Ausgabe 27 02/2004

FolkWorld Beiträge
Interviews, Artikel, Live-Berichte, Kolumnen

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Der Treff für Folk im Münsterland

In diesem Jahr begeht Deutschlands ältester Folkclub, der Folk-Treff Münster e.V., seinen 35. Geburtstag. Walkin' T:-)M blätterte in drei Jahrzehnten Folkgeschichte. Ein Beeindruckender Bericht über die Aktivitäten und Probleme einer Institution - hoffentlich werden wir noch das 40ste, 50ste und sogar 70ste Jubiläum des Folktreffs in Münster gemeinsam feiern können!!!
Geschichte eines Folkclubs - Herzlichen Glückwunsch!!!

Erinnerungen an Erich Stockmann
Nachruf für einen der bedeutendsten Musikethnologen unserer Zeit. Am Sonntag,16.11.2003, im Alter von 77 Jahren, verstarb nach langer, schwerer Krankheit Prof. Dr. Erich Stockmann - einer der bekanntesten, international renommierten und weltweit kooperierenden Musikethnologen unserer Zeit. Frank Schneider erinnert an einen großartigen Menschen, der sein Leben der europäischen Volksmusik und der internationalen Verständigung gewidmet hat.
Nachruf eines bedeutenden Musikethnologens

Auf zum bots
Hans Sanders & Bots, Folkwoods 2003. Bots, photo by Walkin TomMit dem neuen Festivalgelände unweit von Eindhoven hat das Folkwoods-Festival einen Glücksgriff getan. Da ließ es sich auch Mitorganisator Hans Sanders nicht nehmen, noch einmal bots auf die Bühne zu stellen und die alten Hadern anzustimmen: Alle Menschen, die ein besseres Leben wünschen, sollen aufstehn! In der Philips-Stadt Eindhoven ging 1967 ein Licht auf, als Sänger und Gitarrist Hans Sanders seine erste Single veröffentlicht. Das Projekt bots (botsen = zusammenstoßen) wird 1974 angegangen.
Artikel und Live Bericht über das Wiederauferstehen einer Legende

Die FolkWelt zwischen Harz und Heide (2): Halloween & Liedermaching
Halloween, das alte Keltenfest, kam und ging. Martin Luther kämpfte gegen die bösen Geister an, aber gegen die Invasion amerikanischer Festivitäten nutzen nun mal keine Thesen an die nächste Kirchenpforte genagelt. Im Celtic Twillight tummelten sich wieder zahllose Bands, im Guten wie im Bösen. Und während der keltische Partytiger umherschlich, entdeckten die Germanen unter uns die alte neue Kultur des Liedermaching. Weiterhin berichtet Tom Keller über die More Maids, das Irish Folk Festival, Flook, das 3. Pigeon on the Gate-Festival in Münster;
2. Teil der Serie über Folk in der Harzregion

Folk aus Irland - Winter 2003
Die FolkWorld Kolumne für Liebhaber irischer Musik. Axel Schuldes hat sich mal wieder jede Menge irische CDs angehört, und gibt dem FolkWorld Leser Tipps für neue Scheiben der Irischen Musik - inklusive einer ausgewählten Liste der Neuerscheinungen aus Irland im Herbst 2003..
Irland - neue CDs

T:-)M's Nachtwache - Buchbesprechungen
Klangträume, Rebetiko, Guthrie, Cash. Jede Krankheit hat eine musikalische Lösung, dachte Novalis. Er war nicht der einzige: "Die Hopi sind davon überzeugt, dass es ein Lied war, das die Welt erschuf. Der griechische Gott Apollon erfand die Lyra und sein Sohn Orpheus machte mit dem Klang dieses Instruments die Bestien der Unterwelt zu lammfrommen Kuscheltieren. Der legendäre David soll seine Harfe gespielt haben, um seinen Vorgänger im Amt des judäischen Regenten, König Saul, von dessen Depressionen zu befreien. Im europäischen Mittelalter habe man die ekstatische Tarantella erfunden, um gewissermaßen klangtherapeutisch gegen Veitstänze und Krampfzustände vorzugehen. Und den Dudelsack habe man seinerzeit gegen Geisteskrankheiten eingesetzt." ...
Buchbesprechungen von Büchern mit Folk-Bezug

Englischer Inhalt: (Benutze die 'BACK'/'Zurück' Taste Deines Browsers, um hierher zurückzukommen)

Wolfgan Meyering "Malbrook"FolkWorld best CDs of 2003:
The editors' choice - Top 10 CDs of 2003, Michael & Christian Moll, the editors of FolkWorld made their subjective Choice of the best 10 CDs of 2003. Included are bands from Denmark, Denmark/Sweden, Finland, Germany, Italy, Israel, Poland, Scotland and Switzerland...
Contributors choices - best Cds of 2003, Some of FolkWorld's regular contributors name here their personal five CD favourites of the year 2003, so that regular readers can find out about the recommendations of their favourite reviewers and writers. Find out about the favourite 2003 CDs of: Anja Beinroth, Colin Jones, Tom Keller, Karsten Rube, Eelco Schilder, Axel Schuldes, Kathy Tan and Dai Woosnam
Best albums of the year 2003

