query: the primary new york destination for the folk scene beginning in the 1940s

pos: Music of New York City The Chantels, who would influence the Girl group sound of the 1960s. Beginning in the 1940s, New York City was the center for a roots revival of American folk music. Many New Yorkers, especially young people, became interested in blues, Appalachian folk music, and other roots styles. In Greenwich Village, many of these people gathered; the area became a hotbed of American folk music as well as leftist political activism. The performers associated with the Greenwich Village scene, many of whom were not originally from New York, had sporadic mainstream success in the 1940s and 1950s; some, such as Pete

pos: Culture of New York City evolution of jazz. Star vocalists also emerged, mainly women like the bluesy Billie Holiday and the scat singer Ella Fitzgerald. Beginning in the 1940s, New York City was the center of a roots revival in American folk music. Many New Yorkers developed a renewed interest in blues, Appalachian folk music and other roots styles. Greenwich Village, in Lower Manhattan, became a hotbed of American folk music as well as leftist political activism. The performers associated with the Greenwich Village scene had sporadic mainstream success in the 1940s and 50s; some, like Pete Seeger and the Almanac Singers, did well, but

pos: Billy Faier of his out of print and unreleased material available on his website. Billy Faier Billy Faier (December 21, 1930 – January 29, 2016) was an American banjo player and folk music evangelist. He, along with Pete Seeger, was one of the early exponents of the banjo during the mid-20th-century American folk music revival. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he moved with his family to Woodstock, New York in 1945, and later lived in Marathon, Texas. Active in the Washington Square Park folk scene in Greenwich Village from the late 1940s, he recorded two albums for Riverside Records, "The Art of

pos: Billy Faier Billy Faier Billy Faier (December 21, 1930 – January 29, 2016) was an American banjo player and folk music evangelist. He, along with Pete Seeger, was one of the early exponents of the banjo during the mid-20th-century American folk music revival. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he moved with his family to Woodstock, New York in 1945, and later lived in Marathon, Texas. Active in the Washington Square Park folk scene in Greenwich Village from the late 1940s, he recorded two albums for Riverside Records, "The Art of the Five-String Banjo" (1957) and "Travelin' Man" (1958). In 1959 he contributed

pos: Felix Pappalardi completing his studies and returning to New York, he was unable to find work and so became part of the Greenwich Village folk-music scene where he made a name for himself as a skilled arranger; he also appeared on Tom Paxton as well as Vince Martin and Fred Neil albums for Elektra Records. From there he moved into record production, initially concentrating on folk and folk-rock acts for artists such as The Youngbloods and Joan Baez. As a producer, Pappalardi is perhaps best known for his work with Cream, beginning with their second album, "Disraeli Gears". Pappalardi has been referred

pos: Fast Folk Village music scene was also booming at the time, receiving lots of media attention from major newspapers like "The New York Times", which also helped fuel the popularity of the New York singer/songwriter scene in general. The Songwriter's Exchange eventually evolved, and under the guidance of Jack Hardy, the group formed a cooperative and took over the booking of Greenwich Village's SpeakEasy in 1981. "The CooP", which was launched in February 1982, was later renamed "Fast Folk", and gained status as a non-profit organization. The organization formed at a time when the cost of recording equipment and packaging of vinyl

pos: Larry Campbell (musician) Willie Nelson, Eric Andersen, Buddy and Julie Miller, Kinky Friedman, Little Feat, Hot Tuna, Cyndi Lauper, k.d. lang, Anastasia Barzee, Rosanne Cash and Ayọ, among others. During the 1970s and 1980s, Campbell performed regularly on New York City's burgeoning Country Music scene, at well-known venues such as Greenwich Village's legendary Lone Star Cafe, City Limits, The Rodeo Bar, and O'Lunney's, near the United Nations. He contributed his talents to several musicals. Beginning in the late 1970s, Campbell was also a member of The Woodstock Mountains Revue, a unique folk group that featured Artie & Happy Traum, Pat Alger, Jim Rooney,

pos: Hugh Blumenfeld Hugh Blumenfeld Hugh Blumenfeld (born October 11, 1958) is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter from Connecticut. He was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, graduated with degrees in Biology and Humanities from M.I.T. in 1980, and got a Masters in English Literature from the University of Chicago in 1981. He was active in the Greenwich Village music scene in the 1980s, attending the Cornelia Street Songwriters Exchange and performing at Folk City and Speak Easy while working on a PhD in Poetics from New York University. He also helped to edit the "Fast Folk Musical Magazine" (now part

pos: Richard Meyer (folk music) it impossible for him to live independently, and spent his last years at a nursing home in the New York area. http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_4239302# Richard Meyer (folk music) Richard Meyer (September 6, 1952 – May 14, 2012) was an American folk singer-songwriter, writer, painter, and set designer. Meyer was active in the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the 1980s and 1990s and did much to promote other artists. As one of the leaders of a musicians cooperative in the Village he handled booking at the SpeakEasy and edited "Fast Folk Musical Magazine" (1986-1997). Later, he wrote reviews for various media such

pos: Folk rock these urban revivalists were influenced by recordings of traditional American music from the 1920s and 1930s, which had been reissued by Folkways Records; Harry Smith's "Anthology of American Folk Music" was particularly influential. While this urban folk revival flourished in many cities, New York City, with its burgeoning Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene and population of topical folk singers, was widely regarded as the centre of the movement. Out of this fertile environment came such folk-protest luminaries as Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, and Peter, Paul and Mary, many of whom would transition into folk rock performers as the 1960s

pos: Izzy Young he worked in his father's bakery in Brooklyn. He later went into the book business. In 1957, at 110 MacDougal Street in New York City's Greenwich Village, he opened the Folklore Center, a store for books and records and everything related to folk music. It became a focal point for the American folk music scene of the time, a place where one could find such limited circulation publications as "Caravan" and "Gardyloo", both edited and published by Lee Hoffman. From 1959 to 1969, Young wrote a column entitled "Fret and Frails" for the folk music journal "Sing Out". He served

pos: Bruce Langhorne Bruce Langhorne Bruce Langhorne (May 11, 1938 – April 14, 2017) was an American folk musician. He was active in the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1960s, primarily as a session guitarist for folk albums and performances. Langhorne was born in Tallahassee, Florida, where his father taught at the Florida Agriculture and Mechanical College for Negroes. From the age of four, he lived with his mother in Spanish Harlem, in New York City. He learned violin, but lost most of three fingers of his right hand as a child when lighting a homemade rocket. He was expelled from Horace

