Folk News

The reclusive Joni Mitchell gave a couple of rare interviews - one lasting an hour and 45 minutes, at that - to Canada's CBC Music, and before an audience of 500 at the Luminato Arts Fest in Toronto.

The Red Bicycle welcomes some of our amazing Island female musicians for a night of acoustic music.

Saskatchewan's auditor says her office couldn't complete a review on young offenders because it was denied access to information.

Battered by criticism from open government activists, the Assembly will vote Thursday to undo a budget bill that made some provisions of the state's Public Records Act optional for local governments.

Legendary South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo opens a weekend of fascinating concerts with an evening of stirring music at Door Community Auditorium.

Is it fair to call Carrie Elkin and Danny Schmidt Austin's first family of folk music? I'm not talking A Mighty Wind kind of folk, but music for the people presented in an intimate and endearing way.

This Wednesday is chalked full of amazing music. First up, the Austrian psych-rock group Tame Impala .

In this video from 1963, President John F. Kennedy gives his famous speech at the Berlin Wall, where he tells the world, "I am a Berliner."

After watching a succession of decorated musicians interpret her vast songbook in a celebration of her upcoming 70th birthday, Joni Mitchell took to the Massey Hall stage, kicked off her shoes and gave the adoring audience an unexpected - and exceedingly rare - gift of her own: a public performance.

Sully and Mike Wazowski are back for "Monsters University," but so are some new monstrously lovable -- and in one case, intimidating -- characters.

As the folk revival rages on in the indie music scene, many bands continue to look backward, aping the sound and look of Dust Bowl Okies and all things Woody Guthrie.

Over the past 44 years ever since Vin quit his job at a Teesside chemical works to follow a career in music his songs, which deal with everything from political issues to the environment, have won him fans around the world.

The Woodland Park Zoo kicks off its annual summer concert series, Zoo Tunes, Sunday with folk legend John Prine taking the stage.

"It's weirdly harder to go up and sing a rock-y song than it is to do some tricky picking thing."

The Resonant Rogues journey through a variety of folk traditions. With their band, Asheville songwriters Keith Smith and Sparrow Pants blend Balkan, klezmer and Gypsy music with hot jazz and old-time mountain standards.

When music was banned in Mali, the organisers of Glastonbury festival swung into action and invited the country's top acts over.

What began with scraps of paper at a Brampton, Ont., kitchen table nearly 40 years ago grew into a Canadian fitness and health publishing empire, with the company's founder counting bodybuilding legend Arnold Schwarzenegger among his friends.

"It's a man's, man's, man's, man's world," boasted James Brown back in the 1960s, and for much of pop music history, men have done their best to keep it that way.

Over his 30-year career, the performer John Kelly has used his lean frame and remarkable falsetto-to-baritone voice to conjure a panoply of classical and pop personas, including the Mona Lisa, Caravaggio, Egon Schiele and, most famously, Joni Mitchell .

All is set for this year's Jerash Festival for Culture and Arts , which is expected to attract a large audience from the Gulf states and other Arab countries, the festival's executive director, Mohammad Abu Summaqa, said Saturday.