Calypso Concert, NYC, 1946

Various Artists - Calypso Concert,

Town Hall, NYC 21 Dec 1946 

From the historic Alan Lomax recordings at the Association for Cultural Equity:

A live recording of Calypso At Midnight, a concert held at Town Hall, New York City, on December 21, 1946. Learning that Town Hall could be rented cheaply after regular theater hours, Alan Lomax produced a late-night concert series called The Midnight Special, which was thematically organized as Blues At Midnight, Ballads At Midnight, etc., and sponsored by the People’s Songs Collective.

The calypso concert recordings, made at Lomax’s request and later found by chance in a closet by Bess Lomax Hawes, may be the only extant record of this series.

“This concert is a fascinating document of an American presentation of Trinidadian calypso at a time when interest in the genre was spreading from New York City into the mainstream of popular music in the United States”

-- Donald R. Hill and John H. Cowley,

liner notes of Calypso At Midnight [Rounder 1840]

Music License: © All Rights Reserved
Image: improvised from flag of Trinidad and 1946 David S. Martin poster of the event
Artist Location: Trinidad, Caribbean

Kingface Live At The 9:30 Club

In 2005, Kingface gave Mike Lupica permission to share a recording of a show on the WFMU blog. (read the post)

The full performance (in the form of  thirteen MP3s) of Kingface was recorded live off-the-board at Washington DC's original 9:30 Club in 1988.

Those recordings have been added to the Free Music Archive. Enjoy this slice of Washington, DC music history.

Cheers to all who made the '80s DC music scene the productive, exciting scene it was. The stuff of legends.

Advent Chamber Orchestra

The Advent Chamber Orchestra is a conductorless orchestra, based in Bolingbrook, Illinois and usually performing in the Chicago metropolitan area. This non-profit orchestra is composed of five violins, two violas, two cellos, a bass, and an harpsichord. The group specializes in Baroque period classical music.

Three collections of their performances are now available on the Free Music Archive.

The Advent Chamber Orchestra began in 2003 when Roxana Pavel Goldstein and Elias Goldstein, who had met studying and performing at DePaul’s School of Music, worked together in chamber music ensembles. The orchestra functioned primarily as a chamber music collaborative until 2005 when they performed their first concert as the Advent Chamber Orchestra. The ensemble is generally led by concertmaster and music director Roxana Pavel Goldstein, but artistic decisions are made democratically by the group.


license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License

William Blake Goes Indonesian

Just in case you have forgotten your history lessions, William Blake (1757 – 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Blake is considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. He was a real revolutionary who lived in the time of the American and French revolutions.

Arrington de Dionyso has translated selections from Blake into Indonesian and incorporated them into his group's songs. Where else would you expect find William Blake in Indonesian but at WFMU's Free Music Archive? Enjoy!

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) License

Screamers, Fanfares, Overtures

Breathtaking feats of agility, strength, and acrobatics! Step right up and enjoy the sounds of the circus as performed by the Bensenville Municipal Band! Maestro Fred Lewis and his band take you to the big top to show you the clowns, the gravity-defying high wire act, and the ever popular sideshows!

This set of 25 circus pieces includes fanfares, overtures, and screamers. A screamer is a circus march, particularly an upbeat march intended to excite the audience during the show. Screamers were mostly composed in a 60-year period (1895 – 1955). Circuses were in need of music that would stir the audience into a frenzy.

This album might be well-suited to your audio and video projects, as it is shared with a Creative Commons Attribution license.

Enjoy CIRCUS RING CONCERT!

album license: Creative Commons Attribution License

Tuesday's Dozen

Steam Powered Preservation Society a non-profit, electronic library dedicated to the preservation of Americana music [country, string, bluegrass, folk]	Wandering Ear a promising netlabel dedicated to releasing field recordings from around the world, making for great fieldtrips for the imagination [field]	Mombojó a fantastic, young, DIY, Brazilian pop group who is earning a name for themselves as an independent with free releases [pop, rock, indie, Brazil]]
Quarkspace - Drop psychedelia in the spaced out Pink Floyd vein, this third studio CD address cons of consumerism, so the band gives this one for free [psych, pop, rock]	Vic Bondi iconic guitarist singer- songwriter for Articles of Faith, Jones Very, Alloy, Report Suspicious Activity and Weatherman [punk, hardcore, rock]	aitänna77 Mikel Martínez of Spain treats classic instruments with digital tools resulting in "kind of lo-fi folk with a pop feeling, ambient touch and weird structures."
Carl Hu charming writing and performances from gifted and remarkably humble pianist and composer [classical]	Sylvain Bouix live clarinet performances from doctor at Harvard Psychiatry Neuro Imaging Lab and the Lab of Math in Imaging [classical]	Children of the Drone Exeter, UK-based improvisational collective with a pleasing collection of recordings [experimental]
Dwelling of Duels at VGMix game soundtrack competitions, main instrument hand played and other tracks can be programmed [soundtrack]	Free Band Music John Thompson shares recordings and scores of his arrangements and originals of band music on his site for free [marching band, concert band]	Marcel Cuypers Dutch multi- instrumentalist, predom clarinetist, shares works from his diverse prog, neoclassical and art groups [varied]

Ozzfest 2007 Bands

See if free tickets are still available at a North American city near you.

Cheaper by the Dozen

All free, all legal!

Cheese People - myspace cuts [pop]	Lovin' Spoonful - official website ['60s pop]	Liam Lynch - official website [rock nut]	Beatmapper - Birdsong Remixes [dance, electro]
Rimsky-Korsakov Quartet - Presidio [chamber]	Uncle Neptune - 3 fabulous CDs [hurray!]	Narcotic Syntax - official site [dance, lounge]	Nood - Shaped Like a Taco [dance]
AgentA - Snapshot [ambient]	VA - Indigenous Resistance-Indigenous Reality [dub, trip hop]	RIAA - Sounds for the Space-Set [pop mashup]	VA - Warm and Scratchy [varied]

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Ozzfest 2007 is Free

Metalheads, have you heard the news? Ozzfest 2007 is free!

" That's right, OZZY and SHARON OSBOURNE and tour producer LIVE NATION broke the news today at the Concert Industry Consortium in Los Angeles that their 12th annual hard rock spectacular--a 25-date extravaganza launching July 7 in Los Angeles--is pulling the plug on ticket prices and giving the power back to the fans calling this summer.s OZZFEST 'FreeFest.' The other OZZFEST cities as of now are [not confirmed] San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Dallas, San Antonio, Kansas City, St Louis, Chicago, Indianapolis, Columbus, Pittsburgh, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Hartford, Charlotte, Atlanta, West Palm Beach, Nashville."

The lineup and tour schedule really have yet to be confirmed. To gain entry into the event, fans need to go to www.ozzfest.com and register to get email announcements. More details regarding the process are forthcoming.