Homegrown Plus: BeauSoleil Quartet!
Posted by: Stephen Winick
Concert and oral history interview with Cajun powerhouse the Beausoleil Quartet.
Posted in: Folk Music, Homegrown Plus
Archive: September 2018 (4 Posts)
Caught My Ear: “Sentenced to Death” by Andrew Gallagher
Posted by: Stephen Winick
The following was written by Hannah Rose Baker, a musician from Boston, MA, who recently completed an internship at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. In 1938, in Beaver Island, Michigan, Andrew Gallagher, known locally as “Andy Mary Ellen,” sang a song called “Sentenced to Death” for Alan Lomax, who was collecting folk music …
Posted in: Caught My Eye, Celtic Music, Folksong, Irish American History
Pics of the Week: John McCutcheon!
Posted by: Stephen Winick
This week, we had a very special guest at AFC: folksinger, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist John McCutcheon. John brought us a masterful performance of traditional music, much of it gleaned from fieldwork he donated years ago to the AFC archive. He also graciously sat for an oral history interview. Both were recorded and will become webcasts, …
Posted in: Homegrown Concert Series, Old Time Music
“Mustache on a Cabbage Head”: Three Centuries’ Experience with “Our Goodman”
Posted by: Stephen Winick
In my last post at Folklife Today, I wrote about a folksong that connected my appearances on some important radio shows. Since then, some of my Library of Congress colleagues (some current and some retired) have expressed interest in the song, stemming from their own experiences as radio listeners. Given their interest, I thought I’d …
Posted in: Cowboy and Western Music, Folksong, Old Time Music