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	<title>The Back Porch News &#187; Passings</title>
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	<description>What&#039;s Going on in Folk Music</description>
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		<title>Folk Music&#160;Passings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent days we have seen the loss of several folk music personages, each known for a different type of role. Bess Lomax Hawes, folklorist and musician, passed away on November 27th. Following in the footsteps of her father John Lomax and making giant footsteps of her own, she spent her life working to preserve folk music in different forms. Jack Cooke, of the Clinch Mountain Boys, died December 1st. In Ireland, the last of the Clancy Brothers, Liam Clancy, died December 4th.]]></description>
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		<title>Folk Singer Valerie Crockett Dies at&#160;53</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valerie Crockett, of the duo Valerie &#38; Walter Crockett, lost her battle with cancer Sunday. Valerie and her husband Walter, of Worcester, Massachusetts, played with several bands in Boston and surrounding areas over the years. The Boston Globe has more on Valerie&#8217;s life.]]></description>
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		<title>Mercedes Sosa Dies at&#160;74</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We wrote last week that Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa had been taken into intensive care. She passed away today, leaving a legacy of Latin American music including more than 70 albums and of a life devoted to using her music to bring attention to everyday social issues. She had been nominated for multiple Latin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Travers Has Passed&#160;Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Travers, of Peter, Paul and Mary, died today in hospital after battling cancer for several years. Read the full AP story at any of these sites: MSNBC, Yahoo or The New York Times. As someone who sang &#8220;Blowin&#8217; in the Wind&#8221; along with my friend&#8217;s record as a pre-teen, walked out on a high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Bridge Over Troubled Water&#8221; Keyboardist and Arranger Dies at&#160;69</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Larry Knechtel, whose keyboard arrangement of &#8220;Bridge Over Troubled Water&#8221; for Simon and Garfunkel won him a Grammy award, passed away last Thursday. I confess a special attachment to that particular piece of music, and I suspect I am not the only one who feels that way. As described in the AP story from KOMO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mike Seeger&#160;Passes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Folk musician Mike Seeger, a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers, passed away on Friday, August 7 at the age of 75. Mike was half-brother to Pete Seeger and brother to Peggy Seeger. He was an essential part of the folk music movement of the mid-twentieth century and spent a good part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Folklorist Archie Green Has&#160;Died</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The man whose dogged persistence led to the formation of the Library of Congress American Folklife Center passed away on Sunday, March 22 at the age of 91. With a heritage of socialist activism and an education in political science, he began as a union activist (in addition to being a shipwright and carpenter) but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Piedmont Blues Performer John Cephas Passes&#160;Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Cephas, half of the acoustic blues duo Cephas and Wiggins, died at his Virginia home on Wednesday. Born in Washington, D.C., Cephas was raised in Bowling Green, Virginia. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the National Council for the Traditional Arts and a founder of the Washington, D.C. Blues Society. Cephas [...]]]></description>
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