pos: Hugh Blumenfeld basement tapes and previously released CD tracks. Compilations: Hugh Blumenfeld Hugh Blumenfeld (born October 11, 1958) is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter from Connecticut. He was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, graduated with degrees in Biology and Humanities from M.I.T. in 1980, and got a Masters in English Literature from the University of Chicago in 1981. He was active in the Greenwich Village music scene in the 1980s, attending the Cornelia Street Songwriters Exchange and performing at Folk City and Speak Easy while working on a PhD in Poetics from New York University. He also helped to

pos: Music of New York City being one of the premier spots for jazz lovers. There was a time—now long gone—when 52nd Street in Manhattan, with its numerous clubs, was one of the epicenters of jazz. Future generations of music venues would retain the prolific elements of this culture. Since transmogrifying the local dance scene (deep house) to form "acid-jazz" in the late 1980s, Groove Academy/Giant Step has launched several major-label bands such as Groove Collective and Nuyorican Soul. The Greenwich Village folk scene is home to venues such as the long-standing landmark The Bottom Line. New York's rock scene includes clubs such as Irving Plaza,

pos: Lucy Kaplansky Lucy Kaplansky Lucy Kaplansky (born February 16, 1960) is an American folk musician based in New York City. Kaplansky has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Yeshiva University. Kaplansky plays guitar, mandolin, and piano. Kaplansky was originally from Chicago; her father was the noted mathematician Irving Kaplansky (1917-2006). Later, she would sometimes perform math-related songs composed by her father, who was also an accomplished pianist. At the age of 18, she decided not to go to college, but moved to New York City, where she became involved in the city's folk music scene, particularly around Greenwich Village, where she played

pos: American folk music revival carried along by a handful of artists releasing records. Barred from mainstream outlets, artists like Seeger were restricted to performing in schools and summer camps, and the folk-music scene became a phenomenon associated with vaguely rebellious bohemianism in places like New York City (especially Greenwich Village), North Beach, and in the college and university districts of cities like Chicago, Boston, Denver, and elsewhere. Ron Eyerman and Scott Baretta speculate that: [I]t is interesting to consider that had it not been for the explicit political sympathies of the Weavers and other folk singers or, another way of looking at it, the

pos: Music of New York (state) genre due to its close relationship with another well known New York genre referred to as Latin jazz. This Afro-Cuban rhythmic form later branched out from New York to various Latin American countries to form regional variants. In terms of music and culture, New York has always been diverse. After the Great Depression and Dustbowl, Folk became a pillar of the New York music scene and it quickly found a home base in Greenwich Village—a neighborhood that was the center of artistic innovation of all kinds. Israel G Young is also known as Izzy, a famous dancer in Greenwich village,

pos: Dave Van Ronk of lyrics in 1959 carried an asking price of $265 on AbeBooks.com (accessed February 6, 2015); the booklet is downloadable as two files (, ). Dave Van Ronk David Kenneth Ritz "Dave" Van Ronk (June 30, 1936 – February 10, 2002) was an American folk singer. An important figure in the American folk music revival and New York City's Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s, he was nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street". Van Ronk's work ranged from old English ballads to blues, gospel, rock, New Orleans jazz, and swing. He was also known for performing instrumental ragtime guitar music,

pos: Dave Van Ronk Dave Van Ronk David Kenneth Ritz "Dave" Van Ronk (June 30, 1936 – February 10, 2002) was an American folk singer. An important figure in the American folk music revival and New York City's Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s, he was nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street". Van Ronk's work ranged from old English ballads to blues, gospel, rock, New Orleans jazz, and swing. He was also known for performing instrumental ragtime guitar music, especially his transcription of "St. Louis Tickle" and Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag". Van Ronk was a widely admired avuncular figure in "the Village", presiding

neg: Reverend Gary Davis beginning of Davis's career. During his time in Durham, he became a Christian; in 1937, he was ordained as a Baptist minister. Following his conversion and especially his ordination, Davis began to prefer inspirational gospel music. In the 1940s, the blues scene in Durham began to decline, and Davis moved to New York. In 1951, he recorded an oral history for the folklorist Elizabeth Lyttleton Harold (the wife of Alan Lomax). who transcribed their conversations in a typescript more than 300 pages long. The folk revival of the 1960s invigorated Davis's career. He performed at the Newport Folk Festival. Peter,

neg: Martha Cooper Baltimore neighborhood. She is the Director of Photography at City Lore, the New York Center for Urban Folk Culture. Martha Cooper Martha Cooper is an American photojournalist born in the 1940s in Baltimore, Maryland. She worked as a staff photographer for the "New York Post" during the 1970s. She is best known for documenting the New York City graffiti scene of the 1970s and 1980s. In 1984, Cooper and Henry Chalfant published their photographs of New York City graffiti in the book "Subway Art," which has been called the graffiti bible and by 2009 had sold half a million copies.

neg: Kutsher's Hotel Kutsher's Hotel Kutsher's Hotel and Country Club in Thompson, Sullivan County, near Monticello, New York, was the longest running of the Borscht Belt grand resorts in the Catskill Mountains region of New York State. While the region was open to any and all visitors, the Borscht Belt was so named due to the largely Jewish-American clientele that made the Catskills the primary vacation destination for Jews in the northeastern United States. Max and Louis Kutsher started the Kutsher's Brothers Farm House in 1907 and began expanding in the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1940s, at the request of his aunt

neg: Tom Glazer Country is Broke"", and ""Talking Inflation Blues"" took strong social stands. Glazer's songs were recorded by Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, The Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul and Mary, Perry Como and Frank Sinatra. He was part of the strong folk music scene in New York in the 1940s, and with Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Josh White helped prepare for the commercially successful folk revival of the 1960s. "He wasn't fancy," Seeger reported after his death "He was just straightforward. He had a good sense of humor." Glazer was married to Miriam Reed Eisenberg with whom he

neg: Music of New York City from around the world, has produced vital folk music scenes such as Irish-American music and Jewish klezmer. Beginning with the rise of popular sheet music in the early 20th century, New York's Broadway musical theater, and Tin Pan Alley's songcraft, New York has been a major part of the American music industry. Music author Richie Unterberger has described the New York music scene, and the city itself, as "(i)mmense, richly diverse, flashy, polyethnic, and engaged in a never-ending race for artistic and cosmopolitan supremacy." Despite the city's historic importance in the development of American music, there are those who feel

neg: Puerto Rican migration to New York City New York State was expected to be the likeliest destination for Puerto Rican migrants to the U.S. mainland when premised upon family ties, with New Jersey being the third likeliest destination. Brooklyn has several neighborhoods with a Puerto Rican presence, and many of the ethnic Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Brooklyn formed before the Puerto Rican neighborhoods in the South Bronx because of the work demand in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in the 1940s and 50s. Bushwick has the highest concentration of Puerto Ricans in Brooklyn. Other neighborhoods with significant populations include Williamsburg, East New York, Brownsville, Coney Island, Red Hook,

