Don't think about it, just feel the music Jan 11, 2008
llerin with Thomas Quasthoff accompanying himself on the autoharp. I think it would be safe to say that the best kind of old-fashioned pop song is one that can bear the weight of infinite variations; you can imagine songs such as Like A Virgin or Kiss or Jolene working themselves out in a variety of situations. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Concert and bake sale to help bluegrass festival Dec 22, 2007
The group includes three of the original members: Doug Thomas, lead guitar and vocals; Carol McConnell, rhythm guitar and autoharp; and Perry Washenberger, bass. Pete Wouden, who has been with the group about 15 years, provides banjo and mandolin as well as vocals. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Benefit features quick sets by top-notch locals Dec 3, 2007
The couple specialize in traditional folk songs and old-time mountain music performed on guitar and autoharp. Admission is by a $10 donation at the door. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Jerimoth Hill brings old time gospel music to Courthouse Nov 10, 2007
Featuring five-part harmony, fiddle, autoharp, dulcimer, banjo and mandolin, Jerimoth Hill is gospel with a subtle modern edge. The group includes Atwater on mountain dulcimer, banjo and mandolin; Donnelly on lead vocals and guitar; Cathy Clasper-Torch on fiddle and cello; Heidi Cerrigione on autoharp; John Cerrigione on bass; and Uriah Donnelly on piano and lead guitar. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Reese Witherspoon's Dark Journey Oct 18, 2007
Witherspoon underwent extensive voice training and learned to play the autoharp for the film, in which she and co-star Joaquin Phoenix did their own singing. "I wanted to be a Broadway kid. I wanted to be on Broadway when I was 12, so I had singing lessons, but nothing prepared me for what it's like to stand in front of a microphone and hear it played back to you," Witherspoon said. (CBS News)
The buzz around Bulat Oct 15, 2007
"I could stand up there with a guitar or an autoharp or a piano and just sing, but that would be really lonely," she explains. "The reason I play is to be with friends." The Toronto-raised Bulat picked up her bandmates from "all over" - some at the University of Western Ontario in London, others in Montreal where she spent a couple of summers learning French. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Centennial Celebration: Blackfoot Church marks 100 years of faith in small ranching community Sep 25, 2007
She's a wonderful musician, and accompanying the praise songs on autoharp at most services. The Potomac church's yo-yo of an existence began even before the first church building. (Missoulian, MT)
Race fur the prize Sep 1, 2007
" As Bat For Lashes has grown, so too has her stage show - from just a two piece to a larger, all-female band of multiple viola players, bells and autoharp, even a shadow puppet show.Despite a deeply religious upbringing, Khan isn't a believer. All the same, as she talks you can almost hear Richard Dawkins grinding his teeth. "If people could make a link between universal consciousness and disease, we could be healthier and happier. If you repress something for so long, hold it down, you start... (Guardian Unlimited)
2 days to O.T./Log Village ready Aug 29, 2007
"There's about seven kids and at least five of them play the fiddle. ... It sounds so, cool." Other instruments include the hammered dulcimer, the mountain or lap dulcimer, autoharp and the spoons, which consists of slapping wooden and metal spoons against the leg. Saturday night is musical reunion night. (Mt. Pleasant News, IA)
”Keep on the Sunny Side at the Mountain Playhouse Aug 21, 2007
n both shows the actors not only have to sing and act, but play their own instruments (guitar, autoharp, mandolin and more) and like last season, we have a marvelously talented cast, Stroman said. The story of the Carter family is told through the eyes and voice of Janette Carter, the daughter of A.P. and Sara. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Good Old Time Aug 13, 2007
" The instrumentation of old time is also quite different from contemporary, electrified country music. Old time is all acoustic, with fiddles, guitars, upright bass, banjo, autoharp and other traditional instruments. The NTCMA is an association devoted to the preservation of many of America's traditional musical art forms with emphasis on traditional country and bluegrass music, but also includes mountain, prairie, ragtime, Cajun, polka, cowboy, western, hillbilly, folk and many different kinds... (South Brunswick Post, NJ)
Musician, 90, keeps plucking the strings Aug 9, 2007
