Folklore News

CHANDIGARH: The much-awaited SAARC Folklore Festival commenced on Friday with an academic seminar and folk performances at different colleges.

The Modern Language Association has signed an agreement with Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest, to include [its] MLA International Bibliography in the Summon web-scale discovery service.

This week folklorist William Ferris returns to Mississippi to promote his new book, Give My Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues.

Over 200 writers and artists from South Asian countries will showcase their folklore traditions at a festival here that will kick off Friday.

A few months before the Summer of Love in a living-room-sized space above Sixth Avenue, Tim Buckley is 8 years, 3 months, and 23 days away from the eternal void.

Hau dong is regarded by some as a superstition, but the Institute of Culture and Arts of Viet Nam has asked UNESCOto nominate it as part of its respected cultural heritage project.

WEDNESDAY: Indiegrass stomp-along Deer Tick gets under your skin at the Talking Head with Dolorean , the Holy Sons , and Christopher Denny .

YOU'VE probably heard of the Ripon horn blower, while the Denby Dale pie is the stuff of legend.

If you ever wish you could escape the daily grind and return to a simpler time then this weekend, why not take a trip to Milan.

Looking for something to do in the 'hood Saturday nights? The Seattle Folklore Society hosts weekly folk concerts featuring musicians from around the country - right here in Phinney-Greenwood at the Phinney Neighborhood Center.

Parents of area third-graders may be surprised to hear their students say "Da sve danya" when leaving for school, instead of a simple "see ya!" Northeastern State University's Sequoyah Institute presented the Russian Folklore Project Monday and Tuesday in area schools, in preparation for Massenkoff Russian Folk Festival, slated later this month at ...

Believe it or not, Jeff Buckley was the product of a biological birth. He didn't descend from heaven or magically appear one night at Cafe Sin-e as a fully-formed 21-year-old with sad eyes and great hair.

Celebrating a unique tradition of colourful gala of Manganhaar music, the Folklore Society of Pakistan, with financial assistance of European Union has organised Manganhaar Music Festival at Arts Council of Pakistan the other day.

Harmonia's convergence with the BSO promises insights into the influence of Eastern European folk music.

A $3,000 grant to the Mississippi Arts Commission's Heritage Program will bring in a consultant to evaluate two key folk art sites in the state.

Folk legend Peggy Seeger , sister toA also famousA Pete and Mike, will perform at the Phinney Neighborhood Center at 7:30 p.m. on Sept.

Here's a live, stunning blister-on-the-fingers rendition of a previously unreleased Tim Buckley composition , one of six such apparently abandoned tunes available for the first time ever on Live At The Folklore Center, NYC, March 6th, 1967 released a coupla weeks ago via the good folk at Tompkins Square Records of New York City.

The Dasara Folklore Sub-Committee Chairman Chinnaswamy Vaddagere disclosed here that two folklorists will be presented the Dasara Folklore Award from this year.

At this year's Memphis Music and Heritage Festival: John Paul Keith and the One Four Fives; Bobby Rush Twenty-some years ago, not long after moving to Memphis, I attended my first Mid-South Music and Heritage Festival , staged by the Center for Southern Folklore.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - " For as long as couples have found it difficult to conceive and start a family, they have tried folk remedies and nonmedical advice from family and friends to improve their chances of becoming pregnant.