neg: Patrick Clifford (musician) Patrick Clifford (musician) Patrick Clifford (born in New York City, 1966) is a musician, songwriter, and producer of Irish and folk music. Best known as a key member of Four to the Bar—a "well loved and well respected" mainstay of the 1990s New York Irish music scene—he has also released two solo albums: "American Wake" and "Chance of a Start". He is a proud member of Regis High School class of 1984. Go Raiders! Like many contemporary New York Irish musicians, he received his earliest training from the renowned Martin Mulvihill, (on piano accordion). His primary instrument with Four to

neg: C. Grimaldis Gallery rag factory a block from the waterfront for two years—ever since she married the Johns Hopkins scientist Dr. Winston H. Price and moved to Baltimore from New York." In a 1979 "Baltimore Sun" article the artist said, "I like Costas [Constantine Grimaldis]. He's committed to this city, and he is efficient and on time. I think there are young people of talent here too. I dislike the reverse provincialism of not liking artists in your own city. New York in the late 1940s was like Baltimore is now." The C. Grimaldis Gallery remains Grace Hartigan's primary representation since the beginning

neg: American folk music revival American folk music revival The American folk-music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s. Its roots went earlier, and performers like Josh White, Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Big Bill Broonzy, Richard Dyer-Bennet, Oscar Brand, Jean Ritchie, John Jacob Niles, Susan Reed, Paul Robeson and Cisco Houston had enjoyed a limited general popularity in the 1930s and 1940s. The revival brought forward styles of American folk music that had, in earlier times, contributed to the development of country and western, jazz, and rock and roll music. The folk revival in New York City was

neg: Music history of the United States music]] was adding influences from [[blues]] and generating some regional hit records, while [[Appalachian folk music]] was spawning [[jug band]]s, [[honky tonk]] bars and [[close harmony duet]]s, which were to evolve into the pop-folk of the 1940s, bluegrass and country.The American Popular music reflects and defines American Society. In the 1940s, jazz evolved into an ever more experimental [[bebop]] scene. Country and folk music further developed as well, gaining newfound popularity and acclaim for hard-edged [[folk music]]. Starting in the 1920s, [[Boogie Woogie]] began to evolve into what would become [[rock and roll]], with decided [[Blues]] influences, from 1929's "[[Crazy

neg: Brown's Hotel (Catskills) Brown's Hotel (Catskills) Brown's Hotel was a nationally known resort complex located in the Borscht Belt area of upstate New York, in the Catskill Mountains. It was one of the largest and most elaborate establishments of its kind during an era when the entire region prospered as a tourist destination. From the 1940s to the 1980s, the hotel was a popular vacation destination for many upper-middle-class families living in the New York City metropolitan area. Jewish-American families were welcomed and even catered to specifically by the hotels in the Borscht Belt during a time period when anti-semitism was prevalent in

neg: Stony Creek, New York rooms on the second floor, a popular bar, music on weekend evenings (mostly country, square dancing, folk and rock and roll), food, and a weigh station during hunting season. Over the years the Stony Creek Inn has attracted numerous musicians from around the northeast, and is a kind of destination for many New York and New England residents seeking an out-of-the-way place to relax and listen to music. Notably, the Stony Creek Band got its start at the Inn in the 1970s, when fiddlers and folk musicians regularly jammed for many hours into the evenings, and has continued to play

neg: Scott Liss gained a strong foothold in Philadelphia's indie folk music scene. Towards the end of 2006 he began commuting in to New York City to involve himself in the underground anti-folk music scene. In early 2007 Liss moved to Red Bank, New Jersey with the encouragement of the rising music scene of the New Jersey shore. Teaming up once again with Paul Ritchie who was this time producing, Liss began recording new material at Retromedia Sound Studios. Through Ritchie, Liss met New Jersey-native alternative rock artist Nicole Atkins. Atkins lent her talents to some of these new recordings singing backup vocals.

neg: B movie The film was produced for New World on a budget of $250,000. At the beginning of 1983, Corman sold New World; New Horizons, later Concorde–New Horizons, became his primary company. In 1984, New Horizons released a critically applauded movie set amid the punk scene written and directed by Penelope Spheeris. "The New York Times" review concluded: ""Suburbia" is a good genre film." Larry Cohen continued to twist genre conventions in pictures such as "Q" (a.k.a. "Q: The Winged Serpent"; 1982), described by critic Chris Petit as "the kind of movie that used to be indispensable to the market: an imaginative,

neg: Kurt Weill film score for Fritz Lang ("You and Me", 1938). Weill himself strove to find a new way of creating an American opera that would be both commercially and artistically successful. The most interesting attempt in this direction is "Street Scene", based on a play by Elmer Rice, with lyrics by Langston Hughes. For his work on "Street Scene" Weill was awarded the inaugural Tony Award for Best Original Score. In the 1940s Weill lived in Downstate New York near the New Jersey border and made frequent trips both to New York City and to Hollywood for his work for theatre

neg: Final Destination 3 amusement park contain clues about her classmates' death. She tries to use this knowledge to save the rest of them. The film's development began shortly after the release of "Final Destination 2" (2003); Jeffrey Reddick, creator of the franchise and a co-writer of the first two films, did not return for the third one. Unlike the second film, which was a sequel to the first, the producers envisioned "Final Destination 3" as a stand-alone film. The idea of featuring a roller-coaster derailment as the opening-scene disaster came from New Line Cinema executive Richard Bryant. From the beginning, Wong and Morgan

neg: Music of Minnesota #1 albums on the Billboard 200 from 1974 to 2009, including "Planet Waves" in '74. The city's local folk scene produced a few well-known performers in the 1960s, besides Dylan who spent much of his early career based in New York, including the guitarist Leo Kottke and the trio Koerner, Ray & Glover. Folk music continues to be a major part of the Minnesota music scene, and is broadcast by the "Prairie Home Companion", a radio show hosted by author Garrison Keillor; the Red House record label is the most influential local label for folk, and releases records by Ostroushko

neg: Don Lanphere Don Lanphere Donald Gale "Don" Lanphere (June 26, 1928 – October 9, 2003) was an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist born in Wenatchee, Washington, known for his 1940s and 1950s work and recordings with Fats Navarro (in 1948), Woody Herman (1949), Claude Thornhill, Sonny Dunham, Billy May, and Charlie Barnet. Lanphere briefly studied music at Northwestern University in the 1940s, but moved to New York City as a member of Johnny Bothwell's group to become part of the bebop jazz scene. In New York, Lanphere was in a relationship with Chan Richardson, who later married Charlie Parker and then

