Sing Out! has learned that master Tuvan throat singer Kongar-ol Ondar has passed away from complications following emergency surgery for a brain hemorrhage. He was 51 years old. Born in 1962 near the Khemchick River in Tuva, a region in … Continue reading →
Chiwoniso Maraire, beloved Zimbabwean mbira player and singer of traditional Shona music has passed away at the very young age of 37, after a battle with lung infection. She was known best for her contemporary playing style and unique musical … Continue reading →
Sing Out! Radio Magazine Hosted by Tom Druckenmiller SORM #13-30 • Bluegrass Pt. 2, 1940-1970 Artist / “Title” / CD / Label Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of Hope And Struggle / Smithsonian-Folkways Flatt & … Continue reading →
The Performing Arts Alliance is reporting that the House Appropriations Interior Subcommittee, which has jurisdiction over the National Endowment for the Art’s budget, voted this morning to cut the NEA’s FY14 funding to $75 million. This cut is almost 50% … Continue reading →
MONSIEUR DOUMANI Grippy Grappa Monsieur Doumani www.monsieurdoumani.com Straight outta Nicosia, Cyprus, the trio of Monsieur Doumani are three young men on a mission to revitalise Cypriot folk music. Their first release, last year’s Cyfolk, … Continue reading →
DWIGHT DEVANE and BLAINE WAIDE Drop On Down In Florida Dust-to-Digital 24 www.dust-digital.com In 1981, the Florida Folklife Program released a double-disc, 27 track LP, highlighting African American music traditions, that was based on … Continue reading →
MARTHA REDBONE ROOTS PROJECT The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake Blackfeet Productions 93001 www.martharedbone.com/ With the knife guitar slashes’ ominous undertones that open this disc, we know that long-ago London’s bard, … Continue reading →
SARA WATKINS Sun Midnight Sun Nonesuch 530684 www.nonesuch.com Sara Watkins’ latest is an adventurous delight. Compact, sitting 35 minutes, it is a diverse set of thrills end to end. Sara, of course, plays violin. … Continue reading →
THE DUSTBOWL REVIVAL Carry Me Home Dustbowl Revival www.dustbowlrevival.com Expanding steadily from a string band fronted by lead singer and songwriter/arranger Zach Lupetin that began by playing up and down the West Coast a … Continue reading →
STEVE MARTIN and EDIE BRICKELL Love Has Come For You Rounder 11661-9150 www.rounder.com This collaborative album by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell is as congenial and sunny as you could want, even when the songs … Continue reading →
