The singer-songwriter has always loved folk music, but the genre hasn’t always uplifted non-white artists. They are working to expand the perception of folk music to include people of color and queer ...

Ara plays the organ every Sunday at the Armenian church in New York so when you listen to his music you will hear secular ...

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Stuart Maconie is joined by guests including Bill Bailey, Maya Sondhi and Kiri Pritchard-McLean with music from Katherine ...

The South is in Michelle Malone's blood and her new album speaks to that with stories about family and friends.

By John Hood I got it wrong. Deeply wrong. Embarrassingly wrong. It was a few days after Hurricane Floyd struck the coast on September 16, 1999. I’d been covering North Carolina politics for more than ...

Educators across the country are grappling with how to respond to phones’ growing impact on student attention, mental health ...

The Music Beat Writers declare it’s time to dismantle the brat-ocracy. These are our assorted summery alternatives.

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Talk,” like much of British troubadour James Bay 's latest album, “Changes All the Time,” ends with a rousing chorus sung above a guitar melody. To get there, he starts with a confession: “I ...