12Tone, the fast-talking, quick-doodling music theorist, explained how the classic Ukrainian folk song “Shchedryk”, which celebrated the rites of Spring, originated in folklore and became a ...

The music stays playfully upbeat, with Mitchell’s spry acoustic guitar shuffle helping with the chorus mashup of folk and doo ...

Regarded as one of the most-important songwriters of his generation, both as a folk performer and in music in general. When people make a claim for song-lyrics as poetry, Dylan and Leonard Cohen ...

I felt immense happiness and excitement when I learned that a composition by an Armenian musician, Arman Peshtmaljyan, was ...

In the below list, we're running down 10 Folk Acts ... time style music of the '20s and '30s with what was then quite new technology — they had one album literally titled Songs From the Depression.

"American" music ... Collegiate song books collected by Walter S. "Wally" Collins (1926-1997), including extensive research materials on the Yale Song Book. Song lists and notebooks from Carrie M.

Curtis got his first classical guitar around the age of 9 and took lessons from local guitarist and composer Terry Hunt.

It wasn't just that he contributed his tenor (and banjo picking) to two seminal folk groups — the ... Sign up Here's a sampling of Seeger's music, both his own songs and those he collected ...

There are many folk songs where kalyna is a symbol of ... He took the original 17th-century song and created music to accompany it, for one of his theatrical productions. Then Sich riflemen ...

Yarrow, who also co-wrote the group’s most enduring song ... the Wind,” into Billboard Top 10 hits as they helped lead an American renaissance in folk music. They performed “Blowin ...

Roots Music Report, a music chart for independent artists, listed it as the 22nd-best contemporary folk album and 54th ... homage to an Asleep at the Wheel song of the same name and the duo's ...