“Oh, Lord, I ve got some singing to do,” Joe Hickerson croons comfortably, without instrumentation, from his kitchen table.
The fridge behind him is covered with photos and magnets, and he peers into his computer’s video camera toward an online audience of about seventy people attending a recent Friday night Old-Fashioned Hootenanny hosted by Swallow Hill Music over Zoom. He pauses to explain how he learned Oh, Lord, I ve Got Some Singing to Do in 1957, during his days at Oberlin College.
He and the others gathering online for Swallow Hill s hootenannies are carrying on a tradition that began in 1962 at Harry Tuft’s Denver Folklore Center. Along with selling guitars, Tuft created a meeting ground for the folk-enthused that’s outlasted nearly six decades of changing venues and business iterations with only the latest hootenannies taking place online. But despite the newfangled setup, sincerity shines through as musicians and students gather to share what they love
WTJU Feb 14th, 2021 | By Nathan Moore
Musical Diversity, Music Discovery
Imagine a small city where literally every man, woman, and child is a folk musician.
That’s how many artists we’ve played in WTJU’s folk department. Over the last decade, WTJU’s folk & roots shows have played music from more than
14,000 different artists.
From those artists, we’ve played more nearly 77,000 unique tracks from more than 47,000 different albums.
Whatever the opposite of “Top 40 Radio” is, that’s us.
That’s because WTJU is about eclectic music and adventurous listening. WTJU’s dozens of volunteer hosts have a passion for this music. They follow it down rabbit holes, finding old favorites, deep cuts, and new sounds to share with our community.
Holbeach Music and Beer festival release additional tickets after Prime Minister Boris Johnson sets out roadmap out of lockdown
| Updated: 10:13, 23 February 2021
Hopes are high that Holbeach Music and Beer Festival will be going ahead this year after the Prime Minister has set out his roadmap out of lockdown.
Organiser Sean Taylor is looking forward to bringing the beach to Holbeach in August this year and has released a further 750 tickets.
Last year the three day festival was forced to be cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak but following last night s
roadmap announcement, which included hopes to lift all legal restrictions by June 21.
Port Fairy Folk Festival helps keep the show on the road
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It’s been two steps forward, one step back for live music across Victoria recently, and the internationally renowned Port Fairy Folk Festival has been affected like so many others.
Festival director Justin Rudge said there won’t be thousands of folks creating the usual festival atmosphere in the seaside town in March. But homegrown musicians – including Kutcha Edwards, Tim Rogers and Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission – will shine at a handful of carefully curated shows.
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Songwriter Brad Cook once told journalist David Menconi that The older I get, the more I think that we didn t choose North Carolina, it chose us. Brad and his brother Phil moved from Wisconsin, formed the power folk band Megafaun in Durham, joined Hiss Golden Messenger and generally helped build a vibrant contemporary scene. Brad called the move and the community “the greatest thing that ever happened to us.
Mike “M.C.” Taylor, the singer-songwriter mastermind behind Hiss Golden Messenger, one of the national breakouts from Durham and a current Grammy nominee, is quoted in a new Menconi book voicing a similar sentiment from a performance celebrating the 2018 Oxford American music issue, themed around the state: “Music is what drew me to this place and made it home for me.”