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Smithsonian Folkways is excited to announce the new children’s music release, Go Waggaloo, from Sarah Lee Guthrie & Family. The album features Sarah Lee Guthrie, her husband Johnny Irion, their two daughters, and a host of other family and friends including her father Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Pete’s grandson Tao Rodriguez Seeger. Go Waggaloo continues the Guthrie song-making tradition forged by Sarah’s grandfather, Woody Guthrie.
The album includes three previously unrecorded songs written by Woody Guthrie and set to music for the first time by Sarah Lee Guthrie. The album mixes traditional folk with subtle uses of modern technology, including drum machines, loops, and cell phone recordings.
For information about the album or to order visit http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=3238
Watch a video about the making of the album http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZJmfw1Zzn8&feature=channel_page

Unieros friend enjoyed live performance of Watcha Clan during Chicago World Music Festival 2009

hi out there!!! we had a great experience in july!!! célia mara met la banda di piazza caricamento…
we dedicate the song " la fabrica de armas" to the activist who was murdered by police in genoa at the G8 summit in 2001

power to the people!!! no to police violence, no to austria's & italy's immigration policies! we are europe!!! urban voices of migrations!!! stand up with music !!!
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la banda di piazza caricamento is a multhiethnical band based in genoa, italy. célia mara performed with the band the song fabrica de armas, a playdoyer against weapons and weapon factories, remembering the death through police forces of an innocent ...activist in genoa, during the G8 summit. célia mara and davide ferrari, the director of the band are preparing a strong cooperation for 2010 - Célia mara & la banda di piazza caricamento -
to spread the power and the voices of migration throughout the continent!
Célia Mara & La banda di Piazza Caricamento
artistic direction: davide ferrari, Italy albert sardei, italy, australia, rwanda ash lombardo, italy, sudan bassirou sarr, senegal cheikh sadibou fall, senegal elias salvini, brasil hi bi, china kai kundrat, germany laura muradi, brasil marasinha siriwardana kasun dias, sri Lanka mateo scuro, Italy nadesh joythimayandana, india, sri Lanka olmo manzano, italy, mexico pape ndong, senegal yana odintsova, russia Live-Sound: Daniele Adrianopoli, Italy Video by siju / Silvia Jura, Austria A globalista: no border media production 2009

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For over fifty years, Mike Seeger has been a musician, documenter, and tireless advocate of American folk and traditional music. As a musician he recorded as a solo artist and member of folk revival ensemble the New Lost City Ramblers. As a collector he has captured and produced sounds by iconic artists such as Elizabeth Cotten and Dock Boggs. And finally, as a historian and preservationist of the music he calls "old time," Mike Seeger gives us the stories behind the music that is such an essential part of American culture. Here he performs and gives the history of "Walking Boss," a tune Thomas Clarence Ashley learned from African American railroad workers at the turn of the 19th century.

Born in 1933 to parents Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger, both prominent composers and ethnomusicologists at the vanguard of this emerging field, Mike was one of several children raised on a steady diet of folk traditions. Mikes siblings include sister Peggy Seeger and half-brother Pete Seeger.

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