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Americana Music Honors and Awards show highlights

Higher Ed
The combination of two voices in harmony was on display Wednesday night (18 SEPT 2013) in Nashville at the Americana Music Honors and Awards show. Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, and the husband-wife duo, Shovels and Rope, picked up...
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Open air violin lessons to encourage children to love classical music

Higher Ed
Jakarta, 30 May 2010 1. Wide of violin practice at public park 2. Various close ups of children getting ready for violin practice 3. Close up of song book 4. Close up of girl playing violin 5. Wide of students playing violin 6. Wide of...
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The Marley legacy lives on in the music in Jamaica

Higher Ed
music/video/performance rights must be cleared AP Television Kingston, Jamaica - June 17th 2009 1. Wide of Bob Marley statue 2. Close up of Bob Marley statue 3. Wide shot Bob Marley's house / museum 4. Mid of Bob Marley graffiti 5. Close...
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CLEAN : Algerian rapper Soolking plays Harlem's Apollo during debut US tour

9th - Higher Ed
As his merengue-inflected single "Suavemente" once again tops France's songs chart, Algerian rapper Soolking performs at the Apollo Theater in New York, delighting fans and wooing new followers with his blend of rap and Maghrebian folk...
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Bob Dylan's Newport guitar sells for $965,000

Higher Ed
The Fender Stratocaster that Bob Dylan plugged in when he famously went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival sold Friday (6 DEC. 2013) for nearly $1 million - the highest price ever paid for a guitar at auction. Christie's auction...
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TAIWAN: COLOURFUL GHOST FESTIVAL BECOMES MAJOR TOURIST ATTRACTION

Higher Ed
Mandarin/Nat Every year, in late August, the people of northern Taiwan hold ceremonies to appease restless spirits. An important local tradition, the colourful ghost festival has become a major tourist attraction. Tens of thousands of...
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CHINA: MANDARIN CHINESE MUSICIAN ZHENG JUN IS SUCCESS IN POP WORLD

Higher Ed
Mandarin/Nat In China's growing music market - Western and Cantonese pop music rule. But one Mandarin Chinese musician, Zheng Jun, is proving to be a hit with his style of home-grown rock and roll. So far, young Chinese are responding...
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PORTUGAL: REVIVAL OF TRADITIONAL PORTUGUESE MUSIC

Higher Ed
Portuguese/Nat Portugal is in the grips of a musical revival that has propelled a CD of newly recorded Fado songs into the country's top ten. Fado is a type of melancholic folk music that was very popular in the 1950s, but now a...
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Carpenter's tool proves suprisingly musical

Higher Ed
Queens, New York - July 5, 2008 1. Wide shot exterior of the Trinity Church 2. Natalia Paruz accompanying singer Ilya Speranza performing the 'Mad Scene' from "Lucia di Lammermoor" 3. Close up Paruz playing saw 4. SOUNDBITE: (English)...
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Folk music veteran releases new book and CD

Higher Ed
music/video/performance rights must be cleared please note, profanity in shot 10 AP Television Los Angeles, 8 September 2010 1. Performance clip: Christine Lavin - "Realities" 2. (Reporter: "Who is Christine Lavin?") SOUNDBITE (English)...
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Willie Nelson's children talk about their dad's reputation, appeal and songs

Higher Ed
AP Entertainment New York, 6 June 2013 1. SOUNDBITE (English) Amy Nelson/Willie Nelson's daughter and recording artist - on the reputation of her father Willie Nelson: "He's outlaw, legend, dad. I think what you see is what you get with...
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Bridgeman Arts

Catholic procession, traditional dancing, Carnac, France, 1950s

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Religious procession, traditional costumes, church, priest, choir boys, woman hats / Breton hats, priest blessing horses, music and dances, folk music, children in costumes.
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Bridgeman Arts

Streets of Marrakesh, street performer does trick with his eyes and some needles, men play traditional instruments. c.1960

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Shots of Marrakesh. Tracking shot /traveling through the street of Marrakesh. Muezzin on the mosque's tower. Tilt up of the mosque. Pan of a main/central square in Marrakesh. Close ups of Moroccan women with half covered faces, wearnig...
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First post-Katrina Jazz Fest opens in New Orleans

Higher Ed
1. Wide shot of Jazz & Heritage Festival stage with crowd in front 2. Close up of festival flags 3. Medium shot of performer on stage 4. Wide shot of crowd listening and dancing to music 5. Tilt up from man hands'' playing...
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North Koreans, French prepare for major Paris concert

Higher Ed
A North Korean and a French orchestra held a daylong rehearsal on Tuesday (13 March) ahead of a landmark concert in Paris, a sign of warming ties between Pyongyang and the West following years of tensions. Pyongyang's Unhasu Orchestra...
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Race against rot to save world''s oldest music hall

Higher Ed
AP Television London, UK - July 28, 2011 1. Mid exterior of entrance to Wilton''s music hall 2. Pull focus from lavender to sign reading: (English) "Wilton''s The City''s Hidden Stage" 3. Close of red stage curtain to wide of theatre 4....
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Two held over killing of folk singer, body returned, funeral

Higher Ed
Guatemala City, Guatemala 1. Courthouse interior 2. Various of suspect Elgin Vargas 3. Various of courthouse interior 4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Claudia Paz y Paz, Guatemalan Chief Prosecutor: "With these actions we cannot bring back the...
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Irish folk band talk about St Patrick''s Day and music

Higher Ed
music/video/performance rights must be cleared AP Television London, 17 March 2010 1. Music performance ''Maybe It''s Because I''m an Irish Londoner'' (l-r Enda Mulloy (bass guitar), Andy Nolan (accordion), Ronan MacManus (singer,...
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UK: LONDON: SIKH COMMUNITY ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS

Higher Ed
English/Nat The Sikh community in the U-K joined in the 300th anniversary celebrations of the birth of the Sikh brotherhood, the Order of the Khalsa. The Sikh religion was founded 500 years ago, and brings together the beliefs of...
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Mariachi school on mission to revitalise this folk music genre

Higher Ed
24 October 2012 1. Wide of main avenue in downtown Mexico City with group of marachi musicians in background 2. Mid of group of mariachi approaching car windows asking driver for contributions 3. Mid of mariachi trying to flag down...
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FILE Folk singer Mercedes Sosa who has died

Higher Ed
FILE: Buenos Aires - 1997 1. Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa singing during concert 2. Wide of Sosa with band 3. Various of Sosa talking during press conference 4. Pan from guitarist to Sosa singing FILE: Buenos Aires - September...