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Derya Yıldırım & Group Şimşek embodies Turkish folk music in a modern dimension. The band is currently touring Australia and New Zealand to present their new album “Yarin Yaksa”. Lead singer Derya ...

Banished Music’s Reuben Bonner tells us about the origins of Strange Universe and looks ahead to the festival's future.

The life and times of Bruce Langhorne, the folk musician and friend who inspired the Bob Dylan folk classic 'Mr Tambourine ...

This year’s festival was meant to be its coming of age, but a turbulent political cloud hanging over the weekend meant it ...

With standout sets from Cut Copy, Marlon Williams and Water From Your Eyes, the cult favourite Victorian music festival has become the hottest ticket in town ...

The 18th Golden Plains welcomed a wave of deconstructed upstarts, a slight drizzle, a crowning pair of timeless electro-chameleons, and doof sticks – for better and worse.

From Latin jazz to children’s music to hard-hitting R&B, WBUR music writer Noah Schaffer shares albums coming out this spring that prove Greater Boston artists are full of resourcefulness and ...

As a Victorian-based girl with a pretty strong pop music bias, attending WOMADelaide was always going to be an interesting experience. I’d never been to South Australia before, and I’ve never attended ...

Castle of Our Skins presented a performance lecture of Derrick Skye’s “American Mirror” String Quartet at Wellesley College ...

Everybody has a story to tell. Folk singers like Bob Dylan and Nanci Griffith just tend to tell stories better than most.

In late 1966, American industry bible Billboard ran a cover story about a trend they predicted to become a potent force on the US chart. Under the banner headline U. S. Firms Plan ...