How Gaby Moreno made it, from Guatemala to Broadway

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Gaby Moreno will make her Broadway debut on Tuesday as Persephone, the goddess of spring, in the Tony Award-winning musical "Hadestown." ...
The Forward

This 12-year-old is enchanting people with her Yiddish singing. Her klezmer musician dad explains why.

In 2025, 12-year-old Dinah gave the world premiere of “ Afn taykhl sholem ” (“By the river of peace”), composed by her father ...
Sahan Journal

From Somali poetry to experimental folk: Twin Cities artists debut new works at The Cedar

Cedar series highlights Somali verse, jazz-infused hip-hop and Midwestern folk and rock opera; The Black Europe Film Festival returns to the Main Cinema; and The Poetic Diaspora hosts an album release ...

Hedera: Hedera review – Cornwall, Georgia and Bali combine on joyful debut

The Bristol-based folk ensemble travel widely on their first album, exploring global influences with sparkling, springlike warmth ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

These Black Georgia women are blues legends you may not know, but should

Meet four Black Georgia women who lived and sang the blues who you may not know ... yet: Ida Cox, Cora Mae Bryant, Beverly ...
The Forward

Rediscovering the ‘Dybbuk’ composer Henokh Kon

When the 1936 Polish Yiddish feature Al Khet (I Have Sinned) screened at the New York Jewish Film Festival last month after a ...

Ranveer Singh’s Dhurandhar title track is stealing the spotlight at Winter Olympics 2026. Here’s how

Several clips from Winter Olympics 2026 have emerged on social media which show Anastasiia Gubanova gliding across the rink to the title track of Dhurandhar.
The New Criterion

Sticking the landing

Among the most talked-about male ballet dancers of the moment is Giorgi Potskhishvili, the Georgian principal of the Dutch National Ballet and frequent star of dance galas worldwide. The performer has ...
Wall Street Journal

‘The Porch on Windy Hill’ Review: Folk Songs and Buried Feelings

Music may or may not have the power to soothe the savage breast, but it cracks open a path to forgiveness and reconciliation in “The Porch on Windy Hill,” an affecting “new play with old music,” as it ...
Indy Week

‘What’s Good for the Goose is Good for the Propagander’: A Pittsboro Musician’s Song Meets the Moment

Last week, Pittsboro singer-songwriter Joseph Terrell uploaded a new song to social media. Titled “Genuine American Hero,” the folk protest song is written in the style of John Prine or Phil Ochs and ...
American Songwriter

3 Popular Folk Songs That Didn’t Make Sense to Listeners Until Later in Life

Folk songs are often emotional, poignant, and explorative tunes that deal with difficult subjects. The following three legendary folk songs definitely fit that bill, but the deeper meaning behind them ...
The New York Times

A Dance Company of ‘Just About the Fastest-Moving People on Earth’

Performances in N.Y.C. The Georgian National Ballet Sukhishvili brings its blazing version of the country’s folk dances to New York. The Georgian National Ballet Sukhishvili brings its blazing version ...