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Joaquin Rivera Robbed While Dying In Emergency Room: UPDATE (VIDEO)

Huffington Post/AP | MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 12.03.2009 | New York

Read More: Drug Addicts, Philadelphia, Joaquin Rivera Robbed, Esmin Green, Joaquin Rivera, Folk Music, Emergency Room, Joaquin Rivera Dead, Heart Attack, Joaquin Rivera Philadelphia Musician, New York News

UPDATE: Authorities have released footage of the terrible robbery: ******** PHILADELPHIA (Associated Press) - A school counselor suffering an app...

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Remembering Bess Lomax Hawes

Peter Dreier | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

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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Judy Collins: Singing for the Privileged Few

James Gavin | Posted 10.06.2009 | New York

Read More: 1960s, Susan Boyle, Cafe Carlyle, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Folk Music, Barbra Streisand, Judy-Collins-Cafe-Carlyle, Leonard Cohen, New York News

As I watched the transfixed faces of Judy's Carlyle fans, I had to wonder: What long and winding road took them here? Did they ever roll around in the mud at Woodstock? Take LSD?

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Judy Collins Sings The Stuff Of Folklore, Perfectly

Katy Hall | Posted 12.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Judy Collins Cafe Carlyle, '60s Pop Music, Cafe Carlyle, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, Folk Music, Bob Dylan, Music, Joan Baez, Entertainment News

She drifted into a few lines of 'Suzanne,' the song Leonard Cohen wrote for her to sing but made him famous, stopping herself just as she got to those oranges that traveled halfway around the world in the summer of 1965.

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Forty Years After Chicago, We Have Not Found the Things We Lost

Judy Collins | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Convention, Lee Weiner, The Chicago 10, 1968 Democratic National Convention, 1968 Chicago, Judy Collins, Police Brutality, Tom Hayden, Folk Music, Jerry Rubin, Rennie-Davis, Abbie Hoffman, Yippies, David Dellinger, John Froines, Politics News

The Chicago Seven were very serious peace activists and were baited into a festival of confusion instead of a festival of life in Chicago in 1968, launched to take the focus off the war.

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Thank You, Mary Travers

Anne Stockwell | Posted 11.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: LGBT Rights, Leukemia, Folk Music, Rolling Stones, Peter Paul and Mary, Mary Travers Dead, Peter Paul, Entertainment News

My slightly older cousin was nuts about some off-key British jerks called the Rolling Stones. I waited for a clear coast and soaked up Peter, Paul & Mary when nobody was around.

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Folk U (Day 1): Ten Best of the Fest Moments

Michael Bialas | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Folks Festival, Madelein Peyroux, Folk Music, Rufus Wainwright, Colorado, Festival, Mary Gauthier, Dougie Maclean, Concert, Lyons, Rain, Concerts, Rock Concert, Weather, Entertainment News

Folk enthusiasts were like transfixed students eager to soak up some musical knowledge. They were schooled in a wide variety of styles during an afternoon and evening of intense instruction.

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Remembering Tiananmen Square

Stephen Zunes | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Nonviolent Action, Folk Music, Human Rights, China, Tiananmen Square, Tiananmen Anniversary, Pete Seeger, Catskill Mountains, 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square, World News

On the eve of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, musicians sang together in the Catskill Mountains, protesting not only the tragedy unfolding in Beijing, but the betrayals of 20th century socialism.

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Pete Seeger, "Folk Music" and the Left

Jesse Larner | Posted 06.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Fellow Travelers, James Lileks, Banjo, Joseph Stalin, Barbarossa, Ron Radosh, Pete Seeger, March on Washington, Folk Music, Woody Guthrie, Nicaragua, Bob Dylan, Mark Steyn, Kingston Trio, World War Two, Yalta, Billy Bragg, Communism, Doc Watson, Mao Zedong, Guitar, Leninism, Joan Baez, Franklin Roosevelt, Kim Il-Sung, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, Medgar Evers, Amy Goodman, Entertainment News

As someone on the left who loves folk music, I understand that I'm supposed to feel mystically uplifted by the dean of activist folkies. But I never could stand Pete.

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Pete Seeger Deserves One More Honor -- the Nobel Peace Prize

Peter Dreier | Posted 06.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Pete Seeger, Folk Music, Madison Square Garden, Nobel Peace Prize, Joan Baez, Birthday, Bruce Springsteen, Barack Obama, Pete Seeger Nobel Peace Prize, Pete Seeger Noble, Pete Seeger Concert, Home News

A truly modest man, Seeger has become a reluctant icon. But he deserves at least one more moment on the world stage -- at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Norway.

