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Traditional and Contemporary Folk compilation, from Paxton to Ani and back again.
Genre: Folk: Traditional Folk
Release Date: 2005
True Folk Record Label: Folk Alliance
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
East Virginia by Roger McGuinn 2:48 Album Only
Underneath the Stars by Kate Rusby 3:18 Album Only
We Meet, We Part, We Remember by The Holmes Brothers 3:56 Album Only
Highway by David Francey 3:28 Album Only
Mauna Kea Mosquito by George Kahumoku, Jr. 2:21 Album Only
Ramblin' Boy by Tom Paxton 3:33 Album Only
Bonny Portmore by Loreena McKennitt 4:24 Album Only
Amor Bonito by Lydia Mendoza 3:05 Album Only
Swing It, Baby, Swing by Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer 4:07 Album Only
Step It Up and Go by Chris Smither and Jorma Kaukonen 2:39 Album Only
Bodily by Ani Difranco 3:52 Album Only
Deer Dance by Joanne Shenandoah 3:58 Album Only
Au Bord de la Fontaine by Le Vent du Nord 5:57 Album Only
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Album Notes

Thirteen terrific folk arts have collaborated to help us produce TRUE FOLK, a fundraising project for the North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance. Artists contributing tracks to this CD are: Ani DiFranco, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, David Francey, The Homes Brothers, George Kahumoku, Jr., Roger McGuinn, Loreena McKennitt, Lydia Mendoza, Tom Paxton, Kate Rusby, Joanne Shenandoah, Chris Smither and Jorma Kaukonen, and Le Vent du Nord. All proceeds of the sale of this CD go to benefit the Folk Alliance.

The North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance exists to foster and promote traditional, contemporary, and multicultural folk music and dance, and related performing arts in North America. The Folk Alliance seeks to strengthen and advance organizational and individual initiatives in folk music and dance through education, networking, advocacy, and professional and field development. Folk Alliance is a non-profit 501(c)(3) membership organization of individuals, businesses, and societies.

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Information on joining the Folk Alliance can be found at www.folk.org or by contacting us at:
Folk Alliance
962 Wayne Ave. Suite 902
Silver Spring, MD 20910

Thanks to all the artists for making this compilation possible. And to our sponsors:
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