November 6, 2010
Rani Arbo and daisy mayhem are an amazing band. They call themselves a “string band,” or maybe “new roots music,” or even sometimes just “crazy.” They’re really hard to define, but also really hard to resist. What do they sound like? I think they describe themselves pretty well on their website: “Start with a fiddle, [...]
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November 4, 2010
Have you heard Elizabeth Mitchell’s new CD, Sunny Day? It’s a fresh collection of traditional folk songs from around the world, all rendered in Elizabeth’s sweet and mellow style. This CD is great for calm-down time (we like to listen to it after school). Since so many of these songs are traditional rhymes, they’re easy [...]
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