The Kingston Trio News

The Arts Council of South Wood County, now at 1040 Eighth St. S., will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays, through Dec.

Bess Lomax Hawes, who wrote "Charlie on the MTA," has died at age 88, the Globe reports .

Bess Hawes, prominent musician-folklorist, dies Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. LOS ANGELES Bess Lomax Hawes, who sang with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, co-wrote the Kingston Trio hit "The M.T.A." and spent a lifetime documenting American folklore in recordings and Film s, has died at age 88.

The New Christy Minstrels Formed: 1961 in NY Active In: 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's When the definitive popular history of post-World War II folk music is written, the chances are excellent that the Kingston Trio will be mentioned prominently along with Peter, Paul & Mary and that the the Brothers Four and the Highwaymen will also rate mentions.

Valley Program for Aging Services and its Maury River Senior Center will present a oeAn Evening of Music to Benefit Meals on Wheelsa on Friday, December 4. A family-friendly concert of folk, seasonal and humorous tunes by The House Mountain Group, with special guest Jim Connor, will begin at 7:00 pm at the American Legion, 1953 Magnolia Avenue, ...

Here are several radio spots promoting the 1962 observance of National Country Music Week.

The Readington Community Theatre will present its first Coffee House music event on Saturday, Nov.

All they needed was a campfire. The Folk Reunion concert Thursday at the Reynolds Performance Hall at the University of Central Arkansas took many of us back to another era of music - one that has been buried by modern technology but still manages to tug at tender memories.

For the past six years, audiences in Morris, Sussex and Warren counties have been entertained by the Americana Troupe, a collective of 14 musicians who specialize in acoustic folk, bluegrass and gospel numbers.

It's Kumbaya at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis tonight when The Kingston Trio sets up for two hootenanny-style sessions The Kingston Trio emulated out of the early San Francisco scene back in the late '50s and early '60s when folk music was king.

Tom Dula was hanged in Statesville for the murder of Laura Foster in 1868, but while he awaited trial, he was held for a time in the old Wilkes jail, in a cell adjacent to that of his alleged lover, Anne Foster Melton.

HOT SPRINGS DOCUMENTARY FILM FEST 10 a.m., Malco Theatre. $5-$150. You've only got four more days to gorge yourself on documentaries in Hot Springs, but that's more than enough time.

Midland College News Release October 20, 2009 Midland, Texas - The Phyllis and Bob Cowan Performing Arts Series presents FREE event - The Kingston Trio!! Tuesday, October 20th 7:00pm Al G. Langford Chaparral Center Midland College Formed in 1957, The Kingston Trio is one of the few groups today that has survived the many changes in the world of ...

Bonnie Raitt didn't intend to go into the music business. But 40 years later, it's hard to imagine the music business without her.

He's the Eagle who isn't Don Henley or Glenn Frey or Joe Walsh. That would be Timothy B. Schmit, the bass player who joined the mega-selling rock band in time to record one album before it broke up in 1980, a split that left him "pretty shocked." To make matters worse, he was undergoing a divorce at the time, and he struggled to stay afloat in the ...

The kick off Friday evening is the first Blue Ridge Foothills Folk Festival, featuring 1960s folk singers and recording artists at Glen Maury Park.

Nine-year-old Abbie Cozart sings during the Fiddlers Convention -Photo by Joey Benton , Salisbury Post Stephen Knotts, of the group "The Knotts Family," of Hamptonville, NC warms up on banjo with his brother, Josh, on bass before going on stage with the rest of their family Saturday during the 39th annual Fiddler's Convention held at East Rowan ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Julie Thompson www.julievoice.com julievoice@gmail.com 207-233-6155 Julie Thompson's HIGH STANDARDS To Perform at Delafield Hotel Delafield, WI September 28, 2009 Julie Thompson's High Standards will be performing jazz impressions in Delafield this fall.

One by one, the musicians drifted to the white gazebo at the center of the shady park, took seats on the wooden bench and opened their cases, lifting out guitars and violins.

The album cover showed three hip young people dressed in black. The two guys, Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey, wore neatly trimmed little goatees.