Folk Music

Nov 22, 2008: Nellie Mckay with Pee-Pee at the Mercury Café at Mercury Cafe

Nellie Mckay with Pee-Pee at The Mercury Café Critically acclaimed singer-songwriter-pianist Nellie Mckay performs with Denver’s folk rock band Pee-Pee at 8 p.m. on Saturday, November 22 at the Mercury Café, 2199 California...

David Olney and Sergio Webb play smokin' hot Americana

Carol Rifkin • published November 14, 2008 12:15 am Nashville based singer-songwriter David Olney is a veteran. This weekend at Jack of the Wood, his warm voice is backed by guitarist Sergio Webb. At the time, I felt a lot of...

Battlefield brings fired-up Scottish tunes

By Molly Gilmore | For The Olympian • Published November 13, 2008 Band mixes traditional music with modern compositions This time of year, Western Washington weather doesn't seem like good news. "Coastal Washington state is...

Old Crow Medicine Show: For The People

By: Sarah Hagerman Old Crow Medicine Show by Danny Clinch "Around the country there are people that are going through the motions of living," Ketch Secor (fiddle, banjo, harmonica) of Old Crow Medicine Show reflects. "Living in...

Mitch Mitchell, Hendrix drummer, dead at 61

Mitch Mitchell, the drummer for Jimi Hendrix's seminal 1960s rock trio that melded blues, avant-garde jazz, folk music and electronic noise, has died. He was 61. PORTLAND, Ore. — Mitch Mitchell, the drummer for Jimi Hendrix's...

Hanggai: Chinese Punk Looks To The Past

NPR profiles singer Ilchi, a former punk rocker who has returned to his Inner Mongolian roots and traditional folk music: The otherworldly sound of throat singing echoes through a small Beijing cafe. Singer Ilchi is producing...

Baylor Professor Finishes Global Issues Series with Lecture on Israeli Folk Music and the Latin...

Dr. Alfredo Colman, assistant professor of musicology and ethnomusicology at Baylor University, will present a lecture on "The Soundscapes and Nostalgia in Israeli Folk Music and 'The Parvarim' and the Latin American Music...

For the Byrds

Thursday November 13, WSU will host former guitarist and vocalist from the band The Byrds, Roger McGuinn. McGuinn will be the third of the Convocations speakers to come to Weber this fall. More than year ago, McGuinn had been...

Aero at the Atahualpa Folk Festival

Argentina - The 13th edition of the Atahualpa Festival opened at the Club Central Córdoba, Argentina, earlier this year. This folk music marathon lasted over eight hours and was a colourful gathering of the leading Argentinean...

Nepali music specialists call for conservation of folk music

By Binju Sitaula, Zhang Jianhua KATHMANDU, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Nepali folk culture specialists stressed over conservation of traditional folk music in order to maintain Nepali cultural identity worldwide. "In the name of...