Folk News

State insurance officials plan to hand $12 million in property insurance credits back to local governments next year.

Among those Catholics in public life who openly defy the clear teaching of the Catholic Church concerning the inviolable dignity of every human life from conception to natural death is Representative Patrick Kennedy.

WINNING Scottish trio Lau are coming to Tauntona TMs Brewhouse theatre on Wednesday, November 25.

Shetland fiddler Kevin Henderson. Click on image to enlarge. Shetland folk fans are in for a treat at the end of this month as three of the most significant musicians in the Celtic music scene take a break from their busy touring schedules to head north and collaborate for a couple of one-off gigs in Lerwick and Mid Yell.

Vancouver's nightlife was hopping on Oct. 16, 1970. Liza Minelli was wrapping up a stint at the Cave.

RISING folk outfit Mawkin:Causley are performing at the David Hall, South Petherton, on Sunday.

Singer/songwriter Lucy Kaplansky drips with folk singer authenticity. She got her start performing in Chicago, then Greenwich Village in New York, playing with a stable of rising stars, including Suzanne Vega and Shawn Colvin.

By Jim Gilchrist "THE violin is a schizophrenic instrument," Greg Lawson muses. "It's called a fiddle and it's called a violin, which is just the posh version of the fiddle.

If you've got a credit card, you've likely been zinged already. Higher interest rate? Yep.

Chris Smither knows exactly what Catie Curtis is going through these days. When Curtis was a young turk in the 1990s songwriter revival, the bluesy Smither was reinventing his career, after the collapse of a major-label deal in the '70s had driven him out of the business.

Governing is a matter of priorities. Winnebago County District Attorney Christian Gossett rightly points out the folly of Wisconsin lawmakers putting a ban on motorists talking on cell phones ahead of passing tougher drunken driving laws.

If you like folk music, Vail Valley, then I'll bet you like songs by James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Peter Seger, John Denver and Peter, Paul and Mary.

BMNN wrote: on Nov. 04, 2009: Over 60 years after Folkways Records released Woody Guthrie's first children's/family music album in 1947, his granddaughter Sarah Lee Guthrie is ensuring the family's commitment to children's music and its longstanding collaboration with Smithsonian Folkways, the home of Folkways Records.

I don't know a lot about folk music - but again what are genres anyway? I just like music.

Buffy Sainte-Marie was given a lifetime achievement award and a special tribute Friday night at the Aboriginal Peoples' Choice Music Awards.

Caption: Calle 13 The Reventon Super Estrella 2007 held at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Irvine, California .... Hip-hop duo CALLE 13 dominated the 10th annual Latin Grammy Awards on Thursday , winning every category in which they were nominated.

Eva Sipos' worries her last chance to get married will disappear in about two months.

The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Emerald Coast presents folk singer Peter Mayer in concert Nov.

A special tribute to "Mama Afrika", Miriam Makeba will take place in November, the Department of Arts and Culture said on Saturday.

Few US groups "have been more marginalised and ignored by Washington for as long as native Americans", Obama told the leaders of 564 tribes that the federal government recognises and who were invited to Washington for the event.