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It’s our final show of the year. So we’re saying goodbye to 2020 with music and literature. But be warned, the culture we’re sharing is gritty. We’ll go on a song catching journey with a Connecticut ...

The most popular John Prine ballad is, without a doubt, “Sam Stone”. However, it is far from the only ballad the masterful songwriter created, and one of the more obscure ballads by John Prine is his ...

An American folk ballad is a narrative song passed down orally through generations, typically telling stories of love, tragedy, adventure, or historical events. It often features simple language, ...

I had never almost-cried at a concert before watching Silvana Estrada’s late-night set at Bing Studio on Saturday. Typically when I go to shows, I am either dancing around happily or sobbing manically ...

This time-spanning feminist musical falls between unconvincing contemporary scenes and thin historic narratives but has its moments ...

Albert B. Friedman, a retired authority on folklore and balladry at what is now Claremont Graduate University, whose work anticipated the folk music revival of the late 1950s and 1960s, died Nov. 11 ...

Update: Carrie Brownstein’s given an interview to Rolling Stone in which she says the following about Sleater-Kinney: I think we’ll definitely get back to writing songs. We feel less trapped by a ...

Three days after stumping the crowd at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall by playing Van Morrison’s 2016 supreme deep cut “Going Down to Bangor,” Bob Dylan went significantly further back in music history — ...

Coke Studio Bangla Season 2 has dropped its latest musical number — Kotha Koiyo Na — on YouTube, bringing together folk music and contemporary influences. Bangladeshi singer Arfan Mredha Shiblu has ...