When William Elliott Whitmore first emerged with his 2003 death-folk magnum opus Hymns for the Hopeless, he cast an immediate spell over the alternative-folk cognoscenti. Since then, the haunting Iowa ...

In a recent concert at First Church Congregtional in Cambridge, MA, vocal ensemble Musica Sacra sang folk hymns and canticles from two regions that, at first blush, don’t seem to have a whole lot to ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Greg Boardman will perform at the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. on ...

Surrounded by other singers arranged in a square, Judy Hauff rocks her feet heel to toe, rhythmically slashes the air with her arm and sings “Fa la sol la sol.” This is “shape note” music, an a ...

Sam Amidon’s talents are best described in the liner notes of his new album. “All songs are traditional, reworked & arranged by Sam Amidon.” Amidon is part preservationist, part visionary in the sense ...

How a retired Anglican priest and a young church music director created Liturgical Folk. In 2015, when retired Anglican priest Nelson Koscheski shared one of his religious poems with the young music ...

Vatican II allowed the presence of “the music of the people” at Mass. Folk music, the music that is indigenous to each of the various nations of the world and to the ethnic cultures found within those ...

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It was a haunting voice, raw and full-throated, as if someone were singing into a vast emptiness. In it, Mahatma Gandhi’s favourite hymn, Narsinh Mehta’s Vaishnava Jana To, acquired the depth and ...

Very many of us will have a sound or a smell or a sudden temperature drop that, for each, signals the beginning proper of what, in its broadest and most literal sense, we might term the festive season ...