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The Guelph Spring Festival (GSF) was an annual music festival held during the months of April and May in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1968 by the Edward Johnson Music Foundation. The festival presented concerts and operas to the public, and also includes master classes, seminars, and music competitions for professional musicians. [1]
The Folkways Records & Service Co., and its music publishing subsidiary Folkways Music Publishers, Inc., were founded by Moses Asch and Marian Distler in 1948 in New York City. [1] Harold Courlander was editor of the Folkways Ethnic Library at the time and is credited with coming up with the name "Folkways" for the label. [ 2 ]
Jerry Schoenbaum of Verve and Moe Asch of Folkways created Verve Folkways in 1964 to take advantage of the popularity of folk music. [1] [2] To broaden the label's appeal, the named was changed from Verve Folkways to Verve Forecast in 1967. [3] Schoenbaum was president of the label. [4]
In 2015 Smithsonian Folkways released Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, a five-CD, 140-page, large-format book featuring five hours of music including his classics “The Midnight Special,” “Irene,” “The Bourgeois Blues,” and 16 previously unreleased tracks.
Moses Asch (December 2, 1905 – October 19, 1986) was an American recording engineer and record executive. He founded Asch Records, which then changed its name to Folkways Records when the label transitioned from 78 RPM recordings to LP records.
The Hillside Festival is an annual three-day, five-stage (including one kids' stage) summer festival occurring in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, hosting musicians, spoken word artists, workshops and more. The Hillside Festival occurs in late July on Guelph Lake Island.
Three employees at a Maryland Cracker Barrel have reportedly been dismissed after staff refused to seat a group of students with special needs on Dec. 3 Superintendent of Charles County Public ...
Folkways can refer to: . Folkways or mores, in sociology, are norms for routine or casual interaction; Folkways Records, a record label founded by Moe Asch of the Smithsonian Institution in 1948