In an uncertain time, folk musician Jesse Welles – a four-time Grammy Award-nominee from Ozark, Arkansas – is reinvigorating ...
We look back at rapid-response songs -- from Woody Guthrie and Nina Simone to Bruce Springsteen's quick turnaround on 'Streets of Minneapolis' ...
Not long after that, Springsteen made good on his word by releasing " Streets of Minneapolis ," a new song inspired by the ...
Emmylou Harris has always been a musical enigma, from the moment she first picked up the $30 pawn shop guitar her grandfather bought for her when she was a teen. She would later say the nightly folk ...
His concert at Manchester’s Co-op Arena in May last year featured a lengthy onstage broadside against Donald Trump, and his long history of political activism and recording songs that speak truth to ...
Singer-songwriters are taking up the protest torch like their forebears Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, criticising Donald Trump and honouring Minneapolis victims.
American singer-songwriters are taking up the protest torch like their forebears Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Joan Baez.
After a man was shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis, Bruce Springsteen wrote a song, "Streets of Minneapolis," condemning the ...
Bruce Springsteen has always held a mirror up to America. Sometimes that looks like 1975’s Born to Run, about escaping ...
There's nothing wrong with making people happy,” says singer John Mellencamp, and that's the guiding philosophy of the concert tour he's planning this summer. For the first time in decades, ...
Poet and musician Saul Williams discusses his Grammy-nominated album "Saul Williams meets Carlos Nino and Friends at Treepeople." ...
Hundreds of community members gathered Thursday for a musical vigil for hope and peace organized by Northern Michigan University Professor of Music, Erin Colwitz, at the Marquette Hope Methodist ...