oan Baez was born in Staten Island, New York. Her father was a physicist, born in Mexico, and her mother of Scottish and English descent. She grew up in New York and California, and when her father took a faculty position in Massachusetts, she attended Boston University and began to sing in coffeehouses and small clubs. Bob Gibson invited her to attend the 1959 Newport Folk Festival where she was a hit. Vanguard Records signed Baez and in 1960 her first album, Joan Baez, came out. Baez was known for her soprano voice, her haunting songs, and, until she cut it in 1968, her long black hair. Early in her career she performed with Bob Dylan, and they toured together in the 1970s. Subjected to racial slurs and discrimination in her own childhood because of her Mexican heritage and features, Joan Baez became involved with a variety of social causes early in her career, including civil rights and nonviolence. She was sometimes jailed for her protests. Joan Baez married David Harris, a Vietnam draft protestor, in 1968, and he was in jail for most of the years of their marriage. They divorced in 1973, after having one child, Gabriel Earl. In 1967, the Daughters of the American Revolution denied Joan Baez permission to perform at Constitution Hall, resonating with their famous denial of the same privilege to Marian Anderson. Early in her career, Joan Baez stressed historical folk songs, adding political songs to her repertoire during the 1960s. Later, she added country songs and <b>...</b>

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Visit www.video-4-download.com for lots and lots more bluegrass mandoline. Bill Monroe 2002 Folk Alliance International Lifetime Achievement Award Bill Monroe was a Kentucky mandolin player and songwriter whose influence on country music earned him the nickname "The Father of Bluegrass." Monroe was the youngest child in a family of amateur musicians. His parents died when he was a boy, and Bill went to live with his uncle, Pendleton Vandiver, an accomplished fiddler. Under the tutelage of "Uncle Pen" and black blues musician Arnold Schulz, Monroe learned country music and the world of performing. With older brothers Charlie and Birch, Monroe moved to Indiana in 1929. During the early 1930s Monroe performed on the radio with his brothers (Birch dropped out in 1934). Eventually Bill went his own way, formed a band called The Kentuckians and landed a job on the radio in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1939 he auditioned for the Grand Ole Opry and was signed to a contract; The Kentuckians became the Bluegrass Boys, an ever-changing line-up that included many future stars, including Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt. Although Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys didn't produce hit records, they had steady sales and toured regularly. In the 1960s they found a new audience at folk music festivals, and since then Monroe has been considered one of the giants of country music. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970, was made a member of the Nashville Songwriters' Association in 1971 <b>...</b>

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Les Blank is a prize-winning independent filmmaker, best known for a series of poetic films that led Time Magazine critic Jay Cocks to write, "I can't believe that anyone interested in movies or America...could watch Blank's work without feeling they'd been granted a casual, soft-spoken revelation." John Rockwell, writing in The New York Times, adds, "Blank is a documentarian of folk cultures who transforms anthropology into art." And Vincent Canby, also in The Times, declared that Blank "is a master of movies about the American idiom... one of our most original filmmakers." Born in 1935 in Tampa, Florida, Les Blank attended Tulane University in New Orleans, where he received a BA in English literature and an MFA in theatre. In 1967, after two years in the Ph.D. film program at the University of Southern California, and five years of freelancing in Los Angeles, he began his first independent films, on Texas blues singer Lightnin' Hopkins (The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins ) and the newly forming sub-culture known as flower children, ( God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance. ) To finance these and other of his own films, he continued to make industrial and promotional films for such organizations as Holly Farms Poultry, Archway Cookies and the National Wildlife Federation until 1972. Blank's first independent films began a series of intimate glimpses into the lives and music of passionate people who live at the periphery of American society-- a <b>...</b>

