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DEIDRE MCCALLA, 7 p.m. Friday, Northcountry Women's Coffeehouse, Building for Women, 32 E. First St. Cost: $9, $6 for members. AZURE DU JOUR, 9:30 p.m. Friday, Fitger's Brewhouse, 600 E. Superior St. Free. Call 726-1392. Steeped in Irish roots, Hothouse Flowers makes music that is likely to grab you (Poughkeepsie Journal) With St. Patrick's Day less than two weeks away, that time has arrived once again to forget about the leprechauns, green beer and corned beef. Palo Verde Valley Online The first-ever Colorado River Jazz Festival opens at 10:30 a.m. today at the Colorado River Fairgrounds, with a welcome speech by Blythe Mayor Robert Crain who'll then cede the stage to opening band, "The Reynolds Brothers Rhythm Rascals" at 10:45. Seven bands are scheduled to perform over the course of three days. Crain said that he was hoping the jazz festival would become an annual event, and that while he expected the event to begin small, he was confident it would build just as the bluegrass festival had. Arts Calendar (Berkeley Daily Planet) Jeremy Kirsch Photographic Portraits. Reception at 8 p.m. at Auto 3321 Gallery, 3321 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. Boontling Gallery “Overhung,” Works by over 50 Bay Area artists. A Bob Wills hoedown at Lula Lounge (Toronto Star) The most unexpected aspect of Geroge W. Bush's second inauguration was that the U.S. President actually got funky on the dance floor for a moment or two.
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Related Articles and ContentJune Carter CashCarter (Mother Maybelle), was a singer, songwriter, a member of the first country music recording stars, the Carter Family, and married to legendary singer Johnny Cash. She was born in Maces Springs, Virginia and played guitar, banjo, and autoharp. With the Carter Family In the winter of 1938-1939 the Carter Family travelled to Texas where they had a twice-daily program on border radio station XERA (later XERF) in Villa Acuña (now Ciudad Acuña), Mexico, across the border from Del Rio, Texas. Then in school, June did not accompany them. Beginning with the 1939/1940 season, June joined the Carters, this time in San Antonio, Texas, where the group's work was pre-recorded and distributed to multiple border radio stations (XELO, XEG, XERB, and XEPN). June's musical contribution to the group consisted of her Hammered dulcimer are recorded in Europe and the Middle East throughout recorded history. In Eastern Europe a larger descendant of the hammered dulcimer called the cimbalom is also played which has been used by a number of classical composers, including Zoltan Kodaly and Igor Stravinsky. The instrument has seen somewhat of a revival in America in the Americal Folk music and Bluegrass traditions. It is also still played in Wales, Northumbria, and the Middle East. Improvisation up as you go along. This term is usually used in the context of music or theater. In music, jazz and Bluegrass are well-known for using improvisation. It features in many kinds of traditional music, including flamenco, Carnatic music, Pygmy and other African music, and was once an important element in classical music (see cadenza and figured bass). Improvisation can be structured, with certain rules constraining the improvisation (for example, "make up a song about bicycles", "use these chord changes", and so on), or can have no such constraints (free improvisation). A growing number of contemporary composers are requiring a greater degree of improvisation in their music, including Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, and Christian Wolff. Most aspiring actors do a lot of improv. It is a staple of drama and theater Béla Fleck the band Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, which he has described as "a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz." [1] Fleck was drawn to the banjo when he first heard Earl Scruggs play the theme song for the television show Beverly Hillbillies. He received his first banjo at age fifteen, and within a few years began performing with travelling bands.[1],[2] Before the Flecktones, Fleck played with Newgrass Revival and several other bluegrass bands. After a 1998 phone call with bassist Victor Wooten, Fleck and Wooten formed Béla Fleck & the Flecktones, rounded out with harmonica player Howard Levy and Wooten's percussionist brother Roy "Future Man" Wooten, who plays synthesizer-based percussion. With the Flecktones, Fleck has been
Timeline of trends in music (1970-1979) See also: List of years in music, Timeline of trends in music to 1899, Timeline of trends in music (1900-1949), Timeline of trends in music (1950-1959), Timeline of trends in music (1960-1969), Timeline of trends in music (1980-1989), Timeline of trends in music (1990-present) 1970s 1970 in music International trends Simon & Garfunkel release Bridge Over Troubled Water; this, along with releases from James Taylor (Sweet Baby James), Cat Stevens (Tea for the Tillerman) and Joni Mitchell (Ladies of the Canyon) help define the singer-songwriter tradition Taj Mahal releases Happy to Be Just Like I Am, a pioneering fusion of blues and African music, setting the stage for the development of rock-based world music Music of Argentina Tango-rockéro, mixing tango with rock List of genres of music (A-M) List of genres of music (A-M) Recognised musical genres and forms include the following (see the individual genre pages for more information on each genre and musical genres for information about the major groupings). See also: List of genres of music (N-Z) A B C D E F G H I J K L M A A cappella - any singing performed without instrumental backing Aak - Chinese ritual music Aaroubi - evolved form of al-andalous classical music which comes from Algiers Abaimajani Abajeños - folk music of the Perépecha of Mexico Aboriginal rock - rock and roll mixed with Australian aborigine music, began in 1980s Abwe Acid croft - mixture of traditional Scottish music with house influences Acid house - house music using simple tone generators with Ricky Skaggs 18 1954, in Eastern Kentucky, is a country music musician, singer and composer. Skaggs' first major professional break came in 1970 when he joined Ralph Stanley's legendary bluegrass band, the Clinch Mountain Boys. He is an acknowledged vituoso on the mandolin and also plays fiddle, guitar, banjo and several wind instruments and for part of his career was a member of Emmylou Harris's "Hot Band". He wrote the arrangements for Harris' highly revered bluegrass-roots album, Roses In The Snow. In addition to arranging, Skaggs also sang harmony and played a number of instruments on the album, including mandolin and fiddle. Skaggs moved to Nashville in 1980 where he produce his debut album, Waitin' For The Sun To Shine. The album produced four chart singles including two back-to-back number ones. Building on Music of Croatia Music of Croatia The music of Croatia, like the country itself, has three major influences: the influence of the Mediterranean especially present in the coastal areas, of the Balkans especially in the mountainous, continental parts, and of central Europe in the central and northern parts of the country. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Folk music 1.1 Tamburitza 1.2 Gusle 1.3 Other folk traditions 2 Pop and rock 3 References Folk music The traditional music of Croatia is mostly associated with tamburitza and gusle songs. Tamburitza music, a form of folk music that revolves around the tambura is primarily associated with the northern part of the country while the gusle music became mostly popular in southern (Dinaric) region of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Slavonian town Požega hosts |
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