The Xylouris family name is near-synonymous with Cretan folk music. Xylourides centres on Crete-based brothers Nikos and ...
Taline Harmandian remembers her father not only as the pioneering figure of Armenian pop music, but as a deeply present, protective and attentive parent — “the mountain standing firmly behind me,” as ...
The National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) hosted a soulful Sufi music concert featuring renowned folk musician Arieb Azhar at its Zia Mohiuddin Theatre on Thursday.The concert, titled "Qalandar ...
In October last year the musician Angeline Morrison, whose 2022 masterpiece The Sorrow Songs drew on deep research to present ...
In an uncertain time, folk musician Jesse Welles – a four-time Grammy Award-nominee from Ozark, Arkansas – is reinvigorating the spirit and relevance of the protest song, spreading messages on such ...
The 49th-annual Ann Arbor Folk Fest is returning to the stage at Hill Auditorium for two nights of musical acts this weekend.
The group at the Collective Soul Space in downtown Yellowknife came together as part of a two-day international folk dance workshop. Mostly aimed at seniors, participants on the frigid Saturday ranged ...
Like the folk music it celebrates, the South Florida Folk & Acoustic Music Festival is a living and breathing entity, constantly evolving and growing with each edition. This year’s 36th annual ...
Recording Armen Gondrachyan, globally known by his stage name Armenchik, is celebrated as a powerful embodiment of the Armenian-American dream. Growing up in Los Angeles after immigrating from Armenia ...
What makes folk music, folk music? Is it its sound, or thematic and tonal origin? Well, like all music genres, there isn’t one thing that defines folk music. However, if one were trying to narrow down ...
LOS ANGELES — The Armenian Music Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) honored Hayrik Mouradian’s 120th anniversary on Friday, October 17, at the Herb Alpert School of Music, ...
ELIZABETHTOWN — Joel A. Martin, “The Bentley,” returns to Piano by Nature with his six-year project, “Jazzical Komitas — Passion of Fire.” The Connecticut-based pianist, producer, composer and ...