neg: Swedish folk music music had previously been primarily a solo melody tradition). A polska dance revival, beginning in the early 1980s, has meant new contexts for the music to be played in. Swedish folk music has entered the educational system at all levels; musicians are becoming more and more skilled at ever-younger ages. Swedish folk music Swedish folk music is a genre of music based largely on folkloric collection work that began in the early 19th century in Sweden. The primary instrument of Swedish folk music is the fiddle. Another common instrument, unique to Swedish traditions, is the nyckelharpa. Most Swedish instrumental folk

neg: Brown's Hotel (Catskills) claims against Grandview Palace. Grandview is also under attack after suing their broker Otts insurance. Judge Oing of Manhattan Supreme Court will decide in Nov, 2014 to consolidate all 4 insurance claims against Grandview Palace. Brown's Hotel (Catskills) Brown's Hotel was a nationally known resort complex located in the Borscht Belt area of upstate New York, in the Catskill Mountains. It was one of the largest and most elaborate establishments of its kind during an era when the entire region prospered as a tourist destination. From the 1940s to the 1980s, the hotel was a popular vacation destination for many

neg: Music of Basilicata France. Basilicata's international musical heritage includes a large group of itinerant musicians who, beginning in the early 1860s, immigrated across the world, in Paris, New York, London and Ottawa. Many of these musicians continued performing and brought their folk traditions with them. Famous itinerant musicians, mostly harpists, flautists and violinists, were originally from Viggiano, province of Potenza, who reached important positions in the worldwide music scene, especially in the United States. The most important musician of the era was probably Leonardo De Lorenzo, flautist of many international orchestras and music educator at the Eastman School of Music. Another prominent musician

neg: New York State Route 215 (1940s–1970s) New York State Route 215 (1940s–1970s) New York State Route 215 (NY 215) was a north–south state highway located within the town of Hamlin in Monroe County, New York, in the United States. It served as the primary highway to and from Hamlin Beach State Park prior to the construction of the Lake Ontario State Parkway. The southern terminus of the route was at an intersection with NY 360 east of the hamlet of Morton. Its northern terminus was at the park on the shore of Lake Ontario. The entirety of NY 215 was named Redman Road. NY 215 was

neg: Son House New York Central Railroad and as a chef. In 1964, after a long search of the Mississippi Delta region by Nick Perls, Dick Waterman and Phil Spiro, House was "rediscovered" in Rochester, New York. He had been retired from the music business for many years and was unaware of the 1960s folk blues revival and international enthusiasm for his early recordings. He subsequently toured extensively in the United States and Europe and recorded for CBS Records. Like Mississippi John Hurt, he was welcomed into the music scene of the 1960s and played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964, the

neg: Harry Tuft series of instruments including the clarinet, ukulele, and baritone uke. In the 1950s Tuft became interested in folk music and started playing a six-string guitar. He began performing for youth groups and frequenting Philadelphia's popular folk music coffeehouse, the Gilded Cage. Philadelphia's lively folk scene provided the setting for Harry's first ventures into public singing. While playing Sunday "hoots" at the Gilded Cage Tuft met Dick Weissman, a talented banjo and guitar player, and took an interest in the folk group The Weavers and in folk music. In 1960 Tuft made a trip to visit Weissman in New York City

neg: Leo Lerman who passed through the New York arts scene from the 1940s to the '90s. Lerman died in New York City on August 22, 1994. He was 80. Leo Lerman Leo Lerman (May 23, 1914 – August 22, 1994) was an American writer and editor who worked for Condé Nast Publications for more than 50 years. Lerman also wrote for the "New York Herald Tribune", "Harper's Bazaar", "Dance Magazine", and "Vogue" and was the editor of "Playbill" for decades. Lerman was born in New York City, the son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, Ida (née Goldwasser) and Samuel Lerman. He

neg: Spin Alternative Record Guide in place of more perplexing additions. Having edited the book, Weisbard put his pursuit of a PhD at UC Berkeley on hold and accepted a job offer from "Spin", which marked the beginning of his career as a rock critic. Meanwhile, the guide's entry on 1960s folk guitarist John Fahey, written by Byron Coley, helped renew interest in Fahey's music. According to Ben Ratliff from "The New York Times", this led to substantial interest in the guitarist from record labels and the alternative music scene, helping revive his career. American pop culture critic Chuck Klosterman later cited "Spin Alternative Record

neg: Bunky and Jake Bunky and Jake Bunky and Jake were an American folk rock duo, who were a part of the New York folk music scene in the 1960s and 1970s. They merged folk, rock, R&B and blues. They are influenced heavily from the 50s classic pop and rock, such as Nolan Strong and the Diablos, the Crows, Dion and the Belmonts, the Mystics and the Passions. Andrea "Bunky" Skinner and Allan "Jake" Jacobs (who later formed Jake and The Family Jewels, a band with Jerry Burnham, Michael Epstein, Dan Mansolino), met in 1962 at the School of Visual Arts in New York

neg: Llewyn Davis (character) amount of sincerity. The time is 1961, the place is New York City, and the venue where Llewyn—portrayed with haunting conviction by Oscar Isaac, who, like everyone else in the cast, does his own singing and playing—is picking and not grinning is the Gaslight, a soon-to-be-legendary landmark in the "folk revival." A.O. Scott of the New York Times writes, "Llewyn’s repertoire and some aspects of his background are borrowed from Dave Van Ronk, who loomed large on the New York folk scene in its pre-Bob Dylan hootenanny-and-autoharp phase. Oscar Isaac, who plays both Llewyn and the guitar with offhand virtuosity,

neg: Benny Bell Dr. Demento Show. Bell entertained Schuepfer by singing several of the songs and he recounted many anecdotes about the New York music scene of the 1940s, including meetings with Irving Berlin. Bell died in New York in July 1999, at the age of 93. His son Charles Samberg donated the vast majority of Bell's works to Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL. Benny Bell Benny Bell (born Benjamin Samberg or Benjamin Zamberg, March 21, 1906 – July 6, 1999) was an American singer-songwriter who reached popularity in the 1940s, with a comeback in the 1970s. He is particularly remembered

neg: Music of Germany underwent many of the same changes following the 1968 student revolution in West Germany, and new songs, featuring political activism and realistic joy, sadness and passion, were written and performed on the burgeoning folk scene. In East Germany, the same process did not begin until the mid-70s, where some folk musicians began incorporating revolutionary ideas in coded songs. Popular folk songs included emigration songs from the 19th century, work songs and songs of apprentices, as well as democracy-oriented folk songs collected in the 1950s by Wolfgang Steinitz. Beginning in 1970, the "Festival des politischen Liedes", an East German festival focusing

