FOLKWAYS RECORDS

Most of the recordings on this album were made in the 1930s, and exhibit Cajun music's characteristically infectious rhythmic patterns and irregular cadences. This lively album includes Joseph F...

Calabria Bella Dove T'Hai / Va Calabria Bella Dove T'Hai / Va CD1. La Zita E la Maddalena - Tarantella with Vocals 2. Villanella Di Acri - Immigration Song in 3-Part Harmony 3. Serenata Di Amore 4...

Calypso And Meringues / Var Calypso And Meringues / Var CD1. Carnival Is Bacchanal 2. Mary Anne 3. Druscilla 4. Cousin Family 5. Dorothy, One Morning 6. Nous Allons Dodo (We Are Going to Sleep) 7...

A flourishing of Calypso creativity, a dramatic period in Trinidad's history and an audio engineer inspired these exciting tracks, originally released on Cook Records between 1956 and 1962. Emory...

Traditional Cambodian music can be heard at a number of occasions-for example, spiritual rites, weddings, Buddhist festivals, and performances of shadow theatre (a kind of shadow puppetry). in...

The album opens with an entrancing tune played on a single reed bamboo flute that enthralls and draws the listener into the musical journey presented in this collection. Recorded in 1979 and compiled...

Archibald Camp had been playing the banjo for 70 years when he wrote to Folkways Records in January 1961, offering a tape of his banjo playing for their consideration. Camp was one of the few...

Candy Band,The New Folksongs For Children CD1. Play Me a Song 2. Allbody 3. I Make Up Dances 4. Away 5. Cars and Trucks 6. Babe O Babe 7. Mommy, Mommy 8. My Favorite Animal 9. Four Boys 10. I Know a...

Recorded in 1973 this album showcases a variety of traditional folksongs of the Midwest performed by Loman D. Cansler. Cansler brings together a repertoire of folk songs that reflect "the rural,...

Loman D. Cansler returns to his roots and performs songs from his home state of Missouri most of which he learned as a child. He says: "all of these songs were passed down by word of mouth. They came...

Of all the religious celebrations which take place in Spain and Latin American countries, Las Posadas is perhaps the most meaningful and certainly among the most colorful. Literally translated, it...

In the introductory notes to this album, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax (1915-2002) explains that urban folk revival singers of the 1950s might have learned large song repertoires and fine instrumental...