Newpoli, a band Songlines says grabs “southern Italian traditional music by the neck and recasts it in a dramatic style,” will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, in the Avalon Theatre’s Stoltz ...

A noted guitarist and banjo player, he emerged from the same Greenwich Village folk-revival scene as his friend and sometime collaborator Bob Dylan. By Alex Williams Happy Traum, a celebrated folk ...

Night of the Taranta, an Italian folk music festival akin to Woodstock, celebrates a musical tradition that dates to antiquity. The Folk Music Festival That Started With A Spider Bite The tarantella ...

Happy Traum, a mainstay of the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s who recorded with Bob Dylan, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 86. His wife, Jane Traum, said he died of pancreatic ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — A nationally celebrated ensemble is bringing new life to traditional Italian folk music — and they’re performing right here in Rochester later this month. Alla Boara, known ...

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — Phoenicia music journalist Holly George-Warren described Happy Traum as “truly an American treasure” who played “such an important role in the early days of American folk.” Traum, 86 ...

Remi Coonce, 2, and her cousin Cora Bahler, 6, dance to recorded Italian folk music Saturday in front of the main music stage at the festival as musicians prepare to perform. Musical guests are ...

BRATTLEBORO — Boston-based early music ensemble In Stile Moderno returns to Brattleboro at 8 p.m. Friday for the last concert of its 2018-2019 season, with "La Vesuviana: Tracing the Sources of ...

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 ...