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About Tempest: Tempest celebrates their thirty years as a band with an exciting new album, "Thirty Little Turns". Thirty years is a milestone for any band to reach. Yet, Tempest continues to bring their brand of electric folk and Celtic music to enthusiastic audiences. Tempest music is a vibrant, living and breathing demonstration of tales old and new. About the band members: Hailing from Oslo, Norway, founding member and lead singer/electric mandolinist, Lief Sorbye, is recognized as a driving force in the modern folk-rock movement. He started Tempest after years of touring and recording on the folk circuit. San Francisco fiddler, Kathy Buys, brings her international award winning playing to the Tempest stage. Her experience performing world-fusion music with high energy dance bands combined with many years of playing Irish traditional music in America and Ireland makes her a perfect fit for Tempest. Driving in from the North Bay area is Josh Fossgreen, an exceptional musical talent whose innovative bass textures add a rich dimension to the Tempest soundscape. Northern California's own young Indian-American progressive guitarist, Ab Menon, skids to a flaming stop on the Tempest stage, replete with flying dreadlocks, dazzling string stylings and a sense of ticklish fun. Cuban-born drummer Adolfo Lazo, an original Tempest member, colors the band's sound with inventive rhythms, and rock-steady drumming. About the songs: Two songs bring us stories from the Jacobite Rebellion the long, bloody attempt to return the British throne to the House Of Stuart. "Johnny Cope" is a based on a traditional Scottish song from the 1745 Rebellion, that tells of the British commander's defeat at the hands of Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite army near the end of the conflict. "Battle Of Aughrim" goes back to one of the bloodiest battles of the rebellion which brought about the end of Jacobitism in Ireland. "Thirty Little Birds" celebrates the many fans and fortunes of Tempest throughout their thirty years together, name-checking many they have met and count as friends to this day. "Trolldans" is 'a zippy little Norwegian folk song celebrating the Summer Solstice', sung in Lief's native Norwegian tongue. While clips of "Norwegian Wood" have long been a live-humor staple during band introductions, at fifty years of age, it's one of the newest of the old English standards written by a couple of school chums from Liverpool. "Lahard Chase" is lively medley of three contemporary reels highlighting the haunting fiddle of Kathy Buys. "A Toast" is inspired by Viking lore with haunting lyrics about the longing for adventure and the bitter-sweet memory of leaving loved ones behind to keep the home fires burning. "High Germany" refers to the The Thirty Years War ,' a deadly collection of wars fought in Central Europe for reasons including religious, dynastic, territorial, and commercial rivalries. (1618-1648) The lovely tune at the end is the Brambleberry Reel written by Kathy. "Madeline Jones" - Fond memories of childhood summer visits with Patricia s mother s kith and kin. A contemporary lyrical tale set in the faraway and fabled land of Mississippi. Dedicated to Granny Gert and dear Maddy, who told us stories and put vanilla behind her ears. "Swarb" is a medley of tunes dedicated to the memory of the late, great fiddler Dave Swarbrick (1941-2016). A wonderfully happy tribute by the entire band to this master musician whose work with Martin Carthy and Fairport Convention continues to influence fiddle players and folk musicians to this day. Two of the favorite fiddle tunes of Dave himself join neatly with a tune written by Lief in honor of Dave.

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The Ship A Contemporary Folk Music Journey US vinyl LP

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What is Folk Art?

Everyday people creating extraordinary works of art-this is the basis of folk art. Folk art relies on experience, community, and heritage rather than formal training. It is art that is felt rather than taught. Deeply rooted in tradition, folk art is an artist’s feelings, ideas, expressions, and customs brought to life.

The term 'folk art' was used during the 1700s and 1800s to describe art made by craftsmen, manual laborers, peasants, tradespeople, and working-class folk. These artists were untrained or had very little schooling in fine arts, but some had practical skills that they learned on the job, such as painting signs or houses. Folk artists today continue to be everyday people who use their acquired skills-and their imaginations-to create unique works of art.

Folk artists often use simple artistic techniques, bright colors, and childlike perspectives to create art as a means of self-expression rather than art that’s 'correct'. Folk art is truly art of the human spirit. It is continually produced by people of all walks of life and from all over the world. As long as there are people with a need to imagine and create, folk art will always be around.

