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Emmylou Harris is truly a modern innovator. For over 30 years, Emmylou has flowed effortlessly between genres achieving popularity in pop, folk, country and now alternative. The common bridge is an exquisite vocal style and a gift for discovering the heart of a song. Born in Birmingham, Alabama on April 2, 1947, the daughter of Walter and Eugenia Harris grew up near Washington, D.C. As a college student in the late 60s, she sang with a local folk duo and eventually moved to Greenwich Village. |
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News in english
about Emmylou Harris
(October / 2009)
Steve Carrell’s Country Connection Date: 02 Oct 2009
Great American Country -
There’s always a country connection — even to Steve Carrell, the star of movies including “The 40 Year Old Virgin” and the hit TV show, “The Office.” When Vince Gill and Emmylou Harris performed on “The Jay Leno Show” Sept. 30, Steve, who plays Michael Scott on “The Office,” was also a guest. Vince and Emmylou were in [...]
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Live review: Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum benefit Date: 02 Oct 2009
Los Angeles Times -
Emmylou Harris, Dwight Yoakam and other singer-songwriters nimbly display music's varied forms in a casual fundraiser for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
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Good Sunday: October 4, 2009 Date: 03 Oct 2009
The San Francisco Examiner -
Music Bluegrass and beyond: The three-day 2009 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival’s last day. EmmyLou Harris, Aimee Mann and Billy Bragg, among others, perform today.
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Berklee College to honor Emmylou Date: 03 Oct 2009
UPI -
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- The Berklee College of Music says it plans to present Emmylou Harris with an honorary doctor of music at a bluegrass festival in San Francisco.
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Berklee College of Music Honors Emmylou Harris Date: 05 Oct 2009
Great American Country -
According to the UPI, Emmylou Harris was presented with an honorary doctor of music at a bluegrass festival in San Francisco by the Berklee College of Music yesterday. Berklee President Roger Brown made the presentation, along with Emmylou’s longtime friend Linda Ronstadt and bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs — both Berklee honorary doctorate recipients. “Not only is Emmylou [...]
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Fans gorge on free music at Hardly Strictly 9 Date: 06 Oct 2009
San Francisco Chronicle -
By the time Emmylou Harris closed out the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 9 festival in Golden Gate Park with her traditional Sunday night set, it was safe to say the organizers saw the record-breaking crowds they expected and then some. As the silver-haired...
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FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Eclectic Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Unites Emmylou Harris, Richie Havens in San Francisco Date: 06 Oct 2009
All About Jazz -
Warren Hellman is the kind of billionaire investment banker who makes it hard to hate billionaire investment bankers. Every year, Hellman a successful venture capitalist and an amateur banjo player organizes something called the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, a three-day celebration of picking and strumming in San Franciscos Golden Gate Park...
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Emmylou Harris in Boulder Date: 09 Oct 2009
Denver Post -
Emmylou Harris has been praised as much for her rich body of work as her longevity, and for good reason: Few artists can claim a career spanning four decades, a dozen Grammys and collaborations with folk-rock legends Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, Dolly Parton, Neil Young and Linda Ronstadt.
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