Sentences with phrase «folk singer»

There's nothing like going to a concert featuring an»80s pop star who's morphed into a bespectacled middle - aged folk singer with a slight paunch to make you feel your age.

About Blog Cunning Folk is a folk singer, musician, storyteller & folklorist who administers the South East London Folklore Society & also organizes the annual Bermondsey Folk Festival.

Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot was inspired to write his well known song «The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald» after seeing the name of the ship misspelled in Newsweek magazine (and felt that the error dishonored the memory of the crew that perished).

A series of comments from her father, a folk singer and former hippy, infuriated her father - in - law, a Republican strategist, and a heated discussion ensued.

For some previous coverage, see Canadian Privacy Law Blog: McKennitt injunction in the Court of Appeal and Canadian Privacy Law Blog: Canadian folk singer opens the door to expanded privacy for celebrities in Europe.

In September 1973, Chilean folk singer and political activist Víctor Jara was murdered in the wake of the military coup which ushered in Chile's 17 - year dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet.

The folk singer, Canadian Loreena McKennitt, successfully challenged publication of a book revealing details about her personal life.

Several recent cases brought by celebrities have effectively created a new privacy law in the U.K. And recently, the House of Lords upheld a landmark ruling barring the friend of a well - known folk singer from publishing certain passages of a tell - all book about the celebrity.»

Broadcast journalist Linden MacIntyre will be hosting, and music will be provided by award winning folk singer - songwriter Jon Brooks.

The great American folk singer, Woody Guthrie, wrote many songs inspired by the hardships of the time, e.g.,

Just to hammer home the point a bit more — and there is some repetition here — this is how I explained in 2007 why even a folk singer had a place at the table in considering choices on climate change:

But actually, a folk singer — in this case Pete Seeger — has just as legitimate a place at the table as a first grader, a retiree, a coal - industry lobbyist, a climate scientist or one of the diplomats negotiating in Bali over how to revive an ailing climate treaty.

I went to talk to a folk singer about global warming over the weekend.

As I wrote then: A folk singer — in this case Pete Seeger — has just as legitimate a place at the table as a first grader, a retiree, a coal - industry lobbyist, a climate scientist or one of the diplomats negotiating in Bali over how to revive an ailing climate treaty.

Also just announced are award - winning folk singer Sam Lee; counter-cultural writer Stewart Home, experimental composer and saxophonist John Butcher; theatre director, choreographer and designer Simon Vincenzi; artist, writer and artistic director of cult experimental theatre company Forced Entertainment Tim Etchells, text, song, sculpture, film and performance - maker Hilary Koob - Sassen and live documentation from LuckyPDF.

Mitchell was hospitalized in Los Angeles on Tuesday, March 31, 2015 according to the Twitter account and website of the folk singer and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, but details on her condition have not been released.

Canadian folk singer and songwriter Joni Mitchell, strumming her... Photo - 7891422.108546 - San Antonio Express - News

Canadian folk singer and songwriter Joni Mitchell, strumming her guitar outside The Revolution club in London, unknown date.

Tine Kindermann, born 1962 in West - Berlin, Germany, is a self taught visual artist and folk singer who has been living and working in New York City since 1994.

This lithograph was created as a study for a large scale painting depicting Gale Huntington, a Martha's Vineyard folk singer, with his daughter

His mother's brother, Sam Hinton, was a well - known folk singer and folk music historian in Southern California, and his mother's sister's husband was Jon Gnagy, the popular television art instructor who between 1946 and 1970 had the longest continuously running show on television.

A new album by American folk singer - songwriter Iris Dement contributes to a surge of interest in 20th - century Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.

With living and studio quarters in the back for Natkin and Dolnick, and Odetta, [v] the struggling folk singer living above, the gallery opened with a sensation and was promptly tagged «an avant - garde exhibition place filled with the most advanced abstractions in town» by the Chicago Sunday Tribune MAGAZINE.

The Festival lineup includes the following: famed British post-rockers Wire, Brazilian Tropicália star Tom Zé, singer - songwriter Jessica Pratt, experimental folk singer Circuit des Yeux, Canadian folk band The Weather Station, outlaw country singer - painter Terry Allen, vintage jangle - folk - er Ryley Walker, Swans» drummer's Thor & Friends, NY expansive Helado Negro with Ensemble, influential electronic composer Suzanne Ciani, a site - specific Gravity Hill installation, and much more.

Seemingly a found object, Gate is a meticulous recreation of a pair of churchyard gates from the English village of Tanworth - in - Arden, the burial place of folk singer Nick Drake (1948 - 74).

