"American Folk" then became a tribute to the older musical roots that both Guthrie and Parton drew from: Shaker devotional tunes, psalm singing from the New England hymnody, Appalachian fiddle tunes ...

Robert Costa is a national correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning" and chief Washington analyst for CBS News. The story of America can be told through the lyrics of folk music – songs of the Great ...

With the arrival of another full moon, Peter Gabriel has shared his new song “Put the Bucket Down,” the second single off the singer’s upcoming LP o/i. “As a side project, I am working on a show with ...

It was quite the hootenanny — P.S. 56 students in Bedford -Stuyvesant sang a West African folk song called “Funga Alafia,” while jumping and dancing and spinning inside the school auditorium. They ...

Like the folk music it celebrates, the South Florida Folk & Acoustic Music Festival is a living and breathing entity, constantly evolving and growing with each edition. This year’s 36th annual ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct the spelling of Volkert Volkersz’s last name and the identification, in the photo caption of the band “Decatur Creek” at an “Antrim in the Evening ...

Peter Doig is “probably the single most influential painter in the world today”, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. Born in Scotland in 1959, but resident for many years in Trinidad, he is known for ...

What makes folk music, folk music? Is it its sound, or thematic and tonal origin? Well, like all music genres, there isn’t one thing that defines folk music. However, if one were trying to narrow down ...

Bird Key resident Jim Stanard was happy in his career as an actuary, calculating risk for financial organizations, yet throughout that time, he was still listening to music. When he retired in New ...

At “House of Music,” a London exhibition of paintings by Peter Doig, songs he typically plays in his private studio help bring his work to life. By Emily LaBarge Reviewing from London If you believe ...

British painter Peter Doig brings his rhythmic, dreamlike art to life at London’s Serpentine gallery, where painting, sound and film merge—with Brian Eno among the featured performers. “Music has ...