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Tag Archives: folk music
Ensemble Voskresenie & Nikita Savostin’s Telega, Testo’s Marya.Ivan, and The Unknown Composer’s KOVRЫ (Carpets)
Here are three albums from the 2024 Russian World Music Chart. The music on Telega bridges the folk music of the Perm region of Russia, modern ethno-folk, and musical theater. The songs, most of them dance and other social occasion … Continue reading
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Russian World Music Chart announces Top 20 albums for 2024
Vedan Kolod’s Birds topped the 2024 Russian World Music Chart, voted on by an international jury of 21 World Music representatives from around the globe. The Russian World Music Chart (RWMC), was launched in 2021. Its purpose is to attract … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Folk and World Music Galore Vol. 3
The German label Folk Galore, part of the CPL-Music group, has put together this year’s compilation of top tracks from the group’s 2024 folk music releases. Folk and World Music Galore Vol. 3 is, as usual, a good way to … Continue reading
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Odetta’s Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues
Odetta is one of the key figures in the American and worldwide folk music revival of the 1950s, and along with Pete Seeger and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott one of the few still around and performing today. This glorious re-release of … Continue reading
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Malinky’s 3 Ravens
Judith Gennett wrote this review “It’s down intae yon green grass field There lies a knight that’s newly killed.” Malinky is an acoustic Scottish band on the rise. Atypical for a Scots bands, they employ Irish box and low whistle … Continue reading
Various artists’ Six Strings North Of The Border, Volume 1
Judith Gennett wrote this review. Six Strings North Of The Border is an instrumental collection of tunes from Canadian guitarists. Often record companies compile showcases of their own artist, but some of the guitarists here record via Borealis and some … Continue reading
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Mimi & Richard Fariña’s Pack Up Your Sorrows: Best of the Vanguard Years
Brendan Foreman wrote this review. Richard Fariña is one of America’s least known superstars. Although he was only in his early twenties, by the early ’60s Fariña was already a veteran of both the Irish uprisings of the ’50s (he … Continue reading
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Paul Brady’s The Liberty Tapes
Judith Gennett wrote this review. This is only in a limited sense a new album. The story goes that The Liberty Tapes were made of a legendary Paul Brady concert in 1978, using a domestic reel-to-reel and tape. Brady immediately … Continue reading
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Paul Brady’s The Paul Brady Songbook
I first saw Paul Brady in about 1968 or ’69 as part of The Johnstons folk group, upstairs at Yardarms Club in the Bull and Stirrup Hotel in Chester. In those days the Johnstons were one of the cornerstones of … Continue reading
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Paul Brady’s Nobody Knows: The Best of Paul Brady
Chris Woods wrote this review. Okay, hands up anyone who has heard of Paul Brady? On second thought, that’s a silly question to ask here because you are reading this review. Maybe we should try the question on a typical … Continue reading
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