neg: Culture of New York City most were confined to local coffeehouses and other venues. Performers like Dave Van Ronk and Joan Baez helped expand the scene by appealing to university students. In the early '60s, Baez was instrumental in introducing the up-and-coming young folk artist Bob Dylan to her audience and he quickly achieved national prominence. By the mid-'60s, folk and rock were merging, with Bob Dylan taking the lead in July '65, releasing Like a Rolling Stone, with a distinctive, revolutionary rock sound for its time, steeped in tawdry New York City imagery, followed by an electric performance in late July at the Newport

neg: Music of New York City Seeger and the Almanac Trio, did well, but most were confined to local coffeehouses and other venues. Performers such as Dave Van Ronk and Joan Baez helped expand the scene by appealing to college students. In the early 1960s, Baez was instrumental in introducing the up-and-coming young folk artist Bob Dylan to her audience and he quickly achieved national prominence. By the mid-1960s, folk and rock were merging, with Bob Dylan taking the lead in July 1965, releasing "Like a Rolling Stone," with a revolutionary rock sound for its time, steeped in tawdry New York City imagery, followed by an

neg: SideWalk Cafe SideWalk Cafe The SideWalk Cafe is a music venue and restaurant/cafe in East Village, New York City founded in 1985. It has become a known venue for its underground music scene, and in particular, is known as being the center for Anti-folk in the United States. It offers an eclectic mix of local and national acts ranging from DIY, avant garde music, indie rock, and jazz to pop music and electronic music. The venue also plays host to poetry readings, comedy and live-band karaoke. The New York Times referred to the SideWalk Cafe and its music scene as a "gift

neg: Chinese in New York City Asia and within the U.S. with an estimated population of 573,388 in 2014, and continues to be a primary destination for new Chinese immigrants. New York City is subdivided into official municipal boroughs, which themselves are home to significant Chinese populations, with Brooklyn and Queens, adjacently located on Long Island, leading the fastest growth. After the City of New York itself, the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn encompass the largest Chinese populations, respectively, of all municipalities in the United States. In 2013, 19,645 Chinese legally immigrated to the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA core based statistical area from Mainland

neg: Clockwork Angel book became a best-seller in the "New York Times" list, debuting number 1 on the children's bestselling list. The book also contains many quotes referring to famous pieces of Victorian literature, for example, Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest", Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities", and the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Alfred Tennyson. When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean from New York to find her brother, her destination is London, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London's Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk

neg: Martha Cooper Martha Cooper Martha Cooper is an American photojournalist born in the 1940s in Baltimore, Maryland. She worked as a staff photographer for the "New York Post" during the 1970s. She is best known for documenting the New York City graffiti scene of the 1970s and 1980s. In 1984, Cooper and Henry Chalfant published their photographs of New York City graffiti in the book "Subway Art," which has been called the graffiti bible and by 2009 had sold half a million copies. Cooper picked up photography at the age of three. She graduated from high school at the age of 16,

neg: Major Matt Mason USA Major Matt Mason USA Major Matt Mason USA is the performing name of Matt Roth, a New York City-based musician and record producer active in the anti-folk and DIY music scene of New York's East Village. A native of Shawnee, Kansas, Roth moved to New York in the early 1990s, where he received his new name, based on the action figure Major Matt Mason. He established Olive Juice Music, a recording studio, independent record label, and online record shop headquartered in his apartment in the Lower East Side. Anti-folk artists he has worked with as collaborator, producer, and/or distributor include

neg: American folk music revival were established in many parts of North America during this period. The acoustic music coffee-house scene survived at a reduced scale. Through the luminary young singer-songwriters of the 1960s, the American folk-music revival has influenced songwriting and musical styles throughout the world. American folk music revival The American folk-music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s. Its roots went earlier, and performers like Josh White, Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Big Bill Broonzy, Richard Dyer-Bennet, Oscar Brand, Jean Ritchie, John Jacob Niles, Susan Reed, Paul Robeson and Cisco Houston had enjoyed a limited general

neg: Gene Shay Seeger in the late 1940s, and he is a voting member on the Board of Governors of NARAS in Philadelphia. Gene Shay Gene Shay (born Ivan Shaner, March 4, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American radio personality. He is a representative of Philadelphia's folk music scene. He has produced weekly folk radio shows since 1962 (now on WXPN and his final show on WXPN was February 1, 2015; previously heard on WHAT-FM, WMMR, WIOQ and WHYY-FM). A founder of the annual Philadelphia Folk Festival and its emcee since its inception, he has been called the "Dean of American folk

neg: Music of Illinois based in Chicago. Burl Ives, hailing from downstate Illinois (and attended Eastern Illinois University), helped popularize folk music, with releases beginning in the 1940s ("A Holly Jolly Christmas" from 1964). Chicago was a focal point for the folk music boom of the 1960s and early 1970s. A center of activity was the Old Town School of Folk Music which opened in the late 1950s and helped launch the careers of many folk musicians associated with the city, including John Prine, Steve Goodman (d.1984), and Bonnie Koloc. A large influx of Polish immigrants into Chicago in the late 19th and early

neg: Ellis Paul Dreams" could actually find itself a seminal holiday song like Joni Mitchell's "River" as it tells a wonderfully soft and melodic story of New York City and the beauty of a new romance within the context of Christmas." "Boston-style" songwriting refers to the introspective and literate breed of singer-songwriter so prevalent in the modern folk music landscape. According to Paul, Boston-style songwriting grew out of Boston's thriving folk scene with its dense collection of colleges, college radio stations and listening rooms. Boston radio includes the University of Massachusetts' WUMB, the country's foremost radio station for folk and acoustic music 24-hours

neg: The Replacements (band) the band after a show at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Tommy Stinson dropped out of the tenth grade to join the rest of the band on tour. The Replacements toured venues on the East Coast, including a tense gig at City Gardens, in Trenton, New Jersey, where numerous punks lined the edge of the stage as the band played. The band performed in Detroit, Cleveland and Philadelphia, but its intended destination was New York City, where they played at Gerde's Folk City; they also performed at Maxwell's, in Hoboken, New Jersey. The Replacements returned to New York in

neg: Musicraft Records Rock", by Marc Blitzstein, was released in 1938 on Musicraft. Composer/musician Walter Gross was an A&R executive and arranger for the label in the late 1940s. International music entrepreneur Peter Fritsch was an executive for Musicraft in the late 1940s before leaving to found Lyrichord Discs. After Musicraft's demise, jazz authority and promoter Albert Marx acquired the label's catalog and reissued many titles on his Discovery Records label. Musicraft Records Musicraft Records was a record company and label established in 1937 in New York City. Musicraft's catalog encompassed many different musical styles, including classical music, folk, jazz, Latin, popular vocal,

