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Folk Music of Tamil Nadu
Tamil Folk Music and Songs
TTamil Nadu is a well known South Indian state. It has a celebrated record of history for several thousand years. Folk Music of Tamil Nadu is having 2000 years of old baronial music tradition and culture. Still the tradition is continuing to succeed. Various kingdoms controlled Tamil Nadu all along different period of history had evolved Tamil folk music heritage. Most of the ruling dynasties extended their assistance to folk art and folk music. It happened in the development and evolution o...
Tamil Folk Music and Songs
TTamil Nadu is a well known South Indian state. It has a celebrated record of history for several thousand years. Folk Music of Tamil Nadu is having 2000 years of old baronial music tradition and culture. Still the tradition is continuing to succeed. Various kingdoms controlled Tamil Nadu all along different period of history had evolved Tamil folk music heritage. Most of the ruling dynasties extended their assistance to folk art and folk music. It happened in the development and evolution o...
American Folk Music, Past, Present and Future
Why I'm making this page about "American Folk Music, Past Present and Future."
I'm making this page about "American Folk Music, Past, Present and Future" because folk music is probably the most overlooked genre in America today. Folk music is my favorite music genre and one that has become progressively less known since it's big boost in the 60's. Folk music was music that had something to say and said it with great style, passion and beauty. The solo folk music artists, many of them singer/song writers, wrote and sang with great passion and feeling, and the folk music ...
Why I'm making this page about "American Folk Music, Past Present and Future."
I'm making this page about "American Folk Music, Past, Present and Future" because folk music is probably the most overlooked genre in America today. Folk music is my favorite music genre and one that has become progressively less known since it's big boost in the 60's. Folk music was music that had something to say and said it with great style, passion and beauty. The solo folk music artists, many of them singer/song writers, wrote and sang with great passion and feeling, and the folk music ...
"The Kingston Trio" were 'Three Jolly Coachmen'
Our Favorite American Folk Music Group were "The Kingston Trio"
It's the Fall of 1959. The Field House at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas is filled to overflowing with college students, some who are already fans of the young folk music group who are about to walk on stage. The house lights dim and spotlights are turned on. Onto the stage walk The Kingston Trio - to thunderous applause - opening their concert with their song "Three Jolly Coachmen". For many in the audience that night, this young trio of singers and musicians, barely older tha...
Our Favorite American Folk Music Group were "The Kingston Trio"
It's the Fall of 1959. The Field House at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas is filled to overflowing with college students, some who are already fans of the young folk music group who are about to walk on stage. The house lights dim and spotlights are turned on. Onto the stage walk The Kingston Trio - to thunderous applause - opening their concert with their song "Three Jolly Coachmen". For many in the audience that night, this young trio of singers and musicians, barely older tha...
Joan Baez and Judy Collins, My Favorite '60's Folksingers
Joan Baez and Judy Collins: My Two Favorite Folk Musicians
Two of my favorite female folk singers when I was growing up in the 60's and 70's were Joan Baez and Judy Collins. I had many of their albums and still have the song books of both of these folk musicians. I grew up listening to a lot of great folk music, since both my mother and my father were interested in folk music. My mother bought albums of various folk groups and my father sang folk songs while accompanying himself on his guitar (ah, such wonderful memories!). In the late '50's and ea...
Joan Baez and Judy Collins: My Two Favorite Folk Musicians
Two of my favorite female folk singers when I was growing up in the 60's and 70's were Joan Baez and Judy Collins. I had many of their albums and still have the song books of both of these folk musicians. I grew up listening to a lot of great folk music, since both my mother and my father were interested in folk music. My mother bought albums of various folk groups and my father sang folk songs while accompanying himself on his guitar (ah, such wonderful memories!). In the late '50's and ea...
Peter Paul and Mary, durable folk group
Why I'm making this page about Peter Paul and Mary / their career
I'm making this page about Peter Paul and Mary because it was not without reason that Peter Paul and Mary are known as the most popular folk group of the 60's and one of the most durable music acts in history. I think Peter Paul and Mary have the best harmony of any singing group ever and their unique sound was best suited for their specialized genre, folk music. It happened sort-of by accident, as the 3 of them came separately to Greenwich Village in the 60's during the folk revival, and som...
Why I'm making this page about Peter Paul and Mary / their career
I'm making this page about Peter Paul and Mary because it was not without reason that Peter Paul and Mary are known as the most popular folk group of the 60's and one of the most durable music acts in history. I think Peter Paul and Mary have the best harmony of any singing group ever and their unique sound was best suited for their specialized genre, folk music. It happened sort-of by accident, as the 3 of them came separately to Greenwich Village in the 60's during the folk revival, and som...
