Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor

"Soldier's Joy" is a fiddle tune, classified as a reel or country dance. It is popular in the American fiddle canon, in which it is touted as "an American classic" but traces its origin to Scottish fiddling traditions. In spite of its upbeat tempo and catchy melody, the term "soldier's joy" has a much darker meaning than is portrayed by the tune. This term eventually came to refer to the combination of whiskey, beer, and morphine used by Civil War soldiers.

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Big Bill Broonzy (June 26, 1903 – August 14, 1958) was an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s, when he played country blues to mostly African-American audiences. Broonzy copyrighted more than 300 songs during his lifetime, including both adaptations of traditional folk songs and original blues songs. As a blues composer, he was unique in writing songs that reflected his rural-to-urban experiences. In 1953, Vera (King) Morkovin and Studs Terkel took Broonzy to Circle Pines Center, a cooperative year-round camp in Delton, Michigan, where he was employed as the summer camp cook. He worked there in the summer from 1953 to 1956.

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Vera Ward Hall sang spirituals and folk songs as well as blues, and is one of the prominent singers from the Depression-era South. Her songs have been performed by Johnny Cash and John Mayall, and her song “Trouble So Hard” was integral to techno-artist Moby’s 1999 multi-platinum single “Natural Blues”.

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Folklorist Alan Lomax recorded Vera Hall singing “Another Man Done Gone” in 1940. Odetta released it in 1957 on her album "Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues."

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Squirrel Nut Zippers

Original jazz swing in the style of the 1920's

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Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, pianist, and composer. Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, a cornet player noted for an inventive lyrical approach and purity of tone, with such clarity of sound that one contemporary famously described it like "shooting bullets at a bell."

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Carolina Chocolate Drops

"Why Don't You Do Right?" (originally recorded as "Weed Smoker's Dream") is an American blues and jazz-influenced pop song written by "Kansas Joe" McCoy and Herb Morand in 1936. A minor key twelve-bar blues with a few chord substitutions, it is considered a classic "woman's blues" song and has become a standard.

Mandolin Orange

They performed several years ago at Frederik Meijer Gardens.

Lightnin' Hopkins

Roy Orbison

"Mean Woman Blues" is a rock and roll song written by Claude Demetrius. Roy Orbison recorded it in 1963, which was released as a single with "Blue Bayou". It peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Sister Rosetta Tharpe (March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and recording artist. She attained popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with her gospel recordings, characterized by a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and rhythmic accompaniment that was a precursor of rock and roll. Tharpe was a pioneer in her guitar technique; she was among the first popular recording artists to use heavy distortion on her electric guitar, presaging the rise of electric blues. Her guitar playing technique had a profound influence on the development of British blues in the 1960s; in particular a European tour with Muddy Waters in 1964 with a stop in Manchester on 7 May is cited by prominent British guitarists such as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Keith Richards.

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Saint Louis Blues" (or "St. Louis Blues") is a popular American song composed by W. C. Handy in the blues style and published in September 1914. It was one of the first blues songs to succeed as a pop song and remains a fundamental part of jazz musicians' repertoire. Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Bessie Smith, Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Guy Lombardo, and the Boston Pops Orchestra are among the artists who have recorded it. Louis Armstrong would return to this song many times throughout his career, beginning with a version he recorded in 1929 with trumpeter Red Allen and trombonist J.C. Higginbotham. Both the 1925 and 1929 recordings were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame – the former in 1993 and the latter in 2008.

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Hank Williams

"I'm a Long Gone Daddy" is a country song written and recorded by Hank Williams. It was released in 1947 on MGM Records and became his second top ten hit. Hank died at the age January 1, 1953 at the age of 29.

Eli West

A Carter Family staple. A.P. Carter registered this as his work when the Carter Family recorded it in 1936. However, Lester McFarland recorded a song with identical lyrics a decade earlier in 1926.

