Sentences with phrase «folk ballads»
For past projects, Gast has tap danced around Lake Okeechobee, performed as a mermaid on trapeze and a cowgirl with an inflatable desert, and written and recorded a cappella folk ballads about women in the military.
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Her choices in music veer from 15th century Scottish laments, to historic Irish and American folk ballads, to more modern choices, such as Nirvana and The Velvet Underground.
Sam Amidon composes new tunes for traditional folk ballads and an array of cover songs that he's attentively made his own.
Jeremy Lyons plays folk ballads, railroad tunes, campfire songs, and more at the Durant - Kenrick House (Newton)
This Irish folk ballad is about a man who has been sentenced to transportation to Australia, for stealing food for his starving family.
«Remember Me» is a bolero ranch - style song, in homage to Mexican Corrido style folk ballad of the «20s and «30s, written by Kristen Anderson - Lopez and Robert Lopez of Frozen fame.
In the process, the story took on the quality of a folk ballad.
The song Llewyn chooses to perform is «The Death of Queen Jane,» a gorgeous take on a traditional folk ballad about Queen Jane Seymour's (not the medicine woman) death during childbirth as she pleads for a cesarean section to ensure the safety of her as yet unborn child.
The opening scene finds Llewyn on the stage of the Gaslight Café some night in 1961, and there's the unmistakable sight of honesty in his performance of a depressing folk ballad that bemoans death — not the final moment but the «layin» in the grave so long.»
Not exact matches
With combinations of beachy folk music, blues - inspired acoustic ballads and even forays into gospel, Ben Harper has crafted a career as one of popular music's most eclectic artists.
His homegrown, Americana brand of folk recalls greats like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, but on 2006's The Animal Year's, Ritter showed that he is in different class than the «70s ballad writers.
I've borrowed and adapted it from a Pete Seeger ballad made famous by the American folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, in 1962.
During the ceremony, Erich Collins Carey, one of the former governor's 25 grandchildren, performed a folk song he wrote titled «The Ballad of the Great Hugh Carey.»
As an Irish folk band blared ballads through Cazenovia Park a few days ago, Byron W. Brown stood out as the rare black face in an explosion of green garb.
About Site - Focusing on Australian folk music, Australian bush ballads and / or Australian folk musicians.
He's seen his star rise from «good songwriter with a hit and maybe some staying power» to «gigantic supernova that can not be stopped and will consume the entire world's attention with folk - inflected guitar ballads that somehow also include rapping.»
Attuned to the formalism inherent in Japanese life — the rules of school, playground and workplace; the frequency of group singing and parades; the use of communal and folk song as receptacle of social values and agent of social pressure — Ballad of Narayama simply takes these elements familiar from his earlier films and pushes them to their aesthetic limit.
Style wise it's more ballads / orchestral / folk / electro mash up than rock but that doesn't mean theres no urgency, see Identikit, Burn the Witch and Ful Stop.
Part subversive folk tale, part rock ballad musical, and part experimental filmmaking, it is sophisticated and surprising.
Giving the nod to Perhaps Love «s array of musical styles (big Broadway tunes, operetta - style monologues, pop ballads) over Princess Raccoon «s folk eclecticism and Brokeback Mountain «s groovy guitar.
With The Lost and The Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, those folks over at Rockstar kept their audience busy.
Her releases explore a wide variety of styles, ranging from the perfect balance of country, folk, and Latino elements on the award - winning Culture Swing (1992) and the collection of Mexican love ballads and border songs on the all Spanish Frontejas (1995), to the delicate mysticism of Dreaming From the Labyrinth (1996) and the joyful optimism on her bilingual children's record Cada Niño / Every Child (1996).
The jazz pianist, who appeared on our podcast this winter, has made a committed shift into art these past few years; he and his wife, the sublime performer Alicia Hall Moran, lit up the 2015 Venice Biennale with «Work Songs,» a gruff and agitated synthesis of spirituals, diva ballads, and chain - gang folk songs.
Ileana Cabra's first solo album contains «folk - inspired ballads and infectious Latin jazz standards.»
My error derived from my early focus on Franklin through the lens of folk music, particularly the 1970 Pentangle version of the ballad about the expedition, titled — yes — «Lord Franklin.»
Sedley's review covers «von Emmich's infantry crossed the frontier [in August 1914] in parade - ground order, accompanied by horse - drawn field kitchens with fires burning and army cooks stirring the regimental stew», the seaman's ballad «The Flying Cloud», [1830s, after which Toronto's oldest folk club is named],
About Blog Focusing on Australian folk music, Australian bush ballads and / or Australian folk musicians.