Spring has spring and it’s a great time to check out the arts scene in the Lehigh Valley. Here’s a preview of some of this ...

Thousands of artists, music industry professionals, and folkies from around the world flocked to Montreal over the weekend for the annual Folk Alliance International (FAI) conference, which kicked ...

ABSTRACT: Northern Shaanxi Folk Songs are an indispensable part of the lives of Northern Shaanxi people. To date, more than 8000 Northern Shaanxi folk songs have been collected and recorded from ...

August Coleman named “Battleship Kate,” a major work of folk art, for a sex worker and swindler ... There’s even an image of Popeye the Sailor, the cartoon character who made his first ...

WEST STOCKBRIDGE — The beautiful thing about Irish folk music, in Karan Casey’s view ... In her own work, Casey has combined elements of traditional Irish music with modern themes — her most recent ...

There is, as ever, a wonderful mix of traditional and contemporary folk, bits of Americana and loads of stuff that is, quite frankly, a bit tricky to categorise. One of the brilliant innovations that ...

Ahead of his upcoming show, Berry sat down with Metro, peeling back the curtain as it were behind his own musical roots and what modern folk music is all about. When discussing his musical origins, ...

The freewheeling spirit that has come to define folk music in recent years is writ ... in which she melds electronica with a deep love for the ancient art of keening. With two albums, Mo Léan ...

Gowwli, an experimental band, cast a spell over Thrissur. The nomadic rock band blended traditional folk elements with contemporary rock sounds, creating an experimental musical identity that sets ...

1917, Gordon Wilson wrote in his private diary:“I began today a collection of what I call folk-lore notes, partly for the pleasure I get out of working with folk material, partly for source material ...