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Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter was a man of sweeping appetites, for songs, for drink and for life. This made his music rugged and true, but also got him into his share of big trouble. Very big. Ledbetter, born on Jan. 29, 1885 on the Jeter Plantation near Mooringsport, La., would spend several stints in jail, once reportedly lived as a recluse from the law under an assumed name, and was known to resolve every-day conflict with violence right up until his early passing on Dec. 6, 1949. Thing is, he tore into musical pursuits with the same furious abandon, picking through all that came before and carrying it across the country. Lead Belly's original compositions, and his arrangements of traditional songs, would become one of the structural supports upon which popular American music was built. That's because Ledbetter, despite his outsized persona, had a careful ear: He internalized the resigned country blues laments of a bound but proud people; the dangerous late-night rumblings of Fannin Street flophouses and juke joints in Shreveport, La.'s legendary Bottoms section of town; the bubbling homemade music made after the work was done with cowbells, washboards, mouth organs and jugs; and the sweetly hopeful hymns heard at week's end echoing down the steps of a shotgun holy-rolling Sunday school class. In this way, Lead Belly would provide a living soundtrack for the Deep South at mid-century, both the local barn dance and the church raffle, the backstreet barbecue and the <b>...</b>

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Bess Lomax Hawes (1921-2009) led the establishment of public folklore programs throughout the United States. She did it with a vast knowledge of America's diverse traditions, the discipline of a savvy strategist, an empathy born of experience for cultural work, and a personal reservoir of good grace. Bess was born in 1921 in Austin, Texas, the youngest child of pioneering American folklorist John A. Lomax. Bess joined her father and brother Alan as a researcher at the Library of Congress, where they directed the Archive of American Folk Song. After graduating from Bryn Mawr College, she worked as a research assistant in the New York Public Library for the Columbia School of the Air (CBS). From 1941 to 1952, she was a singer and instrumentalist with the Almanac Singers, a topical song group that would help pave the way for the Folk Revival. With the Almanac Singers, which included Pete Seeger and her future husband Butch Hawes, she recorded the albums Talking Union and Citizen CIO. She also sang on the Folkways Records albums Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs and Spanish Civil War. As a parodist and songwriter, she co-authored the song later made famous by the Kingston Trio, "Charlie on the MTA." During the war years, Bess was an information specialist for the Radio Program Bureau of the Office of War Information. Moving to the West Coast, she and her husband Butch raised three children, and in 1970 Bess received one of the first MA degrees in folklore from the University of <b>...</b>

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Jimmie Rodgers was born on September 8, 1897, in Meridian, Mississippi, the youngest of three sons. His mother died when he was very young, and Rodgers spent the next few years with relatives in southeast Mississippi and southwest Alabama. He eventually returned home to live with his father, Aaron Rodgers, a maintenance foreman on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, who had settled with a new wife in Meridian. Jimmie's affinity for entertaining and the road developed early. By age 13, he had twice organized traveling shows, only to be brought home by his father. The first time, he stole some of his sister-in-law's bedsheets to make a crude tent. Upon his return to Meridian, he paid for the sheets with money he had made from his show! For the second trip, he charged to his father (without his father's knowing) an expensive canvas tent. Not long after that, Jimmie's father found Jimmie his first railroad job, as water boy on his father's gang. A few years later, Jimmie became a brakeman on the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad, a position secured by his oldest brother, Walter, a conductor on the line. In 1924, at the age of 27, Jimmie contracted tuberculosis. The disease temporarily ended his railroad career but gave him the chance to get back to his first love, entertainment. He organized a traveling road show and performed across the Southeast until a cyclone destroyed his tent. He returned to railroad work as a brakeman on the east coast of Florida, but eventually his <b>...</b>

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Born in Mercer County, West Virginia, life's toil and blessings presented themselves to Hazel side-by-side. Her father carried timber for the local coal mines, an occupation that exposed to the Dickens family the suffering and exploitation of the company miners. On the brighter side of life was the music. Her brothers played guitar and mandolin, her father banjo, and she sang in the church choir and listened to the Grand Ole Opry. These multiple influences resulted in Ms. Dickens' vast repertoire, consisting of hymns, mountain folk ballads, work songs, and commercial country, bluegrass, and blues tunes. In the late `50s, Baltimore was just one of many cities where a local scene was emerging around the groundswell of enthusiasm for folk and bluegrass music among young people. As the burgeoning musical community grew, Ms. Dickens found herself swapping songs with many other singers and musicians, one of whom was classically trained singer Alice Gerrard. Ms. Dickens and Ms. Gerrard took a liking to each other, becoming both friends and singing partners. Soon they were haunting the folksong archives of the Library of Congress and attending the area folk festivals where they could study the songs of some of the country's outstanding traditional singers and players. Performances and tours soon commenced, proving to the pair their unique blend of traditional, contemporary, and original music had the power to affect and move their audiences. Bolstered by their experiences, Ms <b>...</b>

