With a 50-piece orchestra, a 40-voice chorus, acclaimed soloists — including regular Seattle Opera collaborator Brandie Sutton — and an emcee appearance from Washington state Sen. T’wina Nobles, ...

In returning to a songbook that is decades — if not centuries — old, a new generation of performers is expanding the definition of what their traditional art form can be. Dom Flemons at the nightclub ...

Cliff Notez remembers the first time they felt truly included in the world of folk music. Growing up, the Boston artist consumed a steady diet of the genre in their mother’s car, where mainstream ...

It’s not unusual to see Boston rapper Cliff Notez “shake s--- up,” as they put it. There was the time they put Boston Calling on notice for ignoring hip-hop and local artists, and threw an event — ...

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Club Passim's Folk Collective will host the two-day event 'We Black Folk Fest' on February 4 and 11, putting Black Folk artists who are often overlooked in the genre at the forefront. Organized and ...

SEATTLE — It was a performance where every note held a story. Every voice weaved the past into the present. The Juneteenth concert "Songs of Black Folk Music of Resistance and Hope" explored the ...

Beyonce’s hit “Texas Hold ’Em” opens with a beat seldom heard on hip-hop tracks: the unmistakable clip-clop of a four-stringed clawhammer banjo. It comes via folk icon Rhiannon Giddens, who was ...

Black country, folk and blues musicians have always been vital to the genres' very American, very long legacies. The all-powerful Beyoncé, with her latest album, "Cowboy Carter," has shined a sharp ...

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