Apple pie, baseball and western folk music – all uniquely American traditions that have made their own cultural impacts, but the latter has remained integral to America’s musical heritage. Two groups ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Series 16 contains approximately 11,500 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards ...

For a place as diverse as Tucson, nothing quite shows the artistic spirit of Southern Arizona like the Tucson Folk Festival. The Tucson Folk Festival is a yearly, free festival that has been held in ...

The Kearns Family, a western folk duo from the Mojave Desert is touring their first record “Together and Alone” and they are coming to Grass Valley on November 6 to perform at The Wild Eye Pub at 6:30 ...

Before there was Russ Nasset, the honky-tonk frontman who gigs regularly at the Union Club, there was Russ Nasset, the folk singer. Back in the winter of 1971, after a couple of years in college at ...

"American" music includes much more than the western classical music that has traditionally dominated music study in the United States. The AMRC is working to reflect that diversity in our collections ...

While many artists dare to cross genres, few cross worlds like new local band Ghost Peppers. With a founding concept that blends South Asian music with Western folk, their inter- sectional sound is a ...

In its essence, folk music is music for the people — an art form inextricably intertwined with the soul of a region. Its nature is inherently visual, conjuring vivid imagery with just a single ...