Folk News

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.

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.