Bhubaneswar: Cleanliness is a way of life at Babojola, a non-descript village in Mayurbhanj district — so much so that littering, spitting and smoking are completely banned and there’s even a ...

Folk music, above all else, aims to change the world. With every lyric, chord strum, and recording, the genre is attempting to shift the minds and perspectives of its audience. Folk music wants to ...

Okay, okay, it’s 2026 and the future is bright, the future is playing traditional music. This year promises to be a milestone in the burgeoning popularity of all kinds of traditional music, from the ...

Lohri, the joyous harvest festival celebrated annually on January 13, brings people together around bonfires to sing traditional songs, share sweets, and embrace unity, hope, and prosperity. A ...

As Big Agriculture transforms the country, a homegrown musical style—and a new kind of cowboy chic—is moving from its rural ...

The clock hits 11:58 PM. Your playlist suddenly feels wrong. Half the room wants to dance, the other half wants something meaningful, and you forgot to include anything for the actual countdown. Sound ...

Lohri, celebrated every year on January 13, is one of the most vibrant winter festivals in North India. It is most popular in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, and Himachal Pradesh, where people gather around a ...

Laura Vaccaro Seeger carries on the family tradition with I Had a Rooster: A Traditional Folk Song. Based on a concept by Ruth Crawford Seeger (stepmother of Pete), this song in book form introduces ...

Originally, “The Parting Glass” was attributed to Scottish poet Sir Alex Boswell, though a version of the song was documented earlier in the Skene Manuscript, a collection of 117 musical notations ...

Way back in the 1970s, Irish, Scottish and British bands – and the diaspora from those countries overseas – decided it was time to revive traditional Celtic music by plugging in and dialing up the ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...