The garage vibrates with the pluck of Neal's mandolin, the twang of a banjo and the strum of two guitars, a stringed bass and an autoharp ... "Linda Huber, of Hanover, Pa., is the only member of the troupe not from Freeland."Autoharps aren't always welcomed in bluegrass bands, but he's such a gentleman, he invited me to join," she said.Each player gets a chance to shine during rehearsal. They take turns singing, and each song highlights an instrument.Life on a farmNeal was 2 years old when his... (Baltimore Messenger, MD)
OUTDOORS BRIEFS Jul 31, 2007
Rossiter plays traditional finger-style guitar, autoharp and lawhammer banjo. Fort Owen State Park is located just west of Stevensville. (Missoulian, MT)
Chasing the song Jul 20, 2007
It's great that we can play an autoharp on some of the songs without looking like Peter, Paul and Mary ... Besides adding autoharp to the Fancy Trash mix, Houghton also plays guitar, the bouzouki, harmonica, slide guitar and banjo on hree Cheers for the Cheated. (Boulder Colorado Daily, CO)
Tuning up for the Dulcimer Musical Funfest Jul 19, 2007
The festival embraces all non-electric music including that of dulcimers, banjos, guitars, fiddles, harps, harmonicas, autoharps, accordions and others ... We have some world class dulcimer, fiddle and autoharp players, Robinson said. (Cadillac News, MI)
The Magic Position Jul 14, 2007
With strings and clattering drums, with theatrical drama and garage rock urgency, with abrasive electronic treatments and blissed-out multi-tracked vocals, with sunshiney tunes and lyrics that hark to past depression, with giddy turns and minor key comforters, with echoes of Irish rock and footsteps of New York camp pop, with breaking glass and autoharp and theremin and baritone ukulele. Oh yes, and with Marianne Faithfull. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Couple plans to perform traditional folk music at Lyric Live Theater Jul 6, 2007
NEWBURG - Singing and playing the banjo, guitar, autoharp, bones, spoons, mouthbow, hickory leaf and the hammered and fretted dulcimers will be Dave Para and Kathy Barton s, treat for the community of Newburg when they perform July 14 at the Lyric Live Theater, located at 117 First St.. We try to get the most fun we can out of two people, Para said. (Rolla Daily News, MO)
Little man on campus Jul 3, 2007
Jaime Enriquez, left, and Frank Auina, both 10, play the autoharp along with other students from Coalinga-Huron Unified School District as part of the Migrant Scholars Program at Fresno State ... Bluestein's students from the Coalinga-Huron districts displayed their newfound talents at an awards ceremony last week, playing autoharps and dancing. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
This Week in A&E Jun 29, 2007
Bryan Bowers, autoharp master, singer, story teller, recording artist, in concert, 7:30 p.m., Unity Church, 546 South Ave. W. 10 suggested donation. Call 543-0788. (Missoulian, MT)
more » Jun 24, 2007
Director Mikael Hafstrom keeps the rhythm nervous but not frantic, and you appreciate such touches as the eerie autoharp effects employed by composer Gabriel Yared, who scored "The English Patient.". "1408" breaks no new ground, but it plows old ground with style. (CTNow.com)
Various artists: Anchored in Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash Jun 20, 2007
Still, Grey De Lisle does well by June Carter Cash's revenge tale, "Big Yellow Peaches," which starts out with creepy autoharp Animal Collective would envy. "He was running around on the Mexican border/He was a dirty, thieving outlaw," De Lisle sings. (City Pages)
A daily dose of live music Jun 5, 2007
Robinson said visitors can stop in for tips on how instruments are made and how they are played, including fiddle, guitar, dulcimer, Autoharp and old-time banjo. Picking sessions are offered during the day. (Galax Gazette, VA)
Music was a teaching tool for Charleston's Craig Jun 5, 2007
CLICK TO ENLARGE Ken Trevarthan (JG/T-C) Retiring music teacher Ruth Ann Craig gives a hands-on lesson about playing the autoharp to her students Friday morning at Mark Twain Elementary School in Charleston. Most commented. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Mick Byrd celebrates release of sixth CD May 24, 2007
Performing alongside Byrd will be Bonus Track, aka, vocalist and guitar, banjo, mandolin and autoharp player Mark Rice, and vocalist Kristan Hassler. The audience should expect to hear songs with a great deal of honesty and integrity, said Byrd, who by day is a social studies teacher and girls baseball and softball coach at the Maries County R-2 School in Vienna. (Rolla Daily News, MO)
SUMMER OF LOVE 40 YEARS LATER Goodbye innocence, hello hippies! May 22, 2007
I sang one of my poems, "The God I Worship Is a Lion.'' It was the first great congregation of the young seeker people, known as the counterculture, who were drawing together to create their own huge family, and to celebrate it in their own huge tribe, and to celebrate it with music and dance and song and psychedelics and some real good political things. Ferlinghetti: I was onstage right next to Allen Ginsberg at the Human Be-In. I had an autoharp, which I was playing in those days. Luckily,... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Red hot in Rio, heating up here May 18, 2007
