Oh, brave new world ...
Apr. 12th, 2020 04:47 pmFolk on Foot (it's a podcast, apparently:
helenraven was making encouraging noises about podcasts, and here's one I'd listen to) is organising a virtual folk festival tomorrow, the Front Room Festival. I don't really know how this will work, but there are some splendid musicians involved, and tomorrow I will find out ...
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Date: 2020-04-12 09:33 pm (UTC)I definitely like several of those people.
(Oh, God, Peggy Seeger, stay safe.)
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Date: 2020-04-13 08:29 pm (UTC)She sang at Brandeis in a concert that was so intimate she sat on the edge of the stage and people in the audience contributed songs and I ended up teaching her the version of "Wild Mountain Thyme" that a friend and I had written for the solstice. I don't know if she's ever performed it, but I like knowing that she knows it.
Of course, I do want to hear the other story.
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Date: 2020-04-14 04:10 pm (UTC)Oh, now that's what I call a good story! Mine isn't in that class, but it's a piece of family history: friends of my parents (the wife had been a colleague of my mother) both US citizens, not born in the US but had met and married there, returning to the States via India, where she had been born, to teach there for a year - which is why they passed the record on to us. Later - much later - she and my father married.