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The chamber orchestra once dubbed "The Incredible String Band" will perform in Tulsa this weekend for the first time in two decades.

By JOHN GREGORY FOLK and bluegrass band The Southern Tenant Folk Union will be playing at the Promenade Suite at the Villa Marina, Douglas, early next year.

Formed by Belfast-born five-string banjo player Pat McGarvey and taking their name from the groundbreaking multi-racial union of sharecroppers and non-landowning tenant farmers founded in Arkansas in the 1930s, the Southern Tenant Folk Union are an explosive new Edinburgh-based folk and bluegrass outfit.

While they define a certain aspect of the Eighties, those hits have not withered.

THE curtain will come down on Cupar Arts Festival this weekend after two weeks showcasing the best in contemporary art, music, film and more.

You first: Paul Alcantara and Guy Simpson asked Bert Jansch , founder member of Pentangle, to play at the opening night of the Kalamazoo Klub enlarge Fifteen years ago, I was sitting in a cafe with a musician friend, Guy Simpson, lamenting that our leafy north London suburb, Crouch End, had no music venue where we could play.

Rye Arts Festival opens this weekend with a top line-up of entertainment. The two week festival sees a host of big names coming to the town ranging from gardening expert Alan Titchmarsh to Robert Plant guitarist Justin Adams.

Our first taste of Haih Or Amortecedor , Os Mutantes' first album in 35 years, was " Teclar ," a pastoral excursion that reminded me of the Incredible String Band, among other things, with its flowery group harmonies.

By: David Schultz This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Music & Arts Fair; a fact that you will no doubt be bombarded with over the next three days.

I'm a decade too young to have been part of Woodstock Nation. I was born in the '60s, spent my teen years in the '70s, expanded my musical tastes in the '80s, and wrote about pop music in the '90s and '00s. I dig the Stones and the Beatles, Dylan and the Doors, the Kinks and the Who, but my favorite bands - Radiohead, Wilco and Pearl Jam - released ...

The Woodstock Music & Art Fair began 40 years ago this Friday afternoon at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, N.Y. I had seen an advertisement in the July 27, 1969 Sunday New York Times Arts section, and ordered tickets -- $18 for all three days, Aug.

15, 1969, is a major date in my life as it was the day, 40 years ago, our first child was born.

15, 1969, is a major date in my life as it was the day, 40 years ago, our first child was born.

15, 1969, is a major date in my life as it was the day, 40 years ago, our first child was born.

15, 1969, is a major date in my life as it was the day, 40 years ago, our first child was born.

15, 1969, is a major date in my life as it was the day, 40 years ago, our first child was born.

Fleet Foxes have sold out two shows at the 9:30 Club tomorrow night. If you're one of the folks with tickets, a word of advice: show up early to see Espers , who will be opening both shows.

15. How much do you know about the infamous four-day music festival that took place on a bunch of pastureland in upstate New York? The answers are at the end.

ONE of the big successes of the recent Beverley Folk Festival is making a return to East Yorkshire at the end of next month.

Two concerts next weekend will celebrate Britain's folk-rock tradition. Joe Boyd, who launched Fairport Convention and the Incredible String Band, pays tribute to the musical trailblazers whose legacy lives on Joe Boyd Rock'n'roll was once a working-class occupation.