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...music that satisfies your soul in the writing, and in the singing elevates others' souls. "It's going to take me a few albums to make the collage I'm trying to make," Bedingfield says. The pieces on his next album, due next year, will include shades of reggae, folk and hard rock. He knows it's risky; what fans call versatility, critics deem inconsistency. But he has his own standards of success, and one is to have the freedom - and discipline - to explore creatively. He may not escape others' attempts to label him, but he's happy to defy...
...sell even more masks, lanterns, witch hats and the like, good luck to them. It's the gullible consumers who fall for the pitch whom I detest - the employees who insist on decorating sensible cubicles with orange and black streamers and littering the office with bowls of candy, the folk who dress up and throw pumpkin parties at country clubs, the hundreds of thousands who will come to work next week in costume. Chris Riddle is the Halloween trend spotter at card-and-decorations giant American Greetings, which estimates that 25% of the American work force will observe Halloween...
Kris Delmhorst celebrates the release of his new CD “Five Stories” with guest acoustic guitarist Peter Mulvey. Delmhorst is a singer-songwriter and artist from Brooklyn whose warm folk-pop style is influenced by country, gospel, and jazz. 8 p.m. $19.50. Somerville Theater, 55 Davis Square, Somerville...
Clutching a Judith Butler paperback and extra copies of the fact sheet, “10 Myths About a Living Wage,” this die-hard Folk and Myth concentrator buys her clothes from a website she read about in Mother Jones—a company that produces its clothes out of hemp and splits its profits equally among its workers. She attends innumerable protest rallies armed with a cup of fair trade coffee in hand. Her hair is washed with organic shampoo and her teeth brushed with organic fennel baking soda, both from Tom?...
...have a collection of old vinyls—Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians and Elvis Sings Christmas and such...