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Showing posts with label folk music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label folk music. Show all posts
Friday, October 17, 2025

Rural kids rally: Nature nerding; 4-day school week; hikes instead of detention; farm safety; the 'Little White Duck'

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Whether it's discovering a ginormous toad, finding the most gooseberries or uncovering troves of fossils, when kids venture into the gre...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Ozarks duo share vocals and instruments that 'reflects layers of history ... and the recognition that rural voices are important'

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Cindy Woolf and Mark Bilyeu perform at the Library of Congress in August. (Photo by Kaitlyn McConnell, The Daily Yonder) Since the 1800s, mu...
Friday, August 11, 2023

J. R. 'Robbie' Robertson, who 'turned old American folklore into modern myths' with The Band and others, dies at 80

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Robertson at his Santa Monica studio in 2019. (Photo by Carolyn Cole, L.A. Times) Robbie Robertson, a native Canadian who helped create the ...
Monday, November 21, 2022

'I've endured.' Eastern Kentucky musicians rebuild after the floods with hope and resilience

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Damaged instruments from the Museum of the  Mountain Dulcimer (Photo by Stephanie Wolf, WFPL) Decimated by the 2022 flooding, Eastern Kentuc...
Tuesday, October 04, 2022

County where John Prine was once controversial now has a park named for him, at the place he wanted his soul to be

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A crowd gathered at the park on the Green River for the dedication. (Hoptown Chronicle photos by Jennifer P. Brown) When I die let my ashes ...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

Jerry Jeff Walker, writer of 'Mr. Bojangles' and a godfather to 'Texas outlaw' and Americana music, dies at 78 in Austin

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Jerry Jeff Walker at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium in 2016 (Photo by Erkia Goldring, Getty Images ) Jerry Jeff Walker, who was best known...
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Monday, September 21, 2020

Tyler Childers drops a surprise album meant to raise money for Appalachia and raise awareness about racial injustice

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Screenshot of Childers' album website Eastern Kentucky-born country singer and songwriter Tyler Childers released a surprise album on Fr...
Tuesday, April 07, 2020

John Prine, a songwriter for the ages and our times, dies

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John Prine died in Nashville of covid-91, the coronavirus disease. He was 73. (Photo by The Associated Press ) There's a hole in Da...
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Monday, April 06, 2020

Honoring lost miners 10 years after Upper Big Branch blast

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Judy Jones Peterson looks at a photo of her brother, who died in the mine explosion. ( NPR photo by Howard Berkes) Ten years ago yest...
Monday, October 17, 2016

'Americana' music gains popularity and recognition

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Bob Weir performing "Americana" music is on the rise, with four of its artists—Bon Iver, Bob Weir (formerly of the Grateful D...
Tuesday, October 04, 2016

How often is your state named in popular songs?

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Does your state inspire musicians to write songs? Julia Silge, who writes a blog, data science ish , used figures from the Billboard Hot 1...
Friday, June 17, 2016

Suit seeks to put 'This Land Is Your Land' in public domain, says any copyright expired long ago

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Woody Guthrie ( Associated Press photo) Woody Guthrie's classic song "This Land Is Your Land" could soon be in the publi...
Tuesday, March 01, 2016

Radio series looks at how one Central Appalachian town is using arts, tourism to revitalize economy

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Central Appalachian communities continue to look for ways to revitalize local economies hurt by the loss of coal jobs. One such community...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Country-folk duo use words and music to fight proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline

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The proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which would run from West Virginia to North Carolina, is drawing plenty of criticism in Virginia...
Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Jean Ritchie, a leader of the folk revival, dies at 92; memorial Sunday at Union Church in Berea, Ky.

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Jean Ritchie, who helped start a folk-music revival in the mid-20th century and remained an icon of it into the 21st, died Monday at her ho...
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Monday, May 04, 2015

Guy Carawan, folk singer and civil rights pioneer, died on Saturday at 87 in Tennessee

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Guy Carawan, a folk singer and activist who fight for civil writes and worker's rights in Appalachia and the South, died on Saturday a...
Friday, April 24, 2015

USA Today lists best festivals in the U.S.; many promote tourism in rural areas

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Now that the weather is heating up throughout most of the U.S., festival season is on the horizon. USA Today "teamed up with a panel o...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

Internet radio station gives worldwide exposure to aspiring musicians of Appalachia

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Appalachian musicians are getting worldwide exposure through an Internet radio station based in West Virginia that mostly plays local bands...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Woody Guthrie's home town finally embraces him, will rebuild his boyhood home

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Woody Guthrie's Oklahoma hometown has forgiven him for what some thought were communist ideas, and the town wants to honor the late ...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Tennessee songwriting festival renews this week

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Stunned that there wasn't already an Appalachian songwriters festival in East Tennessee, musician Cyndy Montgomery Reeves helped star...