Women folk singers are preserving one of Morocco's most cherished culturual traditions, a genre of folk singing known as aita ...

Italian folk music is humble, warm and full of life, but its popularity has sharply faded over the past century. Fortunately, ...

Ukraine folk artists harness music to fight Russian 'assimilation' A Ukrainian band is treating international audiences to their country's traditional folk music, spiced up with world music and some ...

At a music-filled evening in Delhi, Tony Seeger, nephew of legendary American folk singer Pete Seeger, traced how archives, ...

French-U.K. outfit Alief has acquired international sales rights to Indian filmmaker Bhargav Saikia’s supernatural folk horror “Bokshi ... cinematography, with music by Advait Nemlekar ...

Mex, country, gulf coast, and “cantina music,” returns to the Folk Music Center in Claremont at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, February ...

Amid flashier more popular genres of music and more lively acts – one of the most overlooked music today is folk music. Folk music is a traditional form of music that one could call the best ...

Anchorage Folk Festival is in full swing, offering live music, dance workshops, and performances all weekend. Don't miss out ...

At the East Wind Foundation, in the heart of Los Angeles' Chinatown, young people dedicate their after-school hours and ...

How's your knowledge of the music of the Chicano movement in the 1960s and 1970s, or of Cajun and Zydeco music from south-west Louisiana?

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