Calamity was averted a couple of years ago when the magnificent Mavis Staples reconsidered her intention to retire. At 86, ...

The Pistol River Concert Association is thrilled to present the world-renowned Scottish folk band, Breabach, live at the Pistol River Friendship Hall, Sunday, November 9th at 6:30 p.m.

From handmade gifts by local artisans to enchanting light trails and adrenaline-pumping rides, Christmas markets go beyond ...

Rowan Choral Society invites audiences to embark on a musical journey around the globe at its fall concerts, “Sing Me a Song – A Musical Journey of Folk Songs Around the World” to be held Nov. 7, at 7 ...

The sun will be gone by the time you finish reading this. These seasonally-appropriate folk albums will still be there.

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra has today announced that Thomas Dausgaard’s position as Chief Conductor will be extended ...

JESSE’S PICKS Jeffrey Foucault 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28 New Prospect Theatre, 207 Prospect St. Jeffrey Foucault is the epitome ...

LENOX — For decades after the Bolshevik Revolution, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s reinvention of sacred music from the Russian Orthodox Church went unheard. Tchaikovsky’s composition was a departure from ...

A choir teacher was exasperated with hearing slang like “67” in her middle school classroom. Rather than ban it, she asked her students to write and perform a song about it. “Some teachers get ...

From 1963 to 1966, a team of filmmakers shot nearly 80 hours of footage of the Newport Folk Festival, documenting performances, interviewing attendees, and capturing the festival’s changes as rock ...

It was at a leftist summer camp in the Catskills that Joe Hickerson came up with the final two verses to Pete Seeger’s popular song “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.” The new verses turned the song ...

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