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Exhibit: 50 years of the Mariposa Folk Festival
Toronto’s Market Gallery is hosting an exhibit, through Oct. 15 celebrating the 50th anniversary of one of Canada’s great music festivals. From the press release: “Mariposa: fifty years of making music” documents five decades of one of Canada’s oldest and best known music festivals through historical photographs, festival programs, and sound recordings. Materials featured in […]
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Vintage photos of Musicians from around the world
For a terrific and varied collection of photographs of musicians from around the world, visit this flickr page (“A gallery curated by Samm Bennett) Be sure to visit all four parts of the gallery. (I was directed to this via Twitter to this photozz.com page)
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Newport Folk Festival: live (& archived) webcasts, Jul 30-31
NPR (National Public Radio) is webscasting this weekend’s Newport Folk Festival, starting at noon on Saturday & Sunday. A terrific lineup (see below). Details on the NPR website, along with links to archived webcasts from 2010 Saturday, July 30 All Times ET 6:00 pm: The Decemberists 5:50 pm: Pokey LaFarge 4:45 pm: Gillian Welch […]
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Musical notes from here & there
A few random musical notes Khaira Arby: The singer from Mali made her first North American tour last fall. Here in Toronto, she sang at the Ashkenaz Festival over Labour Day weekend as a guest with the New York group Sway Machine (and also earlier that day live on air at CIUT FM). I was […]
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Award to Waleed Abdulhamid
This news is actually a couple of months old, but I just came across it today. Waleed, a native of Sudan, and one of the busiest musicans working in the Toronto African music community last may received the 2011 New Pioneers Award for the Arts. The award is organized by Skills for Change, a non-profit […]
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High Def concert videos posted: videos.to-music.ca
I’ve created a new site to post some recent (and not so recent) HD concert videos I’ve taken. See www.videos.to-music.ca Posted so far: Bombino @ Lula Lounge, Jul. 12 Thomas Mapfumo @ Lula Lounge, Jul. 11 Kabakuwo @ Lula Lounge, Jun. 30 Yemen Blues @ Luminato, Jun. 12 Freddie Gwala, Platform One & Tich Maredza, […]
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Documentary on Zimbabwean music in North America nears completion
A couple of years ago, I was contacted by Doug & Laurel Epps in Colorado who asked permission to use a couple of my photos of Thomas Mapfumo in concert. They were making a documentary on the beginnings of Zimbabwean music in North America and its spread. Now after four years of work, it’s almost […]
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World & Folk Music timeline
The Guardian has produced interactive timelines of various music genres, including one for world & folk music. For a “world” classification, it’s pretty western-centric, but interesting nonetheless. View it here.
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Timely TO Music Tips on Twitter: @tomusicpix
With limited time this year to update the website & blog, I’m going to start using Twitter to enable some more timely updates about events, posts, etc. Try it out. You can follow @tomusicpix or go to http://twitter.com//tomusicpix