Tag: Folk music

Bette Midler, Berry Gordy among new Kennedy Center honorees

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WASHINGTON — The Kennedy Center Honors will return in December with a class that includes Motown Records creator Berry Gordy, “Saturday Night Live” mastermind...

Greek popular folk singer Tolis Voskopoulos dies at age 80

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ATHENS, GREECE — Tolis Voskopoulos, a popular Greek folk singer, songwriter and actor whose career spanned more than six decades, has died. He was...

Guitarist quits Mumford & Sons to ‘speak freely’ on politics

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LONDON — Winston Marshall, a founding member of folk-rock group Mumford & Sons, announced Thursday that is leaving the band so that he can...

Juanes visits the origins of his inspiration in 10th album

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NEW YORK — After experimenting with different types of music, Juanes returns to his roots with “Origen,” a covers album in which he pays...

Jason Isbell, Amythyst Kiah lead Americana music awards

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Singer-songwriters Jason Isbell and Amythyst Kiah are both up for three nominations at this year's Americana Honors and Awards show, which...

‘Head lesbian,’ singer and feminist, Alix Dobkin, dies at 80

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NEW YORK — The lesbian singer and feminist activist who appeared in an iconic and recently resurgent 1975 photo wearing a t-shirt that read...

Biden meets with Kennedy Center honorees at White House

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden spent Thursday morning in a star-studded meeting with this year’s Kennedy Center honorees. ...

Bruce Springsteen receives this year’s Woody Guthrie Prize

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TULSA, Okla. — Bruce Springsteen has won the 2021 Woody Guthrie Prize, which is given to an artist seen as carrying on the spirit...

IOC approves Tchaikovsky music as Russian anthem at Olympics

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Russian gold medalists at the Tokyo Olympics are set to hear music by Tchaikovsky as the replacement for their national anthem,...

Review: Carlile shows rugged resilience in ‘Broken Horses’

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“Broken Horses,” Brandi Carlile (Crown) Armed with a powder-blue cowboy...