Tunisian musician Anouar Brahem and his International Quartet perform music from his latest album After the Last Sky and more at the National Concert Hall, Dublin on 2 November. We asked him the BIG ...

Because of their lyrical content, many folk songs double as life lessons. Revisit three history-making folk hits that teach ...

The concert traveled through Syria's northern landscapes with songs rooted in village life, love, and memory. Highlights ...

When it comes to the craft of storytelling in music, there is no question that folk music does it best. After all, that is the foundation of the genre. Folk songwriters have seemingly told every ...

TUNIS, Oct 3 (Reuters) - A Tunisian man has been sentenced to death on charges of insulting the president and assaulting state security through posts on social media, the head of the Tunisian League ...

Bob Dylan's music has never pulled any punches. The raw emotion, the unapologetic lyrics, the storytelling—it all amalgamated into the essence of who Dylan is. He was also among the first to bring ...

A Tunisian man who had been sentenced to death over Facebook posts deemed offensive to President Kais Saied has been pardoned and released from prison, his lawyer and a human rights group say. Saber ...

After living for decades in exile, chased by war and religious bans, Naghma persists in singing to her people.

When Paul Simon first came to Britain in the mid-1960s, he was still in the early stages of his music career as a songwriter and was in search of inspiration. That’s when he bumped into Martin Carthy, ...

The lyrics of traditional Okinawan songs were found to record past climate and geological history of the Ryukyu Islands (21st-century Okinawa Prefecture, Japan), according to a new study by a ...

Bihar Elections 2025: No official announcement has been made about Maithili Thakur's candidature. (Image: X) Bihar Elections 2025: Folk singer Maithili Thakur is emerging as one of the fresh names in ...

Bruce Springsteen’s shift away from rock and roll in the early 1980s produced one of his most introspective and haunting albums, Nebraska, and featured a song that would come to define 1980s folk rock ...