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Visual Arts Interview: Photographer Barry Schneier on his Exhibit “The Song Is Still Being Written: The Folk Music Portrait Project”

January 3, 2025
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When Barry Schneier felt it was time for his next photography project about musicians, he decided to get to know his subjects, not just shoot them.

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For the Love of the Cover: Nanci Griffith and Keeping Folk Songs Alive, at Passim

September 30, 2021
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The talent at Club Passim’s Nanci Griffith night represented at least two generations: it was a nice, low-key salute to the singer/songwriter, who played the venue often in the mid-’80s.

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Music Preview: Les Poules à Colin — Definitely Not Celtic Lite

August 26, 2018
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Les Poules à Colin specializes in mix-and-match: their music channels old medieval ballads and sugar shack Quebecois dance tunes.

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Music Interview: Tish Hinojosa on Coming Home

November 3, 2016
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“Being an independent musician is kind of like having an organic farm.”

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Concert Review: The Boston Celtic Music Festival — A Rousing Break From Winter

January 13, 2014
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The music was loud, the dancers laughing and sweating and clearly happy to be liberated from their cabin-fever inducing confines to let loose and have some fun.

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