Country-western music's iconic women will be celebrated during an award-winning tribute show 2 p.m. Jan. 3 at State Street Theater, 1 State St., New Ulm.

Few musical genres capture the art of telling a sad story beautifully quite like classic country and Western songs. This storytelling music comes from places where life is hard: working-class Southern ...

Country music as we know it today goes back almost 100 years. While the history of the genre goes back much further, the commercialization of country music began with the Bristol Sessions—a set of ...

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a blue-collar-rural family. For most of my life I never listened to any music except country-western. When I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, the people who sang ...

But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...

The 2025 holiday season is upon us, and you know what that means: It's time to shop! Perhaps your shopping list is feeling a little long this year, or there are some folks in your life who are just ...