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Maine's Folk Art: Quilts, Mackerel Plows and All (New York Times)

Maine's ?Folk Art Trail? features exhibits by eleven museums, and includes weathervanes, quilts, painted furniture, hooked rugs, portraits, pottery and paintings by Grandma Moses.

Two Worlds: Styles blend in folk music circles (Arroyo Grande Times Press Recorder)

The folk music of the Old World will meet the folk music of the New World when Sligo Rags and Steve Key perform at the next Village Summer Concert Series show on Sunday.

Deaths Elsewhere / Erik Darling, 74, folk guitarist (Pioneer Press)

RALEIGH, N.C. — Erik Darling, the reedy-voiced guitarist and banjo player who deftly stepped in when Pete Seeger left the pioneering folk music group the Weavers, has died after battling lymphoma. He was 74.

Philly Folk Fest next Friday (Courier-Post)

Forget about its name: The 2008 Philadelphia Folk Festival -- which kicks off a week from today and runs through Aug. 17 -- is encompassing more sonic diversity than ever before.

Folk songwriter Erik Darling dies (The Monterey County Herald)

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Erik Darling, the reedy-voiced guitarist and banjo player who deftly stepped in when Pete Seeger left the pioneering folk music group The Weavers, has died after battling lymphoma. He was 74. He died Sunday in Chapel Hill, N.C.