Sentences with phrase «folk song»

Taking folk song lyrics to heart, Bill Benoit has gone «from Bonavista to Vancouver Island», as the Nova Scotia native has been appointed the new executive officer of the Vancouver Island Real Estate Board (VIREB).

Vocal Perfomance ¨ Hitori, ¨ Japanese folk song, arr.

Celebrated across different communities in Kerala, the carnivals, folk song, dances boat races and flower decorations make it a treat for one's eyes.

It's a line from a folk song from at least the 1920s and maybe earlier.

Doesn't such music almost become like a collective folk song

I used a melody from an old Eastern European folk song and my own lyrics to record myself singing and playing the guitar.

Yes, this even includes a song or two, as Mr. Keller pointed out at the award dinner when he played a snippet of my folk song «Liberated Carbon,» and as Chris Horner, a lawyer for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, finds so appalling in his latest book, «Red Hot Lies.»

Called «This Land is Your Land,» from the 1940 Woody Guthrie folk song, it will consist of glowing neon words reflected within three water towers installed throughout the park.

All lyrics and music on the album are written by Martin Creed, with the exception of the New Shutters which is Martin's arrangement of a traditional Neapolitan folk song.

The title, borrowed from Woody Guthrie's iconic 1940 American folk song, invokes the emotional tone and thematic structure of this exhibition: a broad and diverse array of perspectives focusing on social engagement within the ever - changing American landscape.

This year's work features Susan Philipsz's sound installation of three separate versions of a traditional folk song played simultaneously in otherwise empty gallery.

In the exhibition that accompanies the Turner Prize, visitors step into a nearly empty gallery to find ourselves surrounded by Ms Philipsz» unaccompanied voice singing a sad Scottish folk song about a ghost.

The quiet, but powerful music of Timmy Straw evidences her interest in lyric poetry, religious cadence, minimalist piano, the folk song, pop music and everyday speech.

There was a surprising cheer when David Zwirner was asked to come to the stage, followed by a speech by He Juxing, founder of the forthcoming Star Museum, and then a folk song by Ci Kim of Arario Gallery.

But how did a traditional Scots folk song — with lyrics that many people scarcely understand — emerge as one of the world's most enduring popular songs?

The landscapes look familiar enough from Western painting and Western narratives, for all their polar extremes — just as «Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair» is an American folk song, Kerry James Marshall has taken to the barber shop as the locus of African American community, and blackness has a dark place in America's history.

Two additional sequences followed: a choreographed cast of 500 performing in darkness filmed with infrared cameras and projected onto white screens; and Rauschenberg carrying a girl in a cloth sack while she sang a Tuscan folk song.

The name is derived from a 1920s folk song written by Harry McClintock during his nomadic years wandering the country, living homeless and dreaming of a place with «cigarette trees» where «bulldogs have rubber teeth.»

For that reason, I arranged a Moroccan folk song called «Aisha.»

Krupa, Skrebels and Cardy discuss our unexpected new lunchtime obsession, the beguiling weirdness of Annihilation, the weirdly beguiling Love, and a discussion of the words in a Swedish folk song.

The soundtrack pretty much revolves around Stumfol's edgy folk song Prisoner which is played during the medbay area.

The theme song Oh Death, performed by Amy Van Roekel (listen here), transforms an old folk song into something so perfectly chilling, it sets the atmosphere for the game right from the start.

The Rasa Sayang Resort & Spa takes its name from an old Malay folk song that also means «a feeling of love».

When the classic Australian folk song «Waltzing Matilda» talks about the Billabong, this is what they mean.

Kate was the folk song laureate for the north coast of California.

The entire family can enjoy Kathy Jakobsen's illustrations while listening to Arlo Guthrie sing his father's classic folk song.

In fact this German folk song isn't even about Christmas.

Historian Nelson, with coauthor Aronson, explains how he connected bits of information acquired in a larger research project to identify the actual story and person behind the John Henry folk song.

With freshness and humor, this beguiling picture - book of the old folk song «Hush, Little Baby» captures the warmth and the security of the enduring favorite.

The band honored Kathi's memory with several songs at the end, including the Irish folk song they sang to her over the phone when she was in the hospital and Warren Zevon's «Keep Me in Your Heart.»

In each Kodály - inspired lesson we use a traditional folk song to help develop understanding of melodic and rhythmic concepts in three stages — Introduce, Identify, and Implement.

Each lesson revolves around a folk song or particular theme and includes opportunities for student - directed learning.

The melody of children's voices fills the morning air as a kindergarten class at Woodstock Elementary School here begins the day with a folk song.

That Candice - Marie appears to be showing sympathy towards the other party only serves to inflame the situation... It's a film of so many memorable moments — from Keith's cringeworthy grovelling when a policeman questions the roadworthiness of his beloved Morris Minor to Candice - Marie's hilariously lispy vegetarian folk song.

November 2, 2016 • The all - woman mariachi band celebrates the holiday with a new video for its take on a legendary folk song, «La Llorona.»

January 9, 2017 • Café Tacvba looks beyond binaries to see time and the universe through an optimistic lens in this electronica - tinged Latin folk song.

Yes, there's a kindly priest (Jim Broadbent) and a scene where a homeless man sings a folk song in beautiful Gaelic, but Crowley never leans into the obvious.

[Author] Suzanne Collins wrote the lyrics and the idea was that it was an old Appalachian folk song that her father had taught her,» director Francis Lawrence said of the song during an interview with AOL Build.

Among those sources used by Gorecki are a 15th - century lamentation of the Holy Cross Monastery; a folk song from the Opole region; and, most specifically, a young prisoner's inscription on the wall of her cell in Zakopane's Gestapo prison.

As Isaac described it in the same Q&A I cited above, «In a folk song you have a similar structure: After a few verses, you cycle back to the first verse, but it has a different meaning.»

Composed by James Newton Howard, the haunting folk song's lyrics are by Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins, while «Ho Hey» singers The Lumineers collaborated on the track.

July 6, 2016 • Henryk Górecki's rather simple arrangement of a folk song from the Kurpie region of northeast Poland holds power beyond its purpose.

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.

In the audio trailer they explain the music, inspired by English folk song and sea shanties, but incorporating more modern styles as well.

It has a good deal less violence, obscenity and sex than Homer's «Odyssey,» and not nearly as much as the average American folk song.

Frog Went A-Courtin» (Roud 16, see alternative titles) is an English language folk song.

It's a beautiful Irish folk song by poet William B. Yeats.

My mother sang a folk song during the ceremony as well as the reception.

Critics call this the «Alice's restaurant problem,» a reference to a folk song with the refrain, «You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant.»

17 Then we sent the soundtrack: The two Voyager probes, launched in 1977, included a 12 - inch gold - plated record carrying whale calls, greetings in 55 human languages, and a Bulgarian folk song.