Tag: voices
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January 02, 2008 07:49 AM EST --
The Boston Celtic Music Festival is coming up on the 11th and 12th of January, with day and evening music at Club Passim and First Church around Harvard Square and a Friday night ceilidh . . . more
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June 04, 2008 07:54 PM EDT --
In an earlier conversation, award winning banjo player and composer Alison Brown spoke about her career as a musician. There's another side to her musical coin, though: more than dozen years ago, . . . more
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December 19, 2007 08:33 AM EST --
Thinking about the light, the work, and the music, of winter. A time for celebration and reflection, for community and silence, for hope and joy at the year's . . . more
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December 13, 2007 08:07 AM EST --
Pam Tillis has always been both a maverick and a traditionalist in country music. She brings that trademark insight and diversity to her holiday album, Just in Time for Christmas.
There's . . . more
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April 04, 2007 02:20 PM EDT --
"I have the best conducting job in the world," says Paul Gambill, music director of the Nashville Chamber Orchestra . "It's way too much fun!" A typical evening Gambill . . . more
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May 05, 2008 10:50 AM EDT --
Roads, highways, journeys begun, and what lies at the end of the road, and how to make it through the trip -- all ideas which inspire songwriters and musicians. Writers, as well -- Phil and Carol White, . . . more
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July 24, 2008 07:37 AM EDT --
"It's got to come from the heart if you want it work" is a line Kathy Mattea sings in one her country hits. Mattea has always been good at that, whether she's singing about the love . . . more
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March 13, 2008 10:44 AM EDT --
A singer from the western shore of Kerry, a band with members from Galway and New Zealand, Irish language songs from a range of artists including Van Morrison and Sinead O'Connor, music from . . . more
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March 08, 2008 04:16 PM EST --
A few suggestions for Irish music beyond the pub songs and sentimental favorites often heard this time of year, a dvd of a very fine concert held at Vicar Street in Dublin, and a look back at the work . . . more
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May 21, 2008 05:32 PM EDT --
Good Thing Going, the title cut of Rhonda Vincent's latest album, had its start, as many good songs do, in a conversation. The bluegrass musician was on the road, getting ready for a gig in Oregon, . . . more
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June 14, 2007 07:13 AM EDT --
The Photo Essay Experience: Thinking about music through image is the subject of this edition of Voices.
This is a quiet photograph, showing two people connecting with the music, each other, . . . more
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January 23, 2008 01:32 PM EST --
The category notation on the back of Alison Brown's recording Stolen Moments reads 'bluegrass (more or less).' The music is, actually, that: it ranges from Andrea Zonn singing Brown's . . . more
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June 19, 2008 07:12 AM EDT --
Mark O'Connor has been thinking about what America sounds like almost since he first picked up guitar and fiddle as a child growing up in Seattle. When he went back to his hometown lthis summer, it . . . more
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February 13, 2008 05:01 PM EST --
It started with the sound of bagpipes from the Scottish Power Pipe Band and in the light of torches carried by musicians, politicians, and music fans, and ended with a collaboration among players . . . more
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April 23, 2008 06:18 PM EDT --
"I always want to choose strong material," Mary Black says, "something I feel I can work with and interpret and express something, and add something to the song." The range of . . . more
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July 08, 2008 07:53 AM EDT --
"I'm going to have to put in some beans. We might get a beanstalk and climb up to Nirvana!" Adrienne Young says with laughter. Though it's not the easiest thing for a touring musician . . . more
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March 03, 2008 06:26 PM EST --
Singer and songwriter Cathie Ryan builds bridges between Ireland and America, between past and present, and between the stuff of daily life and the spiritual and emotional dimensions that give . . . more
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July 23, 2008 10:05 AM EDT --
Heidi Talbot is the singer, Kris Dever on guitar, John McCusker on concertina and fiddle.
The song is called Bedlam Boys and Talbot has recorded it . . . more
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