Bluegrass is a fascinating genre rooted in both American and European folk music. This form of country music developed in Appalachia with distinct influences from Scottish and Irish traditional music, ...

Bluegrass music has roots in American and European folk songs. Like folk music, the genre has certain pieces considered bluegrass standards, which have been adapted more times than anyone could ...

The sounds of klezmer -- instrumental Jewish folk music derived from Eastern European folk songs -- are not often heard in this part of the world. But here, in Greater Danbury, not only can they be ...

In a recent concert on the small Mediterranean island of Menorca, the Spanish musician Anna Ferrer stood behind a synthesizer and struck up a sumptuous, buzzing drone. Wreathed in smoke and backlit by ...

He was both the longtime archivist of folk music at the Library of Congress and a widely respected singer and songwriter. By Clay Risen Joe Hickerson, a singer and songwriter who as the lead archivist ...