Folk Music Cambridge
Central Square vs. Harvard Square?
I’m moving to Cambridge and saw a beautiful apartment in Central Square. I have heard Central Square can be “sketchy” at night… but others say that is not true. I also saw a very good place in Harvard Square, but surprisingly, felt that there were a lot of very aggressive folks doing the panhandling thing and some just crazy folks doing the yelling at the sidewalk thing. I actually got hastled a few times in Harvard Square, and didn’t totally love the vibe. I’m someone that can easily defend myself, but don’t really want to think about that when I’m just walking around.
What’s your view of the two locations in comparison? Oh, and I’m a musician, so the music and interesting folk aspects of both areas seem appealing. Thanks for any thoughts.
Central square is a little more sketchy than Harvard Sq. Harvard is more of a tourist spot, so there is more security and police there. People are always around so it’s fine. The beggars and “crazy” people are harmless, they obviously chose to hang out there because the tourists pay them attention and give them money. Harvard sq definetly has more international culture in my opinion. Central sq has a Boston touch to it. I felt that Central was more freaky to hang out at because it looks older. But there is plenty of housing surrounding the place, so it has a residential characteristic to it, so it should be safe too.
Either way, both are in Cambridge and it’s a great town! Hope that helps
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Baby, Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years $19.10 Long out of print, Baby, Let Me Follow You Down is a classic in the history of American popular culture. The book tells the story of the folk music community in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from its beginnings in living rooms and Harvard Square coffeehouses in the late 1950s to the heyday of the folk music revival in the early 1960s. Hundreds of historical photographs, rescreened for this edition, an… |
In the Bob Marley song Go, tell it on the mountain —the words are different from the original spiritual?
Do any of the othe variations of the song include
Who’s that yonder dressed in white?
Must be a child of and Isrealite.
Who’s that yonder dressed in red?
Must be the Children that Moses led.
Or is that part original to Bob Marley’s version only?
Other artists, besides Bob Marley , who have recorded the song (chiefly on either Christmas-themed music albums or collections of spirituals or folk songs) include:
Peter, Paul and Mary
Mahalia Jackson
Fred Hammond
Kirk Franklin
Candi Staton
Simon & Garfunkel
Frank Sinatra & Bing Crosby
James Taylor
Cece Winans
Anne Murray
Vanessa L. Williams
Jewel
Dustin Kensrue
Bruce Cockburn
Little Big Town
John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers
Sara Evans
i can’t help you with that one gator bait but bob marley is my man. i love his legends cd.
Show Of Hands – Cousin Jack – Cambridge Folk Festival
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Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival $6.22 10 tracks recorded at the legendary folk festival in 1992, including ‘So You Think You’re In Love’, ‘Globe Of Frogs’, ‘Egyptian Cream’ and ‘Uncorrected Personality Traits’. 1998 Strange Fruit release. The full title is ‘Live At The Cambridge Folk Festival’…. |
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Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and their World (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama) $16.98 Carnival, charivari, mumming plays, peasant festivals, and even early versions of the Santa Claus myth–all of these forms of entertainment influenced and shaped blackface minstrelsy in the first half of the nineteenth century. In his fascinating study Demons of Disorder, musicologist Dale Cockrell studies issues of race and class by analyzing their cultural expressions, and investigates the roots… |
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The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes $4.24 Previously published as Invisible Republic and already considered a classic of modern American cultural criticism, The Old, Weird America is Greil Marcus’s widely acclaimed book on the secret music (the so-called “Basement Tapes”) made by Bob Dylan and the Band while in seclusion in Woodstock, New York, in 1967–a folksy yet funky, furious yet hilarious music that remains as seductive and baffling… |
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Baby, Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years $19.10 Long out of print, Baby, Let Me Follow You Down is a classic in the history of American popular culture. The book tells the story of the folk music community in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from its beginnings in living rooms and Harvard Square coffeehouses in the late 1950s to the heyday of the folk music revival in the early 1960s. Hundreds of historical photographs, rescreened for this edition, an… |
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