Toby Walker, winner of the International Blues Challenge Award presented by the Blues Foundation, and a 2014 inductee into the New York Blues Hall of Fame, will present A Personal History of the Blues ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Morris dancing, a folk form with origins in the 15th century, is opening up to younger dancers who approach it as a living tradition. Boss Morris, pictured here at Avebury ...
Mitch Diamond first saw a Morris dance 47 years ago, at a folk-dancing camp in Massachusetts. He locked eyes with one of the dancers as the man leapt into the air. “You could just see this look,” ...
A little more from Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958). We hear the English Folk Song Suite, played by Sinfonia da Camera. Ian Hobson is the conductor.
Local Folk singer and activist Amanda Pascali was awarded a grant by the Houston Arts Alliance to launch her Immigrant American Folk Music Project using music to teach English as a second language ...
English singer-songwriter and instrumentalist Olivia Chaney teamed up with the Decemberists to form a new psych-folk band called Offa Rex. Their debut album, The Queen Of Hearts, was produced and ...
Offa Rex -- a transatlantic collaboration of the English singer Olivia Chaney and the American indie rock band The Decemberists -- is putting a modern twist on traditional folk songs that were ...
Not many artists receive a standing ovation before playing a single note - but when Martin Carthy, the 84 year-old hero of English folk music, graced the stage of EartH, Hackney on Saturday, 27th ...