Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn let their award-winning music reflect these ‘interesting times’
But on “Echo in the Valley,” Fleck’s upcoming third album as a duo with his wife, Abigail Washburn, Fleck winds up in the surprisingly traditional realm of protest music
http://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/music-news-reviews/bluegrass-raleigh/article175768106.html
Upcoming Shows
9/30/2017 – Rev. Billy C. Wirtz
10/7/2017 – Red Clay Ramblers 1990
10/14/2017 – Scott Ainslie 1988 and 1986
10/21/2017 – Pierce Pettis 1989
10/28/2017 – Joe & Odell Thompson
11/4/2017 – John Dee Holeman & Fris Holloway 1985 & 1989
11/11/2017 – Seldom Scene 1988 set one
Classic Eno Festival Live airs each Saturday at 11 AM Eastern on WHUP-LP 104.7, Hillsborough, NC, streaming at www.whupfm.org
The previous two weeks episodes stream at https://whupfm.org/show/classic-eno-festival-live/
Lunny will be honoured for his contribution to traditional music, and his career as a founding member of Planxty, The Bothy Band and Moving Hearts. The award has gone in the past to Pete Seeger, the American folk singer and activist, and Mavis Staples, the gospel singer and civil rights campaigner, as well as to Dylan.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/global-folk-leaders-honour-donal-lunny-m2qnrzwgl
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Learn more via Aaron Keck’s interview of Art Menius on WCHL-FM 97.9 September 12, 2017
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Play Guitar in 7 Days: The new album from master Blue Ridge musician Jim Lloyd is now available to DJs and print media as a download or in hard copy CD.
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Play Guitar in 7 Days
Recorded at Eastwood Studios
Produced by Wesley Easter & Jim Lloyd
Anyway, as a result of this increased market power, the big superstar companies have been raising their prices and cutting their wages. This has lifted profits and boosted the stock market, but it has also held down real wages, diverted more of the nation’s income to business owners, and increased inequality. It has also held back productivity, since raising prices restricts economic output.
https://shadowproof.com/2017/08/30/gil-scott-herons-fbi-file/
Shadowproof obtained 28 pages of FBI records regarding Gil Scott-Heron under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Born in Chicago in 1949, Scott-Heron was a renowned African-American poet and musician, perhaps most famous for his 1974 album, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.”
The declassified records include a memo to the FBI Director about a party thrown by the socialist All African People’s Revolutionary Party, at which Scott-Heron was scheduled to speak. The memo states that its contents concern an “extremist matter.”
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