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Eleanor Roosevelt likes to ask young musicians to perform at the White House, and young musicians naturally like to be asked. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt put on “An Evening of Songs for American Soldiers ...

Woody Guthrie changed folk music forever on this day in 1940. Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land is Your Land" in 1940 as a response to "God Bless America." The song contrasts American ideals with 1940s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten first started playing music in her childhood, it wasn't until decades later that she truly ...

While Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten first started playing music in her childhood, it wasn't until decades later that she truly established her prowess as a folk revolutionary. Born in January 1893, Cotten ...

Music may or may not have the power to soothe the savage breast, but it cracks open a path to forgiveness and reconciliation in “The Porch on Windy Hill,” an affecting “new play with old music,” as it ...

Fans of the classic television Christmas special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" eagerly await the annual appearance of the little reindeer, but they may not realize the show has a strong Illinois ...

Originally planned to be the second concert at this year's Proms reuniting Sir Simon Rattle with the London Symphony Orchestra, this morning's intriguing programme of Folk Songs and Dances is now ...

This entry on our list of nostalgic songs from 1962 actually got its start a decade earlier. This song is a cover of a tune that was released in the 1950s and made popular by traditional pop singer Jo ...

A 265-pound Army private named Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was making a great hit last week with A.E.F. boys all over the globe. In a new short-wave act called G.I.* Jive, short-waved from the Manhattan ...