Folk News

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.

Dartmouth North MLA Trevor Zinck speaks with reporters after pleading guilty to charges of fraud over $5,000 and breach of trust on Monday afternoon.

As part of their Two North: Canadian Tour 2013, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers will perform at Halifax's Rebecca Cohn Auditorium on Mon., Oct. 21, followed by a Tues., Oct. 22 show at Moncton's Casino New Brunswick.

Mobile County Circuit Judge Joseph "Rusty" Johnston talks to Carlos Kennedy during a hearing Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011.

Great Big Sea's Alan Doyle, Sean McCann and Bob Hallett are coming to the Vernon Performing Arts Centre Oct. 23 on the band's 20th anniversary tour.

An anti-fracking demonstration is in full swing outside of the state Capitol. Pop singer Natalie Merchant led members of the crowd in a rendition of Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land."

An anti-fracking demonstration attracted more than 2,000 activists to the eastern side of the Capitol at midday Monday.

More than 70 youngsters aged 4-13 will take to the Leighton Buzzard Theatre stage this week with Leighton Buzzard Children's Theatre's latest production Treasure Island The Musical.

People climbed up the bleachers in the grandstand at the Lewis County Fairgrounds in Lowville on Saturday for a rally opposing the New York SAFE Act.

Big City Folk , Kassy Key & The Raindoggs , and The Shady Rest Band played at the Wild Rooster Bar on June 7, 2013.

Folk legend Joni Mitchell says she's started writing "vignettes" for an autobiography, but has put an end to a planned film about her life.

For Deep Purple and Rainbow fans who are used to the hard-rocking, screaming and wailing guitar sounds of British rock legend, Ritchie Blackmore some might think their newest effort, Dancer and the Moon is a bit over the top for those not into renaissance-era music but it's far from that aspect.