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Alice Gerrard, Reclusive Folk Hero, Emerges to Sing for Trans Rights and Gun Reform
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA little more than a decade ago, Alice Gerrard received an invitation to perform at a fiddle camp in...
Harry Belafonte, calypso star and civil rights champion, dies at 96
NBC News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHarry Belafonte, the effortlessly graceful singer credited with popularizing calypso in the U.S. in...
Phil Elverum Announces 2023 Mount Eerie Tour, New Album in Progress
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPhil Elverum announced a Mount Eerie tour on Wednesday that kicks off May 5 in Philadelphia. In his...
Elvis Costello, Night Four: ‘Not The Last Act Of This Story’
SPIN via Yahoo News· 1 year agoElvis Costello is performing 200+ songs from his 600+ songbook over 10 nights at the Gramercy...
Doc Watson at 100: The virtuoso guitarist brought Appalachian music to a worldwide audience and...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDoc Watson was the finest guitar picker of his time. Paul Natkin/Archive Photos via Getty...
IU part of consortium offering 2 Music Unwound music festivals, fusing concert, humanities
The Herald-Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIndiana University's Jacobs School of Music is one part of a national group of organizations...
Gordon Lightfoot, Folk Singer Who Topped Charts With ‘Sundown’ and ‘If You Could Read My Mind’, Dies...
Variety via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSinger-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian folk music laureate who crossed over to major pop...
Remembering Jon Pankake: A Grammy-winning folk scholar and early critic of Bob Dylan
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 5 months agoHe was a soft-spoken, Grammy-winning scholar and performer of old-time folk music. But Jon Pankake made his living advising students at the University of Minnesota. He was famous, though, for ...
How an American magazine helped launch one of Britain’s favorite Christmas carols
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years ago'In the Bleak Midwinter' didn't begin life as a song, but being set to music helped it find fame....
Review: How Black country music became undeniable
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Country Music Assn. Awards in 2016: Beyoncé, center, performs with the Chicks, then known as the Dixie Chicks. (Image Group LA / Getty Images) In the...