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  Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording - Definition, explanation
The Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording was awarded from 1960 to 1986.
In 1987 the award was split into two new awards: the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album and the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.
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 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Until 1993 the award was known as the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Recording.
An award for Best Contemporary Folk Album is also presented.
Prior to 1987 contemporary and traditional folk were combined as the Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording
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grammy award for best r&b performance by a duo or group with vocals
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 Grammy Award
The Grammy Award is presented by the Recording Academy, an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry, for outstanding achievements in musical recordings.
Like the Oscars, the Grammies, currently with a total of 101 categories within 28 fields of music (such as pop, gospel, rap), are voted by peers - in this case voting members of the Recording Academy.
The Grammy voters tend to be elderly, musically conservative, and are heavily marketed to by record companies, who place great stock in some types of artists winning Grammys (accurately but cynically put as those which sell to "teenage girls and housewives").
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 Elizabeth Cotten, Freight Train, Free Score with Tablature
Late in life, Cotten received many honors including: The National Endowment For The Arts National Heritage Fellowship Award in 1984, the same year she won a Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording for "Elizabeth Cotten Live!" Recorded when she was 90 years old.
Its author didn't quite live to become a centenarian herself, though she did win a Grammy (Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording for Elizabeth Cotten Live) when she was 93.
Traditional fingerstyle guitar is particular to its time and place, drawing heavily upon local culture, but allowing for personal expression and innovation.
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Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Group
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist
Grammy Award for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album
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 Takoma Park Folk Festival
Her first recording of unaccompanied traditional songs and ballads, "If You Sing Songs," was released in 1998, the same year as her first singing tours.
Marc and Ellen believe that the best dance move in the world is a smile, and as long as you take care of your partner and those around you, there are no wrong moves, there are only new moves.
Multiple Grammy Award nominees Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer are nationally known for their folk, country, and children's recordings.
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 Wikinfo | Grammy Award
Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra)
Best Country Performance, Duo or Group - Vocal or Instrumental
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 Takoma Park Folk Festival
She is dedicated to carrying on some of the wealth of tradition gleaned from this apprenticeship both in weaving and in music, and has been teaching classes in traditional handweaving since 1996.
Their toe-tapping music, played on traditional instruments from Bulgaria, takes you back to the old country—it is joyful, evocative, compelling and lyrical, in modes and rhythms generally not found in western music.
Tinsmith is a high-energy folk band playing traditional Celtic music in a new way.  Citing influences from blues to bluegrass, from funk to jazz to mountain music, the group brings traditional songs and tunes into the new century.
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 CD Baby: FOLK: Traditional Folk - music you will love. - from evor
Folk songs performed by engaging female vocalist and accompanied by woodwind, string, percussion and acoustic keyboard instruments.
This is hard-core, old-time traditional music with interesting, progressive arrangements utilizing a variety of folk instruments that results in a dark, sorrowful sound that tells a sad tale of misfortune and woe.
This Appalachian born and bred singer is a powerful singer of a cappella ballads and accompanied folk songs whose remarkable voice and eclectic repertoire reflect both her mountain roots and modern sensibilities.
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 GRAMMY.com - News
Colombian singer/songwriter Shakira and the Puerto Rican rap duo Calle 13 were the big winners in last night's 7th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards, which was celebrated for the first time in New York, one of the historic capitals of Latin music.
Underscoring the broadness of the musical spectrum, Mexican superstar Ana Gabriel brought the sound of mariachi to New York with an impeccable version of "Siete Veces, Siete Más." This in turn was followed by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, who was nominated for his album of boleros, accompanied by a quintet augmented by a string ensemble.
In receiving the award, Martin dedicated the award "to those souls that have not survived the stupid [scourge] of human trafficking.
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 The Kingston Trio Guitar Tabs and Chords @ Guitar Masta.net   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Greatly influenced by The Weavers, the calypso sounds of Harry Belafonte, and other semi-popular folk artists such as the Gateway Singers and the Tarriers, they were discovered playing at a college club called the Cracked Pot by Frank Werber, a local publicist then working at the Hungry i.
Their first hit was a catchy rendition of an old-time folk song, Tom Dooley, which went gold in 1958.
It was so popular that it entered the popular culture as a catchphrase: Ella Fitzgerald, for example, parodies it during her recorded version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
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 The Folk Times
Folk Times is where the music fan looks to find out what, when and where folk, acoustic, bluegrass, country, old-timey, swing, blues, jazz, Cajun/zydeco, new-age, classical, baroque, Renaissance and Irish music takes place.
Folk Times provides the majority of information for the music calendar in the Pickin' Singin' Gatherin' subscription newsletter that is a Capital District non-profit organization of people dedicated to promoting and disseminating information about folk music.
On distinctive folk, blues and pop, she is an exceptionally gifted singer-songwriter with a drive-it-home edge to her voice, an uncanny ear for harmony and proficiency on guitar and keyboards.
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Grammy Award for Best Contemporary (R&R) Solo Vocal Performance - Male or Female
Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental
Grammy Award for Best R&B Solo Vocal Performance, Male or Female
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 1984 Grammy Awards
Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
Best Gospel Performance By a Duo or Group
Best Soul Gospel Performance By a Duo or Group
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 GRAMMY.com - 49th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners List
(Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra.)
(Award to the Ensemble (and to the Conductor.))
(Award to the Artist(s) and/or to the Conductor.)
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 Alan Finkel's Live in London
One of the UK’s best writers about music is also one of the UK’s best writers about sport, and Richard Williams’s book Ten, celebrating ten footballers who wore the magic number 10 on their shirts, is published just ahead of World Cup 2006.
Turkish Fest includes traditional folk dance and belly dance performances and a Turkish Bazaar along the riverside serving Turkish food and drink plus spices, textiles, music and crafts to bring the real Turkey to the banks of the Thames.
It was a remarkable disc, recorded in ten hot, heavy nights in Lagos, and it pushes Afrobeat to new heights with its loose-limbed polyrhythms and ferocious grooves.
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 Louisiana Music at the Grammy Awards - 1980's
Louisiana Grammy Award Nominees and Winners - winners noted by
Louisiana Music at the Grammys - 1950's - 1960's - 1970's - 1980's - 1990's - 2000's - Hall of Fame
GRAMMY® and GRAMMY Awards® are registered trademarks of The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc.
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 Texas Governor Rick Perry - Texas Grammy Winners
Grammy Past Winners to search by artist, genre, category, year, or title.
Best Gospel Album By A Choir Or Chorus for God's Property from Kirk Franklin's Nu Nation (1997)
Best Country Vocal Collaboration for Cryin' with k.d.
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 UCSB Libraries - Internet Resources in Music
Explores the full breadth of Puerto Rican music, with descriptions of native music genres including danza, folk music, plena, bomba, and salsa, as well as related genres such as the Cuban son, merengue, bolero, and jazz.
The collections include many different types of primary source documents, including oral histories, sound recordings in multiple formats, piano sheet music, photographs, periodicals, books, etc. Finding aids are made available online as they are completed.
Both catalog records and digital images of the sheet music are available, allowing users to search or browse by author, title, or subject, and view the complete musical notation.
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 1983 Grammy Awards
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
Babyface ties record for most Grammy nominations; Tracy Chapman and Tony Rich also among top nominees.
At Globes, the party's the star; Anything-goes Atmosphere, Small venue distinguish this awards ceremony from more straight-laced oscars,......
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Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba won the 1966 Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording for their record, AN EVENING WITH BELAFONTE/MAKEBA.
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