Some time ago I have discovered a site with a collection of free sheet music for the fisarmonca – the accordeon. Its mainly a collection of Italian tunes, folk songs, folk dances and also some opera melodies. When I visited this site again I looked at some Tarantellas and decided to write a post about […]
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Just found this nice Video with Norman and Nancy Blake. The talk about their music and about their guitars and play and sing two tunes: Norman and Nancy Blake “My Dear Old Southern Home” and “New Money” Playlist Norman and Nancy Blake Playlist – Blind Dog Additional Infos Wikipedia about Norman Blake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Blake_%28American_musician%29
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A new interesting concert is available at the CBC – The Dardanelles is a five piece folk band from Newfoundland with mandolin or bouzouki, guitar, fiddle, accordeon, tin whistles and bodhran. Armed with an intense love of the music of their native home, and an energy found more often in three-piece rock bands than in
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On the homepage of the Musical Instruments Museum I have found a video by the Acadian group Vishtèn who will play a concert in January in this museum. I was immediately hit by this video, and I decided to find out more about this group. Vishtèn was founded about 10 years ago and is located
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Almost one year has passed since Butch Baldassari died on January 10. In his latest BBC broadcast Mike Harding played a piece from the CD Travellers with Butch Baldassari, John Reischman and Robin Bullock, a very nice medley composed of the following three tunes: The Old French / The Wise Maid / Swinging On A
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Pete Seeger has produced the Rainbow Quest series of TV shows in 1965 and 1966. This is a great documentation about the folk music of the 60s. I found this when I searched for videos of Richard Farina, and I have watched some other episodes too. Those videos show many singers, songwriters, folk bands, bluegrass
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By a tweet I was led to a blog post about the music of Richard and Mimi Fariña. In this blog post Neal Hellman tells about his passion about the Mountain Dulcimer or Appalachian Dulcimer, whow he wrote his first book about the dulcimer and after some time also found a publisher for this project.
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Art Rosenbaum is an US American painter and musician. I have met Art Rosenbaum in Freiburg when he spent a year teaching at the univerisity during the 80s. He used to bring his banjo to the lectures and play some examples of the true American folk music that he has recorded all over the country.
If you count the youtube views this video might be one of the most successful songs with a mandola (or ocatave mandolin). It has been viewed almost 4 million times – it’s for sure that there are many more metal fans than people who watch traditional or classical mandola videos. Eluveitie – Omnos Eluveitie –
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The latest podcast from Radio Canada Live is a recording frm a concert given by the Canadia singer/songwriter duo Madison Violet in the Hugh’s Room in Toronto. Madison Violet has just released their Album No Fool. And they were named ‘Vocal Group of the Year’ at the Canadian Folk Music Awards. They also just won
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