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Saturday, October 27, 2018

Aman Folk Ensemble videos on archive.org

If you go to archive.org and put "folk dance" in the search box, you find all sorts of stuff:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=folk%20dance
including these videos:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Aman+Folk+Ensemble%22

As far as I can tell, those Aman ensemble videos are only available to stream from archive.org, I don't see a way to download or embed them. But there are also some Aman videos on youtube, here's one, apparently from 1968:

archive.org digitized LPs

A while back I posted about 78rpm recordings that had been digitized on archive.org:
https://argonneifd.blogspot.com/2017/02/archiveorg-78rpm-folk-dance-recordings.html

Now they also have a collection of all sorts of pre-1972 LPs available, including a few with international folk music:
https://archive.org/details/unlockedrecordings

For example:
https://archive.org/details/greeksongsdances00newy
 https://archive.org/details/israelifolkdance00ceda

 https://archive.org/details/balalaikasoundre00svet

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Muriel Anderson Saturday-After-Thanksgiving Concert Downers Grove

NITTY GRITTY JOHN McEUEN JOINS MURIEL ANDERSON (Ted & Andrea's daughter)
For Her 27th Annual Saturday-After-Thanksgiving Concert
When: Saturday November 24th, 8:00 p.m.
Where: Downers Grove North High School Auditorium, 4436 Main Street, Downers Grove, IL.
Tickets: $22 advance/$25 at the door, $15/$17 students (through high school) and seniors (65+) available at Anderson’s Bookshop, Tobias Music or online at murielanderson.com/dg

Senior Suburban Orchestra Concert Tues Nov 13, 2018


Senior Suburban Orchestra
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2018
St. Paul's United Church of Christ
5739 Dunham Road, Downers Grove
Concert starts at 2:00pm
This performance is open to the public. It is a free concert, with freewill donations appreciated.

The program will acknowledge the Illinois Bicentennial by featuring
pieces by two Illinois composers:  Adolf Weidig’s Trauer from Drei
Episoden, op. 38 and Felix Borowski’s La fĂȘte from Peintures (Paintings
for Orchestra).  The program also includes selections from the musical,
Chicago, and Over There, a medley of songs in honor of the 100th
anniversary of the ending of World War I which the audience will be
invited to sing along with the orchestra.