An image of what could be Stonehenge appears inside the back cover of the booklet coming with Sumer Is Icumen In – The Pagan Sound Of British & Irish Folk 1966–1975. Inside its front cover, a similar ...

The tarantella is a lively folk dance and musical style originating in southern Italy's Apulia region, the heel of the Italian geographic boot. Its name derives from the poisonous bite of a local ...

The fusing of heavy metal with traditional folk music, isn't necessarily a new thing, but there isn't anyone on the planet doing it better than Korpiklanni. The Finnish sextet's roots can be traced ...

What Christopher Juul sees from the stage each night is much more, and bigger, than a sold-out audience full of fervent fans. “What we like to imagine is the forest of people in front of the stage can ...

Near the end of the night, when the room was hot unless you were being fanned by the hair of someone head banging next to you, Juho Kauppinen and Jaakko Lemmetty of the Finnish metal band Korpiklaani ...

Jameson Foster is an ethnomusicology PhD student at CU Boulder exploring the ways in which music is used to construct identity in and of the Nordic countries, including traditional music styles, heavy ...

Punctuated by dry coughs, cello and idiosyncratic charm, folk rock band Half Pagan filled its new song "Coronavirus in New Orleans" with good advice. Some recommendations: stock up on bourbon (lots of ...