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Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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Description
With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the lives of Maria, the baron, and their singing children, is as familiar to most of us as our own family history. But much about the real-life woman and her family was left untold. Here, Baroness Maria Augusta Trapp tells in her own beautiful, simple words the extraordinary story of her romance with...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life and career of the folk singer, tracing his career and influence as a singer and surveying his political development.
Pete Seeger was an internationally honored folk musician and political radical who devoted his life to furthering humanitarian causes and getting people to sing. This biography traces his musical career, including the period when he was blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and the growth...
Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
"Sheriff Spencer Arrowood keeps the peace in his small Tennessee town most of the time. Every once in a while, though, something goes wrong. When 1960s folksinger Peggy Muryan moves to town seeking solitude and a career comeback, and she receives a postcard with a threatening message, her idyll is shattered. Then a local girl who looks like Peggy vanishes without a trace. Although she was once famous, Peggy has no fondness for the old times. Those...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Llewyn Davis (Oscar Issac) is at a crossroads and struggling to make is as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles--some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, Llewyn's misadventures take him from the baskethouses of Greenwich Village to an empty Chicago club- on an odyssey to audition for...
Author
Publisher
Imagine
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Finally, here is the first and only book that visually tells us the intimate story of Peter, Paul, and Mary and their music, with stirring images that follow their passionate, fifty-year journey to the center of America's heart. The very best of thousands of photographs, many rare and never before published, taken over five decades by some of the world's top photographers, follow them from their earliest performances in the 1960s, when Mary was the...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
This film explores Guthrie's creative genius -- his life and music as well as lesser known talents like writing and painting. Every American who has listened to the radio knows Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land.' The music of the folk singer/songwriter has been recorded by everyone from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to U2.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Traces Bob Dylan's journey from his roots in Minnesota, to his early days in Greenwich Village, to his tumultuous ascent to pop stardom in 1966. Joan Baez, Allan Ginzberg, Maria Muldaur, Pete Seeger, Liam Clancy, Mavis Staples and others share their thoughts and feelings about the young singer who would change popular music forever. Contains extensive archival footage, some never-before-seen and rare concert performances.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A biography of Woody Guthrie, a singer who wrote over 3,000 folk songs and ballads as he traveled around the United States, including "This Land is Your Land" and "So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh."
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The dramatic untold story of the Weavers, the hit-making folk-pop quartet destroyed with the aid of the United States government--and who changed the world, anyway. Following a series of top 10 hits that became instant American standards, the Weavers dissolved at the height of their fame. Wasn't That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America details the remarkable rise of Pete Seeger's unlikely band of folk heroes,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
In Tommy Makem's Secret Ireland, the beloved Irish folksinger leads the way to his favorite places in Ireland. Along the way, Makem shares his memories, his songs, and the stories he grew up with. A born storyteller, Makem brings life to Ireland's legends and history. He notices the highways and byways running quietly through beautiful, ever-changing country scenes. Makem introduces the reader to people who are warm and welcoming, their character...
15) Bluestone & vine
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Pippa MacMillan is a legend on the Irish folk music scene. But when her voice requires a time-out, she's left wondering how - and where - to find happiness in the silence... Seeking answers, Pippa leaves Ireland in favor of a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Turns out lovely Blue Hollow Falls is the perfect place to heal - and solitary Seth Brogan is the surprisingly perfect host. After all, Seth is beginning again too: turning...
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