How a box set from 1964 attempted to capture the sweep of American music from the colonial era to the counterculture

Long before the Revolutionary War, numerous traditions of Indigenous music flourished in places later incorporated into the ...
The Hindu

Colonial Cousins re-unite: Hariharan and Leslee Lewis on music, brotherhood and everything in between

As far as stories of friendships go, it’s hard to beat this one. In 1992, a talented singer named Hariharan (who had burst into the mainstream spotlight with Thamizha Thamizha for A. R Rahman’s debut ...
The Berkshire Eagle

Pittsfield: Klezmer concert opens Colonial candlelight series

Berkshire Theatre Group will launch its new Colonial Candlelight Concert Series on Sept. 18 with "Klezmer by Candlelight," featuring Frank London, the Klezmer Brass Allstars and vocalist Eleanor Reiss ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Imagining Christmas music in colonial times

“Now Christmas comes, ‘tis fit that we,Should feast and sing and merry be.Keep open house, let fiddlers playA fig for cold, sing care away.”— Virginia Almanac, 1765 It was the holiday season in the ...