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Ken O’Malley solo show
Sunday, October 06, 2024 @ 4:00 pm PDT
Music They Don’t Want You to Hear
Sunday, October 06, 2024 @ 6:00 pm PDT
Team Taiko
Monday, October 07, 2024 @ 7:00 pm PDT
Orange County Celtic Jam
Monday, October 07, 2024 @ 7:00 pm PDT
Tuesday night Online jam session and mini-concert with Pam Weeks and Bill Olson
Tuesday, October 08, 2024 @ 7:00 pm PDT
Celtic Music in Medford
Thursday, October 10, 2024 @ 5:30 pm PDT
or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Be the Bomb
By debora Ewing, et. al
Number 63, September 1, 2024
FolkWorks Receives 2024 Best of the West Ambassador Award!
By Susie Glaze
"I started writing this song about Chris Gantry. Ended up writing about Dennis Hopper, Johnny Cash, Norman Norbert, Funky Donny Fritz, Billy Swan, Bobby Neuwrith, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Paul Seibel.......Ramblin' Jack Elliot had a lot to do with it." Kris Kristofferson from "The Pilgrim 33."
By Terry Paul Roland
Maine Franco-American musical legend
By Bill Olson
(July 15,1955 – August 14, 2024)
Chapter 4: Scotland’s New First Minister, Freedom Come All Ye and The Greatest Scottish Folk-Poet You’ve Never Heard Of
By Henry Zhao
The Great Mandela and the Great Rebellion
By Ron Cooke
Travels to Turkey for an intimate encounter with a priceless folk tradition
Victoria Thomas
Starvation Army: Band Music No. 1 - Songs of the IWW and the Salvation Army Announced Today on PM Press/Free Dirt Records
Starvation Army Resurrects the Street Fights of the Spokane Free Speech labor fight of the early 1900s
From Devon Leger, Hearth Music
By Art Podell
Two recordings from The Horsenecks
Fiddlehead was recorded in 2017.
Started Out in Town” was recorded at Rope Room studios, Astoria, Oregon in 2019 and engineered by Kati Clayborn and released January 8, 2021
By Steve Goldfield
Her debut album goes deep into being a single mom, being lost, being black in a sea of white. So does this interview.
By deb Ewing
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