Sonido Tejano teaches students the history of the genre, as well as how to play standards from Little Joe, Fito Olivares, and ...
In October last year the musician Angeline Morrison, whose 2022 masterpiece The Sorrow Songs drew on deep research to present new folk music that centred the real Black British figures who are often ...
Robert Costa is a national correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning" and chief Washington analyst for CBS News. The story of America can be told through the lyrics of folk music – songs of the Great ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of America can be told through the lyrics of folk music – songs of the Great Depression, the civil rights era, and the ...
The last time Folk Alliance International hosted its annual conference in New Orleans, in January 2020 just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the event brought out more than 3,000 people, including ...
Nineteen years ago, Keith Murphy and his wife had just started to work with the Brattleboro Music Center, developing the traditional music program, when the idea of a festival came up. “We started ...
It was quite the hootenanny — P.S. 56 students in Bedford -Stuyvesant sang a West African folk song called “Funga Alafia,” while jumping and dancing and spinning inside the school auditorium. They ...
Brian Turk, a 47-year-old bassist, understands how folk music might seem irrelevant today, especially in comparison to its explosion in the ‘50s and ‘60s. But he’s adamant this unique American art ...
In the streets of Los Angeles, in June, as the city clashed with ICE, the most visible symbol of the protest was the Mexican flag, the tricolor raised over the haze of tear gas and black smoke. Online ...
Like the folk music it celebrates, the South Florida Folk & Acoustic Music Festival is a living and breathing entity, constantly evolving and growing with each edition. This year’s 36th annual ...