Traditional music on urban beats - Urban Trad article 1
Urban Trad - foto by www.finnfoto.comThe new Belgian folk flagship. I don't know if people who like folk music also watch the Eurovision song contest, but this year's edition proved that the show is worth watching now and again. The Turkish winner Sertab is not the reason for this, but the Belgian band that came second with only a few points less. The band is called Urban Trad and, according to their founder Yves Barbieux, the band mixes tradition with urban beats. After having interviewed Yves Barbieux twice, Eelco Schilder paints a portrait of this Belgian group in this article.
Modern Belgian folk music

Rural homecoming for Urban Trad (article 2)
Sean Laffey meets the Belgian antidote to manufactured pop. "I adore Belgium, the very idea of the place is eccentric even lovable, it's a made up country, a monarchy created in 1830 after a riot at a Brussels Opera. It makes a virtue of chocolate and throws fruit in its strongest beers above all else it has an educated sense of the absurd." this is the start of a very entertaining mixture of journey tale with lots of athmosphere, concert review and interview. Three kinds of journalism in one article!!!www.partiagrande.net
Concert review, interview and journey information

Nueva Canción - An Uncompromising Song
The Life and Death of Victor Jara. On September 11th 1973, Chilean singer-songwriter Victor Jara was arrested with the coup d'etat of General Pinochet underway. Jara was tortured and brutally murdered. As Dick Gaughan puts it, this is dedicated to those who say music and politics should not be mixed - tell that to the CIA and their thugs who murdered Jara because his repertoire didn't suit their interests.
Story of the Chilean singer songwriter

La Musgaña
The Rat is back. La Musgaña is one of the most important bands from Castilla in central Spain, the vast region that becomes the cultural bridge between the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts and their ancient traditions. The band started in the late 80'S and 90's a renovation of the way to perform the traditional songs of the central Spain regions. After five years of silence, La Musgaña is back. Pio Fernandez went to the first concert after those years in Madrid, and listened to the band's new CD.
Spain - one of the most influential bands of central SpainRob Smaling, self portrait

Rob Smaling
Traditional music from the Netherlands Part V. For this edition of traditional music in the Netherlands Eelco Schilder talked to Rob Smaling. Rob came to Eelcos attention when he found out that Rob was part of the Dutch folkscene, not only during the revival in the seventies, but also before this period. Besides that Rob was a member of one of the first bands who recorded traditional Dutch material called Wargaren. For a whole afternoon they sat together and Rob told his story, showed old pictures and they listened to some unique recordings. This article is just a small reflection of an intriguing afternoon of Dutch folkrevival history.
History of folk music

T:-)M's Night Shift - book reviews
Walkin' T:-)M's Journey through Irish Songs. "When we study the semi-political songs of the Irish peasantry, we should bear in mind the magical power attributed to words in traditional societies, the potency of language for inflicting harm or obtaining what is most desired. The belief in the possibility to change the world by songs and speeches is perhaps one of the keys to the understanding of Irish political and patriotic literature." (G.D. Zimmermann) ...
Book reviews Tomas Lynch, photo by The Mollis

Tomás Lynch
"Live" at the Temple Bar, Kultfabrik, München. Kathy Tan found her way to the Temple Bar in Munich to visit the Irish singer and uilleann piper Tomas Lynch on one of his tours through Germany. The songs and tunes were great - just sad, that only so few people found their way to join the concert...
Live review of Irish musician / singer

'Be aizy and do not taize me'
Excerpts from P.W. Joyce's English As We Speak It In Ireland (1910). A plaque signposted from the Kilmallock-Kildorrery road marks the childhood home of Patrick Weston Joyce (1827-1914) in Glenosheen, Co. Limerick. Patrick's father Garrett, nicknamed `the Scholar,' was a skilled musician; his brother Robert Dwyer Joyce (1830-83) contributed many tunes for `The Petrie Collection of Ancient Music' (1855), and - being a committed Fenian - wrote a number of patriotic ballads, namely `The Wind that Shakes the Barley' (-> FW#7, FW#13, FW#21) and `The Boys of Wexford' (-> FW#7, FW#21). P.W. Joyce himself was a music collector too, best remembered for his `Old Irish Folk Music and Songs' (1909). He published works on Irish history and folklore as well, always aware of Irish music, song and dance, even while being concerned with the dialect of the English language that is spoken in Ireland, for `Irish music is the most beautiful folk music in the world.'
Irish music history

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