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Wikisource
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Wikisource is an online digital library of free content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikisource is the name of the project as a whole and the name for each instance of that project, the projects aims are to host all forms of free text, in many languages, and translations. Originally conceived as an archive to store useful or important historical texts, the project officially began in November 24,2003 under the name Project Sourceberg. The name Wikisource was adopted later that year and it received its own domain name seven months later, the project has come under criticism for lack of reliability but it is also cited by organisations such as the National Archives and Records Administration. The project holds works that are either in the domain or freely licensed, professionally published works or historical source documents, not vanity products. Verification was initially made offline, or by trusting the reliability of digital libraries. Now works are supported by online scans via the ProofreadPage extension, some individual Wikisources, each representing a specific language, now only allow works backed up with scans. While the bulk of its collection are texts, Wikisource as a whole hosts other media, some Wikisources allow user-generated annotations, subject to the specific policies of the Wikisource in question. Wikisources early history included several changes of name and location, the original concept for Wikisource was as storage for useful or important historical texts. These texts were intended to support Wikipedia articles, by providing evidence and original source texts. The collection was focused on important historical and cultural material. The project was originally called Project Sourceberg during its planning stages, in 2001, there was a dispute on Wikipedia regarding the addition of primary source material, leading to edit wars over their inclusion or deletion. Project Sourceberg was suggested as a solution to this, perhaps Project Sourceberg can mainly work as an interface for easily linking from Wikipedia to a Project Gutenberg file, and as an interface for people to easily submit new work to PG. Wed want to complement Project Gutenberg--how, exactly, and Jimmy Wales adding like Larry, Im interested that we think it over to see what we can add to Project Gutenberg. It seems unlikely that primary sources should in general be editable by anyone -- I mean, Shakespeare is Shakespeare, unlike our commentary on his work, the project began its activity at ps. wikipedia. org. The contributors understood the PS subdomain to mean either primary sources or Project Sourceberg, however, this resulted in Project Sourceberg occupying the subdomain of the Pashto Wikipedia. A vote on the name changed it to Wikisource on December 6,2003. Despite the change in name, the project did not move to its permanent URL until July 23,2004, since Wikisource was initially called Project Sourceberg, its first logo was a picture of an iceberg
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Arthur Rackham
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Arthur Rackham was an English book illustrator. Rackham was born in Lewisham, then part of Kent as one of 12 children. In 1884, at the age of 17, he was sent on a voyage to Australia to improve his fragile health. At the age of 18, he worked as a clerk at the Westminster Fire Office, in 1892, he left his job and started working for the Westminster Budget as a reporter and illustrator. Book illustrating then became Rackhams career for the rest of his life and this was developed further through the austere years of the Boer War with regular contributions to childrens periodicals such as Little Folks and Cassells Magazine. In 1901 he moved to Wychcombe Studios near Haverstock Hill, edith suffered a miscarriage in 1904, but the couple had one daughter, Barbara, in 1908. M. Barries Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, published by Hodder & Stoughton. Income from the books was greatly augmented by annual exhibitions of the artwork at the Leicester Galleries, Rackham won a gold medal at the Milan International Exhibition in 1906 and another one at the Barcelona International Exposition in 1912. His works were included in exhibitions, including one at the Louvre in Paris in 1914. From 1906 the family lived in Chalcot Gardens, near Haverstock Hill, until moving from London to Houghton, in 1929 the family settled into a newly built property in Limpsfield, Surrey. Arthur Rackham died in 1939 of cancer at his home, during that period, there was a strong market for high quality illustrated books which typically were given as Christmas gifts. Many of Rackhams books were produced in a de luxe limited edition, often vellum bound and sometimes signed, as well as a larger and this was often followed by a more modestly presented octavo edition in subsequent years for particularly popular books. The onset of the war in 1914 curtailed the market for such quality books, arthur Rackhams works have become very popular since his death, both in North America and Britain. His images have been used by the greeting card industry. His original drawings and paintings are keenly sought at the international art auction houses. Rackhams illustrations were based on robust pen and India ink drawings. He would first lightly block in shapes and details of the drawing with a soft pencil, over this he would then carefully work in lines of pen and India ink, removing the pencil traces after the drawing had begun to take form. For colour pictures, he would begin painting by building up multiple thin washes of watercolour creating translucent tints. He would also go on to expand the use of cuts in illustration work, particularly in the period after the First World War, as exemplified by his Sleeping Beauty
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Child Ballads
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The Child Ballads are 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, anthologized by Francis James Child during the second half of the 19th century. Their lyrics and Childs studies of them were published as the 2, the tunes of most of the ballads were collected and published by Bertrand Harris Bronson in and around the 1960s. There were also comprehensive ballad collections from other countries, Child modelled his work on Svend Grundtvigs Danmarks gamle Folkeviser, classifying and numbering the ballads and noting different versions, which were placed side by side to aid comparison. As a result, one Child number may cover several ballads, conversely, ballads classified separately may contain turns of phrase, and even entire verses, that are identical. The ballads vary in age, for instance, the manuscript of Judas dates to the thirteenth century, the majority of the ballads, however, date to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although some are claimed to have very ancient influences, only a handful can be traced to before 1600. Moreover, few of the tunes collected are as old as the words, nevertheless, Childs collection was far more comprehensive than any previous collection of ballads in English. Many of Childs ballads were obtained from printed broadsides, but he distinguished the traditional ballads that interested him from later broadside ballads. As Child died before writing a commentary on his work, it is exactly how and why he selected some ballads. Child Ballads are generally heavier and darker than is usual for ballads, on one extreme, some Child Ballads recount identifiable historical people, in known events, embellished for dramatic effect. On the other, some differ from fairy tales solely by their songs and in verse. A large part of the collection is about Robin Hood, some are about King Arthur, a few of the ballads are rather bawdy. The editorial history of Childs publication received a study by Mary Ellen Brown in 2011. In 1860, Child published a collection entitled English and Scottish Ballads, generally presenting just one variant of each ballad, via Little, Brown. However, as a scholarly edition this was superseded by his later, the first edition of Childs book was, once complete, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, ed. by Francis James Child,5 vols. It was printed in one thousand copies, and actually issued in ten parts, the final title pages for each of the five volumes, printed in red and black, were issued with part 10. Part 10 actually emerged after Childs death, and was edited by George Lyman Kittredge, the book was reprinted, this time physically in three volumes, in 1957 by the New York-based Folklore Press, in association with the Pageant Book Company. It was reprinted again in 1965 in New York by Dover, this time with an essay by Walter Morris Hart entitled Professor Child, many Child Ballads have subsequently appeared in contemporary music recordings
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Ballad
