It’s our final show of the year. So we’re saying goodbye to 2020 with music and literature. But be warned, the culture we’re sharing is gritty. We’ll go on a song catching journey with a Connecticut ...

All five of these murder ballads are unsettlingly creepy, but there is one that stands out among the rest as the darkest by ...

An American folk ballad is a narrative song passed down orally through generations, typically telling stories of love, tragedy, adventure, or historical events. It often features simple language, ...

Tamil story telling is thousands of years old, with many folk tales becoming side stories in epics such as Silappadikaram and Manimekalai,” says Prof. Aru Ramanathan, a Ph.D ...

The most popular John Prine ballad is, without a doubt, “Sam Stone”. However, it is far from the only ballad the masterful songwriter created, and one of the more obscure ballads by John Prine is his ...

Albert B. Friedman, a retired authority on folklore and balladry at what is now Claremont Graduate University, whose work anticipated the folk music revival of the late 1950s and 1960s, died Nov. 11 ...

Three days after stumping the crowd at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall by playing Van Morrison’s 2016 supreme deep cut “Going Down to Bangor,” Bob Dylan went significantly further back in music history — ...

I had never almost-cried at a concert before watching Silvana Estrada’s late-night set at Bing Studio on Saturday. Typically when I go to shows, I am either dancing around happily or sobbing manically ...

This time-spanning feminist musical falls between unconvincing contemporary scenes and thin historic narratives but has its moments ...