Sentences with phrase «many folk songs»

So it was really interesting on the songs that were just guitar and vocals, that were essentially folk songs, and then watch as they took on a whole different shape once we added instrumentation.

Then it's time for a «hymn» — or whatever one calls religious music that is not a dirge, not a joyous folk song, but a pop ditty whose beat and back - up would fit it to the format of any middle - of - the - road radio station, were it not for the lyrics (try «I Am the Righteousness of God in Christ» to the tune of «Up, Up and Away»).

During the 1950s and 1960s, when Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds coaxed classrooms full of kids to join them in the singing of folk songs, no one paid much attention, not even those who, in the middle of the Cold War, saw America's «singing left» as a threat to the republic....

Davis's choice is an old folk song, «The Death of Queen Jane,» in which a long - in - labor Jane asks for her side to be cut open to save her baby.

Christ is mysteriously found in the abandoned baby or in the vagabond knocking at the door, as in the folk song, «Tramp on the Street.»

Well, come to think of it, I unknowingly did say something about it a few weeks back when I wrote a far too long post on Joe Pug's contemporary folk song I Do my Father's Drugs.

«Maybe love is like rain,» she repeats on the last page, bringing the book full circle, like a bad folk song.

So goes an old German folk song.

This time a young woman, completely uneducated, came into a studio in La Paz, ten thousand feet high in the Andes, and sang lullabies and folk songs that sounded as if she had been studying music all her life.

That's what I loved about being outside, and often my rhythm of my steps served as the backbeat for a lot of my early demos for folk songs.»

«I think the transition really happens in production, because the songs — the way I'm expressing myself, the vocabulary I'm using, the structure — all still feel like folk songs to me,» Rogers explains.

To date the 35 - year - old has recorded 11,000 folk songs; his singles top the charts in Nepal, and he sells out stadiums for concerts.

Like folk songs their wings wheel and hover, careless As falcons, I am their anxious scribe, listening myself into their coarse cries, storing the separate Notes in small black spaces at the back of my skull, God, if I were a bird I think I would stop worrying!

Just one bite of a burrito, tostada, or quesadilla, and your taste buds will be singing traditional Mexican folk songs!

Let's just hope that the rest of Nill's decisions are so amazingly fantastic that we will have no choice but to raise statues, write poetry and sing folk songs about all the overwhelming elation we felt as Stars fans.

Nicknamed «The Rams» due to the traditional folk song The Derby Ram, which the club adopted as its anthem, also using the ram as the club mascot, the club moved to the Baseball Ground in 1895, which would be home to Derby County for the next one hundred and two years, and began wearing the black and white home kit still worn today.

Newcastle withstood a late barrage into the box but the equaliser never came and the famous Geordie folk song «Blaydon Races» rang out, Benitez's side now 13 points clear of the drop zone and surely safe.

Join musician Clyde Leland in a song circle for ages 18 months to 6 years to sing, dance to and act out folk songs about things kids care about!

Inch by Inch: The Garden Song - David Mallet Illustrations to go along with the sweet folk song, Inch by Inch - a favorite in our house.

you mean it's ok if I don't enjoy holding hands with grown - ups I've never met and singing folk songs?

Vedder's anthem evokes the melody and cadence of another Chicago folk song to a beloved institution, John Prine's 1974 classic «Dear Abby,» and picks up on the die - hard theme of Steve Goodman's immortal «A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request,» written shortly before his death in 1984.

Merry Music Makers offers the time - tested Music Together classes in mixed ages (from newborns to 5 year olds), and babies - only classes, and even a session with a «Spanish twist» — introducing niños to español through vocabulary and folk songs.

Along with learning traditional and folk songs from the U.S. and around the world in grades one through eight, the interval and pentatonic flutes are introduced in first grade, followed by the soprano recorder in grade three.

The studio's French singalong class is taught by a native speaker who engages a mixed - age group of kids and parents with French folk songs and music games.

On the banks of the Charles, everyone is invited to join in singing familiar folk songs with along with jazz saxophonist Stan Strickland.

The trio's rootsy mix of updated traditional folk songs, rockabilly, surf, and country make for a concert the whole family can rock out to.

But thanks to the Internet and word - of - mouth, England's indie - folk songs have reached as far away as Europe, Asia & Australia.

MOTHERLIGHT Betsy Rose Features folk songs about the spirited relationship between a mother and her child.

Modern scholars have tried to argue that Lada is merely a character from a folk song and not a real deity; not that anyone has been paying attention to them.

In the endeavours of schools to outdo one another, I was paraded as the youngest piano accompanist on one occasion and on another to play the balalaika for Cossack folk songs.

It will also feature period songs by Shannon and Jan De Angelo and a premier performance of an original Exterminator folk song by Carlene Thomson and Eileen Patch.

With Brown swanning around the world to a chorus of heroic folk songs about the magnitude of his genius, Tory attempts to pin blame on Labour look petty, even when many people believe them to be true.

To this should be added his promotion of the «aje kun iya» folk song into a quasi-national anthem.

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.»

Lucy and longtime friend Richard Shindell join forces Friday night (11/7) at 8 for an evening of contemporary folk songs and some well - chosen covers from their new recording Tomorrow You're Going.

The Berlin march has ended with the crowd singing, in harmony, «Die Gedanken sind frei» a German folk song that was prohibited during the student unrest of the 1840s, and again during the Third Reich.

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.

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.»

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

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

, EDM, Emo, Czech polka, or Ukrainian folk songs.

armenian folk songs - Komitas, Little Singers of Armenia, Marugame Civic Hall - Duration 2 minutes, 56 seconds.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.»

SONGCATCHER (Grade: B): Janet McTeer plays a feminist, turn - of - the - 20th - century musicologist who travels to an Appalachian school where she discovers the lost folk songs she teaches have long held a place in the daily workings of the backwoods culture.