Tag: folk music
group name: homemademusic
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May 16, 2006 04:55 PM EDT --
If you're like me, you've been a Prairie Home Companion (PHC) listener in good stead for almost 25 year. Now there's a movie based on Keillor's book about the behind-the- scenes and onstage . . .
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October 07, 2009 02:25 AM EDT --
From October through June, the Bainbridge Island Nordic Dance comes to life at Island Center Hall. Last Saturday's First Saturday Nordic Dance featured Gammeldans, one of our favorite bands, who came . . .
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February 22, 2009 12:02 PM EST --
After months of distant sunshine that gives no warmth, of arctic chill on bitter winds, of dangerous travel conditions and times when leaving home was for emergencies only, we arrive at "mid-winter." . . .
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November 13, 2008 02:24 AM EST --
In my younger days I fiddled in an old-time band. We played for square and contra dances, mostly in Michigan (now my main emphasis is Scandinavian dance music, in Washington state). Because dancers . . .
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November 14, 2007 07:41 PM EST --
Dateline: Monticello, NY
The Hedgehog Correspondent Corps made a concerted effort to interview as many folk musicians as had time to speak with us during the course of the 2007 Northeast Regional Folk . . .
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March 02, 2008 07:38 PM EST --
Instead of the list containing songs you have all heard before and love or loathe, I offer you this: links that might bring you to songs by people you ought to hear.
Paul Kaplan . Paul . . .
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June 30, 2008 03:57 AM EDT --
I'm going to be spending a LOT of time at Fort Worden here in my town of Port Townsend, Washington this week. I'll be attending "Fiddle Tunes"--the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, sponsored by the . . .
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November 14, 2007 05:41 PM EST --
Dateline: Monticello, NY
In the never-ending effort to answer the question, "What is folk music?" the intrepid Hedgehog Correspondence Corps traveled to Kutsher's Resort in New York's scenic Catskills . . .
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February 08, 2008 03:59 AM EST --
Many of you have asked me to post a video of me playing my fiddle music. So far I haven't been able to make that happen. But to give you an idea of what I play, and why I like it, I found some . . .
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July 03, 2008 05:06 AM EDT --
I hit my stride today..... after a good night's rest I was able to attend two classes and two band labs and learn still MORE tunes. I am starting to wonder if there is a limit to how many tunes can . . .
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December 04, 2007 03:52 AM EST --
"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"We consider that the man who can fiddle all through one . . .
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July 01, 2008 05:37 AM EDT --
This was my first full day of classes at the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes. I decided to try out the Cape Breton fiddling this morning. I was fiddling around (oops) with my new recorder this morning . . .
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July 02, 2008 02:49 AM EDT --
I can't believe I am this tired. What did I do at Fiddle Tunes today? Sit on my heinie and play music, most of the time? Walk back and forth to different buildings, not so far apart? Okay, I did dance . . .
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November 28, 2008 03:29 PM EST --
Learning music is fun any time of year, so ways to do that make especially good gifts, for yourself and others. Here are several ideas:
Ellery Klein’s Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing the . . .
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December 19, 2007 08:33 AM EST --
Thinking about the light, the work, and the music, of winter. A time for celebration and reflection, for community and silence, for hope and joy at the year's . . .
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November 28, 2006 11:20 PM EST --
nothing has ever gone to waste
and nothing's ever gained
when sweet love I had but a taste
that went against the grain
too many liars mystify
with words they can't believe
but even I can't . . .
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