It’s hard to say for sure, but something special happens when an old instrument meets contemporary creativity. These aren’t ...

The accordion is gaining worldwide popularity. Germany has declared it the instrument of the year for 2026. This all-rounder ...

Beloved folk icon John McCutcheon returns to Grass Valley on Saturday, January 10, for his annual KVMR Fundraiser Concert at ...

Ram Prasad Kadel, the founder and curator of the museum, has been collecting the musical instruments since 1995 together with his wife Nanda Sharma. His passion has taken him to all 77 districts of ...

In returning to a songbook that is decades — if not centuries — old, a new generation of performers is expanding the definition of what their traditional art form can be. Dom Flemons at the nightclub ...

When Armenian arranger and composer Levon Eskenian took on to reimagine the music of Armenian mystic and philosopher Gurdjieff for the Gurdjieff Ensemble's debut record on ECM, he touched upon the ...

Visitors to Thai Vi Temple in Ninh Binh are often captivated by the graceful presence of Chu Van Thim, the 86-year-old temple ...

Let's look at three early folk rock staples that helped the genre become a major player in the 1960s and 1970s cultural ...

In 1937, Odetta Felious Holmes moved from Birmingham, Alabama, to Los Angeles. Only six, she was already bigger than the other kids when she arrived in East Hollywood with her mother, Flora, and her ...

Folk music as a genre has taken many different forms over the centuries. Traditional folk music has been defined as music that comments on cultural or national identity, is played on traditional ...

Hiding somewhere between psychedelic rock and folk music, freak folk is an oft-overlooked genre of the 1960s and 1970s that we believe is worth revisiting. Freak folk was certainly a byproduct of the ...