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A ballad /ˈbæləd/ is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally danced songs, Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of the British Isles from the later medieval period until the 19th century. They were widely used across Europe, and later in the Americas, Australia, Ballads are 13 lines with an ABABBCBC form, consisting of couplets of rhymed verse, each of 14 syllables. Many ballads were written and sold as single sheet broadsides, the form was often used by poets and composers from the 18th century onwards to produce lyrical ballads. In the later 19th century, the took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and is now often used for any love song. The ballad derives its name from medieval French dance songs or ballares, from which ballet is also derived, as a narrative song, their theme and function may originate from Scandinavian and Germanic traditions of storytelling that can be seen in poems such as Beowulf. Musically they were influenced by the Minnesinger, the earliest example of a recognizable ballad in form in England is Judas in a 13th-century manuscript. This means that the two words, ballad and ballet, are derived from the French language. Ballads were originally written to accompany dances, and so were composed in couplets with refrains in alternate lines and these refrains would have been sung by the dancers in time with the dance. Most northern and west European ballads are written in ballad stanzas or quatrains of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, known as ballad meter. Usually, only the second and fourth line of a quatrain are rhymed, there is considerable variation on this pattern in almost every respect, including length, number of lines and rhyming scheme, making the strict definition of a ballad extremely difficult. Ballads usually use the dialect of the people and are heavily influenced by the region in which they originate. Scottish ballads in particular are distinctively un-English, even showing some pre-Christian influences in the inclusion of elements such as the fairies in the Scottish ballad Tam Lin. The ballads do not have any known author or correct version, instead, having passed down mainly by oral tradition since the Middle Ages. The ballads remained a tradition until the increased interest in folk songs in the 18th century led collectors such as Bishop Thomas Percy to publish volumes of popular ballads. In all traditions most ballads are narrative in nature, with a story, often concise, and rely on imagery, rather than description. Themes concerning rural laborers and their sexuality are common, and there are many ballads based on the Robin Hood legend. Another common feature of ballads is repetition, sometimes of fourth lines in succeeding stanzas, as a refrain, sometimes of third and fourth lines of a stanza and sometimes of entire stanzas
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Thomas Ravenscroft
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Thomas Ravenscroft was an English musician, theorist and editor, notable as a composer of rounds and catches, and especially for compiling collections of British folk music. Little is known of Ravenscrofts early life and he probably sang in the choir of St. Pauls Cathedral from 1594, when a Thomas Raniscroft was listed on the choir rolls and remained there until 1600 under the directorship of Thomas Giles. He received his bachelors degree in 1605 from Cambridge, some of the music he compiled has acquired extraordinary fame, though his name is rarely associated with the music, for example Three Blind Mice first appears in Deuteromelia. He also published a metrical psalter in 1621, as a composer, his works are mostly forgotten but include 11 anthems,3 motets for five voices and 4 fantasias for viols. As a writer, he wrote two treatises on music theory, A Briefe Discourse of the True Use of Charactring the Degrees, and A Treatise of Musick, D. M. Bidgood Folk Music Journal, Vol.4, No. 1, pp. 24-34 Thomas Ravenscroft, Musical Chronicler of an Elizabethan Theater Company Linda Phyllis Austern Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol.38, No. 2, pp. 238-263 Article DOI,10. 2307/831565 The Sacred Music of Thomas Ravenscroft Ian Payne Early Music, Vol.10, No
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Francis James Child
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Francis James Child was an American scholar, educator, and folklorist, best known today for his collection of English and Scottish ballads now known as the Child Ballads. Child was Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard University, in 1876 he was named Harvards first Professor of English, a position which allowed him to focus on academic research. It was during this time that he work on the Child Ballads. The Child Ballads were published in five volumes between 1882 and 1898, while Child was primarily a literary scholar with little interest in the music of the ballads, his work became a major contribution to the study of English-language folk music. Francis James Child was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the family was poor, but thanks to the city of Bostons system of free public schools, the boy was educated at the Bostons Grammar and English High Schools. At Harvard, Frank excelled in all classes and also read widely outside his studies for his own pleasure and he was graduated in 1846, topping his class in all subjects and was chosen Class Orator by his graduating class, who received his valedictory speech with tumultuous applause. Upon graduation Child was appointed tutor in mathematics at Harvard and in 1848 was transferred to a tutorship in history, political economy, in 1848, Child published a critically annotated edition of Four Old Plays of the early English Renaissance. There were then no graduate schools in America, but a loan from a benefactor, bowditch, to whom the book was dedicated, enabled Child to take a leave of absence from his teaching duties to pursue his studies in Germany. In 1851, at the age of 26, Child succeeded Edward T, channing as Harvards Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, a position he held until Adams Sherman Hill was appointed to the professorship in 1876. Harvard had at time a enrollment of 382 undergraduates and a faculty of 14, including the president of the University. As a mathematician, wrote folklore scholar David E, the volumes on the works of Edmund Spenser and the English and Scottish Ballads, Child edited himself. Child planned an edition of the works of Chaucer, as well. He soon realized that this could not be done, however, Childs linguistic researches are largely responsible for how Chaucerian grammar, pronunciation, and scansion are now generally understood. Childs largest undertaking, however, grew out of the original English and Scottish Ballads volume in his British Poets series, the material for this volume was mostly derived from texts in previously published books. Child and Furnivall then went on to found The Ballad Society, with a view to publishing other important early ballad collections, thereafter, Child devoted himself to the comparative study of British vernacular ballads, using methods adopted from historical comparative philology to arrive at the earliest attested versions. Child considered that folk ballads came from a more time in the past when society was not so rigidly segregated into classes. He conceived the people as comprising all the classes of society, rich, middle, and poor, although Child concentrated his collections on manuscript texts with a view to determining their chronology, he also gave a sedulous but conservative hearing to popular versions still surviving. 1–12, was the model for Childs resulting canonical five-volume edition of some 305 English and Scottish ballads, worked and overworked to the last, he died in Boston after completing his task – apart from a planned general introduction and bibliography
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Vernon Hill (sculptor)
