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Irish-American Heritage Month + Nordic Fiddles, Don Drummond, Celtic Spain, South Africa & the Ides of March

Irish-American Heritage Month + Nordic Fiddles, Don Drummond, Celtic Spain, South Africa & the Ides of March
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Christmas music (6)–Best Christmas album by a Nordic fiddle group

The Loveliest Rose, by Bukkene Bruse. This group is wonderful, and this is one of my favorite albums. They are led by the fantastic and cute as a bug’s ear fiddler Annbjorg Lien, who has several albums of her own (check out her website). I quite like Scandinavian folk music, especially fiddle music, because, mainly,…

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Her new album is titled Falling Forward, but Schneckenburger is happy to look back

Her stay in the Boston area was a relatively brief one, but the area’s folk/traditional music scene made an impression on Vermont fiddler-vocalist Lissa Schneckenburger, and she returned the favor.The Maine native came to town in the late 1990s as a student in New England Conservatory and spent quite a bit of time in local sessions and contra dances, and a number of

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Tucson Weekly: Of Six Strings And Six-Guns (June 17

Folk artist Tom Russell brings his family saga to Tucson. By Gregory McNamee TRACING FAMILY HISTORY, genealogists will tell you, is an inexact science. It s not so much for lack of data: the world is afloat, after all, in birth and death certificates, deeds, snapshots, home movies. The challenge in uncovering one s roots is more often to separate fact from folklore, to cut through family politics, whitewashing (see Robert Altman s new film Cookie s Fortune for a case in point) and wishful thinking to find out what skeletons really lurk in Grandpa s closet. Singer-songwriter Tom Russell takes on his family history folklore,

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