If there is one Manx folk song guaranteed to get everyone singing the chorus and clapping and yee-harr-ing, it is ‘The Laxey ...

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Lavalletters saw some doo-wop, rock and folk music action Saturday, when singer and presenter Phil Bruschi brought his program “One-Hit Wonders ...

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In The Wire 493, George Rayner-Law argues that as interest in English folk song grows once again, practitioners, critics and listeners should consider carefully the ideological currents beneath the su ...

Origins of Line Dancing Line dancing traces its origins back to the 1950s in the United States, particularly in the Western ...

Ellen Stekert, 89, is releasing her first independent album this year. Now if she could just find her treasured 1955 Martin ...

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Bela “Bealy” Lam and His Greene County Singers was comprised of Lam, with banjo; his wife Rosa (Meadows); their son Alva, on ...

Sometimes genre is a code word to keep us in our place,' said the singer during her Grammy speech. Her words were built on a more pointed critique.

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