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Vernon Hill, born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, was a sculptor, lithographer, illustrator and draughtsman. He began his work in print-making and lithography, and branched out into other artistic forms and he illustrated several works and created etchings. Vernon Hill was born in 1887 in Halifax, Yorkshire and he began formal training in print-making at an early age, at the age 13 he was apprenticed to a lithographer. In about 1908, at the age of 21, Hill moved to London and took up poster illustration, working under John Hassall, from 1909 to 1914 Hill received commissions for work as an illustrator on various projects. He created Art Nouveau illustrations for Stephen Phillips The New Inferno in 1911 and for Richard Pearse Chopes Ballads Weird, in 1912 one of his works was exhibited at the Royal Academy. His etchings were described by Campbell Fine Art as follows, The distinctive allegorical etchings of Vernon Hill are all now scarce and his most notable work as a sculptor is to be seen on various buildings by Sir Edward Maufe, who regularly commissioned Hill. Some of Hills finest work can be seen at Guildford Cathedral in Guildford, apart from the reliefs on the south door entrance he carved the angels on the sedilia inside the cathedral, as well as the tongues of flame on the pulpit and lectern. He also carved the arms of Bishop Greig over the inside of the sacristy door, at the east door of the south porch are two magnificent bronze doors set under two arches which feature Vernon Hill’s reliefs. These are depictions of various occupations, of men and women. Hill sculpted the Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede, designed by Maufe, overlooking the Thames Valley, the memorial commemorates the more than 20,000 Royal Air Force servicemen and -women who died during World War II and have no known graves. The panels of inscriptions bear their names, among Hills works are the architectural sculptures of Courage, Victory and Justice, which adorn the entry to the shrine on the north side of the triple arched portico by the cloisters. Maufe was the architect for the re-building of St Columbas Church, Pont Street, London, Hill provided interior and exterior stone sculptures for the construction between 1950 and 1955. Maufe described the work as of an especial beauty. Also commissioned by Maufe, Hill completed a sculpture of the arms of St Johns College, Cambridge. Hill sculpted several works out of Weldon stone for Maufes church of St Thomas the Apostle and these included a sculpture of doves over the north door and one of two birds eating a bunch of grapes, depicting the Communion, over the west door. He also carved a Virgin and Child and a font, the font includes symbols for Christ, such as the ΙΧΘΥΣ cypher and an image of a fish. He also made a sculpture of Saint Christopher
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Alexander James Adams
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Alexander James Adams is an American singer, musician and songwriter in the Celtic and World music genres. He blends mythical, fantasy, and traditional themes in performances and he has also been a popular and influential artist in the field of filk music. Adams performed as Heather Alexander for 25 years before beginning to tour as Alexander James Adams and his website refers to him as the heir to Heather Alexander, and continues to credit songs originally released as Heather Alexander under that name. The last public performance as Heather was at OryCon 2006 and his debut as Alexander James Adams was at Seattles Norwescon 30, on 6 April 2007. A native of California, Alexander began performing music in the mid-eighties for friends, Renaissance fairs. Off Centaur Publications was recording performances at one convention and asked to include Alexander and this began an association where Alexander recorded for Off Centaur and later Firebird Arts and Music, primarily work for hire. In the late 1980s Alexander co-founded the Celtic fusion rock band Phoenyx, the band disbanded in 1991 after achieving a high degree of local fame, and that album is no longer in print. Alexander returned to a solo career, Firebird Arts & Music produced a live album which did well enough to inspire Alexander to create a label for the release Wanderlust 1994. Two live concert albums and several studio albums have followed, Alexander also moved to the Pacific Northwest, settling in Banks, Oregon in 2002. In 2001, Alexander founded a new band, Uffington Horse, together with Andrew Hare and Dan Ochipinti, in 2004, a limited run of the Uffington Horse promotional CD was offered to fans to help finance recording their first studio album, Enchantment, published in 2004. In 2002, Heather Alexander told Strange Horizons that I tend to think of myself as a musical entertainer, I sing, play, compose, and tell stories. In early 2007 Adams transitioned to male and since April 2007 has performed in many of the venues that he had played as Heather Alexander. He has played with Uffington Horse and has formed a new band, Tricky Pixie, with S. J. Tucker. In summer 2007, the released a recording of their first concert. Which is the earliest released recording of Adams voice, Adams first post-transition solo album, Cat & The Fiddle, was entirely instrumental. Balance of Nature, released in fall 2007, mixed a few of his works with new songs. In November 2007, Adams released the Yule album Wintertide, featuring duets between both Adams and Heather Alexanders voices, as noted in Adams interview in Just Out, Wintertide is the first album with a series of these duets. A Familiar Promise, released in July 2008, also includes duets between both voices, several of the Firebird Arts and Music albums include collaborations with Mercedes Lackey and inspired by the works of Andre Norton
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Bishnu Priya
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Bishi, born Bishnu Priya is a British singer, musician and DJ. She is a London-based multi-instrumentalist strongly influenced by visits to the Ravi Shankar School in Delhi. Bishi was first recognised in 2001 as the central DJ & face of Londons experimental underground nightclub, born in London to a Bengali family, Musician/Artist/Performer Bishi Bishi was classically trained in the piano & received voice training in both Hindustani & Western Classical styles. Her mother Susmita Bhattacharya, is an acclaimed Bishi also received training in the Sitar under Gaurav Mazumdar and her musical influences also include English folk and disco. Bishis panoramic exploration of music reached as far as singing with The London Bulgarian Choir & ancient English folk music to exploring the extended techniques of Meredith Monk. Bishi began her career in The Sound Storm - an improvised electro acoustic performance art troupe led by London night club legend Matthew Glamorre. Whilst in her teens, she inaugurated, various cult London nightclubs such as The Siren Suite, & Kashpoint as a resident DJ, with creative partner Matthew Hardern. The pair have so far, released two albums in collaboration, Nights at The Circus, and Albion Voice, Bishi is characterised by her glamorous and extravagant stage appearance. Bishi appeared as a guest at the premiere of Double Fantasy Live. Media appearances include the BBCs Culture Show and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, recently she has attracted critical attention and been nominated for the 2008 South Bank Show Awards – the Times Breakthrough Award. Her first album Nights at the Circus was described as Falling somewhere between M. I. A. and Simon and Garfunkel via a stint at music college, with Bishi being hailed as a welcome breath of air. The album was performed in its entirety with the strings of The London Symphony Orchestra in June 2008 at LSO St Lukes, also in 2008 she was asked to join a tour of the English female singers The Daughters of Albion alongside the likes of Norma Waterson and June Tabor. She has toured and collaborated with close friend Patrick Wolf and ex-Moloko singer Roisin Murphy and she appeared on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on Friday 3 October, singing Never Seen Your Face. In March 2009 Bishi was commissioned by The British Film Institute, the first live performance was rapturously received at the National Film Theater on Londons South Bank. Bishis live performances explore interactive multimedia & film, Albion Voice, was featured in Julien Temples film, London The Modern Babylon. ‘Dia Ti Maria’ – featuring The Kronos Quartet, won best soundtrack for the Manish Arora film and she released her second album, Albion Voice, digitally on 16 July 2012 via iTunes
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Alfred Deller
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Alfred George Deller, CBE, was an English singer and one of the main figures in popularising the return of the countertenor voice in Renaissance and Baroque music during the 20th century. He is sometimes referred to as the godfather of the countertenor and his style in singing lute song, with extensive use of rubato and extemporised ornamentation, was seen as radical and controversial in his day but is now considered the norm. He also founded the Stour Music Festival in 1962, one of the first and most important early music festivals in the world, Deller was born in Margate, a seaside resort in Kent. As a boy, he sang in his church choir. When his voice broke, he continued singing in his high register, Deller was successively a member of the choirs of Canterbury and St. Pauls Cathedrals. Tippett introduced him to the public as a countertenor, rather than a male alto and he also became better known with a radio broadcast of Henry Purcells Come ye Sons of Art on the BBCs Third Programme when this station was launched in 1946. He concentrated on popularising and recording the music of English Baroque and Renaissance music by such as John Dowland. Throughout the 19th century, it was only in the tradition of all-male cathedral choirs that the voice had survived. In 1948, Deller formed the Deller Consort, a dedicated to historically informed performance. Membership of the Deller Consort changed over the years and it included various baritones and tenors, as well as sopranos April Cantelo Honor Sheppard and Mary Thomas. From 1964, Alfred Dellers son Mark was also a member, in 1972, the Deller Consort performed for the Peabody Mason Concert series in Boston. As well as directing the Consort, Deller also conducted performances with chamber orchestras. In 1960, Deller sang the role of Oberon in Benjamin Brittens opera A Midsummer Nights Dream, britten wrote this role with Deller specifically in mind, although he was dropped from staged revivals of the work against the composers wishes, probably because of poor acting technique. He did record the opera, with the composer conducting, lutenist Desmond Dupré performed with him, initially as a guitarist, other accompanists included harpsichordist and musicologist Walter Bergmann. In later years, he worked with lutenist Robert Spencer and harpsichordists Harold Lester and he recorded for HMV, Vanguard Classics, and Harmonia Mundi. On 16 July 1979, Deller died whilst on holiday in Bologna, Deller and his wife are buried in the churchyard of All Saints Church, Boughton Aluph, Kent. Dellers wife was Peggy, with whom he had three children and he taught at Guildford Cathedral choir school, eventually becoming its headmaster. Deller was a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, in Canterbury Cathedral, a tablet in the south quire aisle commemorates Deller and his work
