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The late songwriter released around 50 records, writing gay love songs and effortless folk songs from folk’s fringes. Fans including Bill Callahan explain his singular brilliance ...

The Telepathic Instruments Orchid attempts to recapture some of that simple parlor instrument magic. Just like those vintage ...

Along with the Ektara, instrument of choice for wandering bards, other Bengal crafts like Santiniketan Batik and the Balagarh ...

Discover the glass armonica, Benjamin Franklin's remarkable musical invention, and the musician keeping its haunting sound ...

For centuries, the standard wood used to make string instruments’ bows has come from the pernambuco tree in Brazil. Its ...

Read Brandee Younger at the Music Center at Strathmore by Mark Edelman on All About Jazz. Discover in-depth jazz Live Review ...

For generations, the K'toang drum of Vietnam's Cham H'roi community was played only by men. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Huong changed that tradition and is now inspiring young women to preserve the art.

The story of how a community band from rural Thailand reclaimed the relics of conflict to reinvent traditional folk music for a global audience ...

Musician Rhiannon Giddens is a modern-day Renaissance woman who trained as an opera singer before veering into folk music. She's an award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist. But she is first ...

The Dance of Death, a 16th-century artwork by an anonymous German artist Metropolitan Museum of Art / Purchase, Harry G. Sperling Fund, James A. and Maria R. Warth gift, in memory of Anne and Peter ...

A new tree-ring study solves the mystery of where the famed instrument-maker Anton Stradivari sourced timber for his violins during his “golden age.” A French chemist inspects a Stradivarius violin at ...