IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This banjo was made by Samuel Swain ...

Musician Rhiannon Giddens is a modern-day Renaissance woman who trained as an opera singer before veering into folk music. She's an award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist. But she is first ...

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Jeff Little knew his story about the hardscrabble people of Southwest Virginia would land with the crowd in Galax, a hill-bound hub that has long called itself the World's Capital of Old-Time Mountain ...

World Music Institute announced its upcoming Fall-Winter season, featuring NYC debuts from Japan's Minyo Crusaders, South ...

Folk rock feels too small a label to encompass all Mumford & Sons are, and stomp-and-holler feels too reductive, though Syracuse fans did stomp and holler for two hours straight at Mumford’s energetic ...

Most of us remember the 2010s Obama-era stomp-clap folk music, brought on by bands like the Lumineers, that graced the soundtracks of films like Silver Linings Playbook, sparking an intensely ...

The Blue Ridge Music Center will celebrate Independence Day with a free event from noon to 4 p.m., Sat., July 4, with music, ...

A one-man band from Oregon in the United States is returning to Brecon this summer to perform his brand of savage folk music.

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