Folkways Collection-Children’s Music

Adam has written before,here, here, here, here, here , here and here, about this marvellous series from the Folkways Collection of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D. C., originally done in conjunction with CKUA Radio in Canada, being broadcast on National Radio just after the 11 pm news on Friday Nights. Podcast available here.

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Episode 16: Children’s Music

One of the great treasures stored within the Folkways collection is the body of children’s music recorded by such artists as Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and Ella Jenkins. The Program takes us on a voyage of joyful rediscovery, aided by the perspectives of Seeger, Jenkins and others.

The video clips this week are of songs performed by Pete Seeger in various concerts and on record for children, but as performed by Bruce Springsteen on the Seeger Sessions.

First up is Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal

then we have Shenandoah

These recordings and the concert tour were a much bigger success for Springsteen in Europe than the US, despite critical acclaim.

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