LARA: TODAY MARKS THE START OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH. BLACK MUSICIANS IN KANSAS CITY ARE JOINING TOGETHER TO SHARE THEIR MUSIC AND TELL THEIR STORIES KMBC 9’S JACKSON KURTZ IS LIVE FROM THE WESTIN AT ...

For more than six decades, the University of Chicago Folk Festival has brought together an array of musicians and performers from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds—all united through a love for ...

These three storied folk songs have existed for well over 100 years, and they will continue to be performed for decades to ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

In 1937, Odetta Felious Holmes moved from Birmingham, Alabama, to Los Angeles. Only six, she was already bigger than the other kids when she arrived in East Hollywood with her mother, Flora, and her ...

"This book is partially meant to be a visual companion to Ronald D. Cohen, Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002) and ...

Just before World War I, two music students meet in a bar. Both lovers of folk music, though studying at a classical conservatory, they fall in love almost immediately. After the war, the two men ...

Bob Dylan, the Freedom Singers, Peter Yarrow and Pete Seeger seen in 'Newport & the Great Folk Dream' - Credit: Courtesy of 'Newport & the Great Folk Dream' For anyone who saw A Complete Unknown and ...

Black musicians have always had a place in the history of country music, despite the music industry’s push to label white folk music as hillbilly music, and Black folk music as “race records.” “Black ...

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For anyone who saw A Complete Unknown and wondered how close it resembled the actual Newport Folk Festival where Bob Dylan amped up his music, a new documentary will help answer that question. Among ...