Tag Archives: Traditional Folk

Although Phil Rosenthal is most likely most widely known as the longtime singer and guitarist in the influential bluegrass group the Seldom Scene, he’s also an accomplished songwriter and producer by himself. A indigenous of Guilford, CT, Rosenthal started his musical profession in the 1970s as mandolin participant and vocalist …

Presented in accurate carnival side-show style like a blind mountain guy just recently plucked from obscurity to execute for the civilized world, Jilson Setters documented several edges for RCA Victor as well as the Library of Congress, and made an appearance all over the world including NY society features and …

June Tabor is just about the finest feminine traditional Uk folksinger from the past due 20th and early 21st hundreds of years — if not the very best Uk folksinger of her period, period. What links her to Britain’s previous traditions may be the chilling and psychological characteristics of her …

The half-sister of Pete Seeger as well as the widow of Ewan MacColl, singer/songwriter Peggy Seeger continued her family’s very long history of championing and preserving traditional music, especially emerging like a seminal figure in the Uk folk song revival from the 1960s. Created June 17, 1935, in NEW YORK, …

The strings from the hammered dulcimer stand out with melody and percussive rhythms through the playing of Sam Rizzetta. The founder of multi-dulcimer group, Trapezoid, in 1975, Rizzetta provides continued to artistically explore his multi-stringed device being a soloist since 1979. Furthermore to preserving a busy plan being a performer …

Folksinger, educator, and sea biologist Sam Hinton was created March 21, 1917 in Tulsa, Okay; raised generally in Tx, after graduating senior high school he examined zoology at Tx A&M, helping finance his education via performing performances. In 1936 he gained a significant Bowes’ Beginner Hour competition, departing college to …

Folksinger and professional Josh Light Jr. happily upheld the musical custom started by his dad, the renowned bluesman and cultural activist Josh Light. Delivered November 30, 1940 in NEW YORK, he produced his executing debut at age four, showing up alongside his father at ny nightclub Cafe Culture; for near …

Americana vocalist/songwriter Tag Erelli made a good splash when he appeared within the music picture in 1999 with an eponymous debut from Personal Noises. Critics from Billboard towards the Boston Herald sang the musician’s praises, as well as the Kerrville New Folk Competition named him best puppy in its competition. …

Fiddle participant Joseph Cormier was raised in Chéticamp (a French-speaking city in Cape Breton), but found on his device by hearing Scottish fiddlers in nearby cities, leading to Cormier’s original design. His music provides often been referred to as either Celtic or traditional folk, as evidenced by some of his …

A legendary African-American interpreter of both operatic and concert repertoire, Marian Anderson was possessed of 1 of the best possible contralto voices in living memory space. Her profession was notable not merely for her creative achievements — that have been many — also for a dignified tenacity when confronted with …