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Folklives #23: Northwest Folklife City Folk Film Series Join Northwest Folklife for a series of four films that explore the creativity of urban communities. Three documentaries and one narrative film delve into how people and their environments shape one another in the modern city and how this process can result in cultural cohesion, social alienation or artistic innovation. Filmmakers and speakers will participate in post-film audience discussions at each film screening. This week's episode explores the film Living the Hiplife, a journey into ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Folklives #15: Risky Business If you've ever asked a cowboy if he's fallen off his horse, or wondered if fishermen get seasick in the swells, this episode has the answer. Northwest-based poets John Doran and Geno Leech perform their work at the Northwest Folklife Festival. The first in a two-part series that explores the poetry of work. Length: 9:48 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Folklives #13: If You Love Somebody... This week, our choices for songs that bring purpose to all the hustle and bustle of the holidays. Blues from Guy Davis and gospel from Pat Wright and the Total Experience Gospel Choir, recorded live at the Northwest Folklife Festival. Even though they aren't Christmas carols, feel free to sing along. Length: 11:52 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Folklives #9: Los Mex Pistols del Norte This week on Folklives, we interview Bruce Hartnell, the man behind Eugene, Oregon's Los Mex Pistols del Norte. Bruce talks about similarities between Mexican dance music and punk rock, and explains how Los Mex Pistol's signature surf guitar conjunto groove is a marriage of traditional Mexican paso dobles and epic Ennio Morricone spaghetti western film scores. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Folklives #4: Rachel Harrington We all need a little sunshine these days, as an autumnal drizzle has returned to the Pacific Northwest. Singer Rachel Harrington is here to provide it. A third-generation Oregonian, Rachel was raised on a steady diet of Stax soul and hard country. Her songs are poignantly delicate, strongly rooted in the Appalachian gospel tradition of straightforward storytelling. "If anything," says Rachel, "I think I'm actually a short story writer. The story always comes first." This edition of Folkliv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Folklives #3: Hobe Kytr from the Folklife Archives This edition of Folklives reaches into the past and comes up with a real treasure: Columbia River historian, fisher-poet, and folk-singer Hobe Kytr. Hobe is an unmatched resource on the history of the Columbia River's Clatsop bayou country, its personalities, wildlife, and folkways. At the 1984 Northwest Folklife Festival, Hobe gave the performance heard here, accompanying himself on the banjo and guitar. This self-penned song, Hobe explains, is about the deep-digging razor clam, most elusi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Folklives #2: Willie & The Market Crew Infectious joy is what Brother Willie & The Market Crew brought to the 2007 Northwest Folklife Festival. Dished out in heaping amounts, their raw and soulful music is the kind of doo-wop gospel that leaves a listener with a permanent smile stretched across a gleeful face. Seattle is home to these singers, who are most often found downtown in front of the original Starbucks, delivering rich, foot-stomping harmonies into the lucky ears of passersby. The music in this podcast was drawn from N ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Folklives #1: Two Songs from Jim Page We kick off our podcast series with excerpts from a 2007 Folklife Festival performance by the unimpeachable forerunner, forefather, and forward thinker of Seattle's independent folk music scene, Jim Page. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website