On April 7, Country Music Hall of Famer and Grand Ole Opry member Bobby Bare's 90th birthday will be feted via a star-studded Americana Music Association-sponsored event in Nashville. Though the ...

Alice Gerrard is still going strong heading toward her 90th birthday. The pioneering songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist has been passing along and preserving old-time Appalachian and ...

Born in 1934 in Cape Town, Dollar Brand, as he became known, was exposed to a melting pot of cultural influences: African Khoi-san songs, Christian hymns, gospel tunes, and spirituals, as well as ...

Decades before Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” dominated the charts, another Black woman from Texas transcended genres with her hit country songs. Her name was Esther Phillips, and she was best known for ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The Estonian Festival Orchestra made its North American debut at Carnegie Hall, offering a broad, excellently played survey of Pärt’s ...

At age 17, he dropped out of high school and enlisted in the U.S. Navy. When he was 20, he shattered his left leg in what he said was a motorcycle crash, although there are alternate accounts of how ...