CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Old Town School of Folk Music announced Friday that it has appointed senior director of education Troy Anderson as its new director and chief executive officer—replacing former ...

Violinist Zoe Aqua and the string band the Ebony Hillbillies will share a stage on Thursday at Gowanus club Littlefield. (New York Jewish Week) – Two folk music traditions that developed on opposite ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Former Ravinia Festival chief executive officer Welz Kauffman has been named the executive director and chief executive officer of Chicago's renowned Old Town School of Folk Music.

When folklorists went to the American South last century to record and preserve traditional string band music, they probably didn’t imagine that someday a 27-year-old like Jake Blount would come along ...

The Celebration! Congo Choir, a group of 18 young adult singers, musicians and dancers from the Democratic Republic of Congo, performed at Metropolitan AME Church on M Street NW last week. They ...

In the 1990s, a Chicago public library building that had sat unused for a decade got a second life. Or maybe, because of the traditions at the Old Town School of Folk Music, which took over the Art ...

Chelsea Burton is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program. In the home of Rik Palieri, a country-roots and folk ...

Last time Bettye LaVette rolled through Chicago, she performed in front of roughly 60,000 people, opening one of the Rolling Stones’ June 2024 concerts at Soldier Field. By comparison this concert at ...

ANN ARBOR, MI -- The first night of the Ann Arbor Folk Festival brought a diverse mix of music to Hill Auditorium Friday night, culminating in a raucous Opry-esque performance by headliners Old Crow ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. “We are thrilled to have Welz as the next Executive Director & CEO of the ...