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Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, ...
carrying on a more than 180-year-old American folk tradition that is as much about the community as it is the music. It’s no accident “The Sacred Harp” is still in use today, and a new ...
"This Sabah folk tale gives the audience an opportunity to understand the values of sacrifice and love from a different cultural perspective. The story portrays a mother’s emotion as she allows ...
Other aids: no lipstick, flat shoes, a guitar. So equipped, almost any enterprising girl can begin a career as a folk singer. Enough already have to make them a fixture of current U.S. college ...
Credit: Rio-Romaine for NME It was also during this time that she realised the industry wasn’t interested in a Black artist making folk music. “It was disheartening,” she remembers.
Patricia Harp Brown, 79, of Oxford, FL passed away Saturday, May 31, 2025. She was born January 17, 1946, in Miami, FL to Osa Jackson Harp Jr. and Jessie Ruth Harp. Pat was best known as a loving wife ...
On May 28 at the Edmonton Folk Festival’s media launch, festival producer Terry Wickham announced the full line-up. Organizers said 60 per cent of artists will be performing in Edmonton for the first ...