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STREAMING worth catching:
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Zoom discussion with guest speakers about Irish piping and music
Sundays 7pm (Irish Time) / 11am (PST) / 12noon (MST) / 1pm (CT) / 2pm (EST).
Feb 07, 2021: Máire Ní Ghráda
Feb 21, 2021: Darragh Ó hÉiligh
Feb 28, 2021: Leonard Barry------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DARLINGSIDE
Thursday, February 11th
12pm PST & 5pm PST
Post Show Q&A: 6:30pm PST
$15Click to livestream and for archived previous concerts
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Mary O’s Virtual Sessions
Thursdays 5pm PST------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MONDAYS WITH JOHN (WHELAN)
Every Monday at 4:00pm PST
Live Link
Whelan Master Sessions------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Every Monday 6:00pm PDT, encore Tuesday 10:00am PDT
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Check for new online classes
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STREAMING SHOWS
Quarantine Happy Hour - On Facebook Daily at 5:30pm PDT
Sat., Feb. 6 - Dori Freeman
Thurs., Feb. 11 - Laurel Premo
Fri., Feb. 12 - Allison and Tati
Sat., Feb. 13 - George Rezendes
Sun., Feb. 21 - Yoseff and Katya Tucker
Mon., Feb. 22 - Jan Purat
Tues., Feb. 23 - David Long
Wed., Feb. 24 - Todd Grebe and Angela Oudean
Thurs., Feb. 25 - Christine Balfa, Anya, and Kristi
Fri., Feb. 26 - David Pugh and Jon Neufeld
Sat., Feb. 27 (7:00 – 8:00pm)- David Molk
Sun., Feb. 28 - Brendan Draper SwiftRolly Brown On FacebookSundays, 7:30pm PDT, Saturdays, 12:00pm PDT,
Claudia Russell & Bruce Kaplan - Fridays at 5:00pm PDT
More to come...
REGARDING COVID-19 VIRUS
Concerts, dances and festivals have all been cancelled in order to contain the spread of the covid-19 virus.
Stay at home! Watch the numerous postings on social media of folk/traditional artists.
If you find something you find exceptional that we haven't shared, please let us know and we will spread the word.
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The FolkWorks CALENDAR of EVENTS and the RECURRING EVENTS)
have been suspended until the stay at home orders have been lifted.RIP HARRY BRAUSER
(December 21, 1934 – January 8, 2021)
I'M Just Wild About Harry & Harry’s Wild About Life
Photo by Gretchen Henn.Harry Brauser’s life was full of twists and turns from the beginning. Born in NYC, at the Society for the Lying-In Hospital on 17th Street and 2nd Avenue, his parents divorced when he was only three years old. According to Harry, his mother remarried when he was eight and Harry grew up in Bradford, PA, home of Zippo lighters and Kendall Gas and Oil...with one unusual diversion.
January-February 2021
The Third Rail
Before we get into the weeds, I’ve got a mea culpa. In a previous article, I mentioned that my early folk music group, Art and Paul (Columbia Records, 1961) had enough positive response that our parent label hired two songwriters to write a song just for us. The song was Sealed With A Kiss. As I painfully recalled in the article, we rejected it because it just wasn’t a pure sounding folk song. Yikes! Looking back, I suddenly realized that in plain English, we were being “politically correct”!
HOW MANY BOB DYLANS? SONGS OF THE HOLOCAUST
JANUARY 27, 2021—INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY
Epigraph: The Second World War came to an end
We forgave the Germans and then we were friends
Though they murdered six million in the ovens they fried
The Germans now too have God on their side. (Bob Dylan. © 1963)
WASHINGTON, D.C.— STILL A BOURGEOIS TOWN
White folks in Washington they know how
throw a colored man a nickel just to see him bow
it’s a bourgeois town, it’s a bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues,
and I’m gonna spread the news around.Lead Belly wrote Bourgeois Blues in 1935—in the midst of all the Jim Crow housing laws still in place. Me and Martha was standin upstairs,
heard a white man say I don’t want no colored here,
he’s a bourgeois man, in a bourgeois town,
I got the bourgeois blues
and I’m gonna spread the news around.”PHIL OCHS TURNS 80 YEARS OLD TODAY—DECEMBER 19, 2020
I’m writing this on my birthday, which is just ten days before Phil Ochs’ birthday December 19, 2020 when--having been born in 1940--he would have turned 80 years old. The reason I mention it is that it’s the one day of the year my favorite author and poet Robert Graves took off from writing. I did not plan on writing today either, in recognition of Graves’ day off—but I’m no Robert Graves, and tomorrow is Human Rights Day—the 10th—and I may need to finish it then—to be able to get it done by FolkWorks’ deadline which is also the 10th. I don’t have time to waste.
Read more: PHIL OCHS TURNS 80 YEARS OLD TODAY—DECEMBER 19, 2020
ARTIST: THE ONLIES
TITLE: THE ONLIES
LABEL: Yodel-A-Hee 104
RELEASE: October 2, 2020
The latest CD The Onlies from the band The Onlies is a joy and it succeeds on all fronts. The musicianship is seasoned and mature, delivered with flawless technique; the production shimmers; the selections and arrangements honor and extend tradition; the art is, well, provocatively arty. And in this age of individual tracks, here is an album to be experienced in one sitting the old-fashioned way, with pacing that evokes the arc of a dance night moving smoothly through different energies.
REGARDING COVID-19 VIRUS
Concerts, dances and festivals have all been cancelled in order to contain the spread of the covid-19 virus.
Stay at home! Watch the numerous postings on social media of folk/traditional artists.
If you find something you find exceptional that we haven't shared, please let us know and we will spread the word.
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The FolkWorks CALENDAR of EVENTS and the RECURRING EVENTS)
have been suspended until the stay at home orders have been lifted.
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