Tag Archives: Contemporary Folk

Guitarist/bassist/vocalist and Glasgow local Hamish Stuart is best-known for his stint among the most actively contributing people of Scottish soulsters the common White Music group (best-known for his or her 1974 number 1 smash “Grab the Items”). He also performed in Paul McCartney’s music group through the ’90s and over …

Hamish Imlach had a multi-layered performing career, as an anti-nuclear activist, comedian, folk-singer, and politics satirist. A indigenous of Scotland, he started his recording profession in 1966 on Transatlantic Information’ XTRA label and eventually cut eight well-known LPs for the business over another seven years. He cherished traditional folk tunes, …

Delivered in 1975 and executing since the age group of 14, Cara Dillon offers made a profession using her almost angelic tone of voice. Given birth to in Dungiven, Ireland, Dillon received the All Ireland Performing Trophy at age group 14. She became the vocalist for Oige, an Irish music …

David Bridie is definitely among Australia’s state-of-the-art music artists and songwriters, balancing his profession in rings and on record using the composition of soundtrack music. His profession started in 1983 when the classically qualified Bridie began dealing with guitarist John Phillips. Bridie was focusing on a music called “ACTIVE” and …

Michael Hough and David Tamulevich shaped the folk duo Mustard’s Retreat in 1974 in Ann Arbor, MI. Both males had been cooks, Connecticut natives, songwriters, and previous members of chapel choirs. As Mustard’s Retreat, both friends performed before an viewers for the very first time in the Ark using one …

Tom Paxton has shown to be one of the most durable from the singer/songwriters to emerge in the Greenwich Community folk revival picture of the first ’60s. In a few ways, he previously more in keeping using the past due-’50s era of folksingers such as for example Dave Truck Ronk …

Working out from the heartland of America, Omaha, Nebraska’s Tom May hosts River City Folk, syndicated by American Public Radio to more than 200 stations. IT version from the display is transmit by Americana Wire and it is this country’s just televised folk music plan. May himself may be the …

Voice from the Seven Woods is in fact the prog folk automobile of multi-instrumentalist Rick Tomlinson, a Manchester, U.K.-centered musician whose classical guitar style echoes the approach of Bert Jansch, Robbie Basho, and Davy Graham. Tomlinson, who takes on oud, sitar, and piano aswell as acoustic guitar, and sometimes sings, …

While she might not have envisioned it in early stages, Sarah Lee Guthrie, the little girl of Arlo Guthrie and granddaughter of Woody Guthrie, finished up answering the decision of family custom, releasing her self-titled debut in the family-owned Rising Son Records in 2001. Cautious observers will observe that her …

Although a “singer/songwriter” in the sense that he wrote almost all the music he performed, it’s nearer to the truth to spell it out the well-traveled Al Grierson being a folksinger and Renaissance man in the mold of Woody Guthrie, Jimmie Rodgers, Pete Seeger, Utah Phillips, and Jack Hardy — …