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The future of the bluegrass scene he nurtured is bright, thanks to today’s breakthrough and visionary artists.
The opera tells a story about a migrant worker from Michoacán in the United States, using the metaphor of migrating monarch butterflies.
Calypso and steelpan (steel drum) musicians broadcast the rhythms and rhymes at the heart of Trinbagonian society.
Verna Gillis has always had a desire to be “in the middle of the music,” and that is exactly what she has done since the early 1970s.
No matter the genre of singing, or where we’re from, our vocal exercises are meaningful.
According to the 2019 U.S. census, there are 1,009,874 Ukrainians living in the United States.
The band tells women’s stories from across the present, rooted in their Polish cultural inheritance.
“Ode to Billie Joe” is not a folksong, but it caught the nation’s ear that summer for reasons that still reverberate today.
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