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Martyn Wyndham-Read (born 23 August 1942 in Sussex, England) is an English-born folk singer, notable as a collector and singer of Australian folk songs. He lived and worked in Australia from 1960 to 1967 and has been a regular visitor to the country ever since. In 1960 Wyndham-Read moved from Sussex to Australia where he worked on Emu Springs sheep station in South Australia. It was while he was there that he heard, first-hand, the old songs sung by some of the station hands at Emu Springs and he became captivated by these songs and the need to know more...

Polish blues and folk singer, guitarist and composer. Born February 24, 1955 in Kraków. Jakubowicz debuted in 1983 with "Maquillage" longplay. After that she released nine more albums: "Martyna Jakubowicz Live" (1985), "Bardzo grozna ksiezniczka i ja" (1986), "Wschodnia wioska" (1987), "Koncert live Jarocin" (1989), "Patchwork" (1991), "Total" (1992), "Kolysz mnie" (1992), "Dziewczyna z pozytywka Edwarda" (1995), "Skorka pomaranczy" (1998). Jakubowicz surprisingly returned in 2005 with "Tylko Dylan" longplay which contained Bob Dylan's songs in Polish versions. .

The singer and musician Martyn Bates has since the early 1980s been important to the development of new folk related music. Originally (and still) a member with Peter Becker of the adventurous independent band, ‘Eyeless In Gaza’ he has also had a long concurrent solo career. In his solo work he started to work in experimental folk music during the late 1980s when synthetic and pomp-rock music were the prevailing forms of the time. Folk music was generally ignored at best and often despised, it was therefore an early and bold move to promote the old traditional songs and stories...

Vladimir Ivanovich Martynov (Russian: Владимир Иванович Мартынов) (Moscow, 20 February 1946) is a Russian composer, known for his music in the concerto, orchestral music, chamber music and choral music genres. Vladimir Martynov is a leader of the generation of composers of the Soviet Union, born after World War II, who pursued avant-garde courses at a time when official disfavour of such styles brought severe penalties to career development, but did not carry the physical risks of earlier years in the USSR. He studied piano as a child and gained an interest in composition. He enrolled in the Moscow Conservatory where...