Topic: Folk Music
AP News | 2009-12-01 11:17:54
<div id="subtitle">Bess Hawes, musician-folklorist who performed with Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, dies at 88</div><div><p>Bess Lomax Hawes, who sang with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, co-wrote the Kingston Trio hit "M.T.A." and spent a lifetime documenting American folklore in recordings and films, has died at ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-10-05 19:00:37
<div><p>Thousands of people gathered Monday to bid a final farewell to Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa, the legendary Latin American folk artist who died Sunday aged 74.</p><p>Some mourners sobbed, while others shouted their thanks, clapped, danced, sang and threw flowers to honor the famed singer, who was known ...
AP News | 2009-10-04 17:39:41
FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2007 file photo, Argentina's famed folk singer Mercedes Sosa gives a press conference in Quito, Ecuador. Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa, the "voice of Latin America" whose music inspired opponents of South America's ...
Zumapress | 2009-09-23 05:42:14
French folk singer and composer Danyel Gerard poses at the Davidoff crackerbarrel at the 176th Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany, 22 September 2009. The world's biggest folk festival runs until 04 October 2009. Six million visitors are expected. Photo: Ursula ...
