NANCI GRIFFITH: …. across the great divide by Norman Warwick

With Townes Van Zandt, John Stewart, Guy Clark and John Prine and more recently John Moloney of The Chieftains having already left us, and Nanci now joining them we are left to wonder who might be among the generation to succeed them. She really was one of those artists who come along just once, in a very blue moon.

THE DEATH OF A TRUE CHIEFTAIN

´It was proof of Moloney’s abiding faith that folk music forms from around the world are united by the need of farmers to mark the changing seasons, to mourn deaths and wars, to celebrate harvests and weddings.

THE STEVE MARTIN BANJO PRIZE goes to…..

Fresh Grass Foundation administer the Steve Martin Banjo Prize, a prestigious award founded by Steve Martin (actor/comedian) that recognizes an individual or group for outstanding accomplishment in banjo;

DANCING TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING

The audience stayed on the feet applauding until the entire team of dancers came out to take their deserved ovation, and it should be said, too, that the choreography and lighting and recorded musical accompaniments were also of the very highest order.

CRAZY AND DARING MUSIC MIX

This crazy and daring mix has made Cristian and his music well accepted not only by both the media and the public, but also by his industry colleagues.

BLESS THE BROKEN ROAD

.You live with part of every song, but I connect most with Fast Cars And Freedom. Because I was young, newly married. I just became a new dad. The story of that song was how I didn't know what was going on in life. I was a new artist and had just gotten married and just became a dad, so everything was new. It was like, "Wow, I'm an adult now! I sure want back to when it was just about fast cars.'"
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IS ´AFRO-AMERICANA ´ ILL-DEFINED?

even with the most eloquent of writers words fail and are read or heard not at all in the way they were spoken or written or intended.

ART CREATES ITS OWN SPACE

Sigrid´ ´s works were propped up against the wall or laid on desk tops but they stood up to be counted, too, and they shouted round corners. They created their own space. They made themselves seen and heard.
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Dexter and Maxine Gordon: SOPHISTICATED GIANTS

Maxne Gordon has ensured that ´the achingly painful, brutally honest voice´ of her late husband, Dexter, permeates the book´.
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OSCAR PETERSON: ´the man with four hands´.

Peterson was renowned for his remarkable speed and dexterity, meticulous and ornate technique, and dazzling, swinging style.