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Bob Dylan brought protest music to the masses back in the 1960s, but he pointed to reggae progenitor Jimmy Cliff as having written the greatest protest anthem.
Approximately 250 artists — musicians, dancers, storytellers, and craftspeople — will take part in the Maryland Folk Festival, with more than 30 different musical groups performing on four outdoor ...
Folk is making a comeback. In music, film, dance—and now, even the visual arts. Stroud, where a handful of grassroots art galleries have opened in recent years, is one of the British epicentres ...
Columbus Collective Museums is hosting the inaugural Crossroads Folk Art Festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Rose Hill Park, 3300 Hamilton Road. Organizers promise an eclectic celebration ...
These repetitions reveal a harrowing truth. Such a portrait is timeless as long as racial inequality far too frequently sinks life and chances of life in this country. And despite the shrill denials ...
What is Gondhali art form? Gondhali is a folk art that involves singing and narration of mythical tales by a group of artistes before festivals and family functions, like marriages. The songs are ...
“For the country that gave me a lot in terms of my development as an artist, as a thinker ... For me, celebrating poetry in Jamaica means celebrating the oral tradition, the folk songs, the chants, ...
The story of Jamaica's shifting identity is told through the works of 15 artists in an exhibition that is center stage in Opa-Locka during Miami Art Week. Ten North Group is hosting its third ...
AS part of its mission to present folk art in a context “that can overcome ignorance and promote understanding,” the Museum of International Folk Art has displayed art from the farthest ...
Although he has penned many iconic hits like "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," Webb's "MacArthur Park" has loomed large in his ...