Wold love to meet more cool left-leaning not-fascist #FolkMusic, #FolkRock, and #TraditionalMusic fans in the #PDX area. I want to enjoy folk art and music with friends but I'm wary of the scene ever since the Trump era. Fucking trads ruined everything. I miss having friends to just sip tea and listen to music and discuss esoteric topics with. Also anyone in the #LivingHistory community who isn't trad scum, I wanna be friends. Seriously. I'm kinda lonely.
#FolkMusic: Me, with #banjo, playing "Queen Amang the Heather" from my forthcoming (January 2024) CD, at John Ive's studio in Fleet for his Folk O'Clock project (see his group on Facebook): https://youtu.be/cilbmtR4F_g
I'm always so curious about the ingredients of a great #playlist. Music curator extraordinaire Kasey Gelsomino, the creator of "Oat Milk Lattes in the Mountains" on #spotify and Kasey's Playlist on #tiktok, shared her secrets with me in today's podcast conversation for @Flipboard:
🎵 Well, I've made an album.🎶 It may not be much, but 'tis mine own. It has been a great journey: I wrote my first song, bought and learned a new instrument, collaborated on a song with a friend, made a set of bells. All fun stuff. Now I just hope for someone to play a track or two. 🎸 #FolkMusic#FolkSongs#folkie#guitar#mandolin
Today in Labor History September 4, 1970: Socialist Salvador Allende was elected President of Chile. As president, he tried to nationalize major industries, expand education and improve conditions for the working class. On September 11, 1973 (the other 9/11), he was ousted in a coup by Augusto Pinochet, leading to a dictatorship that lasted until 1990. Thousands of workers, socialists, union members and activists were killed, including folk singer Victor Jara, who continued to sing, as his torturers mashed his fingers and demanded that he play his guitar. The coup and dictatorship were supported by the CIA, and by President Nixon, and by the Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, who later won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Time for another auld tune. Jack Lattin was once popular all across these islands. Composed in Ireland sometime in the early 1700s it quickly spread across the Irish Sea and appears in many music collections of the 18th century.
When you grow up singing unattributed folk songs, you grow up singing "The ants are my friends, they're blowin in the wind, the ants they are blowin in the wind."
For my new pals on Mastodon, as part of my semi-regular reminder that my main deal is I'm a singer/songwriter, here's probably my most-heard song, the wonderful Be Good Tanyas' recording of my "Light Enough to Travel". This is the song that launched me into full-time making-a-living musician. Thanks again, ladies. #folkmusic#music#singersongwriter#CovidIsNotOver#WearAMaskhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwkFySJmEJY
I have #CFS and #Bipolar which can make it hard to get out much so seeing so much of the world, so seeing all the wonderful posts here has been an absolute joy.
Billy Bragg with the legend of Scottish folk music and political activism, Dick Gaughan. Pictured at a Celtic Connections concert in memory of Scottish socialist John MacLean.
Someone added a 1931 photo of Aladár Rácz to his EN Wikipedia article, I'd never seen it before. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen any photo of him from before he was already quite old and frail. One of my musical heroes and inspirations, a true elegant soul ! I went and followed the sourcing to this site https://fortepan.hu/ and found these other 2 photos; the site asks to credit the photo donor Ádám Bósze. #cimbalom#FolkMusic#Hungary#magyar#RomaPeople
The fabulous Grace Smith Trio playing at the Prince Albert in Stroud. Support was Alfie Churchill-Moss and a mini dance set from Boss Morris. A fine night's entertainment! #folk#FolkMusic#LiveMusic
Watching so many musician friends (lots of "punk rockers") happily conform to super spreader norms really clarified some of the important meanings of the old European folk tale about the enigmatic Pied Piper of Hamlin. Culture is a double edged sword. Music can be awesome and healing. Or a tool to lure people to their destruction. #folkmusic#folklore#CovidIsNotOver#WearAMask
Always like stopping at Hamish Henderson's childhood home in Glenshee, which backs right onto the kirkyard.
Henderson was a major organiser of the Scottish Folk Revival in the 1950s-70s. Some of his interest in folk culture came from his upbringing here and around
Blairgowrie, where he heard his mother
and their neighbours singing traditional songs.