Sentences with phrase «by folk musician»

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Old Town School of Folk Music offers music classes for kids and adults as well as concerts by professional musicians from around the country.

Surrounded by the thousands of musicians who play on our stages, climb our steps, jam in our lobbies, we come from something larger - a rich history, an evolving tradition, a living culture of folks from around Chicago and the world coming together to create music.

[Abbate:] We are happily joined today by folk rock legend, and a personal favorite musician of mine, Jonathan Edwards.

From the perfect production design and washed out look, to the cast and lead performance by Oscar Isaac (who I will be rooting for to get the Oscar) as folk musician Llewyn Davis, to the amusing but tragic story at its core, everything about this film is near perfect.

The film's title comes from the eponymous folk musician's first and only solo album, which is, by all accounts and like the man whose name encompasses two - thirds of the title, a failure.

The Coens / Burnett tribute was tied to «Inside Llewyn Davis,» a road movie about a down - on - his - luck folk musician (inspired by Dave Van Ronk and played by Oscar Isaac) in early»60s Greenwich Village.

Set in the early 1960s, it follows an itinerant musician as he navigates the burgeoning New York City folk scene, and was previously said to be inspired by Dave Van Ronk's memoir The Mayor of MacDougal Street.

Justin Timberlake is lined up to play Jim, a folk musician who is married to Jean (played by Carey Mulligan).

This worksheet teaches about the Mexican tradition of mariachi music, which is Mexican folk music often sung by small bands of musicians.

It combines the carnival concept with Junkaroo, an African - derived folk tradition in the Bahamas that involves gyrating performances by costumed musicians and dancers.

The game features music written by award - winning indie folk musician Svavar Knutur, which in my mind is part of what helps it stand out from the crowd of puzzle games.

Virginia Museum Acquires «Three Folk Musicians» by Romare Bearden, an «Iconic» Collage Long Held in a Private Collection

Co-curated by musician and painter Scott Avett, lead singer of the folk - rock band The Avett Brothers, and David Kratz, president of the New York Academy of Art, ABOUT FACE, which will feature sculpture, paintings, and photographs, brings celebrated artists, many from the East End, together with emerging artists to examine the diverse ways human beings are presented in portraiture today.

These recent acquisitions join Romare Bearden's landmark 1967 collage Three Folk Musicians, added to VMFA's collections last year, and are among a total of 52 new works recently approved for acquisition by the VMFA's Board of Trustees.

FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS, «Three Folk Musicians» by Romare Bearden (1911 - 1988) has appeared in major exhibitions of the artist's work hosted by the nation's top - tier museums.

In 1991, «Three Folk Musicians» was on view in «Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden 1940 - 1987,» a major retrospective of nearly 150 Bearden works organized by the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Paintings such as Folk Musicians (1942) and The Visitation (1941) are examples of Bearden's depictions of agrarian life, as well as his portrayal of emotional bonds common to all humanity, but particularly informed by an African - American experience.

The appeal deals with whether a U.S. court has jurisdiction under the Alien Tort Statute to award civil damages for human rights abuses committed by Lt. Pedro Barrientos, a former member of General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, against deceased folk musician and political activist Victor Jara nearly 45 years ago in Chile.