FOLKWAYS RECORDS

Norgard,Per Jigs And Reels, Vol.2 CD1. Teviot Bridge 2. Haste to the Wedding / Major MacKie's Jig (Medley) 3. Lannigan's Ball 4. The Haymaker's 5. Verner's Jig 6. Tuggerman's Jig / Off She Goes...

This disc presents two groups from Northern Illinois University's Asian Music Ensemble. The first is a Chinese Orchestra, consisting of strings, winds, and percussion instruments from China. The...

Northern Saskatchewan / Var Northern Saskatchewan / Var CD1. The Northern Trappers Rendezvous 2. Old Grandpa Higgins 3. Red Deere River Waltz 4. Half Asleep in My Saddle 5. The Old Trappers Waltz 6...

Sung on record and described in liner notes with Hermes Nye's characteristic down-home humor, Anglo-American ballads on this album come from a variety of sources, from an Elizabethan torch song in...

Old favorites "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" and "Goober Peas" enjoy Texan attorney-turned-balladeer Hermes Nye's unselfconscious treatment on this balanced compilation of some of the American...

Hermes Nye's "sneaking fondness for the English things from Percy and Child" takes center stage on this collection of ballads. The singer's commentaries enliven the notes: For example, Nye writes,...

While touring Kenya with his musical group in the late 1950s, David Nzomo realized that it was sometimes difficult to keep the audience's attention during stage set-up and transitions. To fill the...

Nzomo,David Children'S Songs From Kenya CD1. Neeiwe Ni Asa 2. Mwei Nuuya 3. Lulu Kilya 4. Mwene Atete 5. Ninyie Mbiti 6. Masau Ngunguli 7. Kabumbu 8. Atangua 9. Mbemba Na Makwasi 10. Kavuli Tutu 11...

Nzomo,David Work And Dance Songs From Kenya CD1. Ivinda Ya Mbua - Farm Work Song 2. Wamama - Rhythm Work Song 3. Ndavu Yakwa - Work Song 4. Ndumane Muyale - Harvest Song 5. Mwiitu Wa Mumbwa - Women...

Like Joan O'Bryant's previous Folkways recording, Folksongs and Ballads of Kansas, this album presents folk songs geographically close to O'Bryant's heart. Most of the ballads included here are...

Collected and performed by Kansas native Joan O'Bryant, this compilation of Kansas music harks back to it's settlers' origins in New England, but especially in Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Ozarks. In...

Begun in 1962 by Agnes "Sis" Cunningham and her husband Gordon Friesen, Broadside Magazine was a mimeographed publication that covered the American folk music revival. In 1974, two years before his...