Folk Music

I’d like to tell you about my mom. Today would have been her 90th birthday. There’s a lot to say. Here’s a snippet: Mom was one in a million. She knew all the songs. She worked in sales in the 1970’s and knew all the back roads out of the…

Take a listen and smile! — Son Rompe Pera is a band that creates a new generation of fused World Music that is focused on Cumbia. Listen to the music and try NOT to smile! Thanks. Be well. Join Medium with my referral link - Jeffrey P. Colin/JP Colin Design Read every story from Jeffrey P. Colin/JP Colin Design (and thousands of other writers on Medium). Your membership fee…jpcolindesign.medium.com

With Pierre Lefebvre (Dana Whittle, feet, guitar off-camera). …

With Doyun Park (Dana Whittle, partially obscured feet and harmonica). Dive into the atmosphere of the Magdalen Islands where the air is salty and the old tunes are on the fiddle. I learned these two pieces from fiddlers Bertrand Desraspe and Mathieu Gallant who so beautifully share their passion…

Alex Genadinik is back on Krannaken.com. This time it is with another heavy-hitting rock song called The One Who Didn’t. The song’s general vibe is along the same lines as the last song we reviewed from Alex, Who By Fire. It has a similar heavy folk-rock feel and is an…

NonRequired Reading: Gordon Lightfoot’s Top 10; “Wreck of… —

With Mario St-Germain and Dana Whittle. This tune (we don’t know the title) is a souvenir from the Québec City region in the 1980s, and musical gatherings in Valcartier, where Irish and Québecois traditions rubbed shoulders at the home of Guy Bouchard and Laura Sadowsky. There, thanks to Lisa…

Or how a sporting event suddenly brought me back fifty-two years. — I don’t much watch much hockey anymore. Not since they sold my precious Nordiques to some millionaire from Denver. That was almost thirty years ago. Already? That’s why when I read about the Bruins’ demise, yesterday morning, I just shrugged. The ‘fabled’ 2023 Boston Bruins had been eliminated from this…

Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot dead at 84 He wrote songs for Peter, Paul And Mary and Marty Robbins, and his 1968 album, "Did She Mention My Name?" earned him…www.nbcnews.com His album was the first one I ever purchased. It had the classics, such as Early morning rain, For Loving me, but also some unusual ones. Songs like Black day in July, about the Detroit riots, which he later said he regretted writing. …