Whether "Ragtime" is presented in productions mammoth (as in its 1998 premiere) or modest (the 2009 revival), the musical, ...

Arts, entertainment, film, festivals and more events happening this week in the greater Capital Region from Thursday, Oct. 9, ...

In 2007, America's finest klezmer musicians posed in front of a historic New York synagogue for a photo. 18 years on, we're ...

Often when my non-Jewish friends refer to American Jews and the performing arts, they often speak of the Broadway musical “Fiddler on the Roof.” Based on the work of the great Yiddish writer Sholom ...

Ari Sussman loves music and Judaism. The Elkins Park native is an adjunct professor of music theory and composition at the West Chester University Wells School of Music, but that’s just one of his ...

Sound Check is the Globe’s weekly guide to concerts, tunes, and trends rooted in Boston and beyond. This column covers Sept. 26-Oct 2. Assigning firm definitions to genres of music in 2025 is like ...

DEWITT, N.Y. — The Jewish Community Center of Syracuse hosted its annual Klezfest celebration on Sunday, filling the afternoon with music, food, and family-friendly activities. The festival, which ran ...

Flannels and an attitude—Those are the two surface-level similarities between grunge rock and the folk music movement. However, what they don’t have in common, at least extensively, is their sound, ...

A longtime music festival is ready to give up the folk for the 50th year. The Eagle Creek Folk Festival will ring in half a century Sept. 13 at Eagle Creek Park. The Indiana Folk Music Society will ...

With its poetic lyrics and haunting melodies, contemporary folk music is, at its best, deeply evocative. The elusive genre is hard to pin down, often blending traditional acoustics with elements of ...

Nominations for the International Folk Music Awards are now open. This year all Folk Alliance Members are eligible to submit nominations for the Album, Song and Artist of the Year categories. Folk ...

Jewish educators and activists slammed the United Federation of Teachers leadership for failing to fight antisemitism in the New York City public school system — and for stabbing them in the back by ...