What the Folk?

The 2006 Folk Alliance washes ashore in Austin – brace the bulkheads!

"...likely familiar with Memphis' Blues Foundation and the SXSW-born Americana Music Association simply because of the popularity of those..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

American Folklorist

Peter Keane, Not a Singer-Songwriter

"...by both acclamation and his own admission, is a folk singer. "I don't really mind it, if I have..."

Sept. 13, 1996 Music Feature by Brian Berger

Kerrville Fall Folk Fest & Island Folk Festival

The future of folk looks bright in Texas

"...I played the Kennedy stage at the Kerrville Fall Folk Festival Saturday night. My dad, Jon Dee Graham, and..."

Sept. 2, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

ATX Television Festival Plans Queer as Folk Reunion

Showtime series broke ground for gay representation on TV

"...coil and cathode ray tube TVs everywhere, Queer as Folk will be feted at the festival in June, with..."

Jan. 6, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Kerrville Folk Festival Founder Rod Kennedy Dies

‘People are isolated from each other by technology’

"...Folk lovers around the globe received sorry, start-of-the-week news when..."

April 14, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Finding the Roots of Folk Horror in Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched

Kier-La Janisse searches for the origins of a genre

"...documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (which plays as part of SXSW 2021's Midnighters)..."

March 12, 2021 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

Fantastic Fest Review: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Encyclopedic and engrossing wander into the wilderness

"...The story is folklore. It is the wisdom of the people, the common..."

Sept. 28, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Carrie Elkin’s Life-and-Death Folk

Her father's death and daughter's birth upped the stakes of the singer's finest work

"...likewise lighthearted and outgoing, a radical turn for the folk singer, who's mostly private and reserved around people she..."

April 14, 2017 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

SXSW Documentary Exhumes a Personal History Folk Icon and Activist Joan Baez

The Diamonds & Rust of Joan Baez I Am a Noise

"...was heralded as the crystalline voice of the 1960s folk scene that there would seem to be little new..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Doug Freeman

Story of an American Music

Hector Galán's Songs of the Homeland

"...the more national funding sources, only were interested in folk traditions and that type of music."..."

Sept. 15, 1995 Arts Feature

Constant Follower: Meet the Hypnotic Folk Songcrafter Who Lost His Childhood Memories After a Gang Beatdown

Scotland's Stephen McAll overcame brain trauma to discover a new self

"...the music would have sounded similar to the soothing dream-folk he will be performing at South by Southwest in..."

March 14, 2022 Music Post by Julian Towers

Folk Music Fireball!

Sixty years ago this month and next, Elvis Presley destroyed Austin

"...building then used mainly for wrestling matches. The Austin American-Statesman reported that teenage girls "practically ripped him apart before..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Austin Séance Shares the History of American Spiritualism

In their sittings, Jake Cordero and Albert Lucio give you the experience of contacting the departed

"...time immemorial, and the séance has become the great American experiment in that realm. Some say that the rite..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Around the World: Seven of the Best at Austin Asian American Film Festival

From Hawaii to Kasmir, documentaries to dramas at this year's virtual and drive-in fest

"...Rajasthani folk tales and the poems of 14th century Kashmiri mystic..."

June 4, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Spotlight: American Music Club

The American Music Club is open

"...of the most distinctive sounds is that of the American Music Club. Formed in San Francisco in 1983, singer-songwriter..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

American Spoon Foods

"...American Spoon Foodshttp://www.spoon.com..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

The Fellowship of the Tortilla

Peña Unites Central-American Folk

"...a mixed bill of Yiddish tunes, poetry, and Latin American folk music in its many forms. In spite of..."

Oct. 20, 1995 Music Feature

Suzy Bogguss: Staying True to the Impulse

‘American Folk Songbook’ channels its inner child

"...When Suzy Bogguss titled her recent CD American Folk Songbook, she wasn’t kidding. The Illinois-born country singer-songwriter..."

Oct. 15, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Day Trips & Beyond: Amon Carter Art Museum

This Fort Worth museum is one of the coolest in Texas

"...to hang out in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art’s air-conditioned bliss during Fort Worth’s scorching, late summer..."

Nov. 20, 2015 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

More than an appreciation, this documentary portrait of the great American folksinger and activist is an inspiration.

"...long way toward explaining what it was about the folk music of Seeger and his most successful group outing..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Odetta Sings!

A blues legend shines on Austin

"...voices have rung as powerful or as influential in folk and blues as Odetta, her deep and commanding vocals..."

June 5, 2008 Music Post by Doug Freeman

SXSW Music Interview: Dawg Yawp

Where sitar meets American folk song

"...functions as the divining rod for the Cincinnati-bred electronic folk duo’s singularity. Randall and fellow multi-instrumentalist Rob Keenan toy..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature by Greg Beets

10 Minutes with David Bromberg

Americana legend performs solo at the One World Theatre Friday

"...fiddles, and all kinds of stringed instruments. They played American folk music, some of it loud as hell...."

Dec. 11, 2014 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Dave Van Ronk and a Bitter Chill

Remembering the folksinger who inspired 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

"...column about going to see Dave Van Ronk, the folk musician who partly inspired the film...."

Dec. 19, 2013 Screens Post by Louis Black

At Least Five Things You Should Know About, I Mean, If You Were Counting

The bimonthly literary/art/performative series Five Things happens Friday at the Art Authority

"...call it a multimedia thingy involving awesomely talented Austin folk, but cohost Stacy Muszynski's description of a "literati/musical/performative event"..."

June 3, 2009 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Cultural Coolness Around Texas This Month

"...new urban landscape into which they had moved, black Americans began to revolutionize the way they lived, adopting Booker..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Arts Feature

Dueling Banjos

Is old-time music Austin's next big thing?

"...playing banjos, fiddles, and other instruments associated with Appalachian folk music. They'll be huddled in a circle, so close..."

March 30, 2007 Music Feature by Mark Rubin

The Music of Our Sins -- Part II Letters at 3am

"...just beginning his ministry. And a small record company, Folkways, issued Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music --..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

The Music of Our Sins

Letters at 3am

"...music compilation in recording history, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music (originally issued by Folkways in 1952). Whether..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...chugging, lo-fi melodics with pop hooks. – Libby Webster American Sharks..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

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