Tag Archives: Contemporary Folk

Heavily inspired simply by French film director Jean-Luc Godard, Els Amics de les Arts’ fusion of Spanish folk, avant-garde pop, and electronica with pun-laden lyrics and ironic humor has helped them to be among the Catalan music scene’s most critically acclaimed outfits. Created in Barcelona in 2005, the music group, …

Acquiring cues from her favorite songwriters — including Melissa Etheridge, Janis Joplin, and Sista Otis — Crystal Bowersox brought a calm, folksy vibe towards the ninth time of year of American Idol. Although she auditioned for the present in Chicago, Bowersox was raised five hours east in Elliston, Ohio, a …

Originally named “the Kindling,” this acoustic side project from both main songwriters in the Welsh prog act Panic Area reached fruition in 2012 following release of this band’s acclaimed third album, Skin. Whereas Anxiety Room’s audio was constructed around crunching guitars and prominent synth riffs, Luna Rossa was an electric …

Vocalist, songwriter, poet, writer, and manufacturer Keith Adam is a presence in the U.K. folk picture because the ’70s, and provides won an market both for his very own music and his interpretations of various other celebrated performers. Adam was created in Salisbury, Wiltshire, Britain and was raised in Surrey …

Pop-folk singer and songwriter Noah Gundersen was created Might 31, 1989 in Olympia, Washington into an exceptionally spiritual but also very music family members that frowned about secular music, a look at that he ultimately abandoned. Gundersen started acquiring piano lessons before he was a teenager, and after inheriting a …

Multi-instrumentalist Ólöf Arnalds has generated herself as an essential person in the Icelandic musical community, nonetheless it wasn’t until 2007 that she stepped forwards to pursue a single career with her album Vid Og Vid. Blessed in 1980, Arnalds started playing music at a age and it is fluent on …

P.G. Six is among the monikers utilized by Patrick Gubler, a fresh York vocalist/guitar participant whose debut single album, Parlor Techniques and Porch Favorites, premiered in 2001 from the Amish label to very much essential acclaim. Having released an out of printing single beneath the same moniker in the ’90s, …

Although technically they have only released one album as Stampfel & Weber, 1981’s Going Nowhere Fast, singer/violinist/banjoist Peter Stampfel (b. Oct 29, 1938, in Wauwautosa, WI) and vocalist/guitarist Steve Weber (b. June 22, 1942, in Philadelphia, PA) been employed by together on / off, being a duo and with others, …

Critically acclaimed Norwegian folk-rock band Vamp made their award-winning album debut in 1993 and hit the uppermost reaches from the national charts with regularity in the years that followed. Founded in 1990 in Haugesund, Norway, the music group was originally made up of Jan Toft (vocals), Torbjørn Økland (electric guitar, …

The son of Sri Lankan immigrants, one-of-a-kind folksinger and songwriter Bhi Bhiman (he was named after a character in the Mahabharata) spent his childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, and started playing acoustic guitar when he was nine years of age. As a teenager he fell consuming rings like Nirvana, Soundgarden, …