Eurovision’s rules once required contestants to sing in an official language of their country. Then, in 1999, the rules changed; ever since, most winners have sung in English. Our data shows that 18 ...

Festival of World Music includes performances by two student groups whose music is rooted in uniquely American traditions.

Brandi Berry Benson dug deep into her genealogy for a new work that draws from American Indian musical traditions.

Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, Sara Watkins' folk supergroup I'm With Her's album "Wild and Clear and Blue" celebrates folk's ...

One of the oldest, most identifiable sounds of traditional Chinese music is enjoying a surge in popularity — internationally ...

Throughout the evening on Sunday, I was placed in a foreign jail, joined a folk-rock band for a sing-along uprising ... I had ...

The ethereal Japanese folk artist paints the air with sonic watercolors. She performs at the Agora on Saturday, May 10.

While lutes and stringed instruments have been staples in cultures from around the world for thousands of years, the origins of the banjo can most directly be trace ...

In 1969 he was signed by United Artists, though his eponymous solo album was poorly promoted, and its 1970 follow-up The Legendary Me was released on a small label. In 1972 Bert Jansch’s folk ...

Describing the stringed subject as one of the most extraordinary instruments he’s captured so far, he shares, “it was a rare opportunity, and photographing it was both an honor and one of the most ...

He played the guitar with indie band Surreal in 2006 as part of an anti-drug concert, and on the Chinese stringed instrument at a National Day reception in Batam in 2023, in a duet with his wife ...

"Folk music is all about doing ... The band filled the stage with violins, harps and other stringed instruments, to play traditional and more contemporary music. Even in the middle of the day ...