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The Harry Smith B-Sides box set contains the flip side of every 78-rpm record that Harry Smith included on the Anthology of American Folk Music. In 1952, Folkways Records published the legendary six-LP series entitled the Anthology of American Folk Music, compiled by eccentric record collector, filmmaker, artist, and anthropologist Harry Smith. Many historians cite Smith's reissue, with its recordings of country, blues, and gospel music from the 1920s and '30s, and its booklet containing idiosyncratic liner notes, esoteric artwork, and handmade design as a major impetus for the folk music revival of the 1950s and '60s. 68 years later, The Harry Smith B-Sides offers both a resonant listening experience and the closing of a collector's circle. Sequenced in the identical order that Smith created, this new box set offers the flip-side of each record selected by Smith for the original Anthology of American Folk Music. Newly-remastered audio under license from Gennett Records, Paramount Records, Sony Music Entertainment, and Universal Music Group. This box set represents a mirror image of the Anthology of American Folk Music's tracklist. However, the producers have omitted the following tracks due to lyrics containing racist language: track 5 on disc 1, track 4 on disc 2, and track 16 on disc 4. Cigar box, full-color 144-page book featuring original artwork by Harry Smith and four CDs; 84 newly-remastered tracks on four CDs with a full-color 144-page book featuring archival images, original artwork by Harry Smith, and essays by John Cohen, Lance Ledbetter, and Eli Smith. Transcriptions and annotations for each track by more than 80 artists, writers, and musicians that have been inspired by Harry Smith's work including Daniel Bachman, Devendra Banhart, Sarah Bryan, Rosanne Cash, Dom Flemons, Steve Gunn, Will Oldham, Amanda Petrusich, Steve Roden, Art Rosenbaum, Nathan Salsburg, and Peter Stampfel. Features Dick Justice, Nelstone's Hawaiians, Clarence Ashley, Coley Jones, Buell Kazee, Chubby Parker & His Old-Time Banjo, Uncle Eck Dunford, Burnett and Rutherford, Buster Carter and Preston Young, Carolina Tar Heels, G.B. Grayson, Kelly Harrell, Edward L. Crain, Carter Family, Williamson Brothers & Curry, Frank Hutchison, Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers, Mississippi John Hurt, William & Versey Smith, Furry Lewis, The Masked Marvel, Uncle Bunt Stephens, J.W. Day, Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers, Delma Lachney and Blind Uncle Gaspard, Andrew & Jim Baxter, A.C Eck Robertson and Family, Hoyt Ming and His Pep-Steppers, Henry Thomas, Jim Jackson, Columbus Fruge, Joseph Falcon, Breaux Freres, Cincinnati Jug Band, Frank Cloutier and the Victoria Cafe Orchestra, Rev. J. M. Gates, Alabama Sacred Harp Singers, Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1, Sister Mary Nelson, Memphis Sanctified Singers, Elders McIntorsh and Edwards, Rev. Moses Mason, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Blind Willie Johnson, Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers, Rev. F.W. McGee, Rev. D.C. Rice and His Sanctified Congregation, Cannon's Jug Stompers, E. Segura & D. Herbert, Richard "Rabbit" Brown, Dock Boggs, Mr. & Mrs. Ernest V. Stoneman, Stoneman Family, Memphis Jug Band, Joseph Falcon & Cleoma Breaux, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell, Ramblin' Thomas, Julius Daniels, Uncle Dave Macon, J.P. Nestor, and Ken Manyard.

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Mnsters Of Folk is a collaboration of Conor Oberst, Jim James, M. Ward, and producer Mike Mogis, four of this generation's most critically acclaimed artists. Monsters of Folk have come together to create a truly unique album. Each one of the members stands alone in the studio as artists in their own right. Conor Oberst is Bright Eyes, Jim James leads My Morning Jacket, and M. Ward is a critically acclaimed singer songwriter (She & Him). This much talked about and highly anticipated album streets on September 22, 2009 and will coincide with a nation-wide tour.