Courtney Pine

"C Jam Blues" is a jazz standard composed in 1942 by Duke Ellington and performed by countless other musicians, such as Dave Grusin, Django Reinhardt, Oscar Peterson, and Charles Mingus.

Bob Dylan

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Umalali is a collaborative project put together by Belizean musician and producer, Ivan Duran. Umalali is defined by the stories that comprise The Garifuna Women's Project. Garifuna music is an ethnic music and dance with African and Arawak elements, originated by an Afro Indigenous group known as the Garifuna people, pre to their exile to Central America

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John Jackson (February 24, 1924 – January 20, 2002) was an American Piedmont blues musician. Music was not his primary activity until his accidental "discovery" by the folklorist Chuck Perdue in the 1960s. Jackson had effectively given up playing in his community in 1949.

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The Elders

"Galway Girl" is a song written by Steve Earle and recorded with Irish musician Sharon Shannon originally as "The Galway Girl". It was featured on Earle's 2000 album Transcendental Blues. "The Galway Girl" tells the semi-autobiographical story of the songwriter's reaction to a beautiful black-haired blue-eyed girl he meets in Galway, Irelandude Salthill and The Long Walk. It has gone on to become the eighth highest selling single in Irish chart history. It has been subject of a great number of covers and live interpretations.

Bowhunter

Laurel Premo and Michael Beauchamp-Cohen of Red Tail Ring join with fellow Earthwork Artist Samantha Cooper and banjo slayer Samuel Herman to form the quartet stringband known as Bowhunter. With twin fiddles, banjo, and guitar, the group renders old time tunes to fuel a traditional dance floor frenzy. Their debut recording, "The Right Hands 'Round," features the fiery traditional and original fiddle tunes that the band is known for at square dances, but also includes a few traditional ballads with sweet harmony singing.

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Dizzy Gillespie

"Salt Peanuts" is a bebop tune reportedly composed by Dizzy Gillespie in 1942, credited "with the collaboration of" drummer Kenny Clarke. The lyrics have no meaning. However, they are a skat/bebop vocal which matches the octave note interval played predominantly throughout the song. Features Charlie Parker on alto sax.

Christy Moore

Back Home in Derry is an Irish rebel song written by Bobby Sands while imprisoned in HM Maze. The song has been covered by multiple artists, most notably by Christy Moore in his 1984 album Ride On. It is usually sung to a melody inspired by Gordon Lightfoot’s famous 1976 song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."

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Performed by Jack Webb. Originally released Aug 22, 1930 on the Victor label.

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Izzy & Chris

Yiddish Glory

The song Shpatsir in Vald (A Walk in the Forest) has everything—poignant dialogue between lovers about to be separated by war. The lyrics were penned in 1944, but the song wasn’t released until 2018.

Billy Lee Riley

(Oct 5, 1933 - Aug 2, 2009) He learned to play the guitar from black farm workers. After four years in the Army, he first recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1955, before being persuaded by Sam Phillips to record for Sun Studios. Riley recorded "Red Hot," backed with "Pearly Lee," released September 30, 1957. He is cited as an influence on Bob Dylan.

Dervish

"Rocky Road to Dublin" is a 19th-century Irish song about a man's experiences as he travels to Liverpool in England from his home in Tuam in Ireland. It is often performed instrumentally. It has been recorded many, many time.

The Beau Hunks

The Beau Hunks are a Dutch revivalist music ensemble who have performed and recorded vintage works. For some projects for which no sheet music was known to exist, they had to reconstruct charts from original recordings extracted from films.

Hazel Dickens

Hazel Jane Dickens (June 1, 1925 – April 22, 2011) was an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, double bassist, and guitarist. Her music was characterized not only by her high, lonesome singing style, but also by her provocative pro-union, feminist songs.

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Old & In The Way

Band was formed in 1973. Members were Peter Rowan, Vassar Clements, Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, and John Kahn.

Rod Stewart

This is a hidden/bonus track at the end of "That's All Right" (track 3) of the album