Folk songs are No. 1 hits in their own right, however, it is very rare for them to peak at the top of the charts. Why is that? Well, that is a loaded question entailing a lot of facets that ...
It’s not shocking then that The Beatles occasionally incorporated elements of folk music into their own special musical stew. Here are five occasions when they did just that and, as usual, ...
Written by Milind Gadhvi and composed by Abhijit Vaghani, the song beautifully revives the Gujarati folk form in a modern style. The story is penned by acclaimed writer Kajal Oza Vaidya who has ...
Folk music doesn’t exactly have a reputation for being the happiest of the genres. With many popular folk songs telling tales of grief, heartbreak and destitution, it’s far more commonly associated ...
The year 1816 marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and the words Stille Nacht also reflected the silence of peace. There was a tradition in Bavaria and Austria that church organists would compose ...
Country superstar Carrie Underwood is slated to perform ‘America the Beautiful’ before Donald J. Trump is sworn in for the second time as president of the U.S.
The timelessness of great folk music makes it something that never goes out of style, and something that we just can’t seem to ever get enough of. Sometimes, time-tested folk traditions ...