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Ralph Rinzler was a performer, scholar, writer, and a tireless advocate for traditional music in the United States. Both as director of the Field Research Programs at the Newport Folk Foundation '63-'67, and at the Smithsonian, Rinzler worked hard to document, preserve and present the traditional arts of North American communities both to those communities themselves and to the wider American culture. Rinzler took up the banjo as a student at Swarthmore college in the early 1950's, inspired by a Pete Seeger performance. Soon afterwards, he discovered Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music and began to explore rural American music. He was one of several young musicians travelling to country music shows in Maryland and Pennsylvania, hearing artists like Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers, Don Reno and Grandpa Jones. Rinzler noticed not only the music, but also the people at the event itself, how they talked, what they talked about, what they ate and wore and how they interacted. Rinzler would become an advocate for these communities, serving them for the remainder of his life. In 1960 Ralph joined The Greenbriar Boys, a New York City bluegrass band. The group traveled to the Union Grove Fiddlers Contest in North Carolina and entered the band contest. The judges, allegedly impressed by the fact that the band had traveled all the way from New York to enter the competition, awarded them first place. While at Union Grove, Rinzler met Clarence Ashley, one of the musicians <b>...</b>

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Besides handling Mr. Dylan and Guthrie, Mr. Leventhal presided over a stable of artists that at various times included Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte; Theodore Bikel; Oscar Brand; Johnny Cash; Judy Collins; Arlo Guthrie; Jim Kweskin; the Mamas and the Papas; Holly Near; the New Lost City Ramblers; Phil Ochs; Odetta; Tom Paxton; Peter, Paul and Mary; Jean Ritchie; Martha Schlamme; Earl Scruggs; the Weavers; and Neil Young. He also introduced American audiences to foreign artists then largely unknown in this country, among them Jacques Brel, Miriam Makeba, Nana Mouskouri, Jean Redpath and Ravi Shankar. ''With all of the history that he'd had with the Weavers, he really was a connection between my dad's era and the world of the late 60's,'' Arlo Guthrie said in a telephone interview last night. Mr. Leventhal produced several movies relating to the folk-music world, including ''Alice's Restaurant'' (1969); ''Bound for Glory'' (1976), a film biography of Woody Guthrie starring David Carradine; and ''Wasn't That a Time!'' (1982), a documentary about the Weavers' celebrated reunion in 1980. In 2003 Mr. Leventhal was honored with a Carnegie Hall concert featuring an all-star lineup of folk performers. The concert became the basis of a documentary film, ''Isn't This a Time!'' (2004), which is scheduled to open in New York on Dec. 19. Mr. Leventhal was also widely, if tacitly, acknowledged to have been the inspiration for Irving Steinbloom, the folk impresario whose memorial concert <b>...</b>

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They called her the "Lark of the Border." Lydia Mendoza was the first star of recorded Tejano and Norteno music. Thanks to her 12-string guitar and her clear, heartfelt voice, she became a sensation throughout Latin America in the 1940s and 1950s. She died in 2007 at the age of 91 after a career that spanned eight decades. Salome Gutierrez, the 79-year-old owner of the Del Bravo Record Shop in San Antonio, specializes in Tejano music. He keeps Mendoza's guitar, her colorful stage dresses and a neon-framed photo of her from 1948. Gutierrez first heard her sing in a bullring in Nuevo Laredo in 1950. People went crazy. "There were other female singing stars — one in Mexico, one in Brazil," he said. "But for our people — Texas Mexicans — she was the greatest of all." Mendoza was born in Houston to Mexican parents, who were part of the great wave of their countrymen who fled the revolution for South Texas. By the time she was 11, she was singing and playing guitar in the Mendoza family band. They performed in restaurants, street corners, fiestas — anywhere they could pass the hat. They barely made enough to eat. The Mendoza family briefly followed the migrant trail, picking beets in Michigan, but quickly learned that playing music paid better and was a lot easier on the back. John Burnett/NPR Salome Gutierrez poses next to his shrine for Tejano trailblazer Lydia Mendoza in his San Antonio store, the Del Bravo Record Shop. With her clarion voice, muscular guitar style and <b>...</b>