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Richard Dyer-Bennet
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Richard Dyer-Bennet was an English-born American folk singer, recording artist, and voice teacher. He was born on October 6,1913 in Leicester, England, Dyer-Bennet studied voice with Gertrude Wheeler Beckman and Sven Scholander. He had a stroke in 1972 paralyzing his left side and he stopped giving concerts and he died on December 14,1991 in Monterey, Massachusetts. During his peak years, he gave 50 concerts a year. He recorded extensively for labels, and eventually founded his own, Dyer-Bennet Records. The albums he recorded on his own label have been re-released on CD by Smithsonian Folkways, the CD Richard Dyer-Bennet 1 includes a biographical essay written by Dyer-Bennets daughter, Bonnie, which highlights his progressive politics and his battle with a debilitating stroke in later life. A biography - Richard Dyer-Bennet, The Last Minstrel - by Paul O Jenkins was published in December 2009 by the University Press of Mississippi,1970, The Richard Dyer-Bennet Folk Song Book. 1980, The Odyssey on YouTube Richard Dyer-Bennet Resource Page Dyer Bennet at Smithsonian Folkways
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John Harle
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John Harle is an English saxophonist, composer, educator and record producer. He is an Ivor Novello Award winner and has been the recipient of two Royal Television Society awards. Following his education at the Royal College of Music in London and in Paris with Daniel Deffayet as a French Government Music Scholar, in his early years, he was a member of the band of composer Michael Nyman and orchestrator for film composer Stanley Myers. Expanding from there into scoring for film and television, in the 1990s, he began a career as saxophonist and composer, both artistically and commercially. He was artistic advisor to Sir Paul McCartney for six years, in addition to his own prolific recording, Harle has contributed directly or indirectly to a number of charting songs and albums by others. A jingle he wrote for Nissan in 1993 became the basis of a pop single by Jazzie B. He contributed to the charting albums Terror and Magnificence by Elvis Costello and Sarah Leonard, Harle has also been an educator, serving at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London in the late 1980s as a professor of Saxophone and Chamber Music. He is currently Visiting Professor of Saxophone at the Guildhall School and it also won the 2013 British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors Ivor Novello Award for Best Television Soundtrack. In October 2013 Harle talked on BBC Radio 3s In Tune programme about his recently-released album Art Music, Harle appeared with Marc Almond on the BBCs Front Row radio programme in February 2014 to discuss their collaborative work about Gothic London, The Tyburn Tree. Harle was a guest on the programme in November of that year, to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Adolphe Sax by assessing the contribution of Saxs invention. Harle has written a book on the saxophone, published by Faber Music which is to be released in February 2017. Harle has two sons, writer/curator Dr. Matthew Harle and Columbia Records composer/producer Danny L Harle, official website of John Harle John Harles homepage at Chester Music
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Peter, Paul and Mary
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Peter, Paul and Mary was an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961, during the American folk music revival phenomenon. The trio was composed of songwriter Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey, after the death of Travers in 2009, Yarrow and Stookey continued to perform as a duo under their individual names. Mary Travers said she was influenced by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and the Weavers. In the documentary Peter, Paul & Mary, Carry It On — A Musical Legacy members of the Weavers discuss how Peter, Paul and they recorded their debut album, Peter, Paul and Mary, the following year. It included Lemon Tree,500 Miles, and the Pete Seeger hit tunes If I Had a Hammer, the album was listed in the Billboard Magazine Top Ten for 10 months, including seven weeks in the No.1 position. It remained a main catalog-seller for decades to come, eventually selling two million copies, earning double platinum certification from the RIAA in the United States alone. In 1963 the group also released Puff, the Magic Dragon, with music by Yarrow and words based on a poem that had written by a fellow student at Cornell. Despite urban myths that insist the song is filled with drug references, it is actually about the lost innocence of childhood. That year the group performed If I Had a Hammer and Blowin in the Wind at the 1963 March on Washington, best remembered for the Reverend Martin Luther King, the Bob Dylan song Blowin in the Wind was one of their biggest hit singles. They also sang other Dylan songs, such as The Times They Are a-Changin, Dont Think Twice, Its All Right, and When the Ship Comes In. Their success with Dylans Dont Think Twice, Its All Right helped Dylans The Freewheelin Bob Dylan album rise into the top 30, on January 14,1964, they performed Blowin in the Wind on the Jack Benny television program. Leaving on a Jet Plane became their only No.1 single, in December 1969 and it was the groups sixth million-selling gold single. The track first appeared on their million-selling platinum certified Album 1700, day Is Done, a No.21 hit in June 1969 from the trios Grammy-award winning Peter, Paul and Mommy album, was the last hot 100 hit that the trio recorded. The trio broke up in 1970 to pursue careers and after Peter Yarrows arrest. Years later, Yarrow received a pardon from Jimmy Carter. Travers recorded five solo LPs and did concerts and lectures across the United States and she also produced, wrote, and starred in a BBC-TV series. Stookey formed a Christian music group called the Body Works Band, Yarrow co-wrote and produced Mary MacGregors Torn Between Two Lovers and earned an Emmy for three animated TV specials based on Puff the Magic Dragon. In 1972, they reunited for a concert at Madison Square Garden to support George McGoverns presidential campaign and this concert was followed by a 1978 summer reunion tour
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Bert Jansch
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Herbert Bert Jansch was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s, as an acoustic guitarist and he recorded at least 25 albums and toured extensively from the 1960s to the 21st century. In 1968, he co-founded the band Pentangle, touring and recording them until their break-up in 1972. He then took a few years break from music, returning in the late 1970s to work on a series of projects with other musicians and he joined a reformed Pentangle in the early 1980s and remained with them as they evolved through various changes of personnel until 1995. Until his death, Jansch continued to work as a solo artist, Jansch received two Lifetime Achievement Awards at the BBC Folk Awards, one, in 2001, for his solo achievements and the other, in 2007, as a member of Pentangle. The family name is pronounced /ˈjænʃ/ yansh by almost everyone except Jansch himself and he and some close members of his family pronounce it /ˈdʒænʃ/ jansh. Jansch was brought up in the area of Edinburgh known as West Pilton. As a teenager, he acquired a guitar and started visiting a local club run by Roy Guest. There, he met Archie Fisher and Jill Doyle, who introduced him to the music of Big Bill Broonzy, Pete Seeger, Brownie McGhee and he also met and shared a flat with Robin Williamson, who remained a friend when Jansch later moved to London. After leaving school, Jansch took a job as a then, in August 1960, he gave this up. He spent the two years playing one-night stands in British folk clubs. Between 1963 and 1965, Jansch travelled around Europe and beyond, hitch-hiking from place to place and living on earnings from busking and casual musical performances in bars, before leaving Glasgow, he married a 16-year-old girl, Lynda Campbell. It was a marriage of convenience which allowed her to travel with him as she was too young to have her own passport and they split up after a few months and Jansch was eventually repatriated to Britain after catching dysentery in Tangiers. Jansch moved to London where, in the mid-1960s, there was a burgeoning interest in folk music, there, he met the engineer and producer Bill Leader, at whose home they made a recording of Janschs music on a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Leader sold the tape for £100 to Transatlantic Records, who produced an album directly from it, the album Bert Jansch was released in 1965 and went on to sell 150,000 copies. 