Another look at the liner notes reveals that Monte plays a giddying array of instruments, including guitar, ukulele, bass, xylophone and autoharp, but her main instrument is her soaring voice. Her musicality is hardly surprising: as the daughter of Carlos Monte, the director of the famous Portela Samba School in Rio de Janeiro, she was surrounded by music from the beginning. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The Crooked Road May 13, 2007
Virginia's Heritage Musical Trail. With riches of old time mountain, bluegrass and gospel music ringing throughout Appalachians and Blue Ridge Mountains - Virginia offers travelers a melodic journey. (Suite101.com)
Things to do May 12, 2007
Craven, the multi-instrumentalist who is known to turn anything (we're talking bedpans) into producers of music, will share the stage with autoharp wizard Bowers, who is regarded as one of the top autoharp players around. Man Man is here here9:30 p.m. Tuesday / The Cellar Door, 101 W. Main St., Visalia / $5Man Man, a crazy experimental six-piece out of Philly, is opening on Modest Mouse's current national tour. (Fresno Bee)
Summer camps Apr 13, 2007
Anchorage Daily News. " Ages: 5-12 or grades K-6 When: 9 a.m.-3:45 p.m., June 18-Aug. 30. Choose one week or all six. No camp the week of July 4. Where: Russian Jack Springs Park, DeBarr Road Cost: $150 per week (before- and after-camp care additional) Contact: Tasha Nichols, 248-2250; ; YMCA DAY CAMPS Sponsor: Anchorage Community YMCA When: 7 a.m.-6:30 p.m. May 29- Aug. 17 Anchorage Day Camp Fun-filled days of hiking, archery, field trips, swimming, arts and crafts, field games and wilderness... (Anchorage Daily News)
Song Has Traveled Winding Road Apr 4, 2007
" It is their theme song. It's in their songbook, and it's honored with a framed printing on the clubhouse wall. The music is getting renewed attention, now that there is a push to make a new version of it into the state song. Floridians who were in grade school in the 1950s and '60s are again humming the catchy melody, filling in the words they remember and using the Internet to find the ones they forgot. For many, the upbeat song about orange groves is a stroll down a sunny Florida lane. But... (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- News)
Well hello again, Dolly Mar 26, 2007
Luckily, many of Parton's come covered in glitter - her lap steel, acoustic and electric guitars, her autoharp, her fiddle and the gold grand piano. Does her harmonica gleam. (The Observer)
Church window Mar 25, 2007
"Simply His" blends traditional mountain instruments such as hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, mandolin, guitar, banjo, bowed psaltery, autoharp, upright bass and harmonica with vocal melodies to bring new life to old hymns and a unique sound to the group's own original Christian music, a press release said. Performers in the group are Don and Donna Mohl of Fair Grove, Mo. (Canton Daily Ledger, IL)
Dolly Parton, Wembley Arena Mar 22, 2007
She is a fantastic multi-instrumentalist, switching from piano to lap steel guitar to autoharp to fiddle to banjo (indeed, it appears she can play pretty much anything as long as it is coated in six inches of glitter), while her voice, a husky, imploring quaver, is remarkable. She somehow manages to conjure vulnerability even while belting it out with a forcefulness and volume that would terrify Ian Paisley. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Events around the Southeast Mar 21, 2007
Celebration on the banks of the Ohio River promotes the mountain dulcimer as the designated Kentucky state instrument; workshops in mountain dulcimer, banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle bass, autoharp and more. Owensboro, Ky. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Enriching Osceola County: League for the arts helps community keep area’s cultural heritage Mar 20, 2007
Since the nonprofit organization was established in 2006, it has sponsored three art and craft shows and a quilt exhibit; hosted 12 speaker presentations including authors, master craftsmen and travelogues; and has presented classes ranging from painting and drawing, basket making, tatting, rug-making to autoharp and scroll sawing. Events take place throughout the county providing people creative opportunities in their neighborhoods. (Cadillac News, MI)
MUMPS coming to the Dahl Mar 1, 2007
From the left are Carol McConnell, who plays autoharp and guitar, Doug Thomas on guitar and Pieter Wouden who plays 5-string banjo and mandolin. Perry Washenberger was unavailable, but his bass stands in for him. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Welcome in the valleysTHERE is still time to celebrate St David's Day today. Go out and buy a leek. If not, settle for a Welsh rarebit. Mar 1, 2007
