Jeffrey Taylor and Robert Millis or the local experimental music group Climax Golden Twins are also great compilers of music of a bygone era and far away places. They collect REALLY GREAT 78 rpm shellac records. This is world music (including america) from the 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s. They previously released these on cassette and now have made a ‘best of’ two CD set called “Victrola Favorites”, that comes in an extremely handsome 144 page hard cover book full of 78 curio, covers, and needle box pictures.
I like this record so much I am playing the whole thing this wednesday at 9 pm (again thursday at 10am) and have managed to talk Jeffrey Taylor into coming and talking about the process of putting this together.
Not to be missed. Must be pretty good If I am willing to make basically a 2-hour long advertisement for it.
DJ Dearbornagain will be broadcasting live from the Sunset this wednesday just after 11pm, speaking with Levi Fuller about his (wonderful) Quarterly Audio Magazine and giving you the live music straight from the stage..
Ball of Wax 12 Release Show! Wednesday, May 28th! (Where else but) The Sunset Tavern! with Jeremy Burk, The Crying Shame, Origami Ghosts, Poland, Ryan Dolliver, Kate Tucker and the Sons of Sweden, Peter Verdoes, Jack Shriner and Devoirs! see also the BoW myspace page to listen, and for additional info.
Well, it’s Saturday evening, and we’ve experienced a lot of interesting performances and exchanges. The Jesus people were handing out business cards that said “HELL” on them, teens were french kissing in the big fountain, folk punk groups are out in droves on the streets of the Seattle Center grounds, and the Vera Stage has hosted a variety of amazing shows from black metal to sengalese hip hop to Oregan bluegrass. Tune in this weekend! We are broadcasting live from the Vera Stage at Folklife. Better yet, get out of the house, and come say hi to us!
More Field Recordings and Performances (Unedited & Raw):
Sculptuaral Homemade Instrument by Elalusions
Didgeridoo Busking
Perfomance By Polka Dot Dot Dot
ENJOY!!!
We’ve continued to collect field recordings and interviews at Folklife today, and here are a few more. It’s so exciting to see so many young people busking. The Riley Johnston Folk Stompers are comprised of Riley, a 9 year old fiddle player, and his dad. He was busking so he could buy some legos. I saw this woman with this big hula hoop, and I asked her where she got it, and she said she made it. They just don’t make good hula hoops anymore, so I am also going to totally make a homemade hula hoop. You should too. Hula Hoop Construction HOW-TO below - - along with other field recordings!
Hula Hoop Construction HOW-To
Busking to Self Propel by bicycle to the Atlantic
The Pasties Busking
Plastic Can Beats & Clogging
Riley Johnston & The Folk Stompers
Interview with 9 year old, Riley
Shapenote Singing
Dj Prismatic Interviews Vera Consession Volunteer
Dj Prismatic Gives a Folklife Report
Hollow Earth Radio is broadcasting live all weekend at the Vera Stage at Folklife, but we are also takin’ a listen around the whole grounds. This morning, we were particularly interested in youth performers and buskers. Here are some yummy samples of what we heard when we walked around. Come check it out! Folklife is awesome!
Badmitton Orchestra Busking
Community Drum Workshop
Dandelion Junk Queens Busking
Young Fiddler Player Busking
Teen Nirvana Cover Band Stuck in the Mud
Punk as Folk Buskin’ for Fun
Sassparilla Busking
Marimba Youth Performers
Today at Folklife:
Grace and Savage LIVE NOW!
Coming up next:
The Pasties at 12:20pm
You just heard:
The Heard - from Boise!
The Bigass Jesus Sign guys (not a band) are near the fountain, hippies and hipsters are streaming in… if you can’t take it in person, stay tuned to HER all weekend for the live VERA stage feed!
But seriously, I can’t wait to take my pants off and jump in the fountain.
-dj prismatic
We’re streaming live this weekend from the Northwest Folklife Festival down at Seattle Center. We’ll be at the VERA stage interviewing the bands and broadcasting their performances. Tonight is a theme on Cascadian Black Metal Folk. I KNOW! Double-U Tee F!!! It’s going to be amazing! Dj Cleveland Cuts is out in the field and we’ll be keeping it real all evening - probably live blogging and taking photos of the festivities!! Email us with any questions for the bands!
And stay tuned all weekend!!
Hellyeafuckyes! The Dodos are back with their second full-length album, “Visiter”! Think West African Ewe drumming meets blues fingerpicking meets tribal chants reminiscent of Akron/Family. Check it out if you know what’s good for you. They’ll be in Seattle on the 25th of June, playing with the OhSees at Neumos. Put on your friend hat- I’ll see you there!
<3 Jamie
