To celebrate Ella Jenkins on her hundredth birthday in August, we asked a group of musicians how Ella has inspired them. Sophie Abramowitz In 2007, the Smithsonian recognized Ella Jenkins’s fifty-year ...

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings has recently announced the Friends of Folkways program, which is an opportunity for the public to get involved with and support the preservative digital archive. The ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In the 1960s and 70s, Columbia University student David Nzomo recorded six albums of traditional Kenyan songs from his childhood for Folkways ...

Arhoolie Records, the El Cerrito-based roots music label that released records from blues legends such as Big Mama Thornton, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Mississippi Fred McDowell, announced Tuesday that its ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In advance of Folkways Records' 75th anniversary, Matmos accepted a ...

San Francisco-based preschool teacher Greg Gardner says he and his friend, singer-songwriter Cass McCombs, "have collected way too many Folkways records" over the years — by Woody Guthrie, Michael ...

Think "Folkways Records" and what springs to mind is, well, folk. Founded in 1948 by Moses Asch, the New York label was conceived primarily as an audio library of American traditional music, but it ...

The song is obviously old. The acoustic guitar fades in, its strings bleating and chugging like a train against the sounds of vinyl pops. Then the harmonica adds some wah-wah-ing like a steam whistle.

The list of record labels founded or co-founded by Jewish entrepreneurs during the 1940s and 50s is a long and luminous one. But as important as such legendary imprints as Atlantic, Chess, King, ...

The Brooklyn Folk Festival holds its 15th edition this year on November 10-12 at St Ann’s Church. Tickets are on sale now. To celebrate the milestone, they’re presenting a Folkways Records 75th ...

Think "Folkways Records" and what springs to mind is, well, folk. Founded in 1948 by Moses Asch, the New York label was conceived primarily as an audio library of American traditional music, but it ...