Archive for the "Folk music" category


oh, play me some mountain music

November 23rd, 2008

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Commuters run up and down the escalators of the Foggy Bottom Metro station in Washington, D.C.—women in suits and sneakers, men with briefcases and security badges.  Twenty feet to the left of the subway entrance is a little piece of solitude. Sweet, soaring notes perfume …

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High Notes

June 15th, 2008

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Norwegian folk singer Øyonn Groven Myhren’s newest album Gullveven (from the Etnisk Musikklubb label) is a collection of medieval Scandinavian ballads, sung in a straight-forward, traditional style. The sound is strange to the American ear, but …

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