Folk & Bluegrass Artist Interviews & Features

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Columns

The 51st Santa Barbara Old-Time Fiddlers’ Festival

Coming Saturday October 7th

By David Bragger

August 31, 2023/by David Bragger

David Jacobs-Strain

A house concert and a new CD

By Art Podell

July 14, 2023/by Art Podell

VIDEO FEATURE – Hog-eyed Man’s “The Surround / Foxhunter’s Jug”

By David Bragger

June 30, 2023/by FolkWorks

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Articles

What is Stringband Ragtime?

excerpted from various websites and wikipedia pages

The Life And Times Of A Folk DJ

Artist, Audience, Audio

By Ron Cooke

OSPA – Basque Music in the American West

The music of the Basque Country and of the Basque immigrant communities of the American West

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Interviews

Evo Bluestein Teaches Democracy

A Syllabus of Folk Music's Past and Future

By deb Ewing

Porch Sittin’ With Art Menius

In Which We Discuss Folk Radio and Technology, and Peruse the Folk Personality

By deb Ewing

Interview with Rob McMaken & Jason Cade of Hog-Eyed Man

Hog-Eyed Man
Kicked Up a Devil of a Row
Tiki Parlour Recordings
July 2023

By Pat Mac Swyney

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Milestones

Kerry Blech

(September 24, 1947 - September 18, 2023)

Adapted from Legacy.com

Len Chandler

(May 27, 1935 – August 28, 2023)

Sixto Rodriguez

(July 10, 1942 – August 8, 2023)

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Reviews

This Bell Still Rings: My Life of Defiance and Song

By Barbara Dane

By Steve Goldfield

Songs of Slavery and Emancipation

2-CD album by Jalopy Records, and separate book by Mat Callahan with Introduction by Robin D. G. Kelly, University Press of Mississippi, 2022

By Leonard Potash

Made in Louisiana: The Story of the Acadian Accordion by Marc Savoy

By Andy Cohen

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