When Scott Betts called Christopher McKim to convince him to take the lead role in Betts’ latest project, he got the worst out of the way first. It starts with a bike wreck in the Lunch Loops, Betts ...

Canadian troubadour Scott Cook returns to Fayetteville for a special concert at 7 p.m. April 20 at Omni Center. Cook and his partner Pamela Mae played last September at the Folk School of Fayetteville ...

An Aberdeen music venue and bar which has been open for more than 75 years is set to close its doors. The Blue Lamp, known as a hub for jazz, traditional and alternative music, will shut on 30 ...

Claudia Schmidt has a perfectly functioning music personality disorder. She lives in two musical worlds: folk and jazz. Schmidt brings her solo folk singer act with 12-string guitar and dulcimer to ...

Viljandi must be a quiet place in usual times, situated down in the south of Estonia, and emanating a small town vibration. Usually its annual four-day folk festival magnetises a massive gathering, ...

NEWPORT — Visitors to the Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals this year can get to Fort Adams State Park by bike, convenient harbor shuttles or by car. The most economical way is the bicycle and a lot of ...

For He Guofeng, a 50-year-old musician born and raised in Yulin, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, he was somewhat hurt by ...

George Wein, who set the standard for what outdoor music gatherings would become with his leadership of the Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals from the 1950s into the 21st century, died Monday at his ...

George Wein, an impresario of 20th century music who helped found the Newport Jazz and Folk festivals and set the template for gatherings everywhere from Woodstock, N.Y., to the south of France, died ...

The Newport Folk Festival will be among the first music festivals to return post-pandemic, with the long-running fest set to return to the Rhode Island town over two three-day events spanning from ...

When your scribe first visited the Viljandi Folk Music Festival in 2021, it was still straggling along within the lockdown period, held with a reduced crowd capacity. The long weekend seemed perfectly ...