Word: folke
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This month, Harvard Square will return to its folk roots and celebrate the area’s role in developing of folk music with special events and displays of archival photos in stores fronts around the square...
Joan Baez, best known for her folk hit “Diamonds and Rust,” got her start in the legendary Harvard Square folk venue Club 47, reincarnated as Club Passim. Her early recording of the Child Ballads, a collection of English and Scottish folk songs, is also representative of the area’s long-standing role in the folk music genre—the ballads were compiled by Harvard English professor Francis James Child...
...England Folk Music Archive (NEFMA) and the Harvard Square Business Association (HSBA) are working together to raise awareness for the continued folk tradition in Harvard Square...
...Everyday Ukrainians are used to the political bickering that has beset their country since the Orange Revolution five years ago. Many people are looking after themselves because they don't trust the government to do anything for them. The folk remedies advocated by Tymoshenko are growing in popularity, as are slightly stronger tonics. "A vodka a day keeps swine flu away," one elderly woman told masked passersby on the street...
...ballads to his current stint as a satellite-radio DJ, Dylan has been as much an innovator as an advocate for American musical tradition. For Dylan and any other kid growing up in the 1940s and '50s, Christmas songs as interpreted by Bing Crosby and his fellow crooners were folk music. These new versions of such pop classics as "Silver Bells" and "The Christmas Song" may alternate between croaks and moos, but they're reminders that a Christmas LP was a rite of passage into the mainstream for early rockers like Elvis Presley and Phil Spector. Dylan, who is donating...