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Mary Chapin Carpenter Returns to the Stage and Talks about Eudora Welty, Inspiration, and Bonding

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Kate Campbell, Literature, Eudora Welty, Art, Souhthern Women, Entertainment, Nobel Prize Literature, Southern Writers, Jackson Mississippi, Folk Music, Georgianne Nienaber, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Caroline Herring, Claire Holley, Entertainment News

Five-time Grammy winner, Mary Chapin Carpenter is still raving about the experience she had performing with Kate Campbell, Claire Holley and Caroline Herring at the Eudora Welty Centennial Concert.

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Bob Dylan Reveals His Favorite Songwriters (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jimmy Buffett, Slideshow, Warren Zevon, Bob Dylan Favorite Songwriters, Bob Dylan Favorite Musicians, Guy Clark, Randy Newman, Bob Dylan Randy Newman, Folk Music, Bob Dylan Jimmy Buffett, Bob Dylan, John Prine, Bob Dylan Interview, Bill Flanagan, Entertainment News

To read more of Bob Dylan's conversation with Bill Flanagan on which this slideshow is based, here....

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Bob Dylan Exclusive Interview: Reveals His Favorite Songwriters, Thoughts On His Own Cult Figure Status

Huffington Post | Posted 05.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Together Through Life, Jimmy Buffett, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan Favorite Musicians, Bob Dylan Favorite Songwriters, Warren Zevon, Randy Newman, Bob Dylan Jimmy Buffett, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan Interview, Bill Flanagan, Bob Dylan Album, Bob Dylan Randy Newman, Folk Music, John Prine, Robert Hunter, Entertainment News

In anticipation of the release of his 33rd album, Together Through Life, Bob Dylan sat down with rock critic and MTV producer Bill Flanagan for a rare...

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Eddie's Attic: Singer/Songwriter Ellis in Full Bloom in Atlanta

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Zen, Pema Chodron, Atlanta, Songwriter, Singer, Eddie's Attic, Folk Music, Ellis-Music, Ellis, Decatur, Georgianne Nienaber, Atlanta-Georgia, Entertainment News

Check out Eddie's Attic if you are in Atlanta. If you live anywhere on this planet, find Ellis's performance schedule and locations.

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Will Charlie Ever Get Off That Train?

Peter Dreier and Jim Vrabel | Posted 03.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Kingston Trio 50th Anniversary, Folklore, Folk Music, Folk Songs, Mta, Protest Music, Kingston Trio, Oregon, Entertainment News

Since the Kingston Trio's self-censored version became a hit fifty years ago, "M.T.A." has become a part of American folklore.

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The Day the Music Died

Michael Pattison | Posted 03.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Texas, The 1970s, Buddy Holly, Tommy Allsup, Folk Music, Waylon Jennings, Singing, American Pie, Music, Lubbock Texas, Rock and Roll, 1970s, Don McLean, Entertainment News

Don McLean saw February 3, 1959 as The Day the Music Died, but really it was the day the legend of Buddy Holly was born.

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Pete Seeger: American Patriot

David Weinberger | Posted 02.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Folk Music, Patriotism, Pete Seeger, Obama Inauguration, Inauguration, Barack Obama, 1960s, Nobel Prize, Singing, Music, Entertainment News

In my household, growing up, Pete Seeger was the example of what a patriot looks like. A man of the people. A hero who had stayed true to his ideals. A singer happiest in a small circle of like souls.

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The Audacity of the Presidential Inauguration Committee: or This Land is Whose Land?

Susan Brison | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama Inauguration, Obama Inauguration, Obama Inaugural, The Internet, Msnbc, Star-Spangled Banner, Hbo, Inaugural Concert, Folk Music, Music, Barack Obama, Television, Peter Seeger, Cnn, Inauguration Concert, Youtube, Politics News

I was hoping that hearing Gene Robinson speak at the Inaugural Concert would return to me the joy I felt on election night, but the Presidential Inauguration Committee decided to sell the property rights to HBO.

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Fleet Foxes: Live in Concert (and in Flannel)

Marissa Moss | Posted 07.10.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Flannel, Breaking Entertainment News, Grunge, Fleet Foxes, Sub Pop, Folk Music, Fashion, Seattle, Music, Freak Folk, Devendra Banhart, Entertainment News

The first time I heard Fleet Foxes, I thought I liked them because I listened to the album on vinyl. But when I heard them live, I realized that their warmth and honestly came from the bandmembers themselves.

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Utah Phillips, A Good Man Gone

Toby Barlow | Posted 06.05.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Springsteen, Homeless, Pete Seeger, Folk Music, Neil Young, Woody Guthrie, Grammy, Tom Waits, Utah Phillips, Music, Entertainment News

Utah Phillips was a great American artist who never stopped thinking, laboring, and singing for the hard-working and the long-suffering of the world.

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