1 in the UK EP chart and No.27 in the singles chart, also included in Janschs first album was his song Needle of Death, a stark anti-drugs lament written after a friend died of a heroin overdose. In his early career, Jansch was sometimes characterized as a British Bob Dylan, during this period, Jansch described his musical influences as the only three people that Ive ever copied were Big Bill Broonzy, Davy Graham and Archie Fisher. Jansch said, The accompaniment was nicked by a member of one of the most famous rock bands
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Omnia (band)
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Omnia is a self-described neoceltic pagan folk band based in the Netherlands and whose members over the years have had Irish, Dutch, Cornish, Belgian and Persian backgrounds. Their music takes on the form of various routes, from places around the world such as Ireland, England, Cornwall. The Mabon festival and gods such as Cernunnos and Taranis, paganFolk — An album with numerous traditional instruments employed. The style has been compared to the music of the German band Faun, — The witches scene from Shakespeares Macbeth, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe and a poem by Lewis Caroll were set to music on this release. The artwork was created together with Alan Lee, wolf Love — Contains all the different music styles OMNIA is capable of. Includes a free DVD of live material of the 2010 line-up, jabberwocky by Lewis Caroll was set to music on this release. Musick and Poëtree — a 2 disc CD with one recorded with members of the 2011 line-up. Earth Warrior Naked Harp Jennys solo album, prayer Live Religion — Live album recorded in a church with one microphone. PaganFolk At The Fairy Ball — A live album downloadable for free from the official website Live on Earth Cybershaman — A remix album featuring 8 Omnia songs in Trance music and Electronic style, history — Compilation album specifically made and remastered for United States sales. World Of Omnia — Partly a re-mastered compilation of older OMNIA works together with reworked new recordings and two original tracks
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Schelmish
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Schelmish was a German Mittelalter rock band from the city of Bonn. The band originally formed in 1999 for a celebration for band member Des Demonias mother. The language of their songs varies between German, English, Latin, French and several old languages, the band split-up in December 2012, a group of member founded the Electro Folk Rock Band InVictus. The inspiration for forming of Schelmish was the birthday of Des Demonias mother in 1999, musically, Schelmish is rooted in Irish Folk. Today though they are oriented towards Mittelalter Rock. Their first CD Von Räubern, Lumpen und anderen Schelmen was released in 2000 and it features the original line-up of Schelmish and contains traditional medieval songs. The second CD Aequinoctium is also composed only of medieval songs, for the recordings, Balitur joined the band while Igerne and Buchanan departed. On Codex Lascivus, the third CD, released in 2002, for this effort Amsel von Nydeggen, Fragor der Schlagfertige, Sakepharus der Schmierenkomödiant and Septimus joined the band, while, Morbius, Balitur and Bajonne left. This CD includes the instrumental Rotta, which since its release has traditionally played at each of their concerts. Except for the absence of Septimus, the line-up for the fourth album Tempus mutatur is the same as on Codex Lascivus, here they recorded for the first time a bonus track with electric guitars and bass. Michael Rhein of In Extremo appears as a guest singer for Veris Dulcis, after their four studio albums Schelmish produced a maxi single of Si salvas me containing three versions of Si salvas me, the hymn of Satzvey castle in Mechernich, plus another track. This maxi from 2003 is a preview of the subsequent studio album Igni Gena, since this recording, Luzi das L has been a member of Schelmish, while Baccata left for health reasons. With the fifth CD Igni Gena of 2004 the band makes it obvious that their beat has been remarkably stepped as compared to their previous albums, moreover there is a track Ich was ein Chint so wolgetan from Carmina Burana with slight influences from Hip hop/Rap. Again Michael Rhein of In Extremo appears as a guest singer and it also contains a medieval version of Johnny Cashs Ring of Fire with medieval instrumentation and vocals by Dextro. In 2005 Schelmish fulfilled their fans wish for a live album and it contains the full live recording from the 29 January 2005 show at the Kulturfabrik Krefeld. Die Rote Füchsin of Filia Irata appears as guest musician while Amsel von Nydeggen is no part of the band. Two months later their first DVD Coetus was released, moreover the DVD was seen as a farewell project for Amsel von Nydeggen. She can be seen in older recordings and in the film
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Sol Invictus (band)
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Sol Invictus is an English neofolk and neoclassical group fronted by Tony Wakeford. Wakeford has been the sole constant member of the group since its inception, after disbanding his controversial project Above the Ruins, Wakeford returned to the music scene with Sol Invictus in 1987. Since then Sol Invictus has had many contributions, including Sarah Bradshaw, Nick Hall, Céline Marleix-Bardeau, Nathalie Van Keymeulen, Ian Read. Wakeford repeatedly referred to his work as folk noir, in the mid-1990s, Sol Invictus spun off a side project called LOrchestre Noir to explore an even more classically influenced direction. 2005 saw the departure of longtime contributors Roger and Blake, leading to a new line-up including Caroline Jago, Lesley Malone, in 1990, Wakeford formed his own label, Tursa, to release his material and the music of other artists. The World Serpent Distribution Company previously distributed this material worldwide, followed then by Cold Spring Records, in July 2007, the label was re-launched as a partnership with Israeli producer and musician Reeve M Malka. In 2009, Sol Invictus signed to Prophecy Records, in June 2011, Sol Invictus announced the end of their partnership both with Cold Spring Records and musician Andrew King. The name Sol Invictus, which is Latin for the unconquered Sun, the bands imagery and lyrical content, in its early days, was influenced by traditionalism and antipathy towards the modern world and materialism. A superficial interest was the Italian philosopher Julius Evola who Wakeford admits to stealing from for song titles even though he found his books unreadable. A more serious influence was the poet Ezra Pound, I think Pound is one of the greatest poets ever, I disagree with his antisemitism but that should not blind people to his worth as an artist. Wakeford tended to write from a position of doomed Romanticism, which lamented the loss of beauty, love. He saw the American influence on culture as very damaging to Europe, something he expresses with black humour in the song Death of the West. The later albums have seen a turn to a personal writing style, as interest in what Wakeford calls knee-jerk anti-Americanism. Sol Invictus album artwork has often showcased the expressionist paintings of American artist, musician, wakefords mid-1980s membership in the British National Front and the appearance of a track from his band, Above The Ruins, on the No Surrender. Compilation released in 1985 by Rock-O-Rama Records, alongside the Nazi groups Skrewdriver, Sol Invictus on Myspace Review of The Devils Steed Review of Angel Review of Sol Veritas Lux Interview with Tony Wakeford,2006
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Steeleye Span
