It is the final hour of spook season, and in the midst of most people's plans to go to costume parties, haunted attractions, or go trick-or-treating, the sacred origins of the holiday are all but ...

An image of what could be Stonehenge appears inside the back cover of the booklet coming with Sumer Is Icumen In – The Pagan Sound Of British & Irish Folk 1966–1975. Inside its front cover, a similar ...

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 ...

Jameson Foster is an ethnomusicology PhD student at CU Boulder exploring the ways in which music is used to construct identity in and of the Nordic countries, including traditional music styles, heavy ...

What Christopher Juul sees from the stage each night is much more, and bigger, than a sold-out audience full of fervent fans. “What we like to imagine is the forest of people in front of the stage can ...

The fusing of heavy metal with traditional folk music, isn't necessarily a new thing, but there isn't anyone on the planet doing it better than Korpiklanni. The Finnish sextet's roots can be traced ...