On October 4th, three days before the war broke out, I sang “Prayer of the Mothers” in a joint event of the Israeli Women Wage...
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A dream come true
It was a night in March 2023, I was sitting and filling in a lot of documents for a group of Ukrainian musicians to travel to...
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Wisdom of the Elders
Folk music isn’t a walk in the park even in the United States. The scene thrives only where enthusiasts come together and create...
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Viljandi Folk Music Festival
How about a holiday in Estonia? No? Because it’s too far away? Not really, it’s closer by plane than the hot south or a little...
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Bandura
When I was seven years old, one day two women came to our music class at school to make an announcement. Back then, in the early...
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The New Wave of Irish Folk Performers
Having attended the 2022 RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards in the prestigious Vicar Street venue in Dublin last November 18th, I came away...
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The Jeremiahs
As with other bands you find with the Jeremiahs that opposites cause productive friction. In their ten years of band history, it...
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That’s Why We Will Win
In the middle of December, a colleague from Poland called me and offered me the opportunity to play a concert on February 24,...
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Pilcrowe
Their songs radiate an atmosphere of freedom, departure, the vastness of untouched nature and a longing for humanity. In the...
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Digitisation as a Solution?
At the start of the pandemic, English Folk Expo recognised early on that digital skills and the digitisation of the music...
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Our Behaviour Has Consequences
We humans are without question the cause of most of our problems, be they environmental or social. The Scottish...
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The end of the Kate Wolf Festival
It was considered one of the most popular folk events in the USA. However, for the 25th anniversary the organizational team of...
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