Tag Archives: Traditional Folk

Poetic lyrics arranged to fingerstyle classical guitar and hill dulcimer melodies have produced Seattle-based Heidi Muller among the Northwest’s leading singer/songwriters and song interpreters. Muller’s four self-produced albums, released on her behalf personal Cascadian label, have already been enthusiastically received by folk music followers throughout the USA. Muller’s “Great Road” …

Costs & Belle Reed produced simply three recordings, the outcomes of one program for Columbia recorded in 1928 in Johnson Town, Tennessee. Regardless of the lack of materials, the couple’s “Aged Lady as well as the Devil” was put together onto Harry Smith’s 1952 folksong collection Anthology of American Folk …

Robert Lee Castleman was raised in a variety of locations seeing that the son of the career military guy. He worked within a electric guitar shop and performed in pubs and folk night clubs before shifting to Nashville to become songwriter, though he backed himself being a trucker. His tune …

The musical traditions of Korea have already been well balanced with Western-influenced pop music by multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Kim Soo-chul. While his very best commercial achievement offers include his hard-edged dance music, Soo-chul provides continuing to explore his musical root base. A master from the piri (Korean flute), changgo (hourglass-shaped …

The trio of Tipperary accordionist Paddy O’Brien, fiddler Seamus Connolly, and pianist Charlie Lennon joined forces in 1973 to record The Banking institutions from the Shannon, a landmark day in the annals of traditional Irish music. O’Brien was possibly the best known independently — some 78 rpm discs he documented …

A love of traditional folk music links Gordon Bok, Ed Trickett and Ann Mayo Muir. Although each offers performed and documented like a soloist, their cooperation has led to some high-quality albums of traditional folk music. The genesis for the trio arrived when deep-voiced folk vocalist and guitarist Bok fulfilled …

Dramtreeo is a popular folk group executing through the entire mid-Atlantic area of america because the early 1980’s. Starting like a trio greatly influenced from the Kingston Trio in 1981, the initial members required their name from your story from the “Dram Tree,” a story about a vintage cypress tree …

In 1978, Tag Cloud (vocals, electrical and acoustic guitars, dobro, mandolin, Appalachian dulcimer, keyboards) and Cheryl Cloud (songwriter, lead vocals, classical guitar) formed Common Floor, a folk-rock band featuring both traditional Celtic music and Cheryl’s original tunes. They were became a member of by Marcy Hogan (vocals, viola, keyboards), Scott …

The fiddle tradition of america coupled with Scandanavian music tradition through the music from the American Cafe Orchestra. Their exclusive record, Egyptian Dominoes, included rearranged fiddle music from Greece, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and america. The theory for the American Cafe Orchestra was sparked when Boston-based fiddler Ruthie Dornfeld fulfilled Copenhagen-based …

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