Simon Bailes says the colourful custom is making a comeback with the rise in community orchards.

Discover the 2026 Folk Alliance International Artist of the Year nominees, celebrating standout voices in folk and Americana ...

Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 helped introduce Swedish orchestral music to the world. Written in 1903 by Hugo Alfvén, it showed international audiences that Sweden had a distinct musical voice of its own.

For more than six decades, the University of Chicago Folk Festival has brought together an array of musicians and performers from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds—all united through a love for ...

The two-day cultural festival, Bhanja Mati Ra Mahak, held on 17-18 January, celebrated the legacy of the 17th-century Odia ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - In the Smith gallery at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library last month, people pressed their ears to the door to hear Marie Svirgova, 83, singing as she worked on a custom ...

Sep. 27—Walk a mile in other cultures' shoes at the Albuquerque Folk Festival. Hosted at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, the Albuquerque Folk Festival is the culmination and celebration of folk ...

“I found a special bond. I felt as though I was meant to be the voice that glued everybody together, highly influential, but behind the scenes. I loved that. I even wrote my college entrance essay ...

Sandy Creek Park will be filled with the sounds of harps, accordions and banjos on Sept. 29. Folk — a tradition that’s been passed down for generations — is the unifying element of the North Georgia ...