Camper Van Beethoven, Violent Femmes, Kate Rusby, Los Super Seven, Odessa Klezmer Orkesta, The Tigerlillies, REM, Steve Earle, Old Crow Medicine Show, Gillian Welch, Hank Williams, The Broken Family Band, Billy Bragg, AC/DC, The Carter Family, Nick Drake, Idlewild, The Jayhawks, Bill Monroe, Pavement, The Velvet Underground, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Fairport Convention, Chris Thile, The Rockingbirds, Cracker, Hayseed Dixie, Roy Harper, definitely not the Manic Street Preachers, Duran Duran, The Toy Dolls, Ian Dury, Luna, The Proclaimers, Iron Maiden, Sam Bush, G Love, The Texas Tornados, random Eastern European folk music ......
TVFO doesn't indulge in friend 'collecting'. If you're on our friends list it means you asked us or we personally contacted you.
For free downloads and to get all the latest info on TVFO go to www.folkorchestra.com
There’s a place called Moscow in Polk County, Texas. I’m told there’s also a Moscow on the banks of the Moskva river in Russia. The Folk Orchestra have visited neither of these places and probably never will but their sound owes much to both the southern states of the USA and Eastern Europe.
This odd hybrid of sounds, best described as Country & Eastern, fits Timothy's bawdy Essex songwriting like an oil slick fits a penguin - it ain't necessarily the way nature intended but it works surprisingly well. The band was recently described as 'Leonard Cohen meets Chas 'n' Dave' - high praise indeed.
Regular collaborator with Cambridge favourites The Broken Family Band, Timothy has long been searching for a vehicle to combine his love of Eastern European folk music and US acoustic roots (and a good excuse to rope in several musicians he wanted to work with in one go). The band’s influences range from Hank Williams and bluegrass to klezmer and European folk, via the wonderful middle ground of Camper Van Beethoven, The Violent Femmes and The Tigerlillies.
“like a bunch of tipsy buskers ” – www.roughguides.com
Timothy Victor’s Folk Orchestra's Friend Space (Top 8)
I’ve been a music journalist for more than 10 years. Over the years, many artists and managers have asked me what the best way to break into the European music market is.
Here are some things you can do:
Publish artist press releases, news, and tour dates to the CountryHome Forum on MySpace, http://groups.myspace.com/CountryHomeMagazine , CountryHome Forum is part of CountryHome, http://www.CountryHome.de , Germany's Premier Country Music Online Magazine. Everything you publish to the CountryHome Forum will be published in my weekly Newsletter which has over 80,000 readers.
Send me CDs and DVDs for review and set up an artist interview with me. All reviews and interviews will be submitted to the magazines I'm writing for. More information for which magazines I'm writing can be found at http://www.MySpace.com/ChristianLamitschka
Upload artist videos to http://www.MyVideo.de and http://www.ClipFish.de . Both websites are like http://www.YouTube.com and uploading videos is free. The websites are completely in German. If you don’t speak German and need assistance, I will help you open an account and upload a video for 25 Euro. Each additional video upload for the same artist name and at the same video website is 10 Euro.
If you have more questions about the European music market or about any of the information I send to you today, please contact me at Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de too.
Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this folk-carol on myspace... Poem 230 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (see my blog for details): CHRISTMAS SUNG SIMPLY
As gospellers have said, Beneath signalling skies, On land dusty to tread, A trough in a stable Was the strawy first-bed Of a divine baby - The forgiving Godhead.
A season for new hope - There then and here now; The yuletide of goodwill - There then and here now.
In respect of this chance, Beneath bright or dark skies, Faith's the star that we glance Attending Christ's churches And trying to enhance, With singing and ritual, Our God-loving stance.
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 162 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001
Where traditions are not so rare; Sea, country and works scent the air; A multitude of monuments, Planted tubs and patterned pavements.
The longish pedestrian malls; The remnants of defensive walls; Historic buildings are a gauge Of the respect for heritage.
Wheat, rape and pines in the fields; Estuaries guarded by shields; Long sandy beaches and wide scenes; Romantic-ruin go-betweens.
Rivers in parts licked by trees, Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries, And crossed by practical delights - Varied spans, forming pleasing sights.
Fine churches headed at Durham; Football kits ad infinitum; Kept castles - one for study; Masonry behind masonry.
And, with moulding-works out that way, It’s somewhere for a longer stay..?
Today I like to inform you, that you can read and watch interviews with your favorit country stars in Enlgish, German and French at http://www.CountryHome.de/Interviews .
Warm regards
Christian
Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany Phone: ++49 6101 544613 Mobil: ++49 171 6903352 Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de Info@CountryMusic-Magazin.de www.MySpace.com/ChristianLamitschka
howdy, if you've got nothing on, we're opening a showcase of UK Americana at Bush Hall tuesday 11th august. With Lana, The Green Rock River Band and The Cedars. Reckon it's gonna be alot a fun. cheers mark & graham the henry brothers
CountryHome Forum have more than 5,800 members. Each news you submit to CountryHome Forum will released to my weekly Newsletter with more than 60,000 readers.
Please submit your artist news and events to CountryHome Forum to help your artists to get well known better in Europe. If you do not have the time to submit your artist news and events by yourself, please send it me to: Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de and I will submit them by myself to CountryHome Forum.
I know that many artists from North America don't have their music videos uploaded to German video websites. The most popular websites are MyVideo.de and ClipFish.de. That means your European audience does not have the chance to find them.
I understand that most of you don't speak German and are not able to upload videos because of the language barrier. If you would like me to upload your videos to the German video websites, please let me know.
Thanks
Christian
Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany Phone: ++49 6101 544613 Mobil: ++49 171 6903352 Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de Info@CountryMusic-Magazin.de
howdy reckon you might want to see the wonderful Norton Money and ourselves as we play the Greennote, Camden Town this Thur 9th July cheers mark& graham the henry brothers
Hey cheers for the friendship, check my page if you're interested in recording, mixing or mastering - top mics, great rooms, low rates. Keep up the good work :)
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 2 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): WALKABOUT WITH MY PEN
Once drove an old sedan, up north, From a place in Sydney to Cairns; Then to Kuranda I went forth, By train, to look without set plans.
I browsed through the trendy market, With fresh fruits of tropical kind; Walked to the creek through lush thicket - Nature’s hand giving peace of mind.
I dined in a scenic cafe; Then, outside, as I wrote for yen, Some passing Kooris called-out: “Hey, You go walkabout with your pen.”
Request or question, I don’t know - Assured voices, elderly men. That’s now several years ago, And I’ve seen the world - with my pen.
Hi! I'm currently working on my new EP due to be released later this year, in the meantime here's a taste of what's to come. Hope you enjoy it. If you do, come rate it! *Luisa Bertolatti*
You can also visit my own personal myspace page at www. myspace. com/luisabertolatti and sign up to my mailing list for news on releases, tours and more!
Hi! I'm currently working on my new EP due to be released later this year, in the meantime here's a taste of what's to come. Hope you enjoy it. *Luisa Bertolatti*
You can also visit my own personal myspace page at www. myspace. com/luisabertolatti and sign up to my mailing list for news on releases, tours and more!
Please don't forget to publish your country music news and events to CountryHome Forum. Each news and event published to CountryHome Forum will go to my weekly newsletter with more than 30,000 readers.
Warm regards
Christian
CountryHome Magazine Editor Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany
Many thanks for the friendship. If you're interested we have just released a CD for which you can pay what you choose (with Free Worldwide Postage)...cheers
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