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Folklives: The Podcast of Northwest Folklife
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Folklives #20: 95 Days Updated: 2008-02-18 20:13:13 Description: This week, an update on what you can expect from Folklives in the next three months. Only 95 days until Friday, May 23: the first day of the 2008 Northwest Folklife Festival! There is a ton of stuff to be excited about, from our brand new CD release ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #23: Northwest Folklife City Folk Film Series Updated: 2008-04-26 00:59:52 Description: Join Northwest Folklife for a series of four films that explore the creativity of urban communities. Three documentaries and one narrative film delve into how people and their environments shape one another in the modern city and how this process can...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #22: Live at the Northwest Folklife Festival CD Release Updated: 2008-04-18 22:16:24 Description: Today we announce the release of our new Northwest Folklife compilation album: Live from the 2007 Northwest Folklife Festival. This episode features a preview what you'll hear: 16 memorable performances from 2007, from artists like Brother Noland, Ji...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #21: Celtic Fiddle Festival Updated: 2008-03-03 17:07:35 Description: Today on Folklives, Devon Léger interviews legendary Irish fiddler and Portland-transplant Kevin Burke. Burke performs with two other fiddlers, Christian Lemaître (Brittany, France) and André Brunet (Québec) in the group Celtic Fiddle Festival. The...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #19: Saturday Night & Sunday Morning Updated: 2008-02-04 17:29:39 Description: This week we sample some choice Northwest bluegrass cuts from past Festivals. Acoustic music that encompasses both sacred and secular traditions, bluegrass brought country music tearing into the Post World War II era. But, the legacy of bluegrass i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #18: Haiku Northwest Updated: 2008-01-28 20:05:31 Description: This episode features the work of Northwest haiku poets, performed live at the 2005 Northwest Folklife Festival. Haiku Northwest put the concert together, collaborating with Puget Sound koto player Elizabeth Falconer. The poems reflect the poets' exp...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #17: Last Thoughts Updated: 2008-01-22 00:06:15 Description: In 2005 a group of musicians played a Bob Dylan tribute show at the Northwest Folklife Festival. Among the memorable performances that day, Jeremy Wagner recited Dylan's own epic tribute to Woody Guthrie, the man who inspired him to make folk music i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #16: Tough Jobs Updated: 2008-01-14 18:06:54 Description: Today, Part II of our series exploring occupational poetry. This time, two poets describe jobs that on the surface, couldn't be more different. Peter Trower worked as a whistle punk in the old growth forests of British Columbia, operating the steam ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #15: Risky Business Updated: 2008-01-07 18:35:59 Description: If you've ever asked a cowboy if he's fallen off his horse, or wondered if fishermen get seasick in the swells, this episode has the answer. Northwest-based poets John Doran and Geno Leech perform their work at the Northwest Folklife Festival. The f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #14: New Year's Eve Updated: 2007-12-31 17:21:20 Description: Our last podcast of 2007 is a trip to the snowy province of Québec, where fiddler Lisa Ornstein takes us to a French-Canadian veillée, a kitchen party celebrating Jour de l'An, the new year. Lisa Ornstein, guitar player and singer André Marchand, an...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #13: If You Love Somebody... Updated: 2007-12-21 18:31:57 Description: This week, our choices for songs that bring purpose to all the hustle and bustle of the holidays. Blues from Guy Davis and gospel from Pat Wright and the Total Experience Gospel Choir, recorded live at the Northwest Folklife Festival. Even though th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #12: Calvin Johnson Updated: 2007-12-10 17:53:44 Description: Success in music can be judged in a few different ways: records sold, videos played on MTV, money made. It could be argued, however, that the artists who have made the biggest impact are those who have opened up new ground and created space for music...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #11: Jean Ritchie Updated: 2007-12-03 17:50:23 Description: This week, Folklives spends some time with an icon of the Folk Revival, ballad singer Jean Ritchie. Growing up in Kentucky in the 1920s and 30s, Jean learned the old ballads and tunes that, in the 1950s and 60s, fueled a growing interest in American ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #10: Folklife Families Updated: 2007-11-26 18:21:39 Description: Celebrating Thanksgiving last Thursday got us thinking about the ways the Northwest Folklife Festival brings families together - to make music, dance, and play - and in the process, how the culture of Folklife is passed on to another generation. This...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #9: Los Mex Pistols del Norte Updated: 2007-11-19 17:22:34 Description: This week on Folklives, we interview Bruce Hartnell, the man behind Eugene, Oregon's Los Mex Pistols del Norte. Bruce talks about similarities between Mexican dance music and punk rock, and explains how Los Mex Pistol's signature surf guitar conjunto...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #8: José Gutiérrez Updated: 2007-11-12 18:20:35 Description: Graceful, rhythmic, and celebratory, the music of Mexico's gulf coast is the focus of this week's podcast. Pregonero (vocalist) and arpa player José Gutiérrez, a native of Veracruz, presents a traditional son jarocho, a song heard at local dance part...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #7: Outlaw Social Updated: 2007-11-05 17:36:17 Description: Outlaw Social play music that sounds at once traditional and thoroughly modern. On the surface, they are a five-piece old-time string band who can rock fiddle tunes with the best of them, anchored by a thumping upright bass. But as the name suggests,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #5: Squirrel Butter Updated: 2007-10-22 16:44:44 Description: This time of year, farmer's markets across the Pacific Northwest are shutting down, as weekends become chilly and the fall harvest comes to a close. For Squirrel Butter, the indominable Seattle-based duo of buckdancer/guitarist Charmaine Slaven and b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #6: Baby Gramps Updated: 2007-10-29 16:22:09 Description: His sound is unmistakable - clusters of pitches escape from his National steel guitar like drunk bees from a hive, drawn out by an irresistable voice, one part Popeye, one part Tuvan throat singer. Baby Gramps has created a style all his own, pieced ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #1: Two Songs from Jim Page Updated: 2007-09-13 01:47:05 Description: We kick off our podcast series with excerpts from a 2007 Folklife Festival performance by the unimpeachable forerunner, forefather, and forward thinker of Seattle's independent folk music scene, Jim Page....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #2: Willie & The Market Crew Updated: 2007-10-01 20:33:34 Description: Infectious joy is what Brother Willie & The Market Crew brought to the 2007 Northwest Folklife Festival. Dished out in heaping amounts, their raw and soulful music is the kind of doo-wop gospel that leaves a listener with a permanent smile stretched ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #3: Hobe Kytr from the Folklife Archives Updated: 2007-10-08 17:19:14 Description: This edition of Folklives reaches into the past and comes up with a real treasure: Columbia River historian, fisher-poet, and folk-singer Hobe Kytr. Hobe is an unmatched resource on the history of the Columbia River's Clatsop bayou country, its perso...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Folklives #4: Rachel Harrington Updated: 2007-10-15 16:50:25 Description: We all need a little sunshine these days, as an autumnal drizzle has returned to the Pacific Northwest. Singer Rachel Harrington is here to provide it. A third-generation Oregonian, Rachel was raised on a steady diet of Stax soul and hard country. He...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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