Sentences with phrase «folk musicians from»

Decades of folk musicians from the Hunter College Folk Music Club are having a reunion concert and picnic to raise money on behalf of the Bronx River Alliance.

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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.

Knowing that the musicians came from the Old Town School of Folk Music, which is just around the corner from where we live, gave us a sense of pride and made our wedding even more special.»

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.

Filling out the roster of folks running for town board from the Democratic side, leaving three candidates for two slots, are town planning board chairman Drew Boggess and local electrician and musician Jim Sofranko.

The author is Cary Fridley, Appalachian folk singer and roots musician from Asheville, NC.

The latest creation from masterminds Joel and Ethan Coen is about a folk musician named Llewyn Davis; a...

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.

Leto, set in the days just before the dawn of Perestroika, is a movie musical about young rock musicians in Leningrad's underground scene trying to make their own music while poring over everything from punk to folk rock from the West.

From the opening scene we learn that he is a gifted folk singer and musician struggling to make an impression in 1960's New York.

The third and probably final trailer for the new Coen Brother's film has a wonderful song to get you through some (amusingly) depressing stuff, as Oscar Isaac's struggling folk musician takes the hard edge of life from all sides.

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.

But what separates Davis — loosely based on folk musician Dave Van Ronk — from the...

On select trips, musicians from Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music serenade riders as they snake through the South.

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.

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.

So the artist began to mix the three influences — the attitude of musicians like Simone and Davis, the iconic style of old world European painting, and the everyday black folks he knew from the neighborhood or saw strutting through the streets — in a distinct visual style that has been referred to as «cool realism.»

An image of «Three Folk Musicians» in the catalog is captioned in Bearden's own words: «In the 1920s, during the time of the great migration of Negroes from the South to the big cities, my grandmother ran a boarding house in Pittsburgh.

For The Gainsborough Packet, Stokes collaborated with musician Jon Boden from acclaimed folk - big - band Bellowhead, composer Alistair Anderson (one of the UK's leading exponents of the folk tradition,) and Tim Kerr, an iconic figure of the US punk and early hardcore scene.

They and seven other musicians perform «songs to lift you up,» the first in a series of playlists from the Economist folks.