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Faces I’m taking home with me from tour pt 2: Amsterdam
November 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Faces I’m taking home with me from tour pt 2: Amsterdam
Faces I’m taking home with me from tour, pt 1: Bucharest
November 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Faces I’m taking home with me from tour, pt 1: Bucharest
now traveling in Europe
November 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM
now traveling in Europe
November 8, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Nearly a decade ago I came across this yearbook from the still-extant Dzilth-Na-Dith-Hle Community school in Bloomfield, northern New Mexico.
I just want to shout out whoever paid for the ad spot at the back just to say “Hey Man, Rock on.”
I like you.
I just want to shout out whoever paid for the ad spot at the back just to say “Hey Man, Rock on.”
I like you.
November 8, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Nearly a decade ago I came across this yearbook from the still-extant Dzilth-Na-Dith-Hle Community school in Bloomfield, northern New Mexico.
I just want to shout out whoever paid for the ad spot at the back just to say “Hey Man, Rock on.”
I like you.
I just want to shout out whoever paid for the ad spot at the back just to say “Hey Man, Rock on.”
I like you.
November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
In case you thought blackface minstrelsy was a mid-19th century phenomenon, I’d point you to this reference in John Tasker Howard’s 1931 book Our American Music in which he describes Johann Christain Gottlieb Graupner’s performances in Boston in 1799 following Grapner’s 1795 visit to South Carolina
October 30, 2025 at 2:55 AM
In case you thought blackface minstrelsy was a mid-19th century phenomenon, I’d point you to this reference in John Tasker Howard’s 1931 book Our American Music in which he describes Johann Christain Gottlieb Graupner’s performances in Boston in 1799 following Grapner’s 1795 visit to South Carolina
The National Bureau of the Advancement of Music said at the time: “It is Mrs. Botsford’s idea that we need to understand the artistic heritage of the immigrant who comes to our shores if we are in any true sense to assimilate him in our social fabric, but that we have devoted…
October 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The National Bureau of the Advancement of Music said at the time: “It is Mrs. Botsford’s idea that we need to understand the artistic heritage of the immigrant who comes to our shores if we are in any true sense to assimilate him in our social fabric, but that we have devoted…
Forgotten effort to use music against America’s worst (til now) wave of anti-immigrant sentiment.
Composer Florence Hudson Botsford (née Topping, b. 1866; d. 1954) published 3 volumes of non-English-language folk songs via the Womans Press of the YWCA, 1921-22 (reprinted by Schirmer 1933)
Composer Florence Hudson Botsford (née Topping, b. 1866; d. 1954) published 3 volumes of non-English-language folk songs via the Womans Press of the YWCA, 1921-22 (reprinted by Schirmer 1933)
October 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Forgotten effort to use music against America’s worst (til now) wave of anti-immigrant sentiment.
Composer Florence Hudson Botsford (née Topping, b. 1866; d. 1954) published 3 volumes of non-English-language folk songs via the Womans Press of the YWCA, 1921-22 (reprinted by Schirmer 1933)
Composer Florence Hudson Botsford (née Topping, b. 1866; d. 1954) published 3 volumes of non-English-language folk songs via the Womans Press of the YWCA, 1921-22 (reprinted by Schirmer 1933)
Oct 28 I'll talk online about American Folklore; how it lead to the Chuck Berry-Elvis-Little Richard-Dylan-Beatles-Stones cataclysm of 1955-65; how immigrants & natives were left behind; & what, if anything, we can do about it now
FREE!
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www.culturalequity.org/tradition-ta...
FREE!
Register here
www.culturalequity.org/tradition-ta...
October 10, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Oct 28 I'll talk online about American Folklore; how it lead to the Chuck Berry-Elvis-Little Richard-Dylan-Beatles-Stones cataclysm of 1955-65; how immigrants & natives were left behind; & what, if anything, we can do about it now
FREE!
Register here
www.culturalequity.org/tradition-ta...
FREE!
Register here
www.culturalequity.org/tradition-ta...
The street gangs that overran Baltimore in the 1850s were used by the nativist politicians to cause election day riots to keep the Germans and Irish from voting.
Hours of musket and blunderbuss fire. Hundreds caught balls and slugs in their jaws and eyes.
The Plug Uglies were the biggest gang.
Hours of musket and blunderbuss fire. Hundreds caught balls and slugs in their jaws and eyes.
