With stories from across the country and around the world, and covering topics from food to language to religion, Folklife ...

Nanty Glo native Shawn Fornari, who now lives in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, swears he’s not funny. Despite ...

In March, as ICE arrests under the new Trump Administration topped thirty thousand and the President threatened new tariffs ...

There’s something deeply magnetic about festivals that have endured through centuries. You see dances performed the same way grandparents taught their children, hear songs passed down through ...

For nine years here at WMOT, I’ve been proud and privileged to select and remark on thirty albums from the closing year that meet several criteria. Some made national news and did well on the ...

Bob Dylan didn’t much care for the term, or at least he didn’t want his music to be associated with it. But folk rock undeniably made a massive impact on the music scene in the mid-60s, with sensitive ...

Where the directors' earlier film, the Academy Award-nominated Jesus Camp depicted young children being indoctrinated and browbeaten at a Christian Evangelical summer program, Folktales takes a ...

This week on Backstage Bay Area, host Steve Roby welcomes two-time Grammy Award-winning violinist Mads Tolling. Known for his work with the Turtle Island Quartet, Stanley Clarke, and Bob Weir, Mads is ...