I love leeks and play the autoharp," he adds.Yacky Dah! Last Updated: 01 March 2007 Page 1 of 2 Features ? Today's Vote Is Darren Gough the right man to captain Yorkshire? Yes No Related Articles More The Diary: Featured Advertising Free Newsletter Get the headlines delivered to your email inbox.Click to register and/or customise your newsletters. control for popup window All rights reserved ?2007 Johnston Press Digital Publishing Sister Newspapers. (Sheffield Today, UK)
'Turned On' to music of war and gloom Feb 21, 2007
Here the composer took the acoustic sounds of an autoharp, processed them through a computer and put us in a tunnel with no light at the other end. And so it went. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Hot House Flowers Feb 7, 2007
The lonesome lo-fi loops from the first album have been replaced by piano, banjo, autoharp, bells, metallophone, strings, and woodwinds. Taylor, the de facto producer, kept the mood personal, capturing "these heartfelt, intimate things, (almost) like, 'you caught me with my pants down.'" Droste initially fretted over the recording arrangement the band camped out inhis mother's Victorian home off Cape Cod (yes, it is indeed yellow) but the living room space infused the proceedings with radiant... (City Pages)
NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Dale Watson Secedes From Country Music Feb 3, 2007
These episodes include historic footage of Mother Maybelle Carter picking her trademark guitar licks on "Wildwood Flower" and, on autoharp, playing "The Liberty Dance." On March 27, the Hall of Fame and Shanachie records will release Best of the Flatt & Scruggs TV Show, Volume One and Volume Two. Each volume includes two 30-minute shows. (VHI.com -- CMT.com Music News)
Cutting edge of music Jan 22, 2007
During La Clique's Adelaide season last year, he teamed up with the burlesque opera singer and autoharp player Ali McGregor for a White Stripes number. It is thought the saw was first played somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains in the early 19th century, becoming popular during vaudeville days. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Performers win by portraying actual people Jan 20, 2007
How she did it: Witherspoon dyed her blond hair and took singing and autoharp lessons and brought some of her natural Southern sass to the role. Last word: Not to take anything away from Witherspoon's vibrant performance, but moviegoers more clearly remembered Johnny Cash's look and sound than that of his songbird soulmate. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Hickory Ridge to present family-style show Jan 20, 2007
Using a variety of folk instruments including the banjo and the Autoharp, LeMonnier combines songs and stories from all across American history to create a program will warm the hearts of all ages and provide an evening of lively entertainment. For more than twenty years, LeMonnier has toured the country telling, listening and collecting tales that intrigue and excited him. (Canton Daily Ledger, IL)
Full Story » Jan 19, 2007
Amateur or professional, folk musicians are also invited to bring their autoharp, mandolin, wash tub bass, jaw harp, guitar, musical saw, concertina, harmonica or other old-time instruments and enjoy jamming, swapping tunes, and entertaining the crowd. Vendors and crafters will also display and sell handmade items. (Sebastopol Sonoma West Publishing, CA)
0 Degrees of Separation Jan 16, 2007
There is a sense of risks being taken, not least in the fact that the artists have little in common, beyond a vaguely autumnal sound: Molina loops her vocals and guitar through a sampler; Adem spins from gently plucked autoharp to hearty singalongs; Vetvier's soft-focus Americana is the closest the show comes to rock, while Bunyan - who, bizarrely for an artist once a byword for obscurity, is now in possession of the evening's best-known song thanks to Just Another Diamond Day's appearance on an... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Musician sends a final farewell through music Jan 10, 2007
Because of his illness, ten Broek has had to cut back on his activities, and has tried to focus on putting together a final CD of autoharp music, which will include performances by some of his friends and fellow musicians ... Rowles has been helping ten Broek on his final recording project, a CD of autoharp music, and while it s been rewarding to work with ten Broek, it s also emotional ... Burgett is pleased that ten Broek is working on an autoharp recording. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Take dulcimer workshop, then hear the music Jan 7, 2007
Neal plays the guitar, mountain dulcimer, banjo, mandolin and autoharp ... "We were able to book them just before they head out on a cruise to Alaska, where they will be entertaining audiences and teaching autoharp and dulcimer to people on the cruise," Harnden said. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