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Steeleye Span are an English folk rock band formed in 1969. They had four Top 40 albums and achieved a gold record with sales of All Around My Hat. Throughout their history, Steeleye Span have seen many personnel changes and their typical album is a collection of mostly traditional songs with one or two instrumental tracks of jigs and/or reels added, the traditional songs often include some of the Child Ballads. Steeleye Span began in late 1969, when London-born bass player Ashley Hutchings departed Fairport Convention, Fairport had been involved in a road accident in 1969 in which the drummer, Martin Lamble, was killed and other band members injured. They convalesced in a house near Winchester in Hampshire and worked on the album Liege & Lief. Despite the success of the album, Ashley Hutchings and the bands vocalist Sandy Denny left Fairport Convention, in part, Hutchings departed because he wanted to pursue a different, more traditional, direction than the other members of Fairport did at that time. With two female singers, the original line-up was unusual for the time, and indeed, never performed live, as the Woodses departed the band shortly after the release of the debut album. While the first album was traditionally performed – guitars, bass and with a guest drummer – Please to See the King was revolutionary in its hard electric sound, the name Steeleye Span comes from a character in the traditional song Horkstow Grange. The song gives an account of a fight between John Steeleye Span and John Bowlin, neither of whom are proven to have real people. Carthy gave Hart the idea to name the band after the song character, when the band discussed names, they decided to choose among the three suggestions Middlemarch Wait, Iyubidins Wait, and Steeleye Span. Although there were five members in the band, six ballots appeared. Only in 1978 did Hart confess that he had voted twice, the liner notes for their first album include thanks to Carthy for the name suggestion. Shortly after the release of their album, the band brought in manager Jo Lustig. At that time, traditionalists Carthy and Hutchings left the band to pursue purely folk projects and their replacements were electric guitarist Bob Johnson and bass player Rick Kemp, who brought strong rock and blues influences to the sound. Lustig signed them to the Chrysalis record label, for a deal that was to last for ten albums and this proved to be their commercial breakthrough and saw them performing on Top of the Pops for the first time. They often include it as a concert encore and their popularity was also helped by the fact that they often performed as an opening act for fellow Chrysalis artists Jethro Tull. Appropriately enough, their album was entitled Now We Are Six. Produced by Jethro Tulls Ian Anderson, the album includes the epic track Thomas the Rhymer, the attempts at humour continued on Commoners Crown, which included Peter Sellers playing electric ukulele on the final track, New York Girls
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Andreas Scholl
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Andreas Scholl is a German countertenor, a male classical singer in the alto vocal range, specialising in Baroque music. Born into a family of singers, Scholl was enrolled at the age of seven into the boys choir, aged 13, he was chosen from 20,000 choristers gathered in Rome from around the world to sing solo at a Mass held on 4 January 1981. Just four years later, Scholl was offered a place at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and he has since become an instructor at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, succeeding his own teacher, Richard Levitt. Scholls early operatic roles include his standing in for René Jacobs in 1993 at the Théâtre Grévin in Paris, the bulk of Scholls recording career has been with Harmonia Mundi and Decca, and his CDs are among Harmonia Mundis best sellers. Scholl was born on 10 November 1967 in Eltville, Germany, aged 13, Scholl performed the role of the second boy in Mozarts Die Zauberflöte at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, while his sister Elisabeth sang the first boy. That same year he was one of 20,000 choristers from all over the world gathered in Rome for a festival, and was chosen to sing solo at Mass on 4 January 1981, where he met Pope John Paul II. Scholl was 17 when the extent of his ability was recognised by the coach of the Chorbuben from the Darmstadt Music Academy. Since an uncle had introduced Scholl to the voices of Paul Esswood and James Bowman, Scholl sent a demo tape to René Jacobs to evaluate his talent. This resulted in Jacobs inviting Scholl to visit the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, at the Schola, Andreas Scholls teacher was Richard Levitt, followed by Jacobs in his second year. Violinist Chiara Banchini and soprano Emma Kirkby were major influences, as Scholl began to specialise in the music of the Baroque, Scholl additionally studied with soprano Evelyn Tubb and lutenist Anthony Rooley. Andreas Scholl has been teaching interpretation in the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, succeeding his own teacher, Richard Levitt, in 1988 Scholl performed Bachs Christmas Oratorio in Rüdesheim. In 1991 he appeared in Bachs St John Passion, conducted by Philippe Herreweghe in Antwerp, in January 1993 Scholl stood in for René Jacobs at Jacobs request at the Théâtre Grévin in Paris, causing a sensation. Scholls partner that night was the harpsichordist Markus Märkl, who became his constant musical counterpart in the following years, a later performance of Bachs St John Passion was broadcast on Good Friday to a radio audience which included William Christie. Shortly thereafter, Christie and Scholl met on a train, the 1994 recording of Handels Messiah with Les Arts Florissants resulted directly from this meeting. Scholl performed Bachs Mass in B minor in 1995, conducted by Jacobs, in 1998 Scholl and his sister performed in Bachs St Matthew Passion, with Max Ciolek as the Evangelist and Max van Egmond as the vox Christi, in St. Martin, Idstein. Scholl performed the role of Handels Solomon at The Proms. He gave recitals in Wigmore Hall and at the Brighton Festival, Scholls major operatic roles were written for the 18th-century alto castrato Senesino. They include his debut at Glyndebourne in 1998, performing the part of Bertarido in Handels Rodelinda opposite Anna Caterina Antonacci in the title role, Rodelinda was a huge success and Scholl stopped the show according to the Sunday Times
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Libera (choir)
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Libera is an all-boy English vocal group directed by Robert Prizeman. Most members come from the choir of St. Philips, Norbury. The group recruits from a variety of backgrounds in the London area, in addition to recording albums, touring and making regular TV appearances as Libera, the group sings on a weekly basis as part of the full choir of men and boys at parish choral services. Libera is run as a not-for-profit registered UK charity, providing the opportunity for boys to train as vocalists from any background. Members do not get paid for their work within Libera, the groups name comes from its signature song. Libera, which is based on the Libera Me portion of the Requiem Mass, Libera is the Latin singular imperative of liberare, meaning to free. The Anglican parish of St. Philips, Norbury has a choral tradition. Their first non-traditional commercial work was in 1984, when the boys of the St. Philips Choir backed Sal Solo on his song San Damiano, in 1987, the boys of St. Philips Choir released the single Sing Forever. In 1988, the released the single Adoramus. In 1988, the released their first full commercial album. The title track for album was chosen by the BBC as the first Children in Need telethon anthem. The second album, New Day, released in 1990, was the first album to use the name Angel Voices, during the 1990s, the names St. Philips Boy Choir and Angel Voices were both used to refer to the choir. The third album, Angel Voices, was released in 1992 and it was re-released in 1993, with the choir referred to as the St. Philips Boys Choir. Angel Voices 2 was released in 1996 and Angel Voices 3 was released in 1997, both were released under the name of St. Philips Boys Choir, by the record label MCI. In 1999, Robert Prizeman released a single and a CD entitled Libera, the CD contained seven remixes of his original song, Libera. The first 4 tracks feature Libera with Daren Geraghty as the main soloist, in the same year, the choir, calling itself Libera, performed the song on the TV program Sunday Live. In 1999, the choir released another album entitled Libera, published by Warner Classics, from that point on, the choir has been consistently referred to as Libera when acting in its commercial capacity. The next Libera album, Luminosa, was released by Warner Classics in 2001, in 2003, Warner Classics re-released Libera and Luminosa as a two CD set entitled Complete Libera
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Richard Thompson (musician)
