Today I Learned that there are old English folk carols on Project Gutenberg!
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The Carrying Stream – 4
Scottish Folk & European Music with Kirsteen McCue, Professor of Scottish Literature & Song Culture at the University of Glasgow
Discussing the history of Scottish folk music & particularly its influence on the birth of modern music – from Beethoven to Bob Dylan
https://pod.link/1865430519/episode/ZThjODAzZjEtODQ1ZS00OWY2LWI5NzItZjI0NjBhNWU2NTBm
This week's net.wars, "Big Bang", finds a folk musician fighting to get back the rights over his long-ago recorded music, and chronicles the first week of age verification in the UK: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/08/01/big-bang/ #NetWars #HumanRights #Copyright #FolkMusic #AgeVerification
Country Joe McDonald, the iconic lead singer of Country Joe and the Fish and a defining voice of 1960s counterculture, died on March 7, 2026, at age 84 in Berkeley, California. Joe was a Navy veteran who remained a vocal and adamant anti war activist and advocate for veterans.
Inspired by Woody Guthrie and the folk and protest music of the era, McDonald formed Country Joe and the Fish alongside Barry "The Fish" Melton. Known for his anti-Vietnam War anthem "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" at Woodstock, he passed away from complications of Parkinson's disease.
He was a good man, he did good things, he will be missed on this plane, and welcomed back into the energy in the next one. So long Joe, and thanks for all the Fish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRl6-bHlz-4
Edit: Grammar, typo, tmi. :)
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This #TuneTuesday take a look at a documentary that I made when starting out on my filmmaking journey, in 2008, about a family of folk musicians who wander the streets to perform for a few shillings. They use homemade stringed instruments, much like a violin (I think the technical name is tube fiddle), which in their culture is called endingidi. I wonder how they are, after all these years.
https://tv.dilstories.com/w/xxoPfYBDG2yGdAGudXNZeK