FOLKWAYS RECORDS

A Highland Gold Medal winner, James MacColl (b. 1928 in Schotts, Scotland) performs a portion of his extensive knowledge of solo Scottish bagpipe music. At the age of twenty-eight, when these...

John A. MacLellan performs a variety of traditional bagpipe songs, called "piobaireachd". These songs, as Ewan explains in an introduction presented along with Henry Cowell (see liner notes), were...

Charismatic banjo player and singer Uncle Dave Macon was one of the early stars of the Grand Ole Opry and recorded hundreds of songs on 78rpm. His music won him fans aplenty, and this reissue of 14...

Opening with a throbbing percussion ensemble, this two volume set will surprise and excite anyone unfamiliar with the music of the Magindanao. The Magindanao are a group of native Muslims that reside...

Magpie Live At The Dunham Inn CD1. Jimmie's Mean Mama Blues 2. Limited Access 3. Oh, Lady Be Good 4. Don't Explain 5. Cannily, Cannily 6. City of Savannah 7. Railroad Home 8. Ain't Nobody's Business...

In the early 1900s, pilgrims travelling to the jungles of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) encountered Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, a Sufi mystic who eventually established a following throughout Sri Lanka and later in...

The Temiar people of the central Malaysian rainforest are deeply spiritual. Inspired by their vibrant natural environment, they have developed a musical landscape that evolves from their...

This album features the French-American singer Sonia Malkine. Too often associated with only Auvergne folk music, French folk music actually varies quite a bit from region to region, as these 17...

This 1956 educational compilation was edited by famed German musicologist Curt Sachs (1881-1959). Sachs was a co-creator of the Sachs-Hornbostel system of musical instrument classification, which the...

Paul A. Mankin recites the most famous French poetry from the 19th Century. Gerard de Nerval, Victor Hugo and Alphonse de Lamartine, the main poets from the romantic period are represented, as well...

Paul A. Mankin recites French poetry from the 20th Century. French poets from the first of the 20th Century like Charles Peguy, Paul Valery and Guillaume Apollinaire are represented, as well as those...

Eddy Manson, composer and harmonica player, plays tunes from the score of Little Fugitive, a slapstick film about a little boy who runs away to Coney Island. Manson begins this album with...