Music has always been a vital part of life on the Border. Here are some performers from the World that we believe would take B-town by storm, if they could only find their Way.

Bands & Musicians

Adjagas
Agnes Obel
Aine Minogue
Alamaailman Vasarat
The Bad Shepards
Balkan Beat Box
Bat for Lashes
Beirut
Black Ox Orkestar
Black Penny Remedy
Blackbird Raum
Boiled in Lead
The Briggs
Brother
Cats Laughing
Calexico
The Daughters of Elvin
Dead Can Dance
The Decemberists
Dehli 2 Dublin
Dorlene Love/Crash Normada
Dropkick Murphys
The Duhks
Edward II
Eliza Carthy
Elizabeth-Jane Baldry
Faun
The Flash Girls
Flogging Molly
Garmarna
Gogol Bordello
Golem
Jiggerypipery
Johnny Flynn & the Sussex Wit
Julie Fowlis
June Tabor
Karine Polwart
Kate Rusby
Katzenjammer
Kila
Laura Marling
The Levellers
Lisa Gerrard
Loreena McKennitt
Mad Dog Mcrea
Mill a h-Uile Rud
The Mollys
The Mongrel Jews
Mouth Music
Mumford and Sons
Ojos de Brujo
Omnia
One Giant Leap
Ozomotli
Peatbog Faeries
The Pogues
Rasputina
Roddy Woomble
Ruth Mackenzie
Salsa Celtica
S.J. Tucker
Seth Lakeman
Sheelanagig
Sheila Candra
Shooglenifty
Sirius.B
Skelpin
Telling the Bees
Three Daft Monkeys
The Tim Malloys
The Tossers
The World/Inferno Friendship Society
The Zydepunks

Other music related links of interest....

Music Recommendations on the "Hard Luck Cafe" Bordertown blog

Music Recommendations on the LJ Bordertown page

The Bordertown Waltz: a little ditty by Bordertown reader Gina Donahue

Bordertown Music

Here are bands and musicians whose music would go over well in Bordertown:
from magical folk ballads to wild foot-stompin' tunes...with a few stops along the way ....


Videos:


Garmarna (Sweden)


Faun (Germany)


Flogging Molly (USA)


Mumford & Sons (England)


Katzenjammer (Norway)


Dorlene Love (Sweden/Gypsy)


Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser (Croatia/Slovenia)


Charlene Kaye & the Brilliant Eyes (USA)


Ojos de Brujo (Barcelona, Spain)


Beirut (USA)


The Waterboys (Ireland)


Seth Lakeman (England)


Calexico (USA) -
This one looks like it could have been filmed in Bordertown...that is, if cameras actually worked there.


Agnes Obel (Denmark)—
And this one could almost be a song about the Mad River flowing through the Nevernever....

We also recommend "Stairs in her Hair" a lovely song version of Amal El-Mohtar's Bordertown poem of the same name (from Welcome to Bordertown). And "The Bordertown Waltz," a charming little ditty by Bordertown reader Gina Donahue.