Blessings for a wonderful and joyful holiday! Speaking of art, American folk art continues to attract collectors and artisans. Developed as a product of need, its usefulness was inherent for daily ...

Apostolos Kaldaras was one of the most defining figures of 20th century Greek music. A composer, lyricist and creator of rare sensitivity, Kaldaras managed to express through his melodies the folk ...

The best acoustic sounds. Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver play live.

I knew I’d have to include James Griffiths’ “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” a twee-sounding British comedy about a folk musician named ... will electrify the art form.

Tradition in Contemporary Art exhibit at the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Scandinavia House in Manhattan Pieper Bloomquist of Grand Forks is an award-winning folk artist whose work often ...

In the 900 years between those notable moments, Ancient Greek culture shaped contemporary poetry, democracy, philosophy, art, theater, and language. Take Greek mythology, for example: those ...

A year later, it was published in Mesolonghi, and the same year, Fauriel included it in a collection of Greek folk songs. In 1828, Nicholas Mantzaros, a Corfiot musician and friend of Solomos’ set the ...

Public Domain It all started decades before 1821, when Rigas Feraios a writer and political theorist, a man who was active in the Modern Greek Enlightenment, killed an important Ottoman figure and ...

Public Domain Greek folk songs from the 1821 Revolution not only told the stories of brave revolutionaries but also served as historical texts and diffusors of tradition. Nobel Prize winner Odysseas ...

La Sirena sells handmade folk art on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Beyond the colorful storefront, is an owner who is as eclectic as the treasures she collects. Nestled in New York's East Village ...

Hear the heavenly sounds of the ancient Greek lyre as Lutherios presents the 'Gift of the Gods' Tour which travels across Vancouver Island from March 22 though April 2, making a stop in Duncan on ...

In an effort to assess the spectrum of lament in Greece, this seminar considers musicological, cultural and social issues in Greek popular music, paying due attention to Theodorakis‘ work and ...