folker presents: Like a modern troubadour, he sings "Of Love" in a concise, bright voice, asking, "How far to the...
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Archive -
Month: August 2022
Billy Strings
He's considered the hottest rising star in the U.S. music industry - and as a bluegrass artist at that. Billy Strings is not only mixing up the...
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Hobo
Hobos are relics of a past when job seekers traveled after work and, because they had no money for...
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The secret language of the blues
"Moonshine" actually means a moonshine whiskey, a "bourgeois town" refers to a racist town, and the...
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Lisa Canny
Irish Folk? Jazz? Pop? Lisa Canny can't be pigeonholed, but anyone who has seen her live on stage is...
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The Holy Grail of the folk revival
In 2019, I attended a concert in Chicago by young, talented Americana musician Trapper Schoepp. In conversation at the...
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Glenn Jones
Acoustic guitars in strange tunings, repetitive keynotes that at times evoke Asian atmospheres,...
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Lodestar Trio
A German-British violinist from the school of legendary violinist and music educator Yehudi Menuhin, a Norwegian...
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Original. Creative. Expressive.
When the Anthology Of American Folk Music was released in 1952, featuring recordings of American folk, blues and country music,...
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Sounding Jewish in BerlinÂ
Phil Alexander is a British Academy Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, where he is working on music-based...
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Resistance through art
Three years after the release of the already 2020 Grimme Award-winning RomArchive (RA), one now gives "offline" insight into its...
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editorial folker #03-22
Dear readers, Issue 145 was published at the end of July 2022, and it was the last one of the British folk magazine The Living...
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