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Ben Sollee, the Glossary

Ben Sollee is an American cellist, singer-songwriter, and composer known for his political activism.^[1]

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Abigail Washburn

Abigail Washburn (born November 10, 1977) is an American clawhammer banjo player and singer. Ben Sollee and Abigail Washburn are Sparrow Quartet members.

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Actors Theatre of Louisville

Actors Theatre of Louisville is a non-profit performing arts theater located in downtown Louisville, Kentucky.

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All Things Considered

All Things Considered (ATC) is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio (NPR).

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Ani DiFranco

Angela Maria "Ani" DiFranco (born September 23, 1970) is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter.

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Austin City Limits Music Festival

Austin City Limits (ACL) Music Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in Zilker Park in Austin, Texas on two consecutive three-day weekends and is inspired by the KLRU/PBS music series of the same name.

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Béla Fleck

Béla Anton Leoš Fleck (born July 10, 1958) is an American banjo player. Ben Sollee and Béla Fleck are Sparrow Quartet members.

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Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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Butchertown, Louisville

Butchertown is a neighborhood just east of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, United States, bounded by I-65, Main Street, I-71, Beargrass Creek and Mellwood Avenue.

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Calgary Folk Music Festival

The Calgary Folk Music Festival (also known as "Calgary Folk Fest", or CFMF) is a Canadian music festival held on the fourth weekend of July each year at Prince's Island Park, Calgary, Alberta.

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Carl Broemel

Carl Broemel (born January 30, 1974) is an American rock musician.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Casey Driessen

Casey Christopher Driessen (born December 6, 1978, in Owatonna, Minnesota, United States) is an American bluegrass fiddler and singer. Ben Sollee and Casey Driessen are Sparrow Quartet members.

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Cello

The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.

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Cincinnati

Cincinnati (nicknamed Cincy) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.

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City Beat

City Beat is a reality television series from New Zealand, following late night patrols by security guards on the streets of Auckland.

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Classical music

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

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Cold Spring, Kentucky

Cold Spring is a home rule-class city in Campbell County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Composer

A composer is a person who writes music.

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Contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music is Western art music composed close to the present day.

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Crockett Johnson

Crockett Johnson (October 20, 1906 – July 11, 1975) was the pen name of the American cartoonist and children's book illustrator David Johnson Leisk.

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Daft Punk

Daft Punk were a French electronic music duo formed in 1993 in Paris by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.

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Daniel Martin Moore

Daniel Martin Moore is an American singer, musician, songwriter, and producer. Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore are songwriters from Kentucky.

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Davide Salvado

Davide Salvado is a Galician Traditional music and World music singer from Galicia, Spain.

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Elephant Revival

Elephant Revival is a folk music group from Nederland, Colorado, formed in 2006.

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First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia

The First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia is a Unitarian Universalist congregation located at 2125 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Forecastle Festival

The Forecastle Festival (pronounced "fore-castle") is a three-day music, art, and activism festival held annually in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Harold and the Purple Crayon

Harold and the Purple Crayon is a 1955 children's picture book written and illustrated by Crockett Johnson.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.

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Humana Festival of New American Plays

Humana Festival of New American Plays is an internationally renowned festival that celebrates the contemporary American playwright.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jeremy Kittel

Jeremy David Kittel is an American musician and composer.

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Jillian Schlesinger

Jillian Schlesinger is an American filmmaker.

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Jim James

James Edward Olliges Jr. (born April 27, 1978), professionally known as Jim James or Yim Yames, is an American vocalist, guitarist, producer, and primary songwriter of the rock band My Morning Jacket.

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John Travolta

John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor.

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Jon Pareles

Jon Pareles (born October 25, 1953) is an American journalist who is the chief popular music critic in the arts section of The New York Times.

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Kanye West

Ye (born Kanye Omari West; June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer.

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Kentucky Derby Festival

The Kentucky Derby Festival is an annual festival held in Louisville, Kentucky, during the two weeks preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby.

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Kentucky Educational Television

Kentucky Educational Television (KET) is a statewide television network serving the U.S. commonwealth of Kentucky, a member of PBS.

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Killing Season (film)

Killing Season is a 2013 American action thriller film written by Evan Daugherty and directed by Mark Steven Johnson for Millennium Films, as the first on-screen pairing of John Travolta and Robert De Niro.

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Kim Taylor (musician)

Kim Taylor is an American independent singer-songwriter who plays primarily folk and folk-rock music.

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Lafayette High School (Kentucky)

Lafayette High School is a public high school in Lexington, Kentucky that has been open for, seen the beginning of racially-desegregated education in the city, and been overseen by eight principals.

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Land (2021 film)

Land is a 2021 psychological drama film directed by Robin Wright in her feature directorial debut, from a screenplay by Jesse Chatham and Erin Dignam.

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Laura Dekker

Laura Dekker (born 20 September 1995) is a New Zealand-born Dutch sailor.

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Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Noelle Hill (born May 26, 1975) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress.

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Lexington Herald-Leader

The Lexington Herald-Leader is a newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and based in Lexington, Kentucky.

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Lexington, Kentucky

Lexington is a consolidated city coterminous with, and the county seat of, Fayette County, Kentucky, United States.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist.

