HUBBALI: Sukri Bommagowda, fondly called Sukrajji, was just 16 years old when she lost her husband. While her community urged ...

Women folk singers are preserving one of Morocco’s most cherished culturual traditions, a genre of folk singing known as aita ...

Vashti Bunyan's star briefly rose in the 60s - then she seemed to vanish. She explains what really happened - and how she ...

A folk art festival called Huji Shuhui kicked off on Sunday in Huimin county, Binzhou, Shandong province. The event featured ...

a genre of folk singing known as aita SIDI YAHYA ZAER, Morocco -- Mbarka Moullablad’s family frowned when she first told them she planned to make a living as a cheikha, singing about love ...

Like Neil Young's oft-delayed release of Homegrown in 2020 or Chrome Dreams three years later, Oceanside Countryside is the ...

The centuries-old tradition of wassailing is making a comeback in rural England, with rituals and revelry meant to chase away evil spirits and the winter blues.

Ahmed Adaweyah was a trailblazer – the man who singlehandedly changed the course of Egyptian and Arab music; the first Arab singer to capture the ethos and struggles and yearnings of the working class ...

Women like her are the stewards of one of Morocco’s most cherished oral traditions: a form of folk singing known as aita, which means a “cry” or “lament” in Arabic. From smoky bars and ...

SIDI YAHYA ZAER, Morocco (AP) — Mbarka Moullablad’s family frowned when she first told them she planned to make a living as a cheikha, singing about love, pain, and societal change to the ...

Tom Chapin turns 80 two days before he plays Caffe Lena on Saturday, Feb. 15. As one of his lyrics says, “Folks like me do not retire. We just reload.” An acoustic guitarist and folksinger who ...