Lotus Wight gets a charge when he plays unplugged. The folk and roots artist plays everything from jaw harp and banjo to ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The J. Scott Odell folk music ...

The folk boom came and went. But the Claremont Folk Music Center is still humming, not to mention strumming. It’s been 60 years since Charles and Dorothy Chase opened the shop in the Claremont Village ...

In a recent concert on the small Mediterranean island of Menorca, the Spanish musician Anna Ferrer stood behind a synthesizer and struck up a sumptuous, buzzing drone. Wreathed in smoke and backlit by ...

Iris DeMent was one of the most distinctive voices in the 1990s—a lyricist who inspired John Prine to write the liner notes for her 1992 debut album and a vocalist who inspired Merle Haggard to say, ...

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 ...

An unheard-of instrumental blend was onstage at Lincoln Center for a screening of “Kokdu” with a live soundtrack. Credit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Supported by Photographs by Chang W. Lee Text ...

I'm With Her's new album, "Wild and Clear and Blue," reflects on the passage of time and honors influences like Nanci Griffith and John Prine. The trio, comprised of Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, and ...

Juel Ulven, founder of the Fox Valley Folklore Society, will be inducted posthumously into the Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame ...