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150 hours of audio and almost 100 photographs from the Peter Kennedy Collection have been made available this week via the British Library Sounds website.…See More
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Brazil World Music Day: Public Lecture at the British Library at British Library Conference Centre
September 7, 2012 from 12:30pm to 2pm
The Meanings of Music in Brazilian CultureBrazil World Music Day: Public Lecture at the British LibrarySeptember 7, 201212.30pm - 2.30pmIn celebration of Brazil World Music Day (http://arcmusic.org/begin.html) and Brazilian Independence Day the British Library is holding a public lecture on the meanings of music in Brazilian culture by David H. Treece, Camoens Professor of Portuguese, King’s College London. David Treece is author of…See More
Beyond the Border: Wales International Storytelling Festival at St Donats Castle, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
June 29, 2012 to July 1, 2012
3 day celebration of traditional stories and music from around the worldSee More
Shellachead - new site for world music on shellac
Shellachead is a new site for early world music recordings. It includes notes, image of the label, and the recordings.http://shellachead.com/The site is done by the same person as runs the Haji Maji site, which concerns itself with shellac from Asia.http://hajimaji.wordpress.com/(Thanks to my colleague, James Tugwell, for introducing me to these sites.)See More
Mark Peter Wright liked Janet Topp Fargion's blog post The First LP in Ireland - BBC radio programmeThe First LP in Ireland - BBC radio programme
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h666rThis is the story of how Seamus Ennis, Alan Lomax et al collected Irish traditional material, some of which became the eponymous LP.See More
Music from East Africa
The Singing Wells Project is a partnership between The Abubilla Music Foundation, a UK registered charity (no. 1142173) and Ketebul Music, a non profit music & video studio based in Nairobi. Have a look at their website, which includes some beautiful video footage of a range of musics from around Kenya.http://www.singingwells.org/See More
Listen to a Scottish lyre from 2300 years ago.
Archaeologists and music experts believe they have found the remains of the earliest stringed instrument ever found in Western Europe – dating to more than 2,300 years ago – at the excavation of Uamh An Ard Achadh (High Pasture Cave) on the Island of Skye.http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2012/the-music-of-the-islands-2300-year-old-lyre-comes-to-lifeSee More
The Inishowen Song Project
http://www.itma.ie/digitallibrary/about/inishowenFunded locally by Inishowen Development Partnership, this project is a collaboration between the Inishowen Traditional Singers' Circle www.inishowensinging.ie>(ITSC) in Donegal and the Irish Traditional Music Archive www.itma.ie>(ITMA) in Dublin, to host song material collected in Inishowen on the…See More
Lost Kingdoms of Africa - Uganda
For those of you who have been following Gus Casely-Hayford's new series of Lost Kingdoms of Africa on BBC 4 these past weeks, tonight's programme was about kingdoms of Uganda. If you are interested in hearing the music from the kingdoms of Buganda and Bunyoro, discussed at length in the programme, explore the Klaus Wachsmann Archive on sounds.bl.uk at http://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Wachsmann.Klaus…See More
Topical report on Cairo's music scene
Afropop has been producing some very interesting programmes and posting great photos and videos of Cairo's current music scene. This from their latest posting at:http://www.afropop.org/radio/radio_program/ID/846Egypt's revolution has brought much to light, including a lot of music that's been percolating in hidden corners there, largely ignored by nearly all broadcast and print…See More
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British and Irish Traditional Music online
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 17:09 0 Comments 2 Likes
150 hours of audio and almost 100 photographs from the Peter Kennedy Collection have been made available this week via the British Library Sounds website.…
ContinueShellachead - new site for world music on shellac
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 13:42 0 Comments 0 Likes
Shellachead is a new site for early world music recordings. It includes notes, image of the label, and the recordings.
http://shellachead.com/
The site is done by the same person as runs the Haji Maji site, which concerns itself with shellac from Asia.
http://hajimaji.wordpress.com/
(Thanks to my colleague, James Tugwell, for introducing me to these sites.)
The First LP in Ireland - BBC radio programme
Posted on May 8, 2012 at 13:53 0 Comments 2 Likes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h666r
This is the story of how Seamus Ennis, Alan Lomax et al collected Irish traditional material, some of which became the eponymous LP.
Music from East Africa
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 17:34 0 Comments 3 Likes
The Singing Wells Project is a partnership between The Abubilla Music Foundation, a UK registered charity (no. 1142173) and Ketebul Music, a non profit music & video studio based in Nairobi. Have a look at their website, which includes some beautiful video footage of a range of musics from around Kenya.
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