neg: Nathan Glazer remarked that it was an appellation not of his choosing. Born in New York City on February 25, 1923, Glazer grew up in the city's areas of East Harlem and the East Bronx. His parents, Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire, spoke Yiddish in the home, and his father was a sewing machine operator. His older brother, Joe, would eventually become a folk musician who specialized in labor and radical themed songs. Glazer attended public school as a child and eventually the City College of New York. When Glazer attended the City College of New York in the 1940s, it

neg: New York City the United States. The city was a center of jazz in the 1940s, abstract expressionism in the 1950s, and the birthplace of hip hop in the 1970s. The city's punk and hardcore scenes were influential in the 1970s and 1980s. New York has long had a flourishing scene for Jewish American literature. The city is the birthplace of many cultural movements, including the Harlem Renaissance in literature and visual art; abstract expressionism (also known as the New York School) in painting; and hip hop, punk, salsa, freestyle, Tin Pan Alley, certain forms of jazz, and (along with Philadelphia) disco in

neg: My Blueberry Nights time to give birth and recuperate before beginning work. Wong consistently revised existing scenes and added new scenes to the script, usually at the last minute. Jude Law called it "a living story that's still being decided." In August 2006, filming took place at the Palacinka café on Grand Street in SoHo, Manhattan. Scenes shot at the cafe the primary filming location in New York included a kissing scene between Law and Jones that was re-shot 150 times, with different speeds and from various angles, over the course of three days. Law, speaking about Wong, said, "I've never worked with

neg: Cynthia Gooding Cynthia Gooding Cynthia Gooding (August 12, 1924 – February 10, 1988) was an American folk singer who recorded traditional songs from various countries for Elektra Records in the 1950s and 1960s. Judy Collins wrote that she had been "inspired" by her. She was born in Rochester, Minnesota, and grew up in Lake Forest, Illinois. In her late teens she lived in Mexico City, where she acquired a love of folk music and the blues, learned Spanish, and developed her talents as a singer and guitar player. On returning to the US in the mid-1940s, she moved to New York City,

neg: Rose Piper Rose Piper Rose Theodora Piper (October 7, 1917 – May 11, 2005) was an American painter best known for her semi-abstract, blues-inspired paintings of the 1940s. In the 1950s, out of financial necessity, she became a textile designer. For nearly thirty years, she worked as Rose Ransier, designing knit fabrics. The American public took note of her work in the fall of 1947 when she gave her first solo exhibition—titled "Blues and Negro Folk Songs"—at the Roko Gallery in New York. The exhibition featured 14 paintings based on folk and blues songs. The show was very successful and was lauded

neg: Buster Brown (musician) Buster Brown (musician) Buster Brown (August 15, 1911 – January 31, 1976) was an American blues and R&B singer best known for his hit, "Fannie Mae". Brown was born in Cordele, Georgia. In the 1930s and 1940s he played harmonica at local clubs and made a few non-commercial recordings. These included "War Song" and "I'm Gonna Make You Happy" (1943), which were recorded when he played at the folk festival at Fort Valley (GA) State Teachers College, for the Library of Congress' Folk Music Archive. Brown moved to New York in 1956, where he was discovered by Fire Records owner

neg: The Halifax Three The Halifax Three The Halifax Three (or The Halifax III), originally The Colonials, was a folk music band in Canada in the 1960s. The band performed in Toronto and Montreal before becoming part of the New York folk scene and recording an album. Denny Doherty, Pat LaCroix and Richard Byrne formed The Colonials in 1960 in Montreal. After performing in Toronto and Montreal, the band changed its name to The Halifax Three in 1963, and, with the addition of Toronto born Zal Yanovsky, toured with The Journeymen and played Carnegie Hall in New York City. The band signed with Epic

neg: Beaumont Hotel (Beaumont, Kansas) Beaumont Hotel (Beaumont, Kansas) The Beaumont Hotel is a former railroad hotel constructed in 1879 in Beaumont, Kansas. It originally opened and operated as the "Summit Hotel". It currently operates as a bed and breakfast and restaurant. Beginning in the 1940s, local ranchers began using Main Street (also known historically as Third Street) as a landing strip for their planes while checking on cattle herds. In 1953, the hotel underwent a major renovation and acquired 70 acres of adjoining property, which was converted into a dedicated landing strip to serve the new clientele. The hotel is a popular destination for

neg: Vestie Davis Vestie Davis Vestie Davis (1903 – November 14, 1978) was a self-taught American artist whose works are in many important collections, including those of the American Folk Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. His work was the subject of a monographic exhibition, "Vestie Davis's New York", at the American Folk Art Museum, which ran for over a year beginning in autumn 2009. Born in Baltimore, Davis moved to New York City at the age of twenty-five in 1928, where he worked as a "circus barker, undertaker, newsstand operator, and church organist." He lived in

neg: Susan Reed (singer) Susan Reed (singer) Susan Catherine Reed (January 11, 1926 – April 25, 2010) was an American singer, harpist, zitherist and actress. A regular on the New York folk scene, "Life" magazine dubbed her "the pet of Manhattan nightclubbers" in 1945. She was born in Columbia, South Carolina, the daughter of Isadora Bennett and Daniel Reed, respectively a theater publicist and actor. Folk music collector Carl Sandburg and musician Huddie Ledbetter were family friends, as were visiting Irish actors and musicians from the Abbey Theatre Company. After she moved to New York City with her family - including her older brother

neg: Calan (band) sign for a construction company called "Calan," which is term that means the beginning of something new or a fresh start. Calan is considered a "M4 corridor band." Its members, who are from Cardiff, Swansea, and Cwmbran, met each other through the region's music scene. They played together on a monthly basis, and kept in touch even after they all went off to university, eventually coming back together to form the band. After their debut album Bling in 2008, Calan played at progressively more impressive venues, including the Cambridge Festival, Glasgow's Celtic Connections, Shrewsbury Folk Festival, the Whitby Folk Festival.

