Folk Blog Posts

Chinese Folk Culture Park exhibits many facets of Chinese culture. Folk culture performances and folk dances and songs staged at the ParkChina Folk Culture Village is principally to represent the histories and mysteries of China’s 56 ethnic gro...

One more portrait from the house concert I attended a couple of weeks ago.  Dan was accompanying Dean Clark, during the first set, before Andrew and Zackery Smith played.  I can going to have to learn how to take notes!  I didn’t get DanR...

One more portrait from the house concert I attended a couple of weeks ago.  Dan was accompanying Dean Clark, during the first set, before Andrew and Zackery Smith played.  I can going to have to learn how to take notes!  I didn’t get DanR...

What always staggers me, as an atheist, is the certainty of some religious folk. Not only are they certain that God exists, but they are also pretty clear that the it is the God of the Christian Bible, and furthermore, many of them claim to know and...

Lok Mela Pakistani woman handicraft Islamabad—The artistically designed pavilion of Punjab province is a source of attraction for visitors here at ongoing Lok Mela that introduce the visitors with a wide range of colorful and dazzling crafts alo...

Andrew Smith folk singer from Kelowna was playing with son zachari at a house concert on Thursday. The light at the concert was quite yellow, like that of most homes so I find I perfer black and white images. Andrew is a singer-songwriter and tap-st...

At only 22, Laura Marling has quietly taken her place among indie music’s greatest songwriters. The British songstress’ second album, I Speak Because I Can, even made Ryan Adams almost completely rewrite his latest, Ashes & Fire. Mar...

Andrew Smith folk singer from Kelowna was playing with son zachari at a house concert on Thursday. The light at the concert was quite yellow, like that of most homes so I find I perfer black and white images. Andrew is a singer-songwriter and tap-st...

  Bill and I attended a house concert last night, hosted by Dean Clare pictured on the left.  Dean played the first set with friend Dan.  The rest of the evening was left to Andrew and Zachari Smith I haven’t had time to check out their web...

  Bill and I attended a house concert last night, hosted by Dean Clare pictured on the left.  Dean played the first set with friend Dan.  The rest of the evening was left to Andrew and Zachari Smith I haven’t had time to check out their web...

Punch Brothers have been known to do some unusual but amazing covers. When I saw them in Brooklyn last summer, they did Beck’s “Sexx Laws,” and their new album, Who’s Feeling Young Now?, has an incredible cover of Radiohead...

Roadkill Ghost Choir is an absolute must-listen. The Florida folk band is getting ready to release their debut album, Quiet Light, this May. “In the Lion’s Mouth” is the first single from the album. With banjo, horns and Mumford &#...

There are many themes, materials and types of living room furniture that you can choose nowadays. You can decorate your living room in every possible way that you like. Below you can find a few modern living rooms ideas from photograph Richard Powers...

First studio album in seven years from Dirty Three, the alt-rock/folk trio led by Grinderman & Bad Seeds mainstay Warren Ellis. Toward the Low Sun is a true humdinger: Ellis is always sawing away at something on the violin that kind of tightens o...

I Had A Talk With My Woman è una tregua sia dagli scenari di paura di Lorca sia dagli stordimenti di Anonymous Proposition; un atto di pietà del cantante verso I suoi ascoltatori; è una canzone, vera, comprensibile, fissata al suolo dal beat delle...

  The dusk was repeating them  persistent whisper all around us, in a whisper seemed to swell menacingly like the first  of rising wind. “The horror! The horror!'  Tutt'intorno a noi il crepuscolo le ripeteva in un bisbigli...

Is it just us or does the instrumentation just get lovelier and lovelier with every new Tindersticks album? Those of you who have obsessed over their soundtrack work (handily collected by the Constellation label last year) will find much to fall in l...

Plants And Animals c’est ce trio montréalais que l’on a découvert en 2008 avec le déguindé Parc Avenue. Ca partait dans tous les sens et il était alors compliqué de prédire la future orientation du groupe. La La Land en 2010 était plus af...

Dopo il primo LP, “First Album”, pareva difficile parlare dei Fugs come di un gruppo musicale. Improvvisazione, satira da marciapiede, filosofia metropolitana, body-poetry: ma non musica. Più agevole ascoltare un vecchio 78 giri della Victor Rec...

S'il est vrai que de voir des groupes britanniques singer le son de leurs homologues d'outre-Atalantique, cela fait toujours un peu pute, genre Blur se prenant pour Nirvana, en revanche la posture inverse passe généralement mieux.Quoi de mieux que...