“I’m glad I’m able to add some political diversity to the genre (today),” he says, because social consciousness is at the heart of folk music. He cites Merle Haggard’s “Mama’s Hungry Eyes” as an ...

Kelsea Ballerini heads to the Schott, Black History Month kicks off, reptiles crawl into central Ohio expo and CSO brings ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va (WDTV) - At the downtown library on the campus of WVU the state and regional history center has an ...

From the man with the legendary banshee wail behind 'The Immigrant Song' and 'Rock and Roll', hear what Robert Plant ...

Dédé was a New Orleans-born free creole of color, who composed music in the 1800s. He was born in 1827 and baptized in 1828, ...

Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict ...

Almost 125 years after Edmond Dédé’s death, his magnum opus “Morgiane,” perhaps the oldest existing opera by a Black American ...

In the third edition of his column exploring the new wave of boundary-pushing folk and traditional music, Patrick Clarke delves into music's role in our intimate relationship with place, and rounds up ...

While catching a screening of A Complete Unknown a few weeks back, I kept my eyes peeled during the Newport Folk Festival ...

From Pete Seeger to Billie Holiday to Rage Against the Machine to Kendrick Lamar, musicians of all genres have spoken truth to power ...

Ketch Secor, founder and frontman of Old Crow Medicine Show, emcees the second night of the 48th annual Ann Arbor Folk Fest ...

Folk singer Sharda Sinha, who passed away in 2024, has been posthumously honoured with the prestigious Padma Vibhushan, one ...