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notloB Music reports and reflects on news affecting the folk and roots music community in the greater Boston area. Readers may also be interested in joining and participating NEFolknRoots, a news and discussion group serving the northeast USA folk and roots music and dance communities.
"In this era of pop-driven acoustic music, notloB is keeping the folk tradition alive."
~ Jack Hardy
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notloB Music
http://notlobmusic.blogspot.com/
notloB Music reports and reflects on news affecting the folk and roots music community in the greater Boston area. Readers may also be interested in joining and participating NEFolknRoots, a news and discussion group serving the northeast USA folk and roots music and dance communities.
"In this era of pop-driven acoustic music, notloB is keeping the folk tradition alive."
~ Jack Hardy
LATEST ARTICLES ( 469 )
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notloB Parlour Concert's Fall Season to Be Announced 8/17
notloB Parlour Concert's Fall Season will be announced Friday, 8/17 at the Sandra Wong / Ross Martin concert, 7:30pm at the historic Loring-Greenough House in... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Blues Living Legend PAUL GEREMIA to Tour the Northeast
It's not every day that one gets a phone call from a living legend, but that happened to me this evening. On the other end was the one and only Red House Record... Read more
Posted on 12 August 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
David Massengill New England Tour, 8/17-19
David Massengill (notloB 1/8/08, co-feature with Jack Hardy) is enroute from Old England to New England, from David..."Gig Alerts! I return from my UK tour for ... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
NEFolk August Festival Listing
The information below is taken from NEFolk. It is in of itself an extract from its own folk/roots music and festival and dance camp database. Read more
Posted on 05 August 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Folk, Blues, Classical and Jazz Funeral for ALL Passed WGBH Music Programs,...
On July 5, hundreds turned out at the "public" radio WGBH studios in Brighton to hold a funeral for the reduction of WGBH jazz programming. Read more
Posted on 27 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
The WUMB Empire Strikes New Hampshire
Let's get this straight. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is funding legal costs (FCC license filing) infrastructure improvements and ongoing maintenance (the... Read more
Posted on 15 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
notloB Parlour Concerts Presents Sandra Wong and Ross Martin, JP, 8/17
On Wednesday, May 23 notloB Parlour Concerts will welcome to the historic Loring-Greenough House (c. 1760) in Jamaica Plain Sandra Wong and Ross MartinSandra... Read more
Posted on 13 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Folk, Blues, Classical and Jazz Funeral for Passed WGBH Music Programs, Copley...
Hundreds of jazz musicians and fans turned out at the "public" radio WGBH studios in Brighton this past Thursday to hold a funeral for the reduction of WGBH jaz... Read more
Posted on 09 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Musicians Protest at WGBH Radio
Community/independent college WMBR producer/host Ken Field has come up with a brilliant idea, a jazz funeral in conjunction with Eric Jackson's final weekday... Read more
Posted on 08 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Happy Birthday to Wayland's Own Peter Rowan!
Enjoy this 25+ minute Muleskinner (Peter Rowan, Richard Greene, David Grisman, Bill Keith and Clarence White with Stuart Schulman), video, taped before a live... Read more
Posted on 04 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Jazz Funeral for Jazz on WGBH Radio, 7/5, Brighton
Thursday, July 5, 2012, 8pmOne Guest Street, Brighton, MAWGBH Radio's management has recently demolished its jazz programming by firing Steve Schwartz and... Read more
Posted on 03 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
It's a Heptunes July
As pointed out in July Folk Festivals and Music/Dance Camps from the NEFolk Database, July certainly is a month for festivals in New England. But that does not... Read more
Posted on 02 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
July Folk Festivals and Music/Dance Camps from the NEFolk Database
July brings many music festivals and dance camps, here are several located mainly in the northeast US and in eastern Canada that we consider to be unique... Read more
Posted on 01 July 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
WGBH's March Towards "Single Format" Continues
On 11/7/09 notloB Music raised the alert that WGBH was canceling the folk and blues programs, and predicted jazz and Celtic would follow in turn. Read more
Posted on 20 June 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Even More Chopped Liver, Or Can the WUMB Calendar Listings Get Any Narrower?
Has the WUMB "Community Calendar" been sent down the "memory hole?" It appears so.As we have documented and shared the artist listing inequities over the the... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
2x IBMA Guitar Player of the Year Jim Hurst Returns to Jamaica Plain, 5/23
notloB Parlour Concerts presents.....Jim Hurst notloB Parlour Concerts welcomes back to the historicLoring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain, Ma... Read more
Posted on 21 May 2012 MUSIC -
This Weekend in Wareham, MA - http://www.bluegrasson...
This weekend in Wareham, MA - http://www.bluegrassonthebogs.comClick any image below to be re-directed to band Read more
Posted on 19 May 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Free from notloB: One Pair of Tickets to See "Woody Sez", Thursday, 5/17
notloB is pleased to be able to give away to some luky patron one pair of tickets to see not only a big screen presentation broadcast live from the American... Read more
Posted on 16 May 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Nick DiSebastian Launches Country Wednesdays at The Cantab Lounge
, making it "Boston's hot spot for classic country music." Actually, the Cantab Lounge, is located in Central Square, Cambridge, and is the long-time home of... Read more
Posted on 14 May 2012 MUSIC -
Arise, Then, Women of This Day!
Mother’s Day ProclamationArise, then, women of this day!Arise, all women who have hearts, Whether our baptism be of water or of tears! Read more
Posted on 14 May 2012 SELF EXPRESSION