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San Jose folk music

Something for Musical Everyone

Apparently almost every other Palo Altan and their dear Aunt Sally is musical. On the eve of the summer solstice, downtown Palo Alto was abuzz with...
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Navigating Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival and a couple band recommendations

  • 10th Annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival
  • September 29, 2010
Every time I look at the line-up of this year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, I notice another ridiculously awesome name buried in the...
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Jessie Woletz: the woman behind the Seaweed Sway & grassroots music promotion

“I hope that through Seaweed Sway shows, people will get to know each other, collaborate with each other and start thinking of one another as...
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The battle over British folk music (Guardian article)

The battle over British folk music -- as in the U.S., folk music in the U.K. has been thought of as the preserve of the left. The Tory mayor of...
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Teddy Thompson: Like father, like mother, like son, like self?

Teddy Thompson doesn't face the same problems as, say, Jakob Dylan or Julian Lennon, or Sean Ono Lennon or Frank Sinatra Jr., or Dweezil Zappa or...
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Sarah Palin, Anne Kilkenny, Joan Baez, and me

Thirty years ago, Holly Near released her album Imagine My Surprise. The title tune was a lesbian love song, its specific sentiments still relevant...
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Outside Lands: The only game in town? Yes and no.

You may have noticed there's a big shindig planned for the Outside Lands, a.k.a. Golden Gate Park, this weekend, Friday–Sunday, Aug. 22&ndash...
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Juana Molina's future-folk is here now

Folk music is so much more than the music of the past. In San Francisco, we don't need much reminding. We have everyone from Laurie Lewis to Chuck...
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Pluck That! Kevin Kmetz shifts shamisen into overdrive

When it comes to twangy plinking that immediately conveys cultural connotations, the banjo has nothing on the shamisen, except a few more strings...
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Sam Steps Up: Singer-songwriter Phillips produced

Good marriages can make for good music. So can bad breakups. Take Sam Phillips, the stylish singer-songwriter, not the legendary Sun Records...
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