date: 07/10/01
Here are some sites where you can find cool multimedia folk music.
WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour is broadcast live weekly from Lexington KY with a theater audience. You can watch the 300k webcast (or listen on 56k), Mondays beginning at 6:30 p.m. EST. http://www.woodsongs.com
Funky Seagull Quarterly - Compilation CD-ROM offering documentary-style video interviews with traditional Appalachian folk artists. Musicians talk about their instruments and their craft and demonstrate techniques and songs. http://www.funkyseagull.com
Twelve Bar Club (22 Denmark Place WC2, London). Live shows webcast in
video every night at appox 20:30GMT (15:30EST (that's 3:30pm). Windows MediaPlayer
software required.*
Home page http://www.12barclub.com/
webcast direct URL: http://onlinetvuk.com/12bar/index.html
* Windows MediaPlayer is available as a free download - and is now available for Mac. Use the convenient link from the 12 Bar site to download it. Other webcasts - like the Folk Image audio-only webcasts - also use MediaPlayer
Testing Testing... a live 30 minute interactive webcast every other
Sunday from the living room of Gordy the Webguy on Whidbey Island in the middle
of Puget Sound.
http://www.electricedge.com/testingtesting/
And you can find some interesting archived shows at: http://www.electricedge.com/testingtesting/archive.htm
The Kennedy Center's Millenium Stage concert series is recorded daily
and archived at their site. This page takes you to the schedule of upcoming
concerts and the archives of past performances:
http://kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/
If you're curious, you can even watch the April 2000 performance by yours truly...
http://kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/ram/04182000_1800_MSS.ram
If you know of any other online resources offering video, please let us know.
Hugh Blumenfeld, Editor
hugh@balladtree.com
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