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Richard John Thompson, OBE is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He made his début as a recording artist as a member of Fairport Convention in September 1967 and he continues to write and record new material regularly and frequently performs live at venues throughout the world. Thompson was awarded the Orville H. Gibson Award for best acoustic guitar player in 1991, similarly, his songwriting has earned him an Ivor Novello Award and, in 2006, a lifetime achievement award from BBC Radio. Artists who have recorded Thompsons compositions include such talents as Del McCoury. David Byrne, and The Blind Boys of Alabama, Thompson was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to music. On 5 July 2011, he was awarded a doctorate by the University of Aberdeen. Richard John Thompson was born in Ladbroke Crescent, Notting Hill, West London and his father, a Scot, was by profession a Scotland Yard detective, and an amateur guitar player, several other family members had played music professionally. While attending William Ellis School in Highgate, he formed his first band Emil and his father had seen Django Reinhardt play in Glasgow in the 1930s and played guitar himself. He was later described by his son as a bad amateur player, with three chords, though, unfortunately, not C, F and G. All these musical genres were to colour Thompsons playing in the years to come, Joe Boyd said, He can imitate almost any style, and often does, but is instantly identifiable. In his playing you can hear the evocation of the Scottish pipers drone, by the age of 18 Thompson was playing with the newly formed Fairport Convention. Thompsons guitar playing caught the ear of American producer Joe Boyd, largely on the strength of Thompsons playing Boyd took them under his wing and signed them to his Witchseason production and management company. Boyd said, And there was group of very nice Muswell Hill grammar school boys. Leonard Cohen songs, and Richard Fariña songs, and Bob Dylan songs, and then came the guitar solo, and Richard just played the most amazing solo. He played a solo which quotes from Django, from Charlie Christian, you know, and that really amazed me, the breadth of his sophistication. And so, you know, at the end of the gig I was in the room saying would you guys like to make a record. Shortly thereafter Thompson, already acquiring a reputation as a guitar player. This seems to have out of necessity as Fairport Convention was essentially a cover band at first
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The Sands Family
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This is about the family band. For coverage of solo careers of some members, see Tommy Sands and Colum Sands The Sands Family is a Northern Irish musical family band originating from Mayobridge, County Down. Their repertoire largely consists of their own compositions as well as traditional Irish songs, the band is considered one of the most influential folk groups. It showcases the famous Northern Irish folk singer-songwriter Tommy Sands as lead singer and songwriter and his brothers Ben Sands, Colum Sands and Eugene Sands, Eugene was killed in a car accident in 1975 and the formation became a 4-member band. Tommy, Colum and Ben Sands have also successful solo careers as singers, the Sands came from a very musical and artistic family. Their father Mick Sands known to all as The Chief) and six uncles played the fiddle. Their mother Bridie Connolly, was an accordionist, and the daughter of the Burren poet, Owen Connolly, the Sands family grew up in farm on the Ryan Road, a townland of Ryan, near Mayobridge. Their Céilidh house on the Ryan Road, in the foothills of the Mourne Mountains was a point for Catholic. The Sands Family started public performing in halls and pubs, then they won a Folk Group contest in Old Shieling Hotel in Raheny. This led to booking in New York in early 1971 followed by tours in the USA. They also performed a Saint Patricks Day concert appearance in Carnegie Hall and their almost 4-decade touring career includes regular tours throughout continental Europe, especially Germany, as well as the UK and Ireland. One notable highlight was performing in Moscows Luzhniki Olympic Stadium, since the early 2000s however, the Sands Family have restricted touring to an annual tour of Germany and Ireland. Hope is in The Morning – Recorded live in Ravensburg and Obing, Folk from the Mournes Outlet OAS3004 First day and the second day, Autogram FLLP501 The third Day, Autogram ALLP\233 As I roved out. SLP1O8 Winds Are Singing Freedom & Love Sands Family at Home, Autogram ALLP294 Tell me what you see. Emerald GES1201 Youll be well looked after, leaf 7005 EMI Folk from the Mournes Collection by The Sands Family After the Morning. Leaf 7012 EMI Sands Family Live, Pläne S16F601 High Hills and Valleys, Pläne 88206 Sands Family Collection. Spring Records Keep on Singing Home for Christmas SCD1063 Spring Records 2013 Official website
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Winterfylleth (band)
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Winterfylleth is an English black metal band from Manchester. Since their inception in 2007, the band has released five albums and have become a popular act in both the English underground metal scene and the wider international metal arena. The band takes its name from the Old English name for the month of October, the release was critically well received and garnered the band considerable attention within the English black metal scene. Following this release, Richard Brass departed the band and Chris Naughton and Simon Lucas were joined by Nick Wallwork and Mark Wood, Winterfylleth then set to work on their second full-length album, The Mercian Sphere, which was released on Candlelight Records in 2010. Again, the release was a success and propelled the band to international success. This new found recognition landed the band high-profile appearances at a number of top metal festivals including Wacken Open Air, Hellfest, Graspop and it also was ranked as the 12th best album of 2012 by Kerrang. and made the top ten lists of many Kerrang. In March and April 2013 Winterfylleth toured with and supported Enslaved in seventeen out of their eighteen show Spring Rite European tour. Later in the year the band returned to Graspop Metal Meeting for the year running. The first half of 2014 saw two releases from Winterfylleth, in July 2014 Winterfylleth announced that they planned to release their fourth album, The Divination of Antiquity, in October 2014. In 2015, they received the award for best underground band at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards, on August 2,2016 the band announced the album cover and title of their fifth full-length album, The Dark Hereafter. On August 4, they confirmed the date as 30 September. They released the track Ensigns of Victory in advance of the albums release
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Faun (band)
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Faun is a German band formed in 2002 who play pagan folk, darkwave and medieval music. The originality of their style is that they fall back to old instruments. The vocals are performed in a variety of languages, including German, Latin, Greek and their instruments include Celtic harp, Swedish nyckelharpa, hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes, cittern, flutes and many others. The band was founded in 1998 by Oliver SaTyr Pade, Elisabeth Pawelke, Fiona Rüggeberg, two years later, Rüdiger Maul got into the band as percussionist. At the same time, Birgit left the band, to continue her life with the folk-rock band Schandmaul. In 2002, they released their first album Zaubersprüche, Niel Mitra was a guest musician on this album, and he later became a full-time member of the band, the only one playing only electronic instruments. In 2003 the band released their album, Licht. Elisabeth Pawelke left Faun in 2008 to focus on her studies in classical song in Basel and she was succeeded by Sandra Elflein who left Faun in April 2010 due to a pregnancy and health issues. Singer and multi-instrumentalist Rairda replaced her but left the band in 2012 and she was succeeded by Katja Moslehner. In 2013 the band toured Europe, including Berlin and it was nominated for the ECHO award in the categories National Rock/Pop Group and National Newcomer of the Year. While the term was used for electronically amplified concerts only, it is now used by fans. A quote by Oliver Pade reveals another possibility for having chosen this specific term, We dont know ourselves what kind of music we play, fauns repertoire ranges from melancholic ballads to exuberant dances like the Brittanic An Dro. Thereby they set historical tunes from various periods and regions to music, Faun combines ancient Perso-Arab melodies with the Swedish nyckelharpa and Middle High German lyrics. Equally distinguishing are Pawelkes and Rüggebergs singing, mostly in two voices and, on recordings, the driving beat by Niel Mietra. The debut album Zaubersprüche deals mainly with slow ballads from the era between the Late Middle Ages and Romanticism, the instrumentation is kept entirely acoustic and waives modern instruments and electronic beats. The second album features far less ballads but offers considerably more danceable tunes like Andro, Faun is a prime example of Mittelalter music, a German musical style mixing medieval folk and folk metal. The lyrics originate from different languages, Standard German, Middle High German, Old Icelandic, Low German, Old Norse, Latin, Hungarian, Finnish. The name Faun comes from ancient Greek-Roman mythology, where it equals the herders deity Faunus or Pan, according to the band, this figure which is often also depicted as a natural or forestal spirit, shall express the members connection with nature
