A year after floods and a landslide swept through this tiny village in southern Bosnia, killing 19 people, residents of ...

Residents of the tiny village in southern Bosnia were marking one year since devastating floods and a landslide killed 19 ...

Twenty-eight years ago, Stoering founded the award-winning nonprofit Listen For Life, which supports musicians who are using ...

In Lesotho, a style of traditional accordion music called Famo has become entangled with deadly gang rivalries. Once the ...

Like so many things we love about Chicago, the World Music Festival's ten days of spectacular free concerts are threatened by Trump’s racism.

Artists have urged the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government to posthumously honour two recently deceased folk musicians, Farooq Ustad and Khalid Malik Haider, whose contributions to Pashto and Urdu ...

Nearly 30 years after the first Bosnian refugees arrived in Waterloo, the community held its own event to thank the city that ...

Home Routes is making its return to Brandon after a seven-year absence in hopes of bringing the city back into the folk music scene. As we navigate through unprecedented times, our journalists are ...

What if peace doesn’t begin with treaties, negotiations, or words at all? What if it could begin with sound? All summer I have been asking myself, “Can music be more than art? Can it be a tool for ...

Discover fascinating facts about national anthems, from their origins to unique characteristics, in a concise quiz format.

When people think of folk music as a genre, there are certain entertainers that come to mind: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and Pete Seeger to name a few. But the truth is, folk’s influence was ...

With its poetic lyrics and haunting melodies, contemporary folk music is, at its best, deeply evocative. The elusive genre is hard to pin down, often blending traditional acoustics with elements of ...