Negro Spirituals, earliest American folk songs
Why I'm making this page about Negro Spirituals
I'm making this page about Negro Spirituals because Negro Spirituals are both beautiful and meaningful and they form an important part of our American musical heritage. As Kim Ruehl points out in The History of American Folk Music, Negro Spirituals are the earliest form of Amrerican folk music. The Spirituals or "spiritual songs" are also an important part of Christian worship as they are so listed in the Bible in Ephesians 5:19. Thus, they should be a part of every Christian's life, no matte...
Why I'm making this page about Negro Spirituals
I'm making this page about Negro Spirituals because Negro Spirituals are both beautiful and meaningful and they form an important part of our American musical heritage. As Kim Ruehl points out in The History of American Folk Music, Negro Spirituals are the earliest form of Amrerican folk music. The Spirituals or "spiritual songs" are also an important part of Christian worship as they are so listed in the Bible in Ephesians 5:19. Thus, they should be a part of every Christian's life, no matte...
American Folk Musicians
American Folk Revival Musicians
When I was a kid in the 60s and 70s, my parents took me to virtually every folk music concert they could find. Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Oscar Brand, Steve Goodman, Tom Paxton, and Harry Chapin. We went to Clearwater concerts (The Clearwater is a sloop that Pete Seeger built to highlight the plight of the Hudson River in New York state. The river was terribly polluted at the time, but Pete, almost single-handedly, got it cleaned up - his secret weapon, then and now, was kids). We went to c...
American Folk Revival Musicians
When I was a kid in the 60s and 70s, my parents took me to virtually every folk music concert they could find. Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Oscar Brand, Steve Goodman, Tom Paxton, and Harry Chapin. We went to Clearwater concerts (The Clearwater is a sloop that Pete Seeger built to highlight the plight of the Hudson River in New York state. The river was terribly polluted at the time, but Pete, almost single-handedly, got it cleaned up - his secret weapon, then and now, was kids). We went to c...
The Kingston Trio, unique and influencial folk group
The Kingston Trio -- Their unique start and influence
I'm making this page about The Kingston Trio because The Kingston Trio is without a doubt one of the best folk music groups ever, second only to Peter Paul and Mary if that. The Kingston Trio has a unique and wonderful great folk music sound. Two of The Kingston Trio's original members met in high school in Hawaii, where they had been living before attending college in California. They got together in college around a common love of Island and Calypso music, and, when, after college they deci...
The Kingston Trio -- Their unique start and influence
I'm making this page about The Kingston Trio because The Kingston Trio is without a doubt one of the best folk music groups ever, second only to Peter Paul and Mary if that. The Kingston Trio has a unique and wonderful great folk music sound. Two of The Kingston Trio's original members met in high school in Hawaii, where they had been living before attending college in California. They got together in college around a common love of Island and Calypso music, and, when, after college they deci...
Burl Ives, America's Balladeer
Why I'm making this page about Burl Ives, America's Balladeer
I'm making this page about Burl Ives, America's Balladeer because I think Burl Ives is one of the most overlooked artists in music history. Burl Ives' voice is perfect for the folk ballads which he loved to sing and sang throughout the decades of the the 30's and 40's and into the 50's. Of course, you know by now, if you know me, that I'm especially partial to folk music and I especially like folk groups, but I would just as soon hear Burl Ives singing solo as to hear a group like Peter Paul ...
Why I'm making this page about Burl Ives, America's Balladeer
I'm making this page about Burl Ives, America's Balladeer because I think Burl Ives is one of the most overlooked artists in music history. Burl Ives' voice is perfect for the folk ballads which he loved to sing and sang throughout the decades of the the 30's and 40's and into the 50's. Of course, you know by now, if you know me, that I'm especially partial to folk music and I especially like folk groups, but I would just as soon hear Burl Ives singing solo as to hear a group like Peter Paul ...
Richard and Mimi Farina - 1960s Folk Singers
Richard and Mimi Farina were folk singers in the 1960s
If you lived during the 1960s you may remember Richard and Mimi Farina. Richard was a songwriter, dulcimer player, and novelist. His wife, Mimi, was only 16 when he met her. They married two years later. She was a younger sister of Joan Baez. She had the voice of a nightingale and played guitar. Tragically Richard Farina died young - far too young. He was killed in a motorcycle accident near Carmel, California on Mimi's 21st birthday. She was devastated. She remarried a few years later but i...
Richard and Mimi Farina were folk singers in the 1960s
If you lived during the 1960s you may remember Richard and Mimi Farina. Richard was a songwriter, dulcimer player, and novelist. His wife, Mimi, was only 16 when he met her. They married two years later. She was a younger sister of Joan Baez. She had the voice of a nightingale and played guitar. Tragically Richard Farina died young - far too young. He was killed in a motorcycle accident near Carmel, California on Mimi's 21st birthday. She was devastated. She remarried a few years later but i...
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