Sea shanties have survived for centuries, far beyond the golden age of seafaring. A lot of them have strong ties to New England’s maritime culture, especially the culture built around the whaling ...

Long ago, when most of the world was outside of their homes, working, growing, building, hunting, and living off the land (and not on social media machines), the work song was as important as any bit ...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Instead of hills, it’s the dunes of Matunuck coming alive for a few weeks this summer with the cheery, nostalgic sound of familiar Rodgers & Hammerstein songs and an enduring wartime ...

Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes and there are no seas in sight. That has not stopped a group of Minnesotans from singing the praises of sea shanties. On most Monday nights, shanty sing-alongs ...

The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is currently underway in Glasgow, Scotland, and researchers at the University of Plymouth in England have marked the occasion by releasing ...

Just before World War I, two music students meet in a bar. Both lovers of folk music, though studying at a classical conservatory, they fall in love almost immediately. After the war, the two men ...

Songs connected with legends: Song of earth magician when disappearing in the ground ; Song of brown buzzard after killing elder brother ; Song before emerging from Ashes Hill ; Song to put the eagle ...

Julie Andrews famously performed most of “My Favorite Things” in The Sound of Music. Several of the child actors from the film sang parts of the song as well. One of those actors was Nicholas Hammond.

Earthquake scientists studying a fault off Oregon’s coast have figured out a new way to map the layers of sediment and rock under the ocean floor. They did it using whale song inadvertently recorded ...

You are likely already familiar with the dynasties that have dominated the Billboard pop charts. There is Michael Jackson’s Thriller, which landed seven singles in the Top 10, or Pink Floyd’s Dark ...