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AUK’s Keith Hargreaves’s weekly education column, with the help of some good, bad and ugly americana

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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 63

July 12, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 2
Alice Cooper is singing in my head. As the unwinding begins and the end of term becomes a matter of days not weeks the school enjoys an orgy of expeditions and trips that constitutes an activity […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 62

July 5, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 0
Looking forward to reading for pleasure and stilling the whirling head. One of the delights of the much criticised but definitely needed summer holidays enjoyed by those in the teaching profession (and in doing this we […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 61

June 28, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 0
Not wanting sound like Cassandra… The madness that is the end of a term is magnified in the summer threefold and this year as we throw off the shackles of the pandemic everything appears to be […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 60

June 21, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 2
Covid can’t stop the exam marking pile up… With Govt. regulations making self isolation a thing of the past as employers tell their employees that the ‘guidance is five days but it is only guidance’ we […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 59

June 14, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 0
Half term been and gone. So it came and went in a flash and left a nasty sting in the tail, but while it lasted half term was a thing of joy. Most of it spent […]

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Essentials: The Top 10 Americana Railroad Songs

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At the remove of two hundred years, it is very hard, if not impossible, to fully comprehend the impact that the expansion of railroads throughout the world had in the 19th and early 20th Centuries. The […]
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The Milk Carton Kids “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

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Exquisite harmonies and faultless guitar work deliver songs of crystaline fragility. The Milk Carton Kids are back! A new album from the superb Milk Carton Kids is always something of a cause for celebration, here at […]
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Review: Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame – Class of 2025 Induction Ceremony

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Two years ago, the ceremony honouring the inductees of the inaugural class of the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame (FARHoF) set the bar high indeed. Two thrilling and emotional evenings of music-making and camaraderie, memories […]

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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

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Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]
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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

April 7, 2026 0
How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]
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Interview: Cynthia Marchant on the Ozarks, fast cars and the passing of time

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In 2022, with her second studio album, Flesh and Bone, Cynthia Marchant explored spiritual truth and depth, and the magic of connecting with self and others in the many stages of life. Three years later, she’s […]

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Blue Rose Code “Jericho”

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The new song from Blue Rose Code opens with the line “It’s been a long time coming“, and they’re right – it’s been some while since we’ve heard from Blue Rose Code here at Americana UK […]
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Queerfolk Fest 2021 offers free live streaming

June 10, 2021 0
And that’s this very weekend coming up – on June 12th there’s the opportunity to watch (at a fairly reasonable time even with the seven-hour difference between UK and US Central Time) an impressive lineup of […]
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Book Review: Clinton Heylin “No One Else Could Play That Tune” (Route, 2018)

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If, like many of us, you’re hoping a copy of Dylan’s “More Blood, More Tracks” might be among the presents awaiting your attention under the Christmas Tree, I suggest you drop the fat man in the […]

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