FOLKWAYS RECORDS

A Word in Your Ear and I Know what I Like, two radio essays by Lister Sinclair are a part of the Educational Broadcast Series, Ways of Mankind-an anthropological series that sought to document the...

Taking their name from the heir hometown of Kingskettle, Fife, in Scotland, this beloved group of performers has enchanted children and audlts alike throught the UK via their popular TV series on the...

This 1949 album was recorded by American ethnomusicologist Willard Rhodes (190-1992) with the cooperation of the United States Office of Indian Affairs. The selection from the Sioux community of the...

New Orleans string band jazz was popular between 1910 and 1925, but the genre was seldom recorded. This ensemble-featuring Bill Kleppinger, Bernie Shields, Edmond Souchon, and Frank "Red"...

Six Montreal Poets / Various Six Montreal Poets / Various CD1. Like An Old Proud King in a Parable 2. A Hyacinth for Edith 3. Noctambule 4. The Plot Against Proteus 5. Business As Usual/Fear As...

The skiffle band-a kind of ensemble that nearly disappeared after the 1920s-uses homemade or inexpensive instruments, including washboards, harmonicas, jugs, washtub basses, kazoos, tin flutes,...

Skold,Olle Lars-Gunnar Bodin - For Jon CD1. Introduction 2. Something 3. Interlude I 4. Soon She Would 5. Interlude II 6. The Room Was Described 7. Nothing But 8. The Feeling 9. On He Rushed 10...

A Parisian Tale by Gil Slote. Adapted from the Necklace by Guy de Maupassant a Moment of Decision by Gil Slote. Adapted from the Lady or the Tiger by Frank Stockton.1. The Loisel's Home / Madame...

This 1982 recording builds on Barton Smith's previous Reelizations release, incorporating acoustic and electronic instruments with tape-recording technology into a unique one-person orchestra. The...

This 1980 recording explores combinations of acoustic instruments and recording technologies. The increasing cost of large ensembles performing new works led composers to experiment with inexpensive...

Recorded over three days on the stage of an auditorium near Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, Kilby Snow sings and plays autoharp on this 1969 Folkways release. Snow began playing the autoharp at just...

In 1980, Lech Walesa began the trade union movement Solidarity, which played a major role in the demise of the communist system in Poland and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. Solidarity! - Postulat 22:...