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Grammy-award winning country musician Alison Krauss and several other prominent folk artists will be performing at Sanders Theater in mid-May in benefit concerts for the locally-based Passim Folk Music and Cultural Center, which is celebrating its 47th anniversary...
...friends as Communists. Edward L. Rowny, 68, is President Reagan's adviser on arms control and a man who lists to the right politically. But Rowny is also an avid harmonica player who used to deflate after-hours tensions at the 1982 Geneva arms talks by performing a Russian folk song or two. As teenagers, both men played together in a Baltimore harmonica band, and after one of Adler's concerts last year, Rowny popped backstage to renew the acquaintance. That led the pair to join a benefit concert in Baltimore last week, where they played an onstage duet...
...there were great moments in the music. Elvis Costello asking the Wembley audience to join him in "this old northern English folk song" and performing a peerless acoustic guitar version of All You Need Is Love. Bono of the Irish band U2 singing a mesmeric Bad. Sting duetting with Phil Collins on Every Breath You Take. Bob Dylan, singing a set of early songs and suggesting that a small portion of the Live Aid donations be used to help American farmers pay off mortgages. But the video superstructure constructed to beam the event across the world became an open...
...grew up in Hiroshima, the eldest daughter in a family of five. She took lessons on the harp and in folk dance and ballet. "I loved to dance. My dancing made my parents happy." Like all Japanese young women at that time, Numata anticipated a life of marriage and children, and she was engaged to marry a soldier. The wedding was planned for some time shortly after Aug. 8, 1945, when her fiancé was expected home on leave...
Burgeoning indie-folk star M. Ward followed in March, whose country-folk-through-the-family-radio sound fit the intimate venue perfectly. “You could hear every note, without any noise coming in from a bar,†Hirsch says. With even more exciting and well-known acts lined up for April and beyond, it is obvious that Hirsch is familiar with the vinyl collections of your average hipster...