In a conversation with pianist Lara Downes, the New Yorker staff writer says music in America will keep evolving as long as the country keeps an open door to new people and new sounds.

Folk music has come and gone in various evolutions over the decades. Let’s look at a few memorable folk songs with particularly memorable lines that really changed the genre in big ways. Some of these ...

We took a cactus and put it up against a variety of musical instruments to see what kind of sounds it could create, and the results are hilarious, weird, and surprisingly musical. Each instrument ...

Nikki Bedi talks to Daniyal Mueenuddin, the Pakistani-American author behind one of the year’s most anticipated novels, This Is Where The Serpent Lives. They discuss how it weaves a panoply of ...

In October last year the musician Angeline Morrison, whose 2022 masterpiece The Sorrow Songs drew on deep research to present new folk music that centred the real Black British figures who are often ...

More top international artists have been added to the lineup for the 2026 Viljandi Folk Music Festival. This year's festival theme is "To Each Their Own Instrument." The 33rd Viljandi Folk Music ...

In the streets of Los Angeles, in June, as the city clashed with ICE, the most visible symbol of the protest was the Mexican flag, the tricolor raised over the haze of tear gas and black smoke. Online ...

Like the folk music it celebrates, the South Florida Folk & Acoustic Music Festival is a living and breathing entity, constantly evolving and growing with each edition. This year’s 36th annual ...

Patience may be a virtue, but what is its price? Penelope, arguably Western culture’s patron saint of patience, knows the answer better than most. In Homer’s “The Odyssey,” she keeps the home fires ...

James “Bau” Graves was the executive director of Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music for more than 11 years, steering the venerable institution in the North Side’s Lincoln Square neighborhood ...

What makes folk music, folk music? Is it its sound, or thematic and tonal origin? Well, like all music genres, there isn’t one thing that defines folk music. However, if one were trying to narrow down ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s prime minister on Friday tapped an Artificial Intelligence-generated “minister” to tackle corruption and promote transparency and innovation in his new Cabinet.