neg: Culture of New York City Folk Festival. Dylan plugged an entire generation into the milieu of the singer-songwriter, often writing from an urban, distinctly New York point of view. By the mid to late '60s, bands and singer-songwriters began to proliferate the underground New York art/music scene. The release of "The Velvet Underground & Nico" in 1967, featuring singer-songerwriter Lou Reed and German singer and collaborator Nico was described as "most prophetic rock album ever made" by "Rolling Stone" in 2003. Other New York City based singer songerwriters began to emerge, using the urban landscape as their canvass, a backdrop for lyrics in the confessional

neg: Jean Ritchie on Oscar Brand's Folksong Festival radio show on WNYC. In 1949 and 1950, she recorded several hours of songs, stories, and oral history for Lomax in New York City. Elektra records signed her and released three albums: "Jean Ritchie Sings" (1952), "Songs of Her Kentucky Mountain Family" (1957) and "A Time for Singing" (1962). In the early 1940s Ritchie's future husband George Pickow was introduced to folk music when he heard Cisco Houston and Woody Guthrie jamming every night in a tiny cabin at the left-wing Camp Unity summer camp in upstate New York. The Brooklyn-born Pickow, who had studied

neg: The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour 1940s and 1950s. The original New York host was Paul Douglas, followed by Ralph Edwards and finally Ed Herlihy. Horn and Hardart's slogan was "Less work for mother dear whose gentle hands, lead us so kindly through little folk lands. We'll give her happiness, each kindness, each caress repaid with thoughtfulness. Less work for mother dear." There were several versions of this song heard on the program: When the program went to television, it was a radio-TV simulcast. The television premiere was on WCAU-TV in Philadelphia in 1948, followed by WNBT (TV) in New York in 1949, telecast on Sunday

neg: White Plains, New York and as a city in 1916. Early in the 20th century, White Plains' downtown area developed into a dominant suburban shopping district and featured branch stores of many famous New York-based department and specialty stores. Some of these retail locations were the first large-scale suburban stores built in the United States and ushered in the eventual post-World War II building boom. With the construction of the parkways and expressways in the 1940s and 1960s, White Plains' role as a destination retail location was only enhanced. With a city opening ceremony, Macy's launched a grand White Plains store on Main Street

neg: Penny Lang In 1963, at age 21, Lang became a professional folksinger and worked initially at the Café André, a venue near the McGill University campus, for three years. She quickly became a star on the Montreal folk scene, filling the club every night with a loyal returning audience drawn by her effective guitar-playing, throaty voice, and most of all by her astonishing ability to connect with the people she was singing to. Lang moved on to become a touring artist, playing major folk festivals like Mariposa and Philadelphia and legendary clubs like Gerde’s Folk City in New York City, Caffè Lena

neg: Jug band the 1940s as an integral part of the "Bluebird beat" in Chicago. Bukka White's "Fixin' to Die", recorded in Chicago in 1940, is driven by a syncopated washboard backup. One of the first recordings of the folk era jug band revival was by the Orange Blossom Jug Five, "Skiffle in Stereo", made in 1958 for the poorly-distributed Lyrichord label. It was also the first recording by the New York folk singer Dave Van Ronk and featured Sam Charters, author of "The Country Blues", his wife Ann, as well as Len Kunstadt, co-owner of the Spivey Records label. Van Ronk would

neg: Street Scene (play) hovers over their interactions. "Street Scene" received the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. "Street Scene" has its origins in a play that Elmer Rice began in the mid-1920s called "Sidewalks of New York"—a play without words that he wrote as a technical exercise for his own entertainment. Rice devised 15 vignettes that were a microcosm of New York life. One of these scenes presented the front of a brownstone in the early morning hours. "There was neither plot nor situation," Rice recalled. "One merely saw the house shaking off its sleep and beginning to go about the business of the

neg: History of Provence and Toulon. In the 1940s, Provence underwent a cultural renewal, with the founding of the Avignon Festival of theatre (1947), the reopening of the Cannes Film Festival (begun in 1939), and many other major events. With the building of new highways, particularly the Paris-Marseille autoroute which opened in 1970, Provence became destination for mass tourism from all over Europe. Many Europeans, particularly from Britain, bought summer houses in Provence. The arrival of the TGV high-speed trains shortened the trip from Paris to Marseille to less than four hours. At the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the

neg: Chris Brown and Kate Fenner Chris Brown and Kate Fenner Chris Brown and Kate Fenner were a folk rock duo, consisting of vocalist Kate Fenner and multi-instrumentalist Chris Brown, who were active from 1996 to 2005. Although based primarily in New York City, both Brown and Fenner are Canadians and the group remained intimately connected to the Canadian music scene. Brown and Fenner were founding members of the Canadian alternative rock group Bourbon Tabernacle Choir in the 1980s. That band moved to New York City following their 1995 album "Shy Folk" in an attempt to break into the larger American market, but broke up soon

neg: Christian William Miller died on July 5, 1995. Christian William Miller Christian William Miller (August 7, 1921 – July 5, 1995) was an American artist and model who contemporaries qualified as "one of the most beautiful men" in the gay social scene of New York City in the 1940s. William Henry Miller (in 1951 legally changed to Christian William Miller) was born in South Orange, New Jersey, on August 7, 1921. From 1938 to 1941 Miller attended the Franklin School of Professional Arts in New York City, obtaining an advertising design major. After his military career Miller attended The New School for Social

neg: Christian William Miller Christian William Miller Christian William Miller (August 7, 1921 – July 5, 1995) was an American artist and model who contemporaries qualified as "one of the most beautiful men" in the gay social scene of New York City in the 1940s. William Henry Miller (in 1951 legally changed to Christian William Miller) was born in South Orange, New Jersey, on August 7, 1921. From 1938 to 1941 Miller attended the Franklin School of Professional Arts in New York City, obtaining an advertising design major. After his military career Miller attended The New School for Social Research, from 1947 to 1949,

neg: Narnack Records Narnack Records Narnack Records is an independent record label founded in 2002. The label developed in New York City’s underground music scene and quickly became known for its ability for developing new artists, while also working with established bands like the Fall and the Slits. Narnack became home for a diversified group of musicians working with a wide variety of artists, from garage rock, alternative and punk to Americana, folk and dub/reggae. In the spring of 2007, the company relocated from New York to Los Angeles, where it teamed up with Lionsgate Films for distribution. In its new residence, Narnack

neg: Wallace Berman Wallace Berman Wallace Berman (February 18, 1926 – February 18, 1976) was an American experimental filmmaker, assemblage and collage artist and a crucial figure in the history of post-war California art. Wallace Berman was born in Staten Island, New York in 1926. In the 1930s his family moved to Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. Berman was discharged from high school for gambling in the early 1940s and became involved in the West Coast jazz scene. Berman wrote a song with Jimmy Witherspoon. He attended classes at Jepson Art Institute and Chouinard Art Institute in the 1940s. For a few years from

neg: Gil Robbins Gil Robbins Gilbert Lee "Gil" Robbins (April 3, 1931April 5, 2011) was an American folk singer, folk musician and actor. Robbins was a former member of the folk band, The Highwaymen. The "New York Times" described Robbins as a "fixture on the folk-music scene." He was the father of actor and director Tim Robbins. Robbins was born in Spokane, Washington, in 1931, the son of Agnes J. (née Hughes) and Richard Lee Robbins. He moved with his family to Los Angeles, California, when he was less than one year old. Robbins began playing with the percussion section of the Long

neg: Music history of the United States in the 1950s Oklahoman immigrants to California, who had fled unemployment and drought. The late 1940s and the early 1950s saw the beginning of popular folk music with groups like The Weavers. The Kingston Trio, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Odetta, and several other performers were instrumental in launching the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s. By the late 1950s, a revival of Appalachian folk music was taking place across the country, and bands like The Weavers were paving the way for future mainstream stars like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. Bluegrass was similarly revitalized and updated by artists including Tony Rice,

