"Music is the easiest language that is understood by the people of the world. So we thought, why not let these ethnic languages reach out to the world through the festival? It gives the artists a ...

“Music is the easiest language that is understood by the people of the world. So we thought, why not let these ethnic languages reach out to the world through the festival? It gives the artists a ...

Danielle Wertz & Robbie Schaefer - Both Sides Now, The Music and Lives of Joni Mitchell & ... December 17, 2024 • December 15, 2024 Michael Stock interviews Danielle Wertz & Robbie Schaefer ...

Siliguri: In an effort to preserve and promote the rich traditions of the Himalayan region, the Warnamala Paribar and the Association for Conservation & Tourism (ACT) organized a three-day-long ...

Folk music doesn’t exactly have a reputation for being the happiest of the genres. With many popular folk songs telling tales of grief, heartbreak and destitution, it’s far more commonly associated ...

In it, Seeger comes off as a dust-covered relic of folk music history ... Lion Sleeps Tonight” and the freedom songs of enslaved people, most notably, “We Shall Overcome.” ...

The timelessness of great folk music makes it something that never goes out of style, and something that we just can’t seem to ever get enough of. Sometimes, time-tested folk traditions ...

Reshaping folk music for a mainstream audience energised professional and amateur performers. Critic Greil Marcus describes their breakthrough hit, 1958’s Tom Dooley, as having “the same ...

When we think of folk pioneers today, it’s easy to get swept up in ... the 1930s—a time notoriously savaged by a different kind of privilege in the music industry. As a woman, she carved out her own ...