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Louisville Ballet

The Louisville Ballet is a ballet school and company based in Louisville, Kentucky and is the official state ballet of The Commonwealth of Kentucky.

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Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States.

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Monsters of Folk

Monsters of Folk was an American supergroup, consisting of Jim James from My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis from Bright Eyes, Will Johnson from Centro-matic and M. Ward, solo artist and half of She & Him.

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Morning Edition

Morning Edition is an American radio news program produced and distributed by NPR.

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Mother Falcon

Mother Falcon is a symphonic rock band from Austin, Texas, known for their wide-ranging instrumentation and collaborative songwriting.

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Mountain Stage

Mountain Stage is a two-hour music radio show, first aired in 1983, produced by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and distributed worldwide by National Public Radio (NPR).

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel.

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Musician

A musician is one who composes, conducts, or performs music.

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My Morning Jacket

My Morning Jacket is an American rock band formed in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1998.

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My Old Kentucky Home

"My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!", typically shortened to "My Old Kentucky Home", is a sentimental ballad written by Stephen Foster, probably composed in 1852.

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Naomi Iizuka

Naomi Iizuka (born April 22, 1965) is a Japanese-born American playwright.

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NATO phonetic alphabet

The International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet or simply Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, commonly known as the NATO phonetic alphabet, is the most widely used set of clear-code words for communicating the letters of the Roman alphabet.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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Newport Folk Festival

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

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Nina Simone

Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, composer, arranger and civil rights activist.

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No Depression (magazine)

No Depression is a quarterly roots music journal with a concurrent online publication.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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NPR Music

NPR Music is a project of National Public Radio, an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization, that launched in November 2007 to present public radio music programming and original editorial content for music discovery.

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Otis Taylor (musician)

Otis Taylor (born July 30, 1948, Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American blues musician.

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Over the Rhine (band)

Over the Rhine is an American, Cincinnati-based folk music band, the core of which is the husband-and-wife team of pianist/guitarist/bassist Linford Detweiler and vocalist/guitarist Karin Bergquist.

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Oxfam

Oxfam is a British-founded confederation of 21 independent non-governmental organizations (NGOs), focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International.

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Parenthood (2010 TV series)

Parenthood is an American family drama television series developed by Jason Katims and produced by Imagine Television and Universal Television for NBC.

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Paste (magazine)

Paste is an American monthly music and entertainment digital magazine, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with studios in Atlanta and Manhattan, and owned by Paste Media Group.

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Paul Simon

Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter known both for his solo work and his collaboration with Art Garfunkel.

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Phoebe Snow

Phoebe Snow (born Phoebe Ann Laub; July 17, 1950 – April 26, 2011) was an American roots music singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for her hit 1974 and 1975 songs "Poetry Man" and "Harpo's Blues", and her credited guest vocals backing Paul Simon on "Gone at Last".

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PledgeMusic

PledgeMusic was an online direct-to-fan music platform, launched in August 2009.

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PopMatters

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers aspects of popular culture.

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Port Fairy Folk Festival

The Port Fairy Folk Festival is an annual four-day music festival based in the historic fishing village of Port Fairy in Victoria, Australia.

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Public Radio International

Public Radio International (PRI) was an American public radio organization.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.

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Robert De Niro

Robert Anthony De Niro (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor and film producer.

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Robin Wright

Robin Gayle Wright (born April 8, 1966) is an American actress and director.

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Sam Cooke

Samuel Cooke (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), known professionally as Sam Cooke, was an American singer and songwriter.

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Showtime (TV network)

Showtime, also known as Paramount+ with Showtime (with "Showtime" being the former name of its main channel from 1976 to 2024, but still used for certain marketing and channel branding contexts), is an American premium television network and the flagship property of Showtime Networks, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global.

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Singing

Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice.

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SonaBLAST! Records

sonaBLAST! Records is a Louisville, Kentucky-based independent record label founded by film producer Gill Holland in 2002.

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Songwriter

A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both.

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Soundscape

A soundscape is the acoustic environment as perceived by humans, in context.

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South by Southwest

South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas.

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Sparrow Quartet

The Sparrow Quartet is an American acoustic music group that formed in 2005.

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Stephen Foster

Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826January 13, 1864), known as "the father of American music", was an American composer known primarily for his parlour and minstrel music during the Romantic period.

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Stereogum

Stereogum is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, reviews, interviews, and commentary.

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Sub Pop

Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman.

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TED (conference)

TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an American-Canadian non-profit media organization that posts international talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading".

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The Apache Relay

The Apache Relay was an American folk-rock band based out of Nashville, Tennessee.

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The Bluegrass Special

"The Bluegrass Special" is a 1977 episode of The Wonderful World of Disney starring William Windom, Celeste Holm, Devon Ericson and Davy Jones which originally aired on NBC on May 22, 1977.

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The Head and the Heart

The Head and the Heart is an American indie folk band. Ben Sollee and the Head and the Heart are sub Pop artists.

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The Kentucky Center

The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts in Louisville, Kentucky, which opened in 1983, is owned by Kentucky Performing Arts and has tenants that include Kentucky Opera, Louisville Ballet, the Louisville Orchestra, StageOne Family Theatre and Broadway Across America.

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References

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

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References