| Harmer, Swick top nominees in Hamilton Music Awards | | Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:07:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | Sarah Harmer and Tomi Swick have five nominations each to lead strong field of contenders for the third annual Hamilton Music Awards. Not far behind on the nomination list was Kathleen Edwards, a Hamilton-based singer-songwriter who has established an international reputation for her latest roots-based CD, Back to Me. Tom Wilson, a dominant figure on the local music scene for two decades, picked up three nominations for his latest solo album, Dog Years, while his folk/roots band Blackie and the Rodeo Kings received another two for their new release, Let's Frolic. Wilson will also co-host the HMA awards show with CHTV's Wendy Wolfe Nov. 18 at the Dofasco Centre for the Arts where the winners will be announced. Harmer, a Juno-winning Burlington native whose I'm A Mountain CD made the top-10 list in the recent Polaris Awards for top Canadian album of the year, received HMA nominations for Album of the Year and Female Artist of the Year, as well as for best songwriter, female vocalist and roots album.... | |
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| | | PBS looks at preserver of folk music | | Posted Monday, September 04, 2006 1:31:25 AM by Blog57 Team | | You may not know his name but almost every recording of early blues and folk performers can be traced to Lomax's work in the field, using primitive equipment to record music and interviews of obscure performers in the South and in Europe, beginning in the 1930s. Lomax is the subject of a new documentary, Lomax the Songhunter on PBS's P.O.V. (tonight at 11 p.m. on WPBT-Ch. 2, 3 a.m. on WXEL-Ch. 42). Filmmaker Rogier Kappers obviously idolizes Lomax, who could be charming and arrogant, depending upon the circumstances. Kappers retraces Lomax's trip through Europe in the early 1950s when he recorded villagers, many for the first time, singing and dancing to traditional songs. Too-brief appearances by Leadbelly, Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, all of whom Lomax captured on cumbersome acetate discs, are woven with European villagers, some of whom recall visits with Lomax 50 years ago.... | |
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| | | Yorkshire folk are 'most opinionated' | | Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 3:09:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | A survey has found the people of Yorkshire - home county of cricket authority Geoff Boycott - to be the most opinionated in the country. (Picture: Reuters) The poll found 93 per cent of Yorkshire folk would readily give their opinion on a range of subjects from politics to relationships. The poll by community website Yahoo! Answers found that across Britain an average 85 per cent of those questioned said they would offer their opinions. But only 75 per cent said they .... | |
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| | | Folk music's real deal -- not just an Idol | | Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 9:02:17 PM by Blog57 Team | | Living through hard times has never been essential to making it in the music business, but the true legends have always paid their dues. The old-school rule: You have to experience life in order to sing about it. But the process has been reduced to a public popularity contest, which can be seen in TV talent shows such as the current campaigns of Canadian Idol, Rock Star: Supernova and the upcoming The One: Making of a Music Star, the ABC/CBC co-venture in which former MuchMusic personality George Stroumboulopoulos will steer young unknowns through a musical boot camp that will presumably take one to the top of the pops. Television has certainly made instant stardom easier, but there's still something to be said for the real thing. .... | |
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| | | Precisionsound Releases Indian Harmonium For HALion, Kontakt, And SoundFont | | Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 11:09:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Harmonium is an essential part of Indian music and could be described as a hybrid of an accordion and a pump organ. The characteristic sound could be heard in most Indian folk music and in contemporary music influenced by the "sound of India." The SampleSet contains 228 stereo 24bit wav files divided into 8 programs each for the HALion & Kontakt versions and 7 programs for SoundFont. The HALion & Kontakt programs has separated key sounds for the attack and release samples incorporated in the programs while the SoundFont version has these samples in separated programs. .... | |
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