Sentences with phrase «sing 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.

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

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

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.

The ever - controversial Turner Prize was last night given to Susan Philipsz, who sang folk songs over a loudspeaker.

Philipsz's work centres around recordings of her voice singing folk songs over public address systems.

Displayed on the wall are also two videos of Indonesians performing daily practices, one video is of people singing folk songs and another is of a Muslim girl covering her hair with a silk scarf.

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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....

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.»

...... «Let sixteen padres come handle my vile, Let sixteen nuns come sing me a song, Take me to 100 places and let the folks touch me For I'm a old pope - oh and I know some good songs.

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.

A few years ago I attended a concert featuring a folk - singing group whose songs celebrated inclusiveness and freedom.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

There's some winsome soul out there who will find this indie folk - scene romance just the thing: Johnny Flynn sings passionate songs penned by Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice, while Anne Hathaway beams, delicate as the inner ear of a butterfly, fresh moisture welling in those puddle - wide eyes.

«Gather round, folks, you'll hear a song, the song of a candidate man / A man who rode across the land touching teens with his hands,» sang Colbert

July 26, 2015 • An audience both very young and somewhat old sang in unison with Stevens» powerful, gentle songs Saturday at the Newport Folk Festival.

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 the background, she would pluck the strings of her lute and sing Vietnamese folk songs.

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

The cool part about the Kindle version of Sing You Home is that it includes a set of folk songs written by Picoult and sung by Ellen Wilber that apply to Zoe, the main character's life.

And don't miss the opportunity to sing along to traditional Mexican folk songs in our weekly Mariachi appearances.

Intended to be heard under the bridges spanning the River Clyde in Glasgow, the recording of Philipsz's fragile voice singing sad folk songs was largely drowned out by ambient noise.

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.

Adaptations of the folk standard «House of the Rising Sun» abound, but Moscow - born artist Kon Trubkovich was particularly fascinated by a video he recently found online of a group of Russians singing the song with their own made - up lyrics.

Glasgow - born Philipsz, 44, who now lives in Berlin, is interested in «sound as a physical or sculptural experience» and is best known for playing recordings of herself singing unaccompanied versions of pop and folk songs in public spaces.

Founded and directed by the Finnish avant - garde composer Petri Sirviö in 1987, originally to re-interpret well - known folk songs by singing the words at excruciating volumes, the choir has here reinterpreted a speech given by Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd simply by screaming at intervals in his apologies to the aboriginal population for exploiting their land and intruding upon their sacred sites.

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.

Please join us: Saturday, February 18, 2006, 9PM, at Mercer Union FREE For the third in our series of 10 Music In Alternative Spaces concerts, No Man Band (Doug Tielli) will sing mostly British Isles folk songs through different objects that alter or filter the tone of the voice such as a tea pot, a -LSB-...]

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.

Other works of her singing versions of pop and folk songs have been replayed in stairwells and supermarkets.

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

Because the writer of that song was Woody Guthrie, the very model of the American folk - singing, pro-labour protester; and I've just come across his «New Years Rulin's» (sic) from 1942, which recommend themselves to me more than most of the resolutions that get batted about.

We cold even sing Rogers songs, all together in the offices in the mornings, before you go out there into the real estate wars, like Kirby vacumn cleaner door - to - door sales folks are made to do before they thereafter trundle out to sell vacums with free gifts of cheap, bendable knife - and - fork sets as bribes to get past the front doors of suckers, and we all know that a sucker is born every minute, don't we my prostitutes... I mean pros!»