If all goes according to plan, Jackson will continue to host an annual folk festival after the National Folk Festival's last event in 2027. The upcoming residency has the potential to restore Downtown ...

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Music isn’t just sound in America, it’s identity, memory, and motion. From desert stages to mountain valleys, from jazz to ...

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Timing can be a fickle thing in the music industry, which would explain why a pioneering folk icon left this world just as his prolific catalogue was reaching a brand new audience. Prior to the singer ...

After four decades, the annual book series is drawing to a close. Our columnist looks at what it all meant. By Elisa Gabbert I wonder if there has ever been more equivocation about the word “best” and ...

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Back in 2020, folk musician Jake Blount launched into national awareness with the release of his debut album, “Spider Tales.” The project was, by some measures, a conventional interpretation of ...

(RNS) — W. James Abbington Jr., an expert on Black religious music known for his editing, teaching and playing of congregational music, has died at the age of 65. GIA Publications, for whom he worked ...