Noah Kahan is a platinum-selling singer with 33 million monthly listeners on Spotify, a top 5 album and an upcoming arena tour. Yet Uproxx's Steven Hyden can't seem to find him interesting. Here, he tries to understand the appeal of an artist whose music he fundamentally doesn't rate, describing it as, "plucky, tasteful, and aggressively uplifting folk rock that is to Mumford & Sons what Bob Dylan was to Woody Guthrie."
The UK government is proposing to ratify the UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage and is inviting participation in a public consultation via an online survey and online roundtable discussions.
Funny, I posted this obscure music industry news paragraph from 1921 that I had come across in my research about New York klezmers and my friend Paul Gifford (expert on cimbaloms and Hungarian music among other things) sent me this photo of an earlier incarnation of this same band. He got the photo from the great-grandson of the cimbalom player Bela Nyary (1872-1923), who emigrated to the US from Hungary and worked on the vaudeville circuit. #FolkMusic#MusicHistory#klezmer#HungarianMusic
Billy Bragg with the legend of Scottish folk music and political activism, Dick Gaughan. Pictured at a Celtic Connections concert in memory of Scottish socialist John MacLean.
Some snaps from our last session in The Oban Inn on Wednesday 3rd January 2024. We are having another session this afternoon if you happen to be in the area. #TraditionalMusic#FolkMusic#Sessions#TradMusic
Some more snaps from our last session in The Oban Inn on Wednesday 3rd January 2024. We are having another session this afternoon if you happen to be in the area. #TraditionalMusic#FolkMusic#Sessions#TradMusic
A few months ago someone on Wikipedia suggested merging the (very sparse) Sandy Bell's page with Hamish Henderson's - which I thought was a terrible idea since Henderson was neither A Pub or The Revival.
Onyway, I finally got round to adding a few edits to expand the Bell's page but it's still in need of much overhaul if anybody's a Bells enthusiast.
Listening to Robyn's "Call Your Girlfriend", and I'm thinking.
I'm thinking about a country cover.
Because country songs with women singers are much more from the point of view of the cheated-upon woman and the lengths she's willing to go to for retribution. Never the other woman.
Petrixora, the recent album from Elana Low, is a fascinating dive into almost medieval-sounding folk music. It’s hard not to be overwhelmed by the wall of sound, but Low’s piercing lyrics and fey performance keep us from falling too far under its spell.
Does any kind sharing soul have a digital copy of all 7 pages of Gramsci's 'Observations on Folklore' (as assembled by Felice Platone) in English translation?
Usually found in Selections from Cultural Writings, ed by David Forgacs and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Lawrence and Wishart, 1985.
I'm after the exact thing for comparison with Cirese. Cheers!
Today in Labor History January 10, 1914: IWW labor organizer and folk singer, Joe Hill, was arrested for killing two men during a grocery store robbery. He claimed innocence and the evidence against him was flimsy. However, because of his radical associations, they still framed and convicted him. President Wilson, Hellen Keller (also an IWW member) and the Swedish ambassador all asked for clemency. Hill’s final message from prison, before being shot by firing squad, was “Don’t mourn, Organize!” His ashes were sprinkled in every state of the union, except Utah because he didn’t want to be found dead in Utah. They were also sprinkled in Canada, Sweden, Australia and Canada. Some of his most famous songs were “The Preacher and the Slave,” “The Rebel Girl,” “There is Power in a Union,” “Casey Jones, the Union Scab,” and “Mr. Block.” In 1988, an envelope containing his remaining ashes was discovered. Abbie Hoffman suggested that folksinger Billy Bragg should consume them and he supposedly did, washed down, of course, with copious beer.