en.unionpedia.org

Kossoy Sisters, the Glossary

The Kossoy Sisters are identical twin sisters (Irene Saletan and Ellen Christenson) who performed American folk and old-time music.^[1]

33 relations: AllMusic, Blackburn College (Illinois), Bowling Green (album), Carlinville, Illinois, Close and open harmony, Country Standard Time, Erik Darling, Folk music, Folk-Legacy Records, Greenwich Village, Happy Traum, Harmony, Harold Leventhal, I'll Fly Away, Illinois, Jack Landrón, Mezzo-soprano, New York City, Newport Folk Festival, NPR, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Obvious Child, Old-time music, Pete Seeger, Pinewoods Camp, Rykodisc, Single Girl, Married Girl, Soprano, Tony Saletan, Vocal music, Washington Square Park, WBUR-FM, Woody Guthrie.
Folk musicians from Chicago
Old Town School of Folk musicians
Tradition Records artists

AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

See Kossoy Sisters and AllMusic

Blackburn College (Illinois)

Blackburn College is a private college in Carlinville, Illinois.

See Kossoy Sisters and Blackburn College (Illinois)

Bowling Green (album)

Bowling Green and Other Folk Songs From the Southern Mountains is a 1956 album by the Kossoy Sisters, containing their renditions of Appalachian folk songs.

See Kossoy Sisters and Bowling Green (album)

Carlinville, Illinois

Carlinville is a city and the county seat of Macoupin County, Illinois, United States.

See Kossoy Sisters and Carlinville, Illinois

Close and open harmony

A chord is in close harmony (also called close position or close structure) if its notes are arranged within a narrow range, usually with no more than an octave between the top and bottom notes.

See Kossoy Sisters and Close and open harmony

Country Standard Time

Country Standard Time is a website dedicated to country music and related genres including Americana, bluegrass and rockabilly.

See Kossoy Sisters and Country Standard Time

Erik Darling

Erik Darling (September 25, 1933 – August 3, 2008) was an American singer-songwriter and a folk music artist. Kossoy Sisters and Erik Darling are American folk singers.

See Kossoy Sisters and Erik Darling

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.

See Kossoy Sisters and Folk music

Folk-Legacy Records

Folk-Legacy Records was an independent record label specializing in traditional and contemporary folk music of the English-speaking world.

See Kossoy Sisters and Folk-Legacy Records

Greenwich Village, or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.

See Kossoy Sisters and Greenwich Village

Happy Traum

Harry Peter "Happy" Traum (May 9, 1938 – July 17, 2024) was an American folk musician who started playing around Washington Square in the late 1950s.

See Kossoy Sisters and Happy Traum

Harmony

In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds together in order to create new, distinct musical ideas.

See Kossoy Sisters and Harmony

Harold Leventhal

Harold Leventhal (May 24, 1919 – October 4, 2005) was an American music manager.

See Kossoy Sisters and Harold Leventhal

I'll Fly Away

"I'll Fly Away" is a hymn written in 1929 by Albert E. Brumley and published in 1932 by the Hartford Music company in a collection titled Wonderful Message.

See Kossoy Sisters and I'll Fly Away

Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

See Kossoy Sisters and Illinois

Jack Landrón

Jack Landrón (born Juán Cándido Washington y Landrón, June 2, 1938) is an Afro-Puerto Rican folksinger, songwriter, and actor. Kossoy Sisters and Jack Landrón are American folk singers.

See Kossoy Sisters and Jack Landrón

Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.

See Kossoy Sisters and Mezzo-soprano

New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

See Kossoy Sisters and New York City

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.

See Kossoy Sisters and Newport Folk Festival

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.

See Kossoy Sisters and NPR

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 satirical comedy-drama film written, produced, co-edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.

See Kossoy Sisters and O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Obvious Child

Obvious Child is a 2014 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Gillian Robespierre (in her directorial debut) and stars Jenny Slate, Jake Lacy, Gaby Hoffmann and David Cross.

See Kossoy Sisters and Obvious Child

Old-time music

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

See Kossoy Sisters and Old-time music

Pete Seeger

Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. Kossoy Sisters and Pete Seeger are American folk singers.

See Kossoy Sisters and Pete Seeger

Pinewoods Camp

Pinewoods Camp is a traditional dance and music camp located on of woodland between Long Pond and Round Pond in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

See Kossoy Sisters and Pinewoods Camp

Rykodisc

Rykodisc is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, operating as a unit of WMG's Independent Label Group and distributed through Alternative Distribution Alliance.

See Kossoy Sisters and Rykodisc

Single Girl, Married Girl

Single Girl, Married Girl is a folk song made famous by The Carter Family, about the differences in lifestyle between the two title characters.

See Kossoy Sisters and Single Girl, Married Girl

Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.

See Kossoy Sisters and Soprano

Tony Saletan

Anthony D. Saletan (born June 29, 1931), known professionally as Tony Saletan, is an American folk singer, children's instructional television pioneer, and music educator. Kossoy Sisters and Tony Saletan are American folk singers.

See Kossoy Sisters and Tony Saletan

Vocal music

Vocal music is a type of singing performed by one or more singers, either with instrumental accompaniment, or without instrumental accompaniment (a cappella), in which singing provides the main focus of the piece.

See Kossoy Sisters and Vocal music

Washington Square Park

Washington Square Park is a public park in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City.

See Kossoy Sisters and Washington Square Park

WBUR-FM

WBUR-FM (90.9 FM) is a public radio station located in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by Boston University.

See Kossoy Sisters and WBUR-FM

Woody Guthrie

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter and composer who was one of the most significant figures in American folk music. Kossoy Sisters and Woody Guthrie are American folk singers.

See Kossoy Sisters and Woody Guthrie

References

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