[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/199456039″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Sonora, Mexico’s Juan Cordero grew up playing ranchero music, pop music and anything else that piqued his fancy. On becoming a dad, his fancy turned to American children’s songs and thereafter to the … Continue reading →
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/195612218″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Continuing to spotlight old-time music’s international presence, we travel to a Salvador, Brazil. Banjo player Gigito describes his music as ‘unattached bluegrass’ and takes inspiration from everyone from Earl Scruggs to Thelonious Monk. … Continue reading →
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/171989568″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Yorkshire-born Lee Parry has been writing songs and performing for a decade or more, with a sound somewhere between Folk Revival and contemporary indie folk. While he’s currently working on his terrific duo … Continue reading →
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/196345178″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Englishwoman Steph Sweet would have fit right in on the recent Sing Out! podcast focusing on British psych-folk. Like the classic artists Tom featured, Steph walks the line between trad-influenced singer-songwriter material and … Continue reading →
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/167769990″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Folkfinds has made something of a habit of highlighting unusual settings for traditional songs and instruments, and while last week may have pushed the envelope a bit this week’s is something everyone should … Continue reading →
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/141812600″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Boise, ID’s Charlie Sutton is one of those songwriters whose work feels intimate and familiar on first listen without ever getting stale. While he’s currently working with the more blues-tinged Curtis/Sutton & the … Continue reading →
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/184051966″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] If you’ve been reading Sing Out!’s Facebook page or website, you know we continue to emphasize our historic focus of bringing people together through song. This week’s folkfinds pick nods to Community Sings … Continue reading →
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/35649420″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] The UK’s experimental duo The Hare and The Moon calls its music ‘spook folk,’ and as it’s October already we figure it’s a good time to highlight their page. The descriptor is certainly … Continue reading →
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/21247586″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Hank Tilbury is a musical renaissance man, a wickedly talented multi-instrumentalist with eclectic interests and output. His work runs the gamut from the old-timey to the experimental, frequently in the same piece, and … Continue reading →
