SOUTHBANK’S Meltdown Festival has the honour of being curated by none other than Little Simz – featuring The Streets, Mahalia ...

FILE - Youngsters hold a photograph of the jailed leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, Abdullah Ocalan as they gather to watch live on a tv screen a Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality ...

Jwan Hassan was more than a singer. He was a social figure, a fearless critic of injustice, and a defender of his people’s ...

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Gidugu Ramamurthy Telugu Bhasha and Janapada Kalapeetham founder and a retired government teacher Badri Kurmarao has requested the government to launch a special initiative to protect folk arts ...

Among those affected were the organizers of the annual Lowell Folk Fes­tival. The Lowell Festival Foun­dation is a non-profit 501 organization that hosts the Lowell Folk Festival, one of the ...

Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti has said that he foresees the end of Balochistan insurgency similar to Kurdish separatist movement. He urged the disgruntled Baloch youth to shun the path ...

In recent weeks, efforts from both U.S. and Mexico to curb cartel violence and drug trafficking have focused on a centuries-old form of folk music: the corrido. Some state and city officials claim ...