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I read that plants very much enjoy music and that it’ll help them grow more quickly. As far as I know, most red vegetables prefer classical music, but I cannot listen to it all the time.
If I play folk music for a change, do you think they will mind?

It won’t make a bit of difference what kind of music you play… plants can’t hear. Some years ago, talking to your plants became all the rage. What you said didn’t matter either. The thing that helped the plants in this case was that humans breathe in oxygen and out carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide is good for the plants. Though I doubt that the amount they would get from a short convo with you could matter all that much.

Stuff like Johnny Flynn and Noah and the Whale.

Very gingerly lol ?

As a folk musician, I wish to promote and develop English folk music. So much of our early English folk music is vanishing in today’s Britain. I am playing at an event later this year called "The Red, White and Blue" and I want to obtain lyrics and music of old English folk music. Please advise.
Thanks
Don

Ive been a folkie for nearly fourty years, Is there a particular area you are interested in? ie military,farming ,mining,naval, etc. I have a huge collection and can recomend some stuff that might even be on you tube or available from specialist folk music sites. My e mail is robertlondon@rocketmail.com

Other than the fact that it’s Peruvian…
And what are the main musical elements of Peruvian music?

It’s a mix of Spanish and indigenous people (inca). Flutes and guitars.

I have to do this music project and I can’t find the difference between Chinese folk and traditional Chinese music.

What do you mean you can’t find it? You have to listen to it.
I’m not sure exactly what kind of music you mean, If by traditional you mean beijing opera and folk means Tibetan, then there is a huge difference. The instruments you can tell are different, the vocals. Don’t look up explanations, listen and hear it for yourself.

Preferably on CD because then I can carry it around on my ipod… but I mean like really old stuff. Any musicians you can recommend?

The US Library of Congress has collected literally thousands of those songs. There are records out there, but I don’t know their names. I would start with a web search of the Library.

Oh, and the Carter Family got most of their songs from there.

Folk music can have a number of different meanings, but most commonly refers to Traditional music. The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the other definitions that "Folk music" is now considered to encompass.

I wan’t to research a lot of music of Flamenco and Andalusian Music but I cannot find a good example for me to hear.

If you search it in the internet. I will only find a few , one or none at all.

Mention as amny as you can. PLEASE.

Youtube is a great source, but searching for FLAMENCO wont get you to the heart of Andalusian Flamenco.

Base your searches on more specific Flamenco, Spanish and Gypsy terms.

Gypsy Surnames: Vargas, Jimenez, Garcia, Reyes, Monje, Heredia, Fernandez, Morena, Flores, Cruz, Montoya, Amaya, Gomez

Search for Specific stars
Carmen Amaya: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=carmen+amaya
Cameron: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cameron+de+isla
Paco De Lucia: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=paco+de+lucia
Rafael Utrera: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=RAFAEL+UTRERA

Or harder to finds stars like these guys – www.youtube.com/watch?v=62S2V0M-dK4

Search for flamenco in specific towns withing the flamenco cradle
Utrera, Cadiz, Seville, Grenada, Malaga, Almeria, Cordoba, Jaen, Huelva
You will often see the towns name use like so ‘de utrera’ (of Utrera)

Combine those with searches terms in spanish
Boda (wedding), Flamenca, Pena.

The best flamenco videos are not the polished theatrical acts, they are home video recordings of parties and weddings and late nights around a table or in a bar.

and child stars like this young chap – El Carpeta en una boda – www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb89bF-Jtr0

When you find something good steal terms from the title and re-search
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=El+Carpeta

Also go to the ‘uploaders’ page and check out his favourites and other videos.

Gitanos Utrera – www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZGGxvh1ePE
Search – www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gitana+utrera

Fiesta Utrera – www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9cqnR5-q8c
Search – www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fiesta+gitana

Flamenco consists of four aspects: Song, Guitar, Dance and Percussion.
Search terms: Cante, Toque, Guitarra, Baile, Palmas.

There are also many palos (types of songs and rhythms) in flamenco
You need to know them and be able to hear and distinguish between them.
Search based on those terms: tonás, saetas, malagueñas, tarantos, fandangos, tangos, tientos, rumba, zambra, tanguillos, zarabanda, jácara, canarios, soleá, seguiriya, bulería, peteneras, guajiras, soleá, cantiñas, mirabras, romera, caracoles, soleá por bulería, bulería por soleá.

And then there are the names of famous flamenco:
Schools: Carmen de Las Cuevas
YouTube Search – www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Carmen+de+Las+Cuevas
Venues: Flamenco Cave – www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmY2PgHUSWA
YouTube Search – www.youtube.com/results?search_query=flamenco+cave

Keep combining your native Spanish search terms and you will find the good stuff. From there you should well and truly fall down the rabbit hole!

The Independent Movie "Flamenco: a personal journey" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIM2Iqf8suc
This is a must see movie and its all available on Youtube under the creative commons license.

I certainly don’t think so, but it seems that a lot of people do. If you look in cd stores, for example, they have all of the folk artists (eg Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Woody Guthrie) under country.

Also, on this very site, there is no section for folk music.

The first "country song" Grammy winner was actually a folk song ("Tom Dooley" by the Kingston Trio) — a song that never made the country charts.

There are similarities; however, the major differences are that folk music, going back to Woody Guthrie, had more political messages in the songs, while country music songs tend to eschew politics as a recurring, general theme. There aren’t many country protest songs in country music, while they abound in folk music.

Another thing that really separates the two is that folk music tends, for the most part, to have solo performers. The obvious exceptions are Peter, Paul and Mary and the Kingston Trio; however, folk GROUPS aren’t that numerous (and certainly not folk groups that achieved popularity). Groups are a central part of country music, going back to Roy Acuff’s Crazy Tennesseans in the mid-30s.

does anyone know any new like folk singers not country , more like Tracy chapman or Ayo

iron & wine, bonnie ‘prince’ billy