, or Beowulf, but the marvelous tale of what the Aryan man has lived—how he has subdued the wild and waste lands—how he has made the desert to blossom as the rose—how he has built up empire with ax and plow, and has sailed the unknown paths of the seas—these are his true race epic.

Roy Guest

Notably Bert Jansch started his career at the club which became a meeting place for folk musicians including Archie Fisher and Owen Hand, and the folk duo of Robin Hall and Jimmie Macgregor.

Run On

"God's Gonna Cut You Down" (also known as "Run On" or "Run On for a Long Time"), a folk song covered by many artists

Shazia Khushk

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.

Shye Ben Tzur

In addition to musical ventures with Indian Folk artists, Shye has collaborated with the famous Indian singer Shubha Mudgal, the Spanish guitar maestro Fernando Perez, Yossi Fine, Mishko M’ba, Eli Magen, Zohar Fresco, and many others.

Silvio Rodríguez

Rodriguez has been a major influence on many folk artists, including the Swedish artist José González.

SKRUK

SKRUK has a varied repertoire, influenced by Norwegian folk music, spirituals, world music, and jazz, and has collaborated with many musicians, including Tord Gustavsen, Henning Sommerro, and Brilliant Dadashova.

Skynd

One evening the man was riding home from Ringsted, and as he passed the hill he saw a crowd of Hill-folk dancing round it.

Suresh Peters

Peters received his first break as a music director through the Malayalam movie Punjabi House in which he composed both melodies and folk songs.

Tanvir Mokammel

Achin Pakhi (The Unknown Bard): A documentary on the life and musicology of Fakir Lalon Shah, the doyen among the wandering sect of the folk-singers of rural Bengal known as the Bauls.

The Naming ceremony of Santror

The deity Thirumal, acting as a Pantaram(a religious person hailing from, and serving the ordinary folk), made the Seven Virgins, who were to give birth to seven boys using seven seeds from seven upper worlds (astral planes or lokas).

The Yorkshire Musical Saw Player

As well as taking part in the "BBC music live" festival he has also played in a skip outside Belfast City Hall for a "Catalyst Arts" Festival, in a folk festival at Broadstairs and as part of the International Gilbert and Sullivan festival in Buxton.

Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts

The new opera company employed both professional and amateur performers and entertained the Tibetan refugee camps and staged numerous performances of the folk Lhamo operas.

Tumbi

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).

Vladimir Pasyoukov

Vladimir Pavlovich Pasyukov (Pasjukov) (Russian:Владимир Павлович Пасюков ) (July, 29th, 1944 - June, 20th, 2011) was a Russian opera, folk and church singer who possessed a very powerful, extremely rare low-ranging basso profondo (Oktavist) voice, one of the lowest voices in the world.

Władysław Orkan

He is known as one of the greatest Polish writers from Podhale region and Górale folk; most famous of his works portray the common people from that region.


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