Posts Tagged ‘folk’

Songs for Survival KT Tunstall

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

KT Tunstall speaks here about her contribution to an album for Survival International, the human rights organization for tribal peoples. Bruce Parry, star of the BBC series Tribe and the forthcoming Amazon, has teamed up with some of the music worlds biggest names to create a fundraising album for Survival. Musicians on the album also include will.i.am (Black Eyed Peas), Johnny Borrell (Razorlight), Tom Baxter, Mystery Jets, Jason Mraz, Yusuf Islam, Hot Chip, the Go! Team and Mike Oldfield …

Afterquake: Making music with Sichuan earthquake survivors

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

From www.afterquakemusic.com In May 2008 an earthquake devastated Sichuan province in China, killing tens of thousands and leaving millions homeless. To commemorate the one year anniversary of this tragedy, musicians Abigail Washburn and Dave Liang of the Shanghai Restoration Project traveled to Sichuan to make music with children who survived the earthquake and their parents. Using folk songs sung by the children as well as sounds of their parents rebuilding their houses with bricks and …

Easy AdSense by Unreal
Powered by WP VideoTube