Mzee Nyarunda Ondieki explains how traditional tools were used. The Kisii community (also known ... and they would sing different celebratory songs. “Women were allowed to ululate at the start ...

The deep waters of Southern folk music flowed principally from the confluence of two mighty cultural streams, the British and the West African. This mighty river was enriched by the periodic ...

But the violinist is known for… Folk legend Joan Baez reflects on a life in music and activism After six decades performing, folk legend Joan Baez is saying farewell to music with a tour this ...

The chart visualizes two recordings of the English folk song “Scarborough Fair”—one sung, one spoken—by Patrick Savage, a study author and participant. The song unfolds at around half the ...

But Fussell delivers them with the same warm reverence as he would a song passed down for generations, before leading into a verse from the folk standard “Look Up Look Down That Long Lonesome ...

The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

A.P. Carter brought his family down “from the mountains” of extreme southwestern Virginia to the Bristol Sessions in 1927 so ...

and the song he sings is a traditional folk song called “A Stor Mo Chroi (Treasure of My Heart),” a 19th century Irish folk ...

Anna Heslop became the first female helm at Cullercoats lifeboat station three years ago A lifeboat volunteer is the subject of a new folk song celebrating her work. Anna Heslop, 28, became the ...

As the civil rights movement gained momentum in the 1960s, folk music gave voice to a new generation longing for equality and justice. "We Shall Overcome" is particularly well-known as a civil rights ...

Folk music is traditional music that belongs to a particular culture or group of people. Most folk music includes singing and musical instruments. It is music created by ordinary people within a ...