Sentences with phrase «folks musician»

Live entertainment featuring Greek folk musicians, dancing, and belly dancers.

I was sitting in D.C.'s Lincoln Theater about three months ago, listening to The Milk Carton Kids and Sarah Jarosz, talented folk musicians who sing some of the most gorgeous harmonies I've ever heard.

The Okee Dokee Brothers and a host of folk musicians take listeners on an Appalachian adventure in a toe - tapping album of mountain music.

WHAT: A week in the life of struggling folk musician Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac), who's trying to make it as a solo artist after his former partner commits suicide.

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 initial installation of Three Folk Musicians at VMFA will therefore take place in a gallery that features important works of pop art to place Bearden's work within the larger context of American art in the 1960s.

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

The on - site restaurant serves three meals daily, and there's also a traditional ice cream fountain, coffee shop and bar tucked away near the trailhead with folk musicians that perform during peak season.

The story is loosely based on the life of influential folk musician Dave van Ronk and stars Oscar Isaac as the titular character with Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund and Justin Timberlake in supporting roles (though Timberlake is nowhere to be seen in this trailer).

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.

Along with being a painter, he was a talented folk musician, and released a record called Saturday Night at Tom Benton's.

Inspired by the true story of British folk musician Steve Tilston, who received a letter from John Lennon thirty - four years after he wrote it, assuring him that success would not compromise his songwriting abilities, renowned Hollywood screenwriter Dan Fogelman (Crazy, Stupid, Love.

But when the legendary folk musician was unable to film the part, Cusack reached out to Springsteen and asked if he'd like to appear.

Maybe it's because Islamic fundamentalist militants don't listen to obscure folk musicians.

Little Miss Ann, an award - winning kids musician, hosts Portland folk musician Red Yarn for an all - ages hootenanny that blends puppetry and folk music for all ages.

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.

There's also a road trip at the core of Inside Llewyn Davis, about an itinerant folk musician in early Sixties New York loosely based on Dave Van Ronk.

Oscar Isaac stars as a struggling folk musician navigating New York City's Greenwich Village folk scene in the Cannes Film Festival hit.

Joel and Ethan Coen return with their latest film Inside Llewyn Davis, which follows Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac), a brilliant folk musician, but miserable human who is struggling to live off of his music in New York in 1961.

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.

DRIVE actor Oscar Isaac will star as the lead character, a struggling folk musician born and bred in Queens.

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.

Dunkeld is one of my favorite towns and it's renown for its traditional Scottish folk musicians.

Get a taste of traditional music as you enjoy a Hungarian dinner with drinks in a local restaurant, while folk musicians serenade you at your table and reveal real gypsy folklore.

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.

The title references the song «This Land is Your Land» written by folk musician Woody Guthrie in 1940, originally addressing the issue of land ownership.

«Three Folk Musicians demonstrates how Bearden created visual correspondence for rhythm, syncopation, improvisation, and other musical sensibilities,» said Dr. Michael R. Taylor, Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Art and Education.

But the 110 million album - selling folk musician has been battling to be taken seriously as a visual artist for almost as long as he has been singing songs, and now 12 of his artworks are set to enter the National Portrait Gallery - the first time he has exhibited in a public museum in the UK.

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.

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.

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While crashing in the tiny apartment of yet another struggling folk musician, Llewyn happens upon a box of that singer's records while trying to find a place to store his own — boxes upon boxes of broken dreams.

What do you get when you combine a folk musician / painter, a baseball historian / jazz bassist and a NASA technician / classical composer?

There he says, «I really was never any more than what I was» a folk musician.»

(Airs 2/08/18) WAMC's Alan Chartock In A 2012 Conversation with Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, folk musician and former member of The Byrds, Roger McGuinn.

I'm Alexis White, a writer / folk musician, handy with a camera, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking, nature - lover, introvert, and a linguist at heart.

The gooey premise of «Song One» would probably make «Notebook» author Nicholas Sparks proud: A young woman develops feelings for a folk musician who is the idol of her comatose brother.

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

The film centres on a folk musician and stars Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, and Justin Timberlake, but ultimately lost out to Abdellatif Kechiche's lesbian love story Blue Is The Warmest Colour.

Dreadful, dreadful film, a great cast wasted (Cary Mulligan's all of ten minutes screentime, mostly spent repeating the line «You're an asshole») and an insult to folk and any folk musicians at the time, stripping the music of all political and sociological context just to make fun of it.

The movie begins not with the folk musician but with his doppelganger, a hit man named Azul (Reinol Martinez) who's in jail in Coahuila, Mexico.

Nor, for that matter, does the film rely on faithfulness to the trajectories of the lives of the folk musicians and songwriters that the filmmakers have abstracted for their tale.

A mundane look at a week in the life of a folk musician that doubles as a meditation on the unpredictable alchemy of stardom, Inside Llewyn Davis is another triumph for the Coens that remarkably underscores how elusive great artistic achievements can be.

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

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

Three Folk Musicians, one of the most renowned works by American artist Romare Bearden (1911 — 1988), was recently acquired by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and will go on view in the Mid to Late 20th - Century Galleries on the museum's second floor for a limited time from February 1 to March 6, 2017.

He chronicled Beat Generation poets and writers; the folk musicians who gathered around Washington Square in the early 1960s, including Bob Dylan and Joan Baez; Vietnam War demonstrations and anti-AIDS rallies; and every other social protest that took place Downtown — and sometimes Uptown, too.

Geoff Muldaur, folk musician: «Bruce and I met in college.