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Folklore News

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Friday Sep 26 | Harvard Crimson

The Rich Folklore of Club Passim

"I look back on it and it was history in the making, but who knows it's history when you're just doing it," Betsy Siggins Smith says of the past 50 years of Club Passim.

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Related Topix: Folk, Boston University, Cambridge, MA, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez

Thu Sep 11, 2008

Illinois Times

Introducing the Sangamon Songwriter Series

I must admit a strong weakness for writing about any locally inspired and produced, live music series.

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Related Topix: Folk, Springfield, IL, Springfield Metro, Sparta, IL

Tue Sep 09, 2008

Latest News by the Government

Folk musician Stampore drops second album

Folklore musician Malefo Mokha popularly known as Stampore has released his second album dubbed Re Batswana.

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Related Topix: Folk, Black Entertainment, Jill Scott, R-N-B

Sun Aug 31, 2008

Arkansas Times

To-do list, Aug. 28

To-do list, Aug. 28 FREE RAWK: Black Stone Cherry headlines Music in the Park. NOT THE GIRL NEXT DOOR: Saving Jane plays Juanita's. FUNNY MAN: Griffin does stand-up at Robinson.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Thursday, Folk, Bang, The Move, Keith Richards

Fri Aug 29, 2008

WisInfo

Golden Ring announces music classes

MANITOWOC - The Golden Ring Music & Folklore Center, 1003 Washington St., will offer a series of six-week classes for children, teens and adults beginning the week of Sept.

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Related Topix: Manitowoc, WI, Folk, Dulcimer

Wed Aug 27, 2008

VietNamNet

Folklore cultural research project on Hanoi's markets

Their research will be introduced to readers at the end of this year. 50 markets in Hanoi have been examined on their names, places, history and architecture; depicting the specific and diversified ...

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Related Topix: Folk

Tue Aug 26, 2008

Chicagosuburbannews.com

Folk Festival to grace Geneva's Island Park

The Fox Valley Folklore Society and Geneva Park District present the 32nd annual Fox Valley Folk Music and Storytelling Festival on Sunday and Labor Day Monday, Aug.

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Related Topix: Folk, Geneva, IL, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Downers Grove, IL, Entertainment

Sat Aug 23, 2008

Valley Morning Star

Folklore a part of our Foundation

Folklore and legends have been a part of man's history from the beginning and many have morphed and woven themselves into the foundation of who we are.

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Related Topix: Folk, Native Americans, Hurricane, Natural Disasters

Tue Aug 19, 2008

The Hindu

Folklore Day to be celebrated on Friday

Kozhikode: Folklore Day will be celebrated jointly by the Kerala Folklore Akademi and the Pookkode Kalalayam with academic and folk fervour on the Pookode Kalalayam campus here on August 22.

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Related Topix: Folk

Mon Aug 18, 2008

BellaOnline

Women In Folklore

Women in American Folklore are usually portrayed as strong, cunning, intelligent people full of wisdom.

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Related Topix: Folk

Thu Aug 07, 2008

New York Daily News

Pablo Mayor's journey through Colombian music

Pablo Mayor and his band Folklore Urbano will perform free tomorrow and Sunday. Pablo Mayor is a quiet man with big plans.

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Related Topix: Folk, Colombia, World News, University of North Texas, New York Metro

Tue Aug 05, 2008

Montsame

Folklore Festival Arranged

Ulaanbaatar, /MONTSAME/. A folklore festival called ''Golden heritage'' has been arranged successfully in Khovd aimag.

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Related Topix: Folk

Wed Jul 30, 2008

The Hindu

Getting serious about folklore

Kozhikode: Admission is open to the M.A. course in folklore conducted by the Centre for Folklore Studies of University of Calicut at Vadakara.

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Related Topix: India, World News, Folk

Tue Jul 29, 2008

Journal Star

Grand old hall

Story-teller Brian Fox Ellis, founder of the Prairie Folklore Theatre, plans to turn the Grand Army of the Republic Hall in downtown Peoria into a public meeting hall for corporate and social events and a venue ...

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Related Topix: Folk, Peoria, IL

Sat Jul 26, 2008

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Important Folklore/Witchcraft Reprint: Patricia Crowther's "Witchcraft in Yorkshire"

Facsimile reproduction of British author Patricia Crowther's important book "Witchcraft in Yorkshire" in print soon.

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Related Topix: Southborough, MA, Folk

Thu Jul 24, 2008

Press Release News From 24-7 Press Re...

Important Folklore/Witchcraft Reprint: Patricia Crowther's "Witchcraft in Yorkshire"

Facsimile reproduction of British author Patricia Crowther's important book "Witchcraft in Yorkshire" in print soon.

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Related Topix: Southborough, MA, Folk

Mon Jul 21, 2008

The Sofia Echo

A summer folk festival in Sofia

The Bulgarian chapter of Unesco's Conseil International des Organisations de Festivals de Folklore et d'Arts Traditionnels and Sofia municipality have organised a folk festival, entitled International Folk ...

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Related Topix: Folk, Bulgaria, World News

Sat Jul 19, 2008

Times Union

Folklore helps reflect who we are

"We laugh that we may not cry" is a wise Jewish saying about our situation, and indeed the world's. Everyone, no matter what country, culture or religion, loves a good story.

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Related Topix: Folk

Thu Jul 17, 2008

WisInfo

American Folklore Theatre's 'Nightcap' returns July 18

"Northwoods Nightcap," the critically-acclaimed, late-night variety show from American Folklore Theatre, will premiere its third season at 10 p.m. Friday, July 18, on the AFT stage in the amphitheater at ...

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Related Topix: Folk, University of Tennessee System, Memphis (University of Tennessee System), Door County, WI

Tue Jul 15, 2008

The Otago Daily Times

Russian interlude at rest-homes

Members of a Russian folklore group perform at Iona Home in Oamaru yesterday. A slice of Russia came to Oamaru yesterday with the visit of a Russian folklore group.

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Related Topix: Iona College, The College of New Jersey, The College of Wooster, The College of Idaho, The University of Findlay, Folk

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