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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 #22: Live at the Northwest Folklife Festival CD Release Today we announce the release of our new Northwest Folklife compilation album: Live from the 2007 Northwest Folklife Festival. This episode features a preview what you'll hear: 16 memorable performances from 2007, from artists like Brother Noland, Jim Page and Anna Coogan and north19; Celtic tunes from The McKassons and Hanz Araki; Folklife favorites Reilly & Maloney and The Kosher Red Hots; Northwest old time and blues from The Gallus Brothers and The Tallboys. A one-of-a-kind CD from a on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Folklives #21: Celtic Fiddle Festival Today on Folklives, Devon Léger interviews legendary Irish fiddler and Portland-transplant Kevin Burke. Burke performs with two other fiddlers, Christian Lemaître (Brittany, France) and André Brunet (Québec) in the group Celtic Fiddle Festival. The group will perform two concerts at Dusty Strings in Seattle on Saturday, March 8, at 7:00 and 9:30 pm. Northwest Folklife is proud to be a co-sponsor of this exciting exploration of the common ground shared by three cultures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Folklives #20: 95 Days This week, an update on what you can expect from Folklives in the next three months. Only 95 days until Friday, May 23: the first day of the 2008 Northwest Folklife Festival! There is a ton of stuff to be excited about, from our brand new CD release "Live From the 2007 Northwest Folklife Festival" to the 2008 Cultural Focus: Urban Indians. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Folklives #19: Saturday Night & Sunday Morning This week we sample some choice Northwest bluegrass cuts from past Festivals. Acoustic music that encompasses both sacred and secular traditions, bluegrass brought country music tearing into the Post World War II era. But, the legacy of bluegrass is that it has always represented a progressive take on American roots music. In that spirit, we have four Northwest bands today that range from hardcore traditionalists to jamgrass and gospel stomp. Cross-Eyed Rosie, The OHOP Valley Boys, David ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Folklives #18: Haiku Northwest This episode features the work of Northwest haiku poets, performed live at the 2005 Northwest Folklife Festival. Haiku Northwest put the concert together, collaborating with Puget Sound koto player Elizabeth Falconer. The poems reflect the poets' experiences of nature in the Pacific Northwest, bringing forth observations in that direct, sudden and penetrating way that is so unique to haiku. On a snowy day in Seattle, enjoy these haiku read by Connie Hutchison, Christopher Herald, Michael D ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Folklives #17: Last Thoughts In 2005 a group of musicians played a Bob Dylan tribute show at the Northwest Folklife Festival. Among the memorable performances that day, Jeremy Wagner recited Dylan's own epic tribute to Woody Guthrie, the man who inspired him to make folk music in the first place. A masterful example of Dylan's early poetic attempts, "Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie" combines stream of consciousness rambling with the rhythmic groove of a preacher. Music in this podcast is performed by Mike Grigoni and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Folklives #16: Tough Jobs Today, Part II of our series exploring occupational poetry. This time, two poets describe jobs that on the surface, couldn't be more different. Peter Trower worked as a whistle punk in the old growth forests of British Columbia, operating the steam whistle that served as means of communication between loggers, sending warnings and signals that make the difference between life and death in the woods. While whistle punks occupied the lowest rung in the logging camps, they held their co-worke ... 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 #14: New Year's Eve Our last podcast of 2007 is a trip to the snowy province of Québec, where fiddler Lisa Ornstein takes us to a French-Canadian veillée, a kitchen party celebrating Jour de l'An, the new year. Lisa Ornstein, guitar player and singer André Marchand, and the legendary band La Bottine Souriante provide the music for this episode: French-Canadian songs and fiddle tunes that warm homes this time of year. Lisa and André will play a Folklife-sponsored concert at Dusty Strings in Seattle on January ... 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 #12: Calvin Johnson Success in music can be judged in a few different ways: records sold, videos played on MTV, money made. It could be argued, however, that the artists who have made the biggest impact are those who have opened up new ground and created space for musicians who do not fit into these standard models of success. As a producer, record company owner, singer and musician, Calvin Johnson has diligently tilled the Pacific Northwest for 25 years, helping to plant an independent music scene that has g ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Folklives #11: Jean Ritchie This week, Folklives spends some time with an icon of the Folk Revival, ballad singer Jean Ritchie. Growing up in Kentucky in the 1920s and 30s, Jean learned the old ballads and tunes that, in the 1950s and 60s, fueled a growing interest in American folk music, especially among young musicians driven to learn from Appalachian musicians. Jean has played an enormously important role in the preservation and popularization of American folk music, through her research, recording, and performing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Folklives #10: Folklife Families Celebrating Thanksgiving last Thursday got us thinking about the ways the Northwest Folklife Festival brings families together - to make music, dance, and play - and in the process, how the culture of Folklife is passed on to another generation. This week, Folklives features stories told by kids and parents, and a Festival performance from Just Fiddlin' Around, a family band led by a couple of young Folklifers from Vashon Island, WA, Megan Hackett and Hannah Scheer. 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 #8: José Gutiérrez Graceful, rhythmic, and celebratory, the music of Mexico's gulf coast is the focus of this week's podcast. Pregonero (vocalist) and arpa player José Gutiérrez, a native of Veracruz, presents a traditional son jarocho, a song heard at local dance parties called fandangos in Veracruz. The name of this traditional son jarocho is El Sikisiri, and Jose sings improvised and stock phrases meant to welcome the audience and create a festive atmosphere. The instrument he uses to accompany his singin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Folklives #7: Outlaw Social Outlaw Social play music that sounds at once traditional and thoroughly modern. On the surface, they are a five-piece old-time string band who can rock fiddle tunes with the best of them, anchored by a thumping upright bass. But as the name suggests, they exist not to replicate the sound of dusty 78s, but instead to extend the tradition in ways that excite modern audiences. The band came down from their home in Victoria, B.C. last year to play at the Northwest Folklife Festival, and the a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Folklives #6: Baby Gramps His sound is unmistakable - clusters of pitches escape from his National steel guitar like drunk bees from a hive, drawn out by an irresistable voice, one part Popeye, one part Tuvan throat singer. Baby Gramps has created a style all his own, pieced together from faded patches of herky-jerky ragtime rhythms, swampy fingerpicked blues, and vocal gymnastics that stretch the limits of the definition of singing. Baby Gramps occupies a special place at Folklife. He is revered by young buskers ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Folklives #5: Squirrel Butter This time of year, farmer's markets across the Pacific Northwest are shutting down, as weekends become chilly and the fall harvest comes to a close. For Squirrel Butter, the indominable Seattle-based duo of buckdancer/guitarist Charmaine Slaven and banjo picker Charlie Beck, it's the end of a long season of outdoor street performing at these markets, where the two old-time champions entertain crowds who like their music as they like their fruits and veggies: locally-grown. As tireless org ... 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