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Alan Lomax (/ ˈ l oʊ m æ k s /; January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century.
The instrument name recorder derives from the Latin recordārī (to call to mind, remember, recollect), by way of Middle-French verb recorder (before 1349; to remember, to learn by heart, repeat, relate, recite, play music) [9] [10] and its derivative recordeur (c. 1395; one who retells, a minstrel).
Emma Christian, native Manx Gaelic singer and folk artist plays the recorder in place of the more traditional tin whistle. Dido studied recorder at the junior department of London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama and most famously plays it on the track Thank You from her debut album No Angel
A music video was made for this track, and can be found on the DVD, Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield. Shot in Oldfield's Througham studio, it shows four female folk dancers who dance barefoot around the studio, while Oldfield is seen playing various instruments.
Amorroma is a Belgian acoustic folk music duo of the present with roots in traditional European folk-dance music. The group was founded by Jowan Merckx in 2000, and consists of himself (composer, recorder, singer, bagpipes) and Sarah Ridy . Amorroma gives concerts as a duo but can also give concerts as a trio, quartet, quintet and sextet.
The term is also used to describe a related set of folk instruments similar to recorder, incorporating a fipple and having a constricted end. Sopilkas are used by a variety of Ukrainian folkloric ensembles recreating the traditional music of the various sub-ethnicities in western Ukraine, most notably that of the Hutsuls of the Carpathian ...
John Avery Lomax (September 23, 1867 – January 26, 1948) [1] was an American teacher, a pioneering musicologist, and a folklorist who did much for the preservation of American folk music. He was the father of Alan Lomax, John Lomax Jr. and Bess Lomax Hawes, also distinguished collectors of folk music.
Frank Hamilton (born August 3, 1934) is an American folk musician, collector of folk songs, and educator. He co-founded the Old Town School of Folk Music [1] in Chicago, Illinois in 1957.