“Lover, when I sing my song / all the trees gonna sing along / and bend their branches down to me / to lay their fruit around my feet” —- Orpheus, “Wedding Song” (Track 4, Hadestown 2019 Original ...

While Greenwich Village provided the kind of bohemian culture and vibe that served as the perfect atmosphere for protest ...

The new musical Burn – A Folk Musical, will have public presentations on July 29 and 30, 2023, following a three-week developmental workshop at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. The presentation ...

For more than six decades, the University of Chicago Folk Festival has brought together an array of musicians and performers from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds—all united through a love for ...

Iris DeMent was one of the most distinctive voices in the 1990s—a lyricist who inspired John Prine to write the liner notes for her 1992 debut album and a vocalist who inspired Merle Haggard to say, ...

NEW YORK — Rosealia Fabrisio is a young muckraking journalist in the making, and you get the sense that she didn’t pick her outfit — the white eyelet dress, the big matching bow in her hair. “I am 13 ...