Sentences with phrase «of folk musicians»

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

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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Key to his success was the latitude he gave the teenagers to play music they wrote themselves, The resultant «Calvary Chapel sound» was equal parts folk, pop and light rock — simple songs and choruses that, in the recollection of one early musician at Calvary, «sung themselves.»

One of the musicians stated: «My intent last year was just to go in a raise a ruckus with the white folks.»

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.

(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.

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.

[Abbate:] We are happily joined today by folk rock legend, and a personal favorite musician of mine, Jonathan Edwards.

Matthew Ward, known professionally as M. Ward, is one of the most well - respected musicians and collaborators, as he's part of She & Him and Monsters of Folk.

DeLislehas also released four music CDs, filled with goth - inspired folk andAmericana tunes, with a few gospel - style songs as well.In 2002, DeLisle married musician Murry Hammond, the bassist for the Old97's, after a few months of a long - distance relationship.

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.

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.

Usually the preferred composer for Spike Jonze and the Coen Brothers, last year saw composer Carter Burwell miss out on scoring duties for the filmmakers» latest efforts in favor of musicians — indie band Arcade Fire subbing in for «Her» and T. Bone Burnett leading a group of cast - members and musicians for a period - authentic folk soundtrack in «Inside Llewyn Davis.»

Equal parts wintry misfortune and guitar - slung dreaminess, the Coens» cosmic comedy turns a musician's dying career into an uncommonly rich picture of the changing terrain of American folk art circa 1961.

We're talking about biopics: those films that take the real - life stories of musicians, politicians, artists, atheletes and other famous folks, and mine them for reel - life fodder.

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.

He'll be leading a cast of more familiar faces including the Coen's longtime MVP John Goodman as a jazz musician, F. Murray Abraham as legendary folk manager Bud Grossman, Justin Timberlake (yes, you read that right) as a rival folk singer, and Carey Mulligan as Timberlake's wife.

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.

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.

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.

Set during the early 1960s in the middle of the New York folk scene, the movie stars Oscar Isaac as Llewyn Davis, a struggling musician trying to make it as a solo artist after his former singing partner commits suicide.

Set in the early 1960s, it follows an itinerant musician as he navigates the burgeoning New York City folk scene, and was previously said to be inspired by Dave Van Ronk's memoir The Mayor of MacDougal Street.

One thing most movies about struggling L.A. actors and musicians miss is the poetry of their struggle: these are blue - collar folks working day in and day out to make something happen.

This worksheet teaches about the Mexican tradition of mariachi music, which is Mexican folk music often sung by small bands of musicians.

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.

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

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

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.

NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Mavis Staples is one of the great alchemists of American music, crossing genre lines like no musician since perhaps Ray Charles and weaving her voice into the very fabric of gospel, soul, folk, pop, R&B, blues, rock, and hip - hop.

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.

Before he started the gallery at the age of 28 in 1983, Martin played the violin, saxophone and keyboards as a professional musician in an orchestra and an ensemble as well as in a rock band, a jazz band and a folk band.

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.»

The twins often incorporate masks, instruments, and musicians in their work as a way to visualize the folk customs, festivals, and crafts that represent the myriad of cultural influences that make up the social and cultural landscape.

Among her visual works is SPIRIT HOUSE, a site - specific installation presented at Project Row Houses (Houston, TX) investigating magical methods used for house protection, As a musician and songwriter, she is a founding member of the psychedelic folk trio Goddess which released their second album Paradise in 2015.

Born in Toronto and raised in a community of ex-pat British isles folk musicians, Parry studied electro - acoustics and contemporary dance at Concordia University.

These recent acquisitions join Romare Bearden's landmark 1967 collage Three Folk Musicians, added to VMFA's collections last year, and are among a total of 52 new works recently approved for acquisition by the VMFA's Board of Trustees.

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.

Not only an artist, but also an accomplished musician, R. Crumb performs with the East River String Band as part of the tenth annual Brooklyn Folk Festival, held at St. Ann's Church (Main Stage, 5:45 PM).

FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS, «Three Folk Musicians» by Romare Bearden (1911 - 1988) has appeared in major exhibitions of the artist's work hosted by the nation's top - tier museums.

After two generations in private hands, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond announced it had acquired Bearden's «Three Folk Musicians.»

«Three Folk Musicians is as culturally relevant as it is formally beguiling,» said Leo G. Mazow, VMFA curator of American art.

He added: «' Three Folk Musicians» bolsters our effort to represent a diverse range of cultures in our galleries and allows us to explore a full range of American stories with rich context and a broad eye.»

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.

In 1991, «Three Folk Musicians» was on view in «Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden 1940 - 1987,» a major retrospective of nearly 150 Bearden works organized by the Studio Museum in Harlem.

READ MORE about the recent VMFA acquisition of Romare Bearden's «Three Folk Musicians» on Culture Type

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