115K views · 6.6K reactions | In the summer of 1960, the King of Boogie took the stage at the Newport Folk Festival and delivered a stripped-down, soul‑stirring rendition of “Maudie.” This performance was recorded live on June 25, 1960, at Newport and later appeared on THE FOLK LORE OF JOHN LEE HOOKER. #JohnLeeHooker | John Lee Hooker | Facebook

‘Fast Dance’ (Maruntel), the final section of Béla Bartók’s suite of Romanian Folk Dances, whirls in an accelerating crescendo at the #bbcproms. In the early 1900s, Bartók and fellow Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály spent 10 years travelling around the remote regions of Hungary, Eastern Europe and North Africa in a horse-drawn cart, recording the authentic peasant music they encountered using an Edison phonograph and wax cylinders. Their transcription and cataloguing of more than 10,000 folk son

Bela Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances Henryk Szeryng, violin Tasso Janopoulo, piano #bartók #szering | History of Music