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Pete Seeger - "Penny's Farm"

Targeted by the infamous House Un-American Activities Committee, blacklisted, and under indictment for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about his political beliefs, Pete Seeger persevered, traveling throughout North America and performing “community concerts” in schools and local venues.

This 1960 concert at Bowdoin College in Maine captures the mood of the time and the enormity of Seeger’s talent as performer, song leader, and social activist. The 2-CD set presents the entire concert, recorded with extraordinary fidelity by the campus radio station. 111 minutes, 24-page booklet, extensive notes.

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Big Bill Broonzy - "C.C. Rider"

Acoustic blues guitarist Big Bill Broonzy late in his long career, troubled in mind and outspoken in song. With controversial topical songs, rural blues and spirituals, this CD showcases brilliant vocals and intricate solo guitar work.

Includes live radio and concert recordings plus the best of Broonzy's 1950s Folkways recordings, including his classic "Key to the Highway." 36 page booklet with extensive notes, photos, and lyrics.

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Free Download: "Sekati" from Sekaa Gamelan Selonding Sudamala

In 1999, five years after releasing Music for the Gods: The Fahnestock South Sea Expedition: Indonesia, Mickey Hart sought to record an album highlighting the more contemporary musical adaptations of Bali in Living Art, Sounding Spirit: The Bali Sessions. “I have geared this recording toward rarer ensembles and new compositions,” says Hart, “omitting the most popular styles such as kebyar, since they have been often and well recorded elsewhere.”

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"Imaginaries" by Quetzal (SFW40563)

The music of Quetzal is at once visceral and intellectual. It makes you move, it makes you sing, and it makes you think. Sometimes thought of as a rock band, its members draw from a much larger web of musical, cultural, and social engagement. On Imaginaries, they creatively combine shades of East L.A.’s soundscape, traditional son jarocho of Veracruz, salsa, R&B, and more to express the political and social struggle for self-determination and self-representation, which ultimately is a struggle for dignity. 12 tracks, 55 minutes, 40-page booklet with bilingual notes.

 

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"Gypsy Davy" by Margaret MacArthur

"Gypsy Davy" by Margaret MacArthur from the album "Folksongs of Vermont" (FW05314)

Born in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, Margaret MacArthur spent her childhood moving around the western United States. Her first contact with folk music came in 1933, when her father began work at an Arizona timber company with displaced cowboys and folk singers who had collected songs throughout their travels. In 1948 MacArthur moved to Vermont, where she gathered the songs presented here from churches, friends, and broadsides found near her farm. When speaking of her death, Margaret MacArthur’s granddaughter Robin wrote, "On her deathbed she was sick with morphine, most of her memory gone, but she could still remember the lyrics to any ballad we asked her to sing. This music had etched itself into her soul; song and landscape and self had twined into a fabric that was lasting, resounding, and full of grace."

 

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"Tarona 1" performed by Academy of Maqam

"Tarona 1" by Academy of Maqam from the album "Music of Central Asia Vol. 2: Invisible Face of the Beloved: Classical Music of the Tajiks and Uzbeks" (SFW40521)

Amid the mosques and minarets of Samarkand and Bukhara, generations of vocalists set the mystical, Sufi-inspired verse of Hafiz and other classical poets to lyrical melodies, creating a spiritual art music of great refinement and sublime beauty called Shashmaqâm, confirming its important place among the great art music traditions of Eurasia.

 

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Free Download: "Como mi suegra (Like My Mother-in-Law) - milonga" by Los Gauchos de Roldán

"Como mi suegra (Like My Mother-in-Law) - milonga" by Los Gauchos de Roldán from the album "Button Accordion and Bandoneón Music from Northern Uruguay" (SFW40561)

Accordions and guitars have enlivened the social life of cattle-herding gaucho families of northern Uruguay since the mid 1800s. On Los Gauchos de Roldán, regional musical icon Walter Roldán pumps out time-honored polcas and chotis, Brazilian-tinged maxixas, and more on his button accordion as Chichí Vidiella adds the lush color of the bandoneón.

Bernardo Sanguinetti's guitar and Richardo Cunha's percussive, deep-pitched guitarrón immerse the melodies in a rich nest of rhythms and harmonies, which formerly-exiled singer-songwriter Numa Moraes treats us to five gems of his repertoire. 19 tracks, 55 minutes of music, 40-page bilingual booklet.

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Free Download: "Monitor & Merrimac"

Our featured download from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is "Monitor & Merrimac" from the album Civil War Naval Songs. In Civil War Naval Songs, thirteen authentic maritime songs from the era of the American Civil War (1861-65), drawn from Northern, Southern, and British sources, intone the story of war on the water. For more information, and to download this track, click here.

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