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Farewell Aldebaran
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Farewell Aldebaran by Judy Henske and Jerry Yester is an album issued in 1969 on Frank Zappas innovative Straight record label. Instrumentally the songs are held together by Yesters piano, the album, which has achieved a cult following, is also notable for its early use of synthesisers. Although the album got good reviews it failed to sell in large quantities. The pair, with their daughter, moved to Los Angeles in 1968. Henske shared a manager, Herb Cohen, with Frank Zappa, Yester, at this point, was working with Yanovsky on the latters first solo album, and experimenting with new electronic and other sound effects. The couple combined to put together Farewell Aldebaran, drawing on a selection of their musician friends. In the UK, the album was broadcast by John Peel who played Three Ravens on more than one occasion on Radio One, Henske and Yester went on to form a more conventional band, Rosebud, before they went their separate ways at the start of the 1970s. The album was bootlegged on CD by Radioactive Records in 2005, the opener, Snowblind, issued as a single, is a guitar driven rocker that is enough in itself to establish Henske as a peerless rock vocalist and an able, witty lyricist. This is immediately followed by Horses on a Stick, an almost parodic piece of sunshine pop, next is the sombre, spacious, marxophone-fractured Lullaby and then the melodramatic St. Nicholas Hall, its satirical anti-clerical lyrics matched by choral samples from the Chamberlin keyboard. Three Ravens, a slice of baroque pop, fully orchestrated, based upon a Scottish folk lyric, is especially revered. Raider, which has described as an acid sea shanty, has a bluegrass feel created by bowed banjo and dulcimer backing a folksy-sounding. Mrs Connor strays into jazz-balladry, piano-led, as Yester details stark old age, rapture is a highly atmospheric rock waltz with lyrics comparing the magic of love to the moment of death. The upbeat Charity, sung by Yester to acoustic guitars and powerful vocal harmonies, before the track fades into chaos. The album cover is a negative photograph of Henske, Yester, their daughter and cat posed in a garden. The photograph was taken by Ed Caraeff
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The Adventure Company
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The Adventure Company is a publishing label of Nordic Games. It is formally a division of DreamCatcher Interactive but was sold to Nordic Games in 2011 following DreamCatchers parent JoWooD Entertainment being sold after entering administration, the Adventure Company was first launched in January 2002 as a division and brand of DreamCatcher Interactive to distribute their adventure games titles under. The first title released under the new brand was The Cameron Files, the Adventure Company has worked with many developers including, Kheops Studio, THQ, Microïds, and Cryo Interactive. In 2006 DreamCatcher Interactive became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Austrian video game publisher JoWooD Productions Software, following the acquisition it was announced that JoWood and the Adventure Company will become publishing labels for Nordic Games, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nordic Games Holding
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Diana Gabaldon
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Diana J. Gabaldon is an American author, known for the Outlander series of novels. Her books merge multiple genres, featuring elements of fiction, romance, mystery, adventure. A television adaptation of the novels called Outlander premiered on Starz in 2014 and her father was of Mexican ancestry, and her mother was of English descent. Gabaldon grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona, Gabaldon was the founding editor of Science Software Quarterly in 1984 while employed at the Center for Environmental Studies at Arizona State University. During the mid-1980s, Gabaldon wrote software reviews and technical articles for publications, as well as popular-science articles. She was a professor with an expertise in scientific computation at ASU for 12 years before leaving to write full-time, in 1988, Gabaldon decided to write a novel for practice, just to learn how and with no intention to show it to anyone. As a research professor, she decided that a novel would be easiest to research and write. Gabaldon happened to see an episode of the Doctor Who science fiction TV series titled The War Games. To explain the characters behavior and attitudes, Gabaldon chose to use time travel. Writing the novel at a time when the World Wide Web didnt exist, she did her research the way, by herself. Later Gabaldon posted an excerpt of her novel on the CompuServe Literary Forum. Knowlton represented her based on an unfinished first novel, tentatively titled Cross Stitch and her first book deal was for a trilogy, the first novel plus two then-unwritten sequels. Her U. S. publishers changed the first books title to Outlander, when her second book was finished, Gabaldon resigned her faculty position at Arizona State University to become a full-time author. As of 2014, the Outlander series comprises eight published novels, the eighth installment, Written in My Own Hearts Blood, was released on June 10,2014. Gabaldon has also published The Exile, the Lord John series is a spin-off from the Outlander books, centering on a secondary character from the original series. Gabaldon lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with her husband Doug Watkins, the Outlander series focuses on 20th-century nurse Claire Randall, who time travels to 18th-century Scotland and finds adventure and romance with the dashing James Fraser. Later collected in A Trail of Fire, the Space Between, a novella in the anthology The Mad Scientists Guide to World Domination. Later collected in A Trail of Fire, virgins, a novella in the anthology Dangerous Women
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The Worm Ouroboros
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The Worm Ouroboros is a heroic high fantasy novel by Eric Rücker Eddison, first published in 1922. The work is related to Eddisons later Zimiamvian Trilogy. The book was illustrated by Keith Henderson, who illustrated books by Geoffrey Chaucer. At a number of points the characters refer to their land as Middle earth, used here in its sense of the known world. Oddly, the framing story has a beginning, but is not referred to once the actual fantasy adventure begins. Juss and his brothers reply that they and all of Demonland will submit if the king can defeat Goldry Bluszco in a wrestling match, the match is held in the neutral territory of the Foliot Isles, and Gorice is killed. His successor Gorice XII is a sorcerer who banishes Goldry to an enchanted mountain prison, the rescue fails, the Goblins flee, and Juss and Brandoch Daha are both captured. They escape with the aid of La Fireez, the prince of Pixyland and vassal of King Gorice, Juss and Brandoch Daha return home to Demonland and then start an expedition to rescue Goldry Bluszco from his terrible prison, somewhere past the mountains of Impland. Lord Spitfire again stays behind to lead Demonlands armies against an invasion from Witchland. The expeditions fleet is smashed and its army destroyed, Juss and Brandoch Daha meet with three strange enchanted heroes of an earlier time, and Lord Juss is later nearly killed by a manticore. After a year of wandering they climb the mighty peak of Koshtra Pivrarcha, before reaching the summit of Koshtra Belorn they encounter Queen Sophonisba, a royal from that area to whom the Gods had granted eternal youth when her realm was laid waste by the Witches. From Sophonisba they learn that Goldry is held in prison on the top of Zora Rach Nam, there is only one way to free him, they must find a hippogriffs egg, and one of them must ride the newly hatched hippogriff. Queen Sophonisba gives Lord Juss one hippogriff egg, alas, their lone companion, the Impland native Mivarsh Faz steals the egg and tries to use it himself, causing his death. Lord Juss and Brandoch Daha set out for home, their quest defeated for the time being, but matters are not completely hopeless, as one of Queen Sophonisbas martlet scouts have told them of another hippogriff egg, lying at the bottom of a lake in Demonland. Meanwhile, the armies of Witchland have attacked Demonland, Duke Corsus is the first commander of the Witchland army, and conquers part of Demonland, but is defeated by Spitfire. A new Witchland army, under the command of Lord Corinius, defeats Spitfire and this includes Brandoch Dahas castle of Krothering, which had been watched over by his sister Lady Mevrian. At this point, Lord Gro changes sides and helps Lady Mevrian escape from the grasp of Corinius, a few months later, Lord Juss and Brandoch Daha return and expel the Witches from Demonland. Equipped with a new hippogriff egg, Lord Juss makes an attempt to rescue his brother
Rabenanwälte und Abmahnkrähen (help·info) (German) — a parody of “The Three Ravens”.