neg: New wave music Romantic era. Beginning at "Bowie and Roxy Music" themed nights at these clubs, the scene was spearheaded by Steve Strange of Visage, with other soon-to-be pop acts also as regular fixtures such as Boy George of Culture Club, and Spandau Ballet. Around the same time, Duran Duran emerged from a similar scene in Birmingham. Many of the acts that arose from the New Romantic club scene adopted synthpop in their own music, though all would credit David Bowie and Roxy Music as primary influences, both musically and visually. Kraftwerk were acclaimed for their groundbreaking use of synthesizers. Their 1975 pop

neg: New York State Route 45 as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York. It was renumbered to New York State Route 94 in the early 1940s before becoming NY 45 on January 1, 1949. NY 45 begins at the New Jersey–New York border in Chestnut Ridge. Although the first NY 45 reassurance shield is a quarter-mile north of the state line, the reference marker below the "Welcome to New York" sign at the crossing indicates the beginning of NY 45. NY 45 runs parallel to the small portion of the Garden State Parkway (GSP) that enters New York. Officially this portion

neg: Susan Werner her own on acoustic guitar. Performing around Philadelphia, Boston, and New York City, Susan began making a name for herself in the folk scene of the early 1990s. She recorded five albums from 1993 to 2001, and in 2001 she moved to Chicago. Her first five albums were all in the folk genre, but Werner's sixth album, "I Can't Be New" (2004), was a substantial departure, with original material in the vein of Tin Pan Alley, cabaret, and early jazz torch songs. Werner's seventh album, "The Gospel Truth", was released in March 2007 and addresses themes of religion, faith, social

neg: Ithaca, New York band John Brown's Body, Kurt Riley, and X Ambassadors. Old-time music is a staple and folk music is featured weekly on WVBR-FM's "Bound for Glory", North America's longest-running live folk concert broadcast. The Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance, hosted by local band Donna the Buffalo, is held annually during the third week in July in the nearby village of Trumansburg, with more than 60 local, national and international acts. Ithaca is the center of a thriving live music scene, featuring over 200 groups playing most genres of American popular music, the predominant genres being Folk, Rock, Blues,

neg: The City of Your Final Destination the Gund family to authorize the biography. Most of the story in the novel takes place in a small town in Uruguay. The novel's beginning chapter takes place in Lawrence, Kansas, where the protagonist is a graduate student at the University of Kansas. The story ends at New York City Opera Hall. "(in order of appearance)" The soundtrack contains the following music: It had an early preview in New York City on November 27, 2007 (at the ceremony of the "Trophée des Arts" for James Ivory from the French Institute New York). In October 2009, James Ivory brought the film

neg: Lord Invader copyright. In the early 1940s, radio stations in the USA refused to play his own version on the grounds of its using the trademarked name, Coca-Cola, and its references to prostitution and alcohol. He stayed in New York for a few years because of the lengthy court case. During his tenure in New York City, he became a fixture in the local calypso scene and recorded many tracks for Moses Asch. Eventually, he won his court case, but did not receive his settlement check for seven years, so he returned to Trinidad in the meantime. He opened a calypso club

neg: Bunky and Jake Music label (cassette, 1993 and CD, 2004.) Skinner died on Sunday, March 20, 2011 after a brief illness. , Jacobs lives in Manhattan. In October 2012, Jacobs released a new collection of songs on a 16-song CD entitled "A Lick and a Promise" by Jake and the Rest of the Jewels. Bunky and Jake Bunky and Jake were an American folk rock duo, who were a part of the New York folk music scene in the 1960s and 1970s. They merged folk, rock, R&B and blues. They are influenced heavily from the 50s classic pop and rock, such as Nolan

neg: Weegee the police to be first at the scene of a crime, selling his photographs to tabloids and photographic agencies. His photographs, centered around Manhattan police headquarters, were soon published by the "Herald Tribune", "World-Telegram", "Daily News", "New York Post", "New York Journal American", "Sun", and others. In 1957, after developing diabetes, he moved in with Wilma Wilcox, a Quaker social worker whom he had known since the 1940s, and who cared for him and then cared for his work. He traveled extensively in Europe until 1968, working for the "Daily Mirror" and on a variety of photography, film, lecture, and

neg: Ray Platnick Air for Radio station WHLI in Hempstead, for which he interviewed professional and amateur photographers for a mostly amateur audience. By 1949, after "PM" folded, he had moved to the "New York Star". His photographs were taken up by pictorial magazines; "LIFE" included one of his pictures in a story on the paucity of teachers’ salaries, and in 1973 "Ebony" magazine re-used one of his 1940s photographs of Joe Lewis. Platnick's approach and style was that of the 1940s press corps, pre-35mm, in his invariable use of on-camera flash on a 4”x5” Speed Graphic press camera or similar; the scene

neg: Agricantus the beginning of the eighties, the band was part of the popular Sicilian folk scene (Rosa Balistreri, famous folk-singer, Ignazio Buttitta, famous popular poetry, Ciccio Busacca, famous street story-singer, and other artists) drawing encouragement and inspiration to pursue their own path and engaging actively in the promotion of popular music in Sicily. the grou was founded in 1984 in Palermo and performed in numerous concerts throughout Europe and in prestigious occasions such as folk music and world music festivals. Agricantus developed a mature musical language at the beginning of the nineties with the release of Gnanzù! which was dedicated to

neg: Roots revival like Mercedes Sosa and Atahualpa Yupanqui, who helped spawn the nueva canción scene. Bolivian music: The 1950s saw an increase in nationalist identity surrounding the Quechua and Aymara peoples, and a number of intellectuals began associating themselves with folk music, clothing, cuisine and other elements. By the mid-1960s, a folk revival was blossoming, led by Edgar Jofré. Brazilian music: Beginning in the 1950s and continuing for several decades, a multitude of Brazilian styles (most importantly samba) and imported American jazz combined to create the wildly popular bossa nova scene. This soon evolved into the politically charged Tropicalia genre, which starred

neg: Queer as Folk (U.S. TV series) episode of the series. It ends with a final narration by Michael: The American version of "Queer as Folk" quickly became the number one show on the Showtime roster. The network's initial marketing of the show was primarily targeted at gay male (and to some extent, lesbian) audiences, yet a sizeable segment of the viewership turned out to be heterosexual women. Groundbreaking scenes abounded in "Queer as Folk", beginning with the first episode, containing the first simulated sex scene between two men shown on American television (including mutual masturbation, anal sex, and rimming), albeit more tame than the scene it