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A Production of The Folk Life ( Inc. 1976)
John McLaughlin and Jamie Downs, Editors


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new lists available
on request

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Conversations
Interviews conducted primarily between 1976 and 1979 and printed in The Folk Life Magazine; other interviews to be added as we evolve.




Scott Alarik


Andrew Calhoun
Promotional Photo



Drawing by Gary Undercuffler
Martin Carthy



Liam Clancy
Promotional Photo






Beverly Cotton




Lila Downs


Stan Rogers



Peter Taney



Tommy Thompson




Bill Vanaver






 
A Tribute to “The Thing Itself”
Maeve Donnelly and Peadar O’Loughlin
Claddagh Records, by L. Vandegrift Davala


CD, Book & Concert Reviews
by John McLaughlin

Book Reviews

Homegrown Music: Discovering Bluegrass by Stephanie Ledgin

Sean Wilentz & Greil Marcus, Eds.
The Rose and The Briar:
Death, Love & Liberty in the American Ballad.

Scott Alarik, Deep Community:
Adventures in the Modern Folk Underground

Michael Johnathon, "Woodsongs 2:
A Folksinger’s Social Commentary,
Homestead Manual and Compact Disc"

 

Concert Review

Kate McDonnell & Siobhan Quinn at
Vic's Music Corner

Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen at
Vic's Music Corner

CD Reviews







The Gypsy Knights: A Tale of The Hundred Year War

a novella by John McLaughlin

"Seen as by a circling hawk, the walled cathedral town of Orleans spread for miles along the banks of the River Loire, its wood-and-clay buildings higgledy-piggledy strewn in random fashion, streets narrow and winding, roofs in places almost touching one another across narrow alleys.  Its obvious focus was the steepled cathedral building occupying its cleared central space, where the craftsmen’s booths and butcher shops lined the square, on a market day in the summer of 1365, Anno Domini."

Now Available for $10
More Information, or to purchase a copy....




STOCK PHOTOS OF FOLKIES
1970's
Today's Folkies






Two Wee Stories by Billy McLaughlin (left front in photograph),
a supplement to An Oral History of Glasgow.