2013 Richmond Folk Festival
Chicago bluesman Lurrie Bell proved he could roll with the big boys at an early age. The son of harmonica master Carey Bell recalls falling in love with blues for […]
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If you want to hear Cajun music by the best, don’t miss singer and accordion player Jesse Lége and fiddler Joel Savoy. “The great Cajun singers have this quality to […]
Throat singing is unlike anything you’ve ever heard or seen performed live. “People often ask us where our music comes from — ‘Is it like Chinese, or Mongolian, or Russian, […]
Bringing a band that blends New Orleans second-line tradition and hip-hop rhythms to brass-heavy Richmond is a bit like bringing ice to Eskimos. Then again, Eskimos like ice. And judging […]
[image-1 Andrzej Bienkowski, a professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, traversed Poland for 30 years to document and record its village music. Eventually he started a salon out […]
If you don’t know how Texas swing music used to be played, check out the Marshall Ford Swing Band to learn. The quintet has been around in its current incarnation […]
For some, Vietnam evokes a divisive war, and for others delicious cuisine. The popular music of the Vietnamese diaspora is a modern combination of Oriental tonality and Western orchestration. But […]
“I feel the music I perform, and how it’s being presented by my band truly brings people together to enjoy life,” says Alex Meixner, the wild, Grammy-nominated polka player. “We […]
It’s a long way from the chitlins circuit to the Richmond