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Turtle Island Quartet

string quartet formed in 1985 by David Balakrishnan, Darol Anger, and Mark Summer in San Francisco
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Turtle Island Quartet

Summary

Turtle Island Quartet is a string quartet[1]. It draws 64 Wikipedia views per month (string_quartet category, ranking #29 of 87).[2]

Key Facts

  • Turtle Island Quartet's instance of is recorded as string quartet[3].
  • Turtle Island Quartet's genre is jazz[4].
  • Turtle Island Quartet's Commons category is recorded as Turtle Island Quartet[5].
  • Turtle Island Quartet's country of origin is recorded as United States[6].
  • 1985 marks the founding of Turtle Island Quartet[7].
  • Turtle Island Quartet's start of work period is recorded as 1985[8].

Product Details

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MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[9]

  • Country: US[10]

  • Began / founded: 1985[11]

  • Genre(s): folk, jazz, string quartet[12]

  • Community tags: folk, jazz, string quartet[13]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 7a8844e0-df25-4dd1-a74f-b96775d8523b[14]

Body

Founding

1985 marks the founding of Turtle Island Quartet[7].

Why It Matters

Turtle Island Quartet draws 64 Wikipedia views per month (string_quartet category, ranking #29 of 87).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . list of string quartet ensembles. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [9] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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