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More Canadian Finds From Folk Alliance 2013

Stephen D. Winick | Posted 04.15.2013 | Arts
Read More: Folk-Alliance-International, Folk Music, Quebec, Alan Doyle, Musique, Great Big Sea, Russell Crowe, Toronto, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Blues, Canada, Fiddle, Celtic Music, Bluegrass, Alan Lomax, Newfoundland, Video, Arts News
Stephen D. Winick

Revisiting the stack of CDs I brought back from Folk Alliance 2013 reveals that there are more interesting Canadian acts I haven't shared with readers yet -- which is fitting, since the meeting was in Toronto.

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Remembering Guthrie with Woody at 100

Stephen D. Winick | Posted 07.26.2012 | Home
Read More: Arlo Guthrie, Smithsonian Folkways, Lee Hays, Woody Guthrie Centennial, Pete Seeger, Cisco Houston, Folk Music, Maddox Brothers and Rose, Woody Guthrie, John Lomax, Singer-Songwriter, Library of Congress, Nora Guthrie, Philadelphia Lawyer, Robert Santelli, This Land Is Your Land, Alan Lomax, American Folklife Center, Jeff Place, Video, Home News
Stephen D. Winick

Not many people can claim to have helped change the meaning of a common word, but I think Guthrie can.

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Review: Wrecking Ball by Bruce Springsteen

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.05.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: New Album, Nebraska, Tom Morello, Soul, Michelle Moore, Wrecking Ball, Gospel, Music News, Blues, Born in the USA, Country, World Tour, Clarence Clemons, Hip Hop, Entertainment News, Ron Aniello, Alan Lomax, Album Review, E Street Band, Rock and Roll, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News
Holly Cara Price

Wrecking Ball stands as Springsteen's best album release in almost thirty years. It's both wrenching and jubilant; looking back and looking forward; steeped in sorrow as well as celebratory and undaunted.

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Why Do People Sing? Alan Lomax and His Science of Song

Bob Moses | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: World Music, Jazz, John Szwed, Jelly Roll Morton, Folk Music, Alan Lomax, John Lomax, Woody Guthrie, Books News
Bob Moses

The search for answers to deceptively simple questions drove Alan Lomax to wander America -- and eventually the world. A new Lomax biography follows his journey.

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WATCH: WORLD MUSIC: Anna Lomax Wood Uncovers Haiti's Lost Music

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: New Orleans, Library of Congress, World Music, Haitian Music, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, Anna Lomax Wood, West Africa, Alan Lomax, Ethnomusicology, Video, Arts News

(From: Need To Know on PBS) A treasure trove of Haitian music, recorded in the 1930s, is brought back to the country as it tries to rebuild after the ...

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Pete Seeger Continues to Inspire "Tomorrow's Children"

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: This Land Is Your Land, Toshi Seeger, Lee Hays, Tomorrow?S Children, Kingston Trio, Rivertown Kids, Pete Seeger, Appleseed Recordings, Hudson River, Turn! Turn! Turn!, Woody Guthrie, Beacon New York, The Weavers, Sing Out! Magazine, Alan Lomax, Tery Udell, Dan Einbender, Clearwater Environmental Organization, We Shall Overcome, Peter Paul and Mary, Goodnight Irene, Tom Morello, Obama Inauguration, If I Had a Hammer, David Bernz, Fred Hellmeran, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, Archive of American Folk Song, Library of Congress, Leadbelly, Ronnie Gilbert, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Rufus Wainwright, The Bells of Rhymey, Bruce Springsteen, Byrds, Guantanamara, Entertainment News
Holly Cara Price

91 year old Pete Seeger recently told a Rolling Stone journalist that his new album, Tomorrow's Children, is "the most inspiring thing I've ever done....

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Radio Broadcasts Tell the Truth about Haiti

John Hood | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Sting, Alan Lomax, Fisher Stevens, Naomi Watts, Ben Stiller, Kimberly Green, This Is Haiti, Impact News
John Hood

Sting, Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts are among those lending both, their high profiles, and their voices to "This is Haiti."

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Remembering Bess Lomax Hawes

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Folklore, San Fernando Valley State College, Smithsonian Institution, Folk Arts, Pete Seeger, Jacqueline Steiner, Folk Music, Woody Guthrie, Mta, John Lomax, Sing It Pretty, Almanac Singers, Bryn Mawr College, Butch Hawes, Alan Lomax, Bess Lomax Hawes, Guitar, National Endowment for the Arts, Walter O'Brien, Politics News
Peter Dreier

Throughout her life, Bess Lomax Hawes was a political radical who fought for a better future, but who also understood the importance of preserving the many cultural traditions of America's past.

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