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	<description>What&#039;s Going on in Folk Music</description>
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		<title>Minor Health Incident Interrupts Leonard Cohen&#8217;s Concert in&#160;Spain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago I was watching one of those depressing police or hospital shows when my attention was seized by a mournful song as the credits rolled. I was not alone, for many people called or went online to find out more about the artist and the song. Although I have followed some folk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Petition to Nominate Pete Seeger for Nobel Peace&#160;Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long-time civil rights activist and co-founder of the Freedom Song Network, Eleanor Walden has organized a petition to urge the American Friends Service Committee to nominate Pete Seeger for the Nobel Peace Prize. Pete Seeger has been a crusader for Peace and Social Justice over the course of his 87 year lifetime. As a prominent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oldsongs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 03:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t looking good for the Oldsongs Festival this year. The weather forecast looked pretty awful then a family emergency kept us up until 2am the day before we were supposed to leave. We finally rolled in to the festival about 6pm on Friday which left us an hour to set up our tent and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family of Solomon Linda to Finally Receive&#160;Royalties</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2006 22:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to an article in The Scotsman, The Disney Corporation Abilene Music has reached a settlement with the family of Solomon Linda, the author of &#8216;Wimoweh&#8217; or &#8216;The Lion Sleeps Tonight&#8217;. Hopefully with this settlement some measure of justice is finally achieved. Seldom has a song made so much money for so many people with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things I&#8217;ve learned from British folk&#160;ballads</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2005 03:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post on Making Light has been making the rounds and for good reason - it's hysterical. ]]></description>
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		<title>Patrick Costello: the Creative Commons and the Folk&#160;Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patrick Costello explains why he released his Banjo Instruction books under a Creative Commons license.
As usual with Patrick that involves a story...]]></description>
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		<title>The Mammals Censored at Festival&#160;International</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2005 02:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stories about attempts at censorship by venues seem to turn up with disturbing regularity these days.  Last fall I pointed out this article (prompted I think by stories circulating on various folkvenu email list). Now comes this article in the Lafayette Independent about The Mammals being asked not to preform their song The Bush Boys at the Festival International. ]]></description>
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		<title>Ghanaian Goverment Nationalizes&#160;Folklore</title>
		<link>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2005/04/38/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 22:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a rather bizarre move the Ghanaian government has passed a new copyright law which nationalizes folklore and penalizes Ghanaians who commercially use, sell or distribute Ghanaian folklore or translations without a Government permit.]]></description>
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