We proudly present Bon Iver, indie folk singer - songwriter Justin Vernon's current band and most notable music project to date.

The MARFA BIG READ, the reading program initiated by the National Endowment for the Arts, kicks off on January 10 at Ballroom Marfa with performances by Leah McWilliams and San Antonio folk singer, Azul.

We are pleased to announce Tate's acquisition from England & Co of Cecilia Vicuña's 1973 painting of the Chilean folk singer, poet, artist and social activist, Violeta Parra.

- Folk singer / songwriter Tyler Stenson moved from Portland, Oregon to Nashville, Tennesee, and successfully funded his folk EP «Long Before the Wheel» on Kickstarter.

The theme song for the game is titled «Suteki da ne», which was performed by Japanese folk singer Ritsuki Nakano, known as «RIKKI».

A folk singer from Boston named Vance Gilbert says that after he boarded a United Airlines flight on August 14th he took out a book about World War I aircraft and started reading.

Joan Baez — Arts and Lectures Series — Thursday November 3rd Legendary folk singer Joan Baez is a musical force of nature.

Kerry Greenwood has worked as a folk singer, factory hand, director, producer, translator, costume - maker, cook and is currently a solicitor.

He also shared stories of his past as a merchant marine, comedian and folk singer.

His story - telling education continued as service station attendant, pants folder, folk singer, used car salesman, sailor and electronics technician in the U.S. Navy, tugboat deckhand, traveling used tire salesman, carpenter, building contractor, real estate salesman, purveyor of collectible automobiles, magazine editor, newspaper columnist, teacher, lecturer, coffeehouse manager, bookseller, publisher, and, lately, novelist.

He'll have to travel faster than 182.03 mph, the current record set by Metin Senturk, a Turkish folk singer, in a Ferrari 430 Scuderia.

The current record is held by a blind Turkish folk singer named Metin Senturk, who drove a Ferrari F430 Scuderia at 182.03 mph.

Union watchers say the newly elected Lily Eskelsen García — a former school cafeteria worker teacher, folk singer and Utah teacher of the year — has a «hell of a job» ahead of her.

to talk about her path, which included almost missing her first teaching interview, and dreams of becoming a folk singer.

I had just graduated with a teaching degree and a fierce determination to be a famous folk singer.

Canadian folk singer Stompin» Tom Connors» classic tribute to the greatest game on...

** Not surprisingly, the folk singer with the gravelly voice was not a big hit with the middle - and high - school crowd.

Sci - fi's green revolution began with the lyrical strains of folk singer Joan Baez, and the impressive orchestral music of her sometime arranger Peter Schickele (better known under the name of his classical novelty act «P.D.Q. Bach») with 1972's «Silent Running.»

, has a lot to live up to as the follow - up to 2013's masterful Inside Llewyn Davis, and quite shrewdly the Coens have chosen to move on from that soulfully sad rumination of a folk singer on the brink by providing what could be their zaniest film this side of The Ladykillers, a screwball romp through the backlots of Hollywood at the height of its power and influence.

Folk singer Llewyn (Oscar Isaac, «Drive») is having a rough go of it on the hootenanny circuit: he's trying to break out as a solo act after minor success as half of a duo, and he favors dark material that doesn't make the espresso - swilling hipsters in his basement audiences sing along.

So, it makes sense that the film, which stars Oscar Isaac as the titular folk singer, who is going through a bit of an existential crisis in the film, would be the first film by the Coen brothers to get a proper Blu - ray release from the venerable Criterion Collection.

, and quite shrewdly the Coens have chosen to move on from that soulfully sad rumination of a folk singer on the brink by providing what could be their zaniest film this side of

Oscar Isaac shines as a struggling folk singer in Joel and Ethan Coens» comedy - drama about the elusiveness of success.

When failed concert promoter Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman) asks down - on - his - luck folk singer Jack Fate (Dylan) about the importance of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin to American rock - and - lore, the inanity of the answer (and the evasiveness of Dylan's demeanour — «Well, it matters to someone, I guess») isn't mysterious so much as inane and disingenuous; even the evocation of social phenomena as important and galvanizing to roots rock and the inner city as the myth of Stagger Lee is tossed off with a wry flick of the hand.

Oscar Isaac (Drive) plays Davis, a folk singer who can't catch a break, professional or otherwise: Bouncing from one couch to another, Llewyn looks for work while shuffling a friend's cat back and forth through the streets of New York's Greenwich Village.