Mount Desert Islander

Greek dance party

Leave the winter cold and be transported to the Greek islands. The Downeast Folk Dancers will feature authentic dances from ...
New England Public Media

'Reclaiming Folk Music' highlights musicians of color around Mass.

The traveling program, created by Naomi Westwater, aims to give credit to the role of musicians of color in the folk music genre while supporting today's non-white folk artists.

Switzerland’s yodeling tradition is changing. Here’s how to experience it.

Yodeling has been practiced probably for as long as humans have expressed themselves through song. But the singing style ...
The Edwardsville Intelligencer

Popular Greek singer-songwriter Dionysis Savvopoulos has died at 80

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Popular Greek singer-songwriter Dionysis Savvopoulos, known for his allegorical and deeply poetic lyrics that commented on Greek politics, identity and society, has died. He was ...
Public Radio International

Rapper calls out Greece’s lack of birthright citizenship as ‘racist’

Negros Tou Moria, or Black Morris, as he’s known in English, is from Athens, Greece. He mixes trap beats with traditional Greek folk-music. Black Morris is not a Greek citizen, though, even though he ...
WFMZ-TV

'Happy people': folk festivals punctuate Greek summer life

It's midnight in the Aegean Sea but on the Greek island of Ikaria, in the courtyard of the church of St Elijah, the revelry was barely getting started. Dozens of dancers and scores of onlookers, ...
WBUR

Local musician Vasilis Kostas on how he found his voice through a traditional Greek lute

This weekend is the annual Lowell Folk Festival and local lauoto player Vasilis Kostas will be playing. The lauoto is an eight-string, long necked instrument also called the Greek lute. Kostas grew up ...
Panthers Wire

Salisbury's Maryland Folk Festival names diverse slate for Folklife stage. Meet them here

The 2025 Maryland Folk Festival will feature a "Maryland: America in Miniature" theme, highlighting diverse state traditions. Musical acts, craftspeople, and demonstrators will showcase talents on the ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

He kicked off the 1970s klezmer revival. Now, he’s paying tribute to New York’s vast global music scene.

Walter Zev Feldman’s “From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York” is part ethnomusicological treatise and part memoir. Walter Zev Feldman, 76, is an authority on ...
The Vindicator

Greek folk music icon Petroloukas Chalkias honored after death

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece is honoring the late clarinetist Petroloukas Chalkias, whose hypnotic, note-bending performances over the course of more than 70 years made him a hero of mountain folk ...
Yahoo

From the Greek mountains to Manhattan: folk music icon Petroloukas Chalkias honored after death

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece is honoring the late clarinetist Petroloukas Chalkias, whose hypnotic, note-bending performances over the course of more than 70 years made him a hero of mountain folk ...