Folk News

Today is Friday, July 25, the 207th day of 2008 with 159 to follow. The moon is waning.

It may come to no surprise to you that I consider myself a "folkie," defined as a fan of Folk music.

On Saturday, Aug. 23 some of the best folk artists from Canada to Louisiana will come together for an afternoon of food, fun and folk music outdoors at The Mill Pond Center in Durham as part of a new ...

Award-winning singer/songwriter Carolyn Currie will bring contemporary folk music to Fountain Park at noon Thursday, July 24, as part of L/A Arts' Music in the Parks series.

NEW HAVEN -- The Connecticut Folk Festival and Green Expo has set the lineup for the September festival, and will feature a number of the folk world's well-known talents as well as emerging artists.

Many legislators dismissed the governor's January proposal to impose a surcharge on residential and commercial insurance policies.

"He stayed here for a stretch in late 1966, invited as a guest of the University of Alberta's Faculty of Arts and hung out for five weeks." While in Edmonton, Solez says, Cohen struck up friendships with a ...

BRADFORD, Pa. - Reservations will end Sunday for participants in the fifth annual Heart of the Alleghenies Folk Music Festival on Aug.

This Thursday, Woodland Park Zoo will play host to classically-trained violinist turned singer-songwriter Andrew Bird as part of their summer Zoo Tunes concert series , which has featured everyone from the ...

Check out the music video at Spinner.com. Stick around for the tongue-in-cheek subtitles with questionable English translations! Here are some examples: - ' "Grandma! I love you in a salad way!" - ' Crystal ...

A former teacher who admitted having sex with a 16-year-old boy has been arrested on rape and other charges after she continued the liaisons in violation of a court order, prosecutors said.

Ken Kastelitz proudly pointed to the crowd gathered at Sacagawea Park Sunday as evidence of the success of this year's Summerfest, which has been held here on the banks of the Yellowstone River annually for ...

More than 18,000 tickets to the three nightly concerts of the 11th Rainforest World Music Festival , which kicked off on July 11, 2008 at the Sarawak Cultural Village were snapped up well in advance.

The Bulgarian chapter of Unesco's Conseil International des Organisations de Festivals de Folklore et d'Arts Traditionnels and Sofia municipality have organised a folk festival, entitled International Folk ...

The festival presented an array of blues, ragtime, folk, and jazz music and featured a main stage, open microphone stage, and children's area.

Over the past few years, Sen. Edward Kennedy has sat for nearly three dozen interviews to recount personal anecdotes and insights about his storied life and times.

Ivan Hewett reviews Proms 2, 3, 4 and 5 - Nigel Kennedy and Bellowhead at Folk Day BBC Proms 2008 homepage The Proms is an odd beast - interested in the new and yet deeply traditional; populist but with a touch ...

According to Thucydides, it went down like this. The island of Lesbos rebelled against the Athenian Empire.

Now more than ever, Nintendo loves peripherals. They released the Wii Zapper last fall; the Wii Wheel and Wii Balance Board this spring; will release the Wii MotionPlus next year; and this fall, WiiSpeak -- a ...

The next Cayamo cruise is set for Feb. 28-March 7 On Norwegian Cruise line's Norwegian Dawn.