Aug 7, 2010 HM157 photos by Daiana Feuer
Photos by Daiana Feuer from The (first) New Los Angeles Folk Festival. Historical Monument 157. August 7, 2010
Aug 7, 2010 HM157 photos by Charles Mallison
Photos by Charles Mallison from The (first) New Los Angeles Folk Festival. Historical Monument 157. August 7, 2010
August 1, 2010 Echo Country Outpost photos by Daiana Feuer
Photos featuring Ruthann Friedman, Sundays Soundtrack, Fort King, Horse Thieves, Michelle Vidal, and Messes
An Interview With Linda Perhacs
What is folk?
Linda Perhacs: It’s difficult to make a definition of something that is constantly evolving. It’s not all acoustic. We have cutting-edge techniques, even though it comes from the streets. It’s completely new to me to see synthesizers on stage. At this point I would have to say folk simply means it comes up from the ground-level, from the people.
An Interview With Ruthann Friedman
What is folk?
Ruthann Friedman: It is the music that comes out of personal experience living in society. It’s not necessarily composed. It’s not written by people who are highly educated in music. It comes from a simpler place. That’s my definition of it. Someone else can have another. It’s the music of the people.
An Interview With Mia Doi Todd
What is folk?
Mia Doi Todd: Folk music is when you play stringed instruments, it seems, and tell stories of your life and other people’s lives. It’s a very old tradition, going back to the role the bard had in sharing human knowledge and making community. I don’t even need a guitar. I can just sing a song for people at a dinner table…
An Interview With Henry Wolfe
What is folk?
Henry Wolfe: I think of music that is created with a sense of continuity of tradition behind it. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it is traditional, so to speak, but it is aware of the tradition it comes from. Even if it’s not so much about having a song that can be passed down through generations like “If I Had A Hammer.” Folk is one of these words that becomes synonymous with acoustic instrumentation. All these signifiers that lead people to categorize music as folk are arbitrary. You can have loud rockish folk music.
Saturday, August 7 — The New Los Angeles Folk Festival
The New Los Angeles Folk Festival
Saturday, August 7th 2010 – HM157 – 3110 N. Broadway, 90031
2pm-Midnight / Doors at 1pm
Featuring:
Linda Perhacs, Mia Doi Todd, Les Shelleys, Ariana Delawari, LA Ladies Choir, He’s My
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