Damir Imamović: The World and All That It Holds… After an adolescence sheltering from the siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian war, Damir Imamović dedicated his musical…
Jon Wilks: Before I Knew What Had Begun I Had… As energetic advocates for folk music go, Jon Wilks is one of the busiest. He runs the lively Tradfolk website…
Unthank Smith: Nowhere and Everywhere review |… Rachel Unthank is a folk-singing veteran whose family band, the Unthanks, have always been collaborative, political…
Ears of the People: Ekonting Songs from Senegal… Before the banjo, the instrument at the heart of so much folk, country and bluegrass music, was the ekonting: a…
Cerys Hafana: Edyf review | Jude Rogers’s… Machynlleth-born Cerys Hafana is a master of the Welsh triple harp, an intimidating instrument of three rows of…
Maggie Rogers’s Guide to Short Hair and 6-Step… “My favorite beauty look is exactly what’s happening right now, which is just nothing,” says a bare-faced Maggie…
Alison Cotton: The Portrait You Painted of Me… Alison Cotton has long wuthered on the wilder fringes of folk music. She played the viola in folk-rock revivalists…
Ben McElroy: How I Learned to Disengage From the… Ben McElroy first made music as a teenager experimenting with cassette recorders. His adult process may have…