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Mystical Ukrainian folk group YAG�DY brings first US tour to Yellow Springs

Springfield News-Sun 26 Mar 2025
Founded in 2016 by actress and vocalist Zoriana Dybovska, the four women of YAGÓDY are on a mission to preserve their culture by reinterpreting folk songs while donning traditional clothing and costumes, like the ornately embroidered Vyshyvanka.
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Chicago Farmer brings Midwest vibes to Findlay

Lima Ohio 25 Mar 2025
“If you’re a Midwesterner, I think you’re going to dig our show and the songs,” he said ...It’s kind of like going to a folk show, but once the song starts we keep it pretty upbeat and switch it up,” he said.
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Report: Living Lightly; an Utsav Celebrating Pastoralism in the Deccan

Hindustan Times 25 Mar 2025
Kurubar Haada, a musical treat on shepherding and wool songs, also presented at BIC, was put together by folk researcher Shilpa Mudbi (also a section curator for the exhibition) ... These songs that ...
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Matt Nathanson performs at Belly Up, with support from KT Tunstall

Aspen Times 24 Mar 2025
... obscure, weird song off of a record from, you know, 20 years ago, and so this kind of frees me up and frees me from blame, and it also makes it a fun way to give folks older songs and weirder songs.
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With His Final Album, Kinky Friedman Rides Off into the Sunset

Houston Press 24 Mar 2025
Several of the album’s songs deal with the death of people in his life ... tweet this “With a lot of his songs, they are straightforward folk / country songs, but there are a lot of musical quirks there,” Mansfield continues.
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Greek Folk Songs From the 1821 Revolution

Greek Reporter 23 Mar 2025
Greek folk songs from the 1821 Revolution not only told the stories of brave revolutionaries but also served as historical texts and diffusors of tradition ... The folk songs gave joy and strength to those who listened and rejoiced.
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Concert pick: Amy Speace at Godfrey Daniels

The Morning Call 26 Mar 2025
She was initially discovered by legendary folk musician Judy Collins, subsequently signing to her record label in 2005, won the International Song of the Year award from the Americana Music ...
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Music Review: Mumford & Sons return after seven years with a folksy, existential album, 'Rushmere'

North Shore News 26 Mar 2025
The song’s texture gets richer and richer, and the question answers itself ... Instead, these songs are refreshingly transparent ... The song is pure nostalgia, named after the London pond where the band hung ...
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Acclaimed Guitarist Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) Announces First-Ever Vocal Album

Stereogum 26 Mar 2025
The LP’s lead single is a weary, heavy-hearted take on the Carter Family’s old folk song “When The World’s On Fire.” In a press release, Ribot says, “The Carter Family recorded this song in 1930.
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Movie Review: ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ is the loveliest movie of the year (so far)

North Shore News 26 Mar 2025
Modest in scope and made with the lightest of touch, not unlike the lovely folk songs that populate its soundtrack, it’s also deceptively powerful.
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A fanboy’s dream wryly collides with reality in The Ballad Of Wallis Island

AV Club 26 Mar 2025
Next, it needs the music of his favorite folk band (Tom Basden, Carey Mulligan), whom ... Written by Basden, the folk songs toe the line between amusingly of-its-folk-rock-era and genuinely enjoyable.
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Celebration held before Sanyuesan Festival at primary school in China's Guangxi

People Daily 26 Mar 2025
This year's Sanyuesan Festival falls on March 31 ... Students sing folk songs in a call-and-response style at a primary school in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County of Liuzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, March 25, 2025 ... .
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Top 12 things to do in Cincinnati this weekend: March 28-30

Cincinnati.com 26 Mar 2025
1 ... Free ... Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers performs Arturo Marquez’s "Fandango," a work commissioned by Meyers that pays tribute to dances of Mexico, and rounding out the program is Yuzo Toyama's Rhapsody, which centers on folk songs from his native Japan.
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From the archives: 25 years of Detroit Free Press Restaurants of the Year

Detroit Free Press 26 Mar 2025
But its moniker makes sense when you realize that the restaurant is chef-owner James Rigato’s own culinary anthem, inspired more by the eponymous folk song by the band Brown Bird than by the legend of the hermit Alice Mabel Gray.
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The Saratogian 26 Mar 2025
Co-presented by Skidmore’s Department of Music and the Ukrainian Classical Voice Project, the concert will highlight rarely heard works from Ukrainian opera, art song, and folk traditions, offering a ...
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