The opening track from the big band album by Rasmus Henriksen "Out of the Shadows" The tune is based on two french folk songs, and features Tomasz Dabrowski on flugelhorn, and Morten Drejer on Alto ...

A MOST interesting collection of regional folk songs, French, Cajun-French, and Creole. It smells a bit like an academic thesis, but, unlike most such, it is based on documentation that has value for ...

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When Michael Doucet first tried to play the traditional French-language music of his native Southwest Louisiana for his fellow Cajuns, nobody was much interested. Doucet, an amateur musicologist at ...

Well before the advent of the drum machine or even the piano, there was folk music. These rich musical traditions have been inspiring composers of art music for centuries. Let's whet our musical ...

The next time you proudly sing along with the U.S. national anthem at a sporting event, take a moment to consider that it was once a song about drinking and sex. "The Star-Spangled Banner" is an ...