The Plug Uglies were the biggest gang.
October 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The street gangs that overran Baltimore in the 1850s were used by the nativist politicians to cause election day riots to keep the Germans and Irish from voting.
Hours of musket and blunderbuss fire. Hundreds caught balls and slugs in their jaws and eyes.
The Plug Uglies were the biggest gang.
Hours of musket and blunderbuss fire. Hundreds caught balls and slugs in their jaws and eyes.
The Plug Uglies were the biggest gang.
Bandcamp Friday
Complete discography (almost 200 titles) is only $161.
Please baby please baby baby baby baby please
canary-records.bandcamp.com
Complete discography (almost 200 titles) is only $161.
Please baby please baby baby baby baby please
canary-records.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Bandcamp Friday
Complete discography (almost 200 titles) is only $161.
Please baby please baby baby baby baby please
canary-records.bandcamp.com
Complete discography (almost 200 titles) is only $161.
Please baby please baby baby baby baby please
canary-records.bandcamp.com
Bucharest Nov 14-15
October 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Bucharest Nov 14-15
Moses Araktingi Cohen (b. Aleppo ca. 1892-3), immigrated 1908 and worked initially with his brother in the jewelry business before going into business for himself selling lace curtains from a storefront at 121 Canal St. He lived on the Lower East Side and and recorded 3 discs for Columbia…
September 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Moses Araktingi Cohen (b. Aleppo ca. 1892-3), immigrated 1908 and worked initially with his brother in the jewelry business before going into business for himself selling lace curtains from a storefront at 121 Canal St. He lived on the Lower East Side and and recorded 3 discs for Columbia…
Acoma musicians Philip Sanchez and Wilbert Hunt.
1928 in New Mexico by Frances Densmore
1928 in New Mexico by Frances Densmore
September 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Acoma musicians Philip Sanchez and Wilbert Hunt.
1928 in New Mexico by Frances Densmore
1928 in New Mexico by Frances Densmore
September 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I was sent a copy of the Sept 1919 Columbia Arabic catalog which includes this photo of young Zekia Agob.
September 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I was sent a copy of the Sept 1919 Columbia Arabic catalog which includes this photo of young Zekia Agob.
drummer Ed Swierad (b. 1918; d. 1970) & his Aristocrats.
Chicopee, Massachusetts ca. 1949.
Both of Swierad’s parents were born in 1885 in a Carpathian mountain village in southeastern Poland.
He worked on a dairy farm and as an inspector at an auto parts manufacturer. Loved basketball.
Chicopee, Massachusetts ca. 1949.
Both of Swierad’s parents were born in 1885 in a Carpathian mountain village in southeastern Poland.
He worked on a dairy farm and as an inspector at an auto parts manufacturer. Loved basketball.
September 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
drummer Ed Swierad (b. 1918; d. 1970) & his Aristocrats.
Chicopee, Massachusetts ca. 1949.
Both of Swierad’s parents were born in 1885 in a Carpathian mountain village in southeastern Poland.
He worked on a dairy farm and as an inspector at an auto parts manufacturer. Loved basketball.
Chicopee, Massachusetts ca. 1949.
Both of Swierad’s parents were born in 1885 in a Carpathian mountain village in southeastern Poland.
He worked on a dairy farm and as an inspector at an auto parts manufacturer. Loved basketball.
He arrived alone through Ellis Island at the age of 14. By the 1930s, he was a professional musician. While his homeland suffered through occupations and tragedies during WWII, his band entertained Ukrainians in and around Newark, New Jersey.
August 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
He arrived alone through Ellis Island at the age of 14. By the 1930s, he was a professional musician. While his homeland suffered through occupations and tragedies during WWII, his band entertained Ukrainians in and around Newark, New Jersey.
when I moved in with Blaster Al Ackerman ca. 2003, there was a worn 2”x3” yellow card over the stove with one word printed on it. I have a vivid memory of mentioning it to him when he appeared out of his room one evening, clearly about a bottle of wine deep. “You know what it means?” he smiled.
August 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
when I moved in with Blaster Al Ackerman ca. 2003, there was a worn 2”x3” yellow card over the stove with one word printed on it. I have a vivid memory of mentioning it to him when he appeared out of his room one evening, clearly about a bottle of wine deep. “You know what it means?” he smiled.