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Old School Freight Train

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Old School Freight Train (OSFT) was a Charlottesville, Virginia-based band that combined bluegrass, jazz, Latin, and Celtic sounds to create their music. [1]

64 relations: Acoustic music, Americana (music), Ann Marie Calhoun, Arrangement, Banjo, Bluegrass music, Boston Herald, Brittany Haas, Celtic music, Charlottesville, Virginia, CMH Records, Coldplay, Country music, Darol Anger, David Grisman, Double bass, Downtown Mall, Express (Washington, D.C. newspaper), Fiddle, Folk music, Foo Fighters, Given name, Grammy Award, Independent record label, Indio, California, Instrumental, Internet Archive, Ireland, Jazz, Jethro Tull (band), John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, John Mayer, Josh Ritter, King Wilkie, Latin America, Live at the 9:30 Club (EP), LNP Media Group, Mandolin, Merle Haggard, MerleFest, Mill Valley, California, Music of Latin America, Newport Folk Festival, Noam Pikelny, Old-time music, Pickin' On, RED Distribution, Relix, Ringo Starr, Rolling Stone, ..., Roots revival, Singing, Stagecoach Festival, Steve Vai, Stevie Wonder, String band, Superstition (song), United States, Van Morrison, Virginia, Walker's Run, Warsaw, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Wilco. Expand index (14 more) »

Acoustic music

Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means; typically the phrase refers to that made by acoustic string instruments.

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Americana (music)

Americana is an amalgam of American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States, specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, gospel, and other external influences.

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Ann Marie Calhoun

Ann Marie Calhoun (née Simpson; born May 26, 1979) is an American classically trained violinist who has performed as a bluegrass and rock musician in a number of prominent acts, including Jethro Tull, Steve Vai, Dave Matthews Band, Ringo Starr, A.R.Rahman and Mick Jagger's SuperHeavy.

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Arrangement

In music, an arrangement is a musical reconceptualization of a previously composed work.

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Banjo

The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.

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Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music named after Kentucky mandolin player and songwriter Bill Monroe's band, the Bluegrass Boys 1939-96, and furthered by musicians who played with him, including 5-string banjo player Earl Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt, or who simply admired the high-energy instrumental and vocal music Monroe's group created, and carried it on into new bands, some of which created subgenres (Progressive Bluegrass, Newgrass, Dawg Music etc.). Bluegrass is influenced by the music of Appalachia and other styles, including gospel and jazz.

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Boston Herald

The Boston Herald is an American daily newspaper whose primary market is Boston, Massachusetts and its surrounding area.

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Brittany Haas

Brittany Haas is an American fiddle player, who also sometimes sings and plays the banjo.

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Celtic music

Celtic music is a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk music traditions of the Celtic people of Western Europe.

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Charlottesville, Virginia

Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville and officially named the City of Charlottesville, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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CMH Records

CMH Records is a Los Angeles-based, independent country and bluegrass label with several subsidiary labels, including Vitamin Records, Crosscheck, Dwell, and Rockabye Baby!.

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Coldplay

Coldplay are a British rock band formed in 1996 by lead singer and pianist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London (UCL).

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Darol Anger

Darol Anger is an American violinist and founding member of The David Grisman Quintet.

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David Grisman

David Grisman (born March 23, 1945) is an American mandolinist.

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Double bass

The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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Downtown Mall

The Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia is one of the longest pedestrian malls in the United States.

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Express (Washington, D.C. newspaper)

The Express is a free daily newspaper, distributed in the Washington metropolitan area.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters is an American rock band, formed in Seattle, Washington in 1994.

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Given name

A given name (also known as a first name, forename or Christian name) is a part of a person's personal name.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Independent record label

An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding of or outside major record labels.

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Indio, California

Indio is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, located in the Coachella Valley of Southern California's Colorado Desert region.

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Instrumental

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics, or singing, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a Big Band setting.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1967.

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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (formally called the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the Potomac River, adjacent to the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., named in 1964 as a memorial to President John F. Kennedy.

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John Mayer

John Clayton Mayer (born October 16, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer.

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Josh Ritter

Josh Ritter (born October 21, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and author who performs and records with The Royal City Band.

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King Wilkie

King Wilkie is an American music group formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2002 by Reid Burgess and Ted Pitney.

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Latin America

Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.

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Live at the 9:30 Club (EP)

Live at The 9:30 Club is an EP album by American singer-songwriter Josh Ritter.

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LNP Media Group

LNP Media Group owns and publishes LNP, a daily newspaper in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and LancasterOnline, its online affiliate with monthly readership of over 1 million.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Merle Haggard

Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.

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MerleFest

MerleFest is an annual "traditional plus" music festival held in Wilkesboro, North Carolina on the campus of Wilkes Community College.

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Mill Valley, California

Mill Valley is a city in Marin County, California, United States, located about north of San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Music of Latin America

The music of Latin America refers to music originating from Latin America, namely the Romance-speaking countries and territories of the Americas and the Caribbean south of the United States.

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Newport Folk Festival

The Newport Folk Festival is an American annual folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in July 1959 as a counterpart to the previously established Newport Jazz Festival.

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Noam Pikelny

Noam Pikelny (born February 27, 1981 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American banjoist.

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Old-time music

Old-time music is a genre of North American folk music.

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Pickin' On

Pickin' On is a series of rock and country tribute albums performed in a bluegrass style.

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RED Distribution

RED Distribution, LLC (Relativity Entertainment Distribution) is a Sony Music-owned sales and marketing division that merged under The Orchard in 2017.

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Relix

Relix is a magazine that focuses on live and improvisational music.

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Ringo Starr

Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, songwriter, singer, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Roots revival

A roots revival (folk revival) is a trend which includes young performers popularizing the traditional musical styles of their ancestors.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Stagecoach Festival

The Stagecoach Festival is an outdoor country music festival presented by Goldenvoice, The Messina Group, and Moore Entertainment and founded by Paul Tollett.

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Steve Vai

Steven Siro Vai (born June 6, 1960) is an American guitarist, composer, singer, songwriter, and producer.

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Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.

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String band

A string band is an old-time music or jazz ensemble made up mainly or solely of string instruments.

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Superstition (song)

"Superstition" is a song by American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Van Morrison

Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and record producer.

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Virginia

Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Walker's Run

Walker's Run is an acoustic bluegrass band based out of Lexington, Virginia who also play New Grass and Jazz music.

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Warsaw, Virginia

Warsaw is a town in and the county seat of Richmond County, Virginia, United States.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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Wilco

Wilco is an American alternative rock band based in Chicago, Illinois.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_School_Freight_Train

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