A SIMPLE, kindly, honest people are the Breton folk. Not French at all, but very far from it, although they nowadays choose deputies to the legislative body in Paris, and their rugged granite country ...

Classical music has never lived in a bubble. For centuries, it's always found common ground with folk music. Enter, the Danish String Quartet. Songs on the album represent a shifting and largely oral ...

Long before the rise of the radio and the advent of the record player, the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania rang with the music of fiddle and fife, with old melodies first brought to the New World ...

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Miss Louise Lleyellyn, assisted by Miss Corrine Harmon, will give a recital of Bohemian and Breton Folk-Songs, in national costume, at 8.15 o'clock this evening in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall ...

NAPERVILLE, IL — A summer evening stroll along the Naperville Riverwalk is often pleasantly underscored by the sounds of whippoorwills and the waters of the DuPage River gently lapping against the ...

The Flathead Valley Community Band will present two free concerts titled Dances and Folk Tunes in November. The concert will open with “Esprit de Corps,” an original march written by Rober Jeager.

Folk-rock quartet Villages may be Canadian, but they have a feel for Celtic music. Inspired by a traditional poem, they create a tribute to their native Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, capturing ...

At the 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, The Creek Rocks, composed of married duo Mark Bilyeu and Cindy Woolf, showed how they bring a modern twist to traditional folk music. Taking Ozarks songs ...

They collaborated to record the CD, “The Judique Flyer,” in 2000.That year MacPhee also released a CD called “Tunes Until Dawn” that he recorded with David Greenberg, a violinist who grew up in ...