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Sing Out! magazine, now 50 years young, grew out of a legacy of social commitment and a tradition of singing both to effect change and to share the pure enjoyment of songs. The original idea for a magazine was served up by the aspirations of a group of urban singers who believed in the power of song -- musicians who raised their voices in harmony and against injustice. After World War II, a number of artists and enthusiasts including Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Paul Robeson, Alan Lomax, Irwin Silber and Earl Robinson sought to combine political activism and music as they had before the war. They banded together as People's Songs, Inc. and began publishing a monthly bulletin to "create, promote, and distribute songs of labor and the American people." People's Songs, the newsletter, was a novel idea. The bulletin printed songs that would not, as a rule, be available via popular music outlets. The fare would include union songs, peace songs, traditional ballads, children's songs, blues, gospel, songs of civil rights and international material. Pete Seeger remembers those seminal days which began in the basement of his apartment on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village in New York City ... "A number of us who loved to sing folk songs and union songs thought it the most natural thing in the world to start an organization which could keep us in touch with one another, which could promote new and old songs and singers. We called our organization People's Songs to <b>...</b>

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Paul Robeson was the epitome of the 20th-century Renaissance man. He was an exceptional athlete, actor, singer, cultural scholar, author, and political activist. His talents made him a revered man of his time, yet his radical political beliefs all but erased him from popular history. Today, more than one hundred years after his birth, Robeson is just beginning to receive the credit he is due. Born in 1898, Paul Robeson grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. His father had escaped slavery and become a Presbyterian minister, while his mother was from a distinguished Philadelphia family. At seventeen, he was given a scholarship to Rutgers University, where he received an unprecedented twelve major letters in four years and was his class valedictorian. After graduating he went on to Columbia University Law School, and, in the early 1920s, took a job with a New York law firm. Racial strife at the firm ended Robeson's career as a lawyer early, but he was soon to find an appreciative home for his talents. Returning to his love of public speaking, Robeson began to find work as an actor. In the mid-1920s he played the lead in Eugene O'Neill's "All God's Chillun Got Wings" (1924) and "The Emperor Jones" (1925). Throughout the late 1920s and 1930s, he was a widely acclaimed actor and singer. With songs such as his trademark "Ol' Man River," he became one of the most popular concert singers of his time. His "Othello" was the longest-running Shakespeare play in Broadway history, running <b>...</b>

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Phil Ochs was born in El Paso, Texas on Dec. 19. 1940. He grew up in a non-political middle class family. While in college at Ohio State University, he met Jim Glover who became his roommate and whose father was Phil's political teacher. It was during this time, while he was majoring in journalism, that Phil formed his political beliefs and started putting them to music. After 3 years of college, Phil dropped out and went to New York City. This was during the early '60's when things were booming in Greenwich Village. Phil started out singing at open mikes and passing the hat. By 1964 he was well enough established to release his first album, "All the News That's Fit To Sing". His second album, "I Ain't Marching Anymore", was released in 1965, and by 1966 he was able to sell out Carnegie Hall for his solo concert. Most of Phil's songs were very political, some humorous and some very serious. He wrote about the topics of the day - civil rights, Viet Nam, hungry miners, and personalities such as Billy Sol Estes, William Worthy and Lou Marsh. In 1967 he signed with A&M Records where his first release was "Pleasures of the Harbor" in which he used heavily orchestrated arrangements for the first time. Some fans criticized this change, while others accepted it. Phil continued to perform and to travel around the world. While in Dar Es Salaam, he was mugged and lost the top three notes of his vocal range. This event seemed to send him on a downward spiral. His last years were <b>...</b>

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Visit www.video-4-download.com for lots and lots more bluegrass, blues, jazz, folk, rock, celtic and much, much more! DOC WATSON Doc Watson 2000 Folk Alliance International Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient of the National Medal of Arts, National Heritage Fellowship and eight Grammy Awards (including Lifetime Achievement), Doc Watson is a legendary performer who blends his traditional Appalachian musical roots with bluegrass, country, gospel and blues to create a unique style and an expansive repertoire. He is a powerful singer and a tremendously influential picker, who virtually invented the art of playing mountain fiddle tunes on the flattop guitar. You can read the full bio here www.docsguitar.com Doc Watson mandoline The Father of Bluegrass live concert instruction music Music Folk Banjo guitar picking Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt

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Reverend Gary Davis was a towering figure in at least two realms. As a finger-style guitarist he developed a complex yet swinging approach to picking that has influenced generations of players, including Jerry Garcia, Ry Cooder, Dave Van Ronk, Jorma Kaukonen and Stefan Grossman. And as a composer of religious and secular music he created a substantial body of work that has been recorded by, among others, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Peter Paul & Mary and the Grateful Dead, not to mention Davis's own releases. From the perspective of his one hundredth birthday (April 30, 1896 in Laurens, South Carolina -- he died on May 5, 1972 in Hammonton, New Jersey), the Davis legacy looms especially large. Early musical experiences at Center Raven Baptist Church in Gray Court, South Carolina, were at the core of strong religious convictions that helped him cope with blindness, and in 1933 he was ordained as minister of the Free Baptist Connection Church in Washington, North Carolina. For years he toured as a singing gospel preacher and also sang on the streets, mostly in Durham. During this period he crossed paths and eventually recorded with Blind Boy Fuller and other "Piedmont style" musicians, including Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry. By 1940 Reverend Davis had found his way to New York City, where he was ordained minister of Missionary Baptist Connection Church. Here his recording career began in earnest, first for Asch and Folkways Records (now available on Smithsonian/Folkways <b>...</b>

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Mississippi John Hurt was born July 2, 1892, in Teoc, Mississippi. John was the eighth of ten children born to Paul Hurt and Mae Jane Smith. According to personal biography of his life John Hurt learn to love and appreciate music and guitar playing from William H Carson, a man infatuated with his teacher at the St. James School, located in Avalon, Mississippi. John Hurt stated, " I wasn't allowed to bother Mr. Carson's guitar. I would wait until he feel asleep at my house, then I would slip his guitar into my room and try to play. There I learned to play the guitar at the age of nine years old. After that, my mother bought me a second hand guitar at the price of $1.50! 1 can tell you there was no beautiful sound than my own guitar music. I was playing for country dances at the same time working very hard on a farm new Avalon Mississippi." In 1916 John Hurt met and married Gertrude Hoskins. Three years later they had a son TC Hurt born April 1, 1919. Then in 1921, they had a daughter Ida Mae Hurt born June 26, 1921. Shortly after the birth of Ida Mae John and Gertrude separated for unknown reasons. John and Gertrude never divorced, however, did go there separate ways as couple. Yet they continued to raise their children as one. Gertrude soon met Will Connelly who shared the parenting of the two children. They never had children together. John and Jesse Lee Cole shared the parenting of the two children and had one son of their own, John William. The children of John and <b>...</b>

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lizabeth "Libba" Cotten was Born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on January 5, 1895. She started playing her older brother's Banjo at the age of eight. She soon moved on to his guitar. She was self taught and played the guitar left-handed and upside-down. At age 12, Cotten began doing housework, as her mother had done. At the age of fifteen she married Frank Cotten, They had one daughter, Lillie. The family moved back and forth between Chapel Hill, Washington DC., and New York City where Frank found work as a chaueffer and later the operator of his own auto repair shop. In 1940 she divorced Frank and moved in with her daughter, Lily and her husband. Elizabeth had retired the guitar for twenty-five years, except for occasional church performances when, in the late '40s, she began plaing regularly again. It wasn't until she reached her sixties that she began recording and performing publicly. She was discovered by the folk-singing Seeger family after she began doing their cleaning. Her first recording "Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar," was recorded by Mike Seeger, in 1958. Late in life, Cotten received many honors including: The National Endowment For The Arts National Heritage Fellowship Award in 1984, the same year she won a Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording for "Elizabeth Cotten Live!" Recorded when she was 90 years old. In 1986, she received a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Folk Recording. In 1989, Cotten was one of 75 influential <b>...</b>

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Independent Music Awards Winner Pokey LaFarge performing at Folk Alliance 2011. Pokey was recently signed to Jack White's label Third Man Records

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Tommy Jarrell (born Thomas Jefferson Jarrell, March 1, 1901 Surry County, North Carolina, died January 28, 1985) was an American fiddler, banjo player, and singer from the Mount Airy region of North Carolina's Appalachian Mountains.

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Folk/rock songwriter, singer. Born Robert Allen Zimmerman, on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota. Driven by the influences of early rock stars like Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard (whom he used to imitate on the piano at high school dances), the young Dylan formed his own bands, including the Golden Chords and Elston Gunn and His Rock Boppers. While attending the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, he began performing folk and country songs at local cafés, taking the name "Bob Dylan," after the late Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. In 1960, Dylan dropped out of college and moved to New York, where his idol, the legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie, was hospitalized with a rare hereditary disease of the nervous system. Dylan visited with Guthrie regularly in his hospital room; he also became a regular in the folk clubs and coffeehouses of Greenwich Village, met a host of other musicians, and began writing songs at an astonishing pace, including "Song to Woody," a tribute to his ailing hero. In the fall of 1961, after one of his performances received a rave review in The New York Times, Dylan signed a recording contract with Columbia Records. Released early in 1962, Bob Dylan contained only two original songs, but showcased Dylan's gravelly-voiced singing style in a number of traditional folk songs and covers of blues songs. The 1963 release of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan marked Dylan's emergence as one of the most original and poetic voices in the history of <b>...</b>

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Dewey Balfa (March 20, 1927 -- June 17, 1992) was an American Cajun fiddler and singer who contributed significantly to the popularity of Cajun music. Balfa was born near Mamou, Louisiana. He is perhaps best known for his 1964 performance at the Newport Folk Festival with Gladius Thibodeaux and Vinus LeJeune, where the group received an enthusiastic response from over seventeen thousand audience members. He sang the song "Parlez Nous à Boire" in the 1981 cult film Southern Comfort, in which he had a small role.

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For about forty years, Guy and Candie Carawan have devoted their lives to music making, collecting and spreading songs, documenting cultural expression, organizing traditional music festivals and designing workshops with the goal of empowering participants to learn and inspire others in their own communities. They have raised two chldren while living on the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina, finding themselves at the forefront of the civil rights movement, and living and soaking up the culture of Appalachia -- all while Guy maintained a folk music performing career. They come to their work with a strong social conscience, a love of music and with the knowledge that music and other cultural expression is often the very brick that builds bridges between communities. - Matt Watroba : Sing Out Magazine : Spring 2000

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Our new friends from Amsterdam, John Carrie and Moor Green ("Folk Is Not Happy"), making folks happy in the stairway at the 2008 Folk Alliance Conference in Memphis

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CD Baby artist Rachel Harrington performs "Sunshine Girl" live at Folk Alliance in 2010. Get the song at: www.cdbaby.com

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Corin Raymond Tunesmiths Room Memphis Folk Alliance 2007 Singing Mermaid Dress

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live at performance alley showcase, folk alliance 2008, w/eric lee on fiddle. song from "typical american tragedy". anthonydacosta.com

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Charlie and Will perform on the Music Fog bus at Folk Alliance 2009. MusicFog.com

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Folk Alliance 2011 - Memphis, TN Red Molly(Showcase) - Honey On My Grave www.rumblinroots.com http

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Ray Bonneville performs on the Music Fog bus. Ray won the Folk Alliance 2009 "Song of The Year" for this track.

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The Sacred Steel Band performs at the 2010 International Folk Alliance Conference. AJ Ghent playing lead on pedal steel guitar.

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Meg with Anne Heaton and Rose Polenzani at Folk Alliance in Memphis 2009.

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The Good Lovelies performing at Folk Alliance 2010. Get their latest CD at www.cdbaby.com

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Another magic moment at the Folk Alliance 2009. This one captured on the Klyma Cam near the 17th Fl elevators on Saturday night. Rob McNurlin and Nancy Apple singing with friends.

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Emmet Scanlan and his band What the Good Thought performing one of their new tracks Hands as part of their showcase at the Folk Alliance 2008 in Memphis.

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walking around Folk Alliance after-hours with Mia Sable song: "Loving You More" by Mia Sable (see iTunes) www.myspace.com

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The BOP Ensemble at the Folk Alliance Conference in Memphis, TN.

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Devon Sproule performing at Folk Alliance 2010. Get her latest CD at: www.cdbaby.com

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Check out the GoGirls all night jam at Folk Alliance in Memphis, TN - Feb. 2007

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