One of the most wonderful Hanukah recordings to come along in ages is Fesitval of Light, a...
Folk & World Music
One of the most fun things I’ve ever done in my life was to perform during my...
I was driving and listening to my favorite local radio station, KBCS when this odd song came...
Blind Alfred Reed was an old time country performer in the 1920s who wrote a wonderful song...
PBS broadcast the extraordinary fourth episode of The Blues documentary series The Soul of a Man. It...
Piranha Records, his record label, has this to say about him: Emil Zrihan, cantor of the synagogue...
I’ve loved the folk music tradition ever since I was a teenager and bought my first LP,...
Johnny Cash The Man in Black is gone. There isn’t much more that I can say that...
Jiddische Lieder is a remarkable, if somewhat flawed recording of old Yiddish folk standards and lesser known...
Dem Milner’s Trern (“The Miller’s Tears”)">Dem Milner’s Trern (“The Miller’s Tears”)
by Mark Warschawski Originally published in the Jewish Daily Forward, the caption said: “Mekhl, a peddler, posing...
(credit: Andrzej Dudzinski/NYT) This is a remarkable film on the War Symphonies of Shostakovitch & covers roughly...
Orchestra Baobab, the seminal Senegal musical ensemble, played Seattle’s EMP Museum in the Sky Church (The Church...
