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	<title>The Back Porch News &#187; Opinion</title>
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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>
		<link>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2009/09/minor-health-incident-interrupts-leonard-cohens-concert-in-spain/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2007/03/petition-to-nominate-pete-seeger-for-nobel-peace-prize/</link>
		<comments>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2007/03/petition-to-nominate-pete-seeger-for-nobel-peace-prize/#comments</comments>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oldsongs</title>
		<link>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2006/06/oldsongs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2006/06/oldsongs/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2006/02/disney-settles-with-family-of-wimoweh-author/</link>
		<comments>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2006/02/disney-settles-with-family-of-wimoweh-author/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2006 22:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Solomon Linda]]></category>

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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>
		<link>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2005/09/things-ive-learned-from-british-folk-ballads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2005/09/things-ive-learned-from-british-folk-ballads/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2005/06/patrick-costello-the-creative-commons-and-the-folk-process/</link>
		<comments>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2005/06/patrick-costello-the-creative-commons-and-the-folk-process/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2005/05/mammals-censored-at-festival-international/</link>
		<comments>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2005/05/mammals-censored-at-festival-international/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2005/04/38/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<title>Cristine Lavin Article on Dave Van&#160;Ronk</title>
		<link>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2005/03/cristine-lavin-article-on-dave-van-ronk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2005/03/cristine-lavin-article-on-dave-van-ronk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dave Van Ronk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I missed this when it came out or rather I bookmarked it to read later and later turned out to be much later. It&#8217;s still definitely worth a read however.

In this Washington Post article, published on the eve of the Grammy&#8217;s, Christine Lavin writes about Van Ronk, his life and death and  his contributions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wired News: &#8216;Music Is Not a Loaf of&#160;Bread&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2004/11/wired-news-music-is-not-a-loaf-of-bread/</link>
		<comments>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2004/11/wired-news-music-is-not-a-loaf-of-bread/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the big record labels continue to say that file sharing will be the death of the music industry, the evidence is far from clear that this is so.  The alt-rock band Wilco has become even more successful since they started actively encouraging sharing of their music on the internet.

&#8220;After being dropped from Reprise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WBUR Online Arts : Protest Roars Back&#160;(2004-10-27)</title>
		<link>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2004/11/wbur-online-arts-protest-roars-back-2004-10-27/</link>
		<comments>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2004/11/wbur-online-arts-protest-roars-back-2004-10-27/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Danielle Dreilinger on Folk Music, protest and questions of censorship by venus.
WBUR Online Arts : Protest Roars Back (2004-10-27)
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		<title>Charlie Rides&#160;Again</title>
		<link>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2004/11/charlie-rides-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.backporchnews.net/archive/2004/11/charlie-rides-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2004 04:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems more than a touch ironic that Charlie the mythical hero of &#8220;Charlie on the MTA&#8221; has been adopted by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (Successor to the MTA) to personify their new automated fare card. The lyrics were written by  in 1948 by Jacqueline Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes as a campaign [...]]]></description>
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