The term Folk Music has come to encompass a wide variety of styles, traditional and contemporary, based mainly on the musical roots and traditions of Europe. It includes: * Regional and ethnic traditional musics of the continent, performed by people for and within their own community, passed on and evolving through live performance. * Recorded collections of the aural tradition. * Composed songs and music which have become so well known that they can be said to have "entered the tradition," and are evolving through repeated performance. * Interpretations of the tradition, using different vocal styles and instrumentation. * Maintainers and interpreters of European traditional musics in diaspora communities of North America and Australasia. Since the 1960s folk revival, particularly in North America, the United Kingdom, and Australasia, it has also come to include music of singer-songwriters, who sing their own (usually personal and introspective) material, with no direct connection to t- Category ID : 44033
Pennsylvania Electric Folk label. Home of artists Ray Ashley, Broadside Electric, Three Hour Detour, and Unsound. Mailing list, merchandise, band profiles.
Litchfield, Connecticut Folk and Roots music label. Artists include the late Rick Danko, Professor Louie and The Crowmatix, and Kevin Doherty. News, tour dates, message board, chat room, discography, online store.
Boston-based record label that specializes in limited edition and offering handmade pressings of socially relevant music in both analog and digital formats.