The Northwest Folklife Festival, in its 55th year, is a lively festival of arts, culture and heritage at Seattle Center that runs through Memorial Day weekend. Check the schedule here. Ivy Ceballo: ...

The US guitarist excavates the outer reaches of the famed collector’s work, pointedly – and beautifully – reinterpreting songs from nations touched by major US conflicts Behind this gorgeous ...

Asia Society Texas, American Turkish Association-Houston, and Hoppa Project present Sounds of Anatolia, from the fifth annual Turkish Music Festival, a multi-day musical event dedicated to sharing a ...

Though I reserve the right to take all this back in the graphene-slim chance that I am ever nominated for anything, I am sceptical about awards. One of my favourite things about writing for The ...

The song came from the streets of Ottoman Istanbul. Katibim is an 18th or 19th-century Istanbul urban folk song known as Uskudara Gider Iken The melody spread across Balkans, Middle East, and South ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. The Vancouver Folk Music Festival has unveiled its 2026 line-up, with a mix of iconic veteran acts ...

The Vancouver Folk Music Festival has announced the lineup for its 49th annual event, loaded with legends and rising stars from Canada, Europe and around the world. English folk icon and activist ...

Grammy-winning bassist, composer and R&B singer Thundercat, Icelandic rockers Of Monsters and Men, Black Pumas co-founder Adrian Quesada and Alberta country star Corb Lund will be playing the main ...

Scott Yoo learns about the Turkish kanun and about what court music in the country sounded like. Kanun, yes, Turkish musical instrument. Okay. And do you change the tuning with those — Yes. These are ...

When the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran late last month, songwriter and musician Joseph Terrell says he couldn't get the conflict off his mind. Soon, his thoughts were taking the shape of ...

The Midu echoing, a national intangible cultural heritage folk music from Midu county in Dali Bai autonomous prefecture, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, is finding new life in the digital age, as a ...

ANKARA (AA) - Türkiye’s oldest polyphonic music institution, The Harmony Band Command, which was founded in 1826 under the name Muzika-i Humayun, is celebrating its 200th anniversary. Following the ...