Tag Archives: European Folk

Created in 1996 in St. Pölten, Austria, as an acoustic quartet, Ballycotton’s 1st two recordings emphasized their choice for Irish music. Although they performed many initial tunes, these were structured in a fashion that exhibited the group’s complete knowledge of traditional Irish music. The five track EP Joanna’s Wedding ceremony …

The release from the debut album Paganu Gadagramata (translated: Pagan Yearbook) by multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Ugis Praulins marked the start of a fresh era for Latvian folk music. A seasonal routine of mainly traditional music and instrumentals, the record mixed traditional Latvian instrumentation, like the zither-like kokle and bagpipes, and …

Critics have got dubbed Martin Ideal a “modern troubadour” for his energetic shows of minstrel music from the center Ages. Greatest has produced over two dozen recordings like a single singer, often associated himself on early guitars and lutes. His recordings consist of single songs (notably from the Swedish poet/songwriter …

The Flemish trio Laïs, originally from Kalmthout, grew from humble beginnings to be among the premier sets of the later-’90s Belgian folk revival. The seed of Laïs was planted after a folk workshop kept in Gooik, where two from the three associates’ a cappella rendition of the Italian folk melody …

Slovenian accordionist Bratko Bibič was an integral person in Begnagrad, a pioneering group that melded Eastern Western european folk music with avant-prog through the ’70s and ’80s, before he joined up with Swiss multi-instrumentalist Momo Rossel’s transatlantic Rock and roll in Opposition-flavored Nimal in the past due ’80s and Slovenian/American …

Blessed Modest Schoepen on, may 16, 1925, in Antwerp, Bobbejaan (aka Bobby John) was considered by many to become among the essential pioneers in Flemish and Belgian origins music (we.e., nation & traditional western) and pop, aswell to be a well-known whistler and vaudeville performer. In his period, he performed …

The couple team Marais and Miranda popularized traditional South African folk music in america through the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s. The duo charmed radio and concert hall viewers with relatively Americanized variations (a lot of the amounts were British adaptations, though they do occasionally sing in Afrikaans) of the initial …

A dance music group from holland that sings in Limburgish dialect, Rowwen Hèze rose to mainstream achievement in the 1990s having a festive mixture of Tex-Mex, folk tunes, and ballads. The music group remained popular for a long time afterward, peaking in recognition in 2006 using the chart-topping recording Rodus …

Rodney Gallop helped to spark the revival of international dance in England through the 1930s. In cooperation with Alford Violet, Gallop structured the important International Folk Dance Festival in London in 1935 and had written a book, THE ORIGINAL Dance, that centered on traditional Western dance.

The initial chamber jazz of Peoples Bizarre was initially come up with in 2001, when members from the Midwest and SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA avant garde jazz community came collectively to focus on the same project. Featuring Recloose/Tom Waits collaborator Colin Stetson on clarinet, Fred Frith pupil Sarah Zaharako on …