Tag: history

  • 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 […]

  • 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.