Mountain Folklore: Collecting instruments, jars, bottles and such The Reading Musical Foundation manages a program called Operation Replay, taking in used instruments, having them refurbished then ...

Folklore is a fully peer-reviewed international journal of folklore and folkloristics. It is one of the earliest English-language journals in the field of folkloristics, first published as The ...

Performing solo, with the 6-foot-tall, 36-string instrument propped between her knees, Newsom plays the harp as if it were as natural a folk instrument as the guitar, banjo, piano or fiddle.

Charles Chase, whose fascination with musical instruments from around the world led him to open the Folk Music Center, an institution in downtown Claremont for close to 50 years, has died. He was 89.

Two recent ECM releases deal with the interface of folk and classical music, each in its own way. Imágenes presents classical piano music composed by Dino Saluzzi, a musician strongly associated with ...

After tornadoes swept through the Midwest in December, a Kentucky folk singer asked people to donate musical instruments for those who lost homes. 700 instruments have been given away so far.

Much like Hungarian composer Bela Bartok, he also took folk music from his country and incorporated its characteristics in order to develop a national musical style. As can be read from the liner ...

Gipson Shoemaker III in his shop in Minneapolis, where he creates cigar box guitars, an old-time folk instrument that’s experiencing a modern resurgence. (Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

The Folk School of Fayetteville - Instrument Fund project is eligible for up to $15,000 in matching funds, up to $1,000 matched per donor, through the Northwest Arkansas Neighborhood Match Program.