Belarusian musician and activist Siarhei Douhushau was in Chicago in March 2019 on a U.S. tour presenting folk art and music from his Eastern European home. Nadzeya Ilkevich, then a second-year ...

“Minnie Reed,” a fictional West Virginia ballad singer based on several famed Appalachian folk singers, will be portrayed by Mary Dailey of Alderson in a West Virginia Humanities Council History Alive ...

Anything called a hootenanny ought to be shot on sight, but the whole country is having one. A hootenanny is to folk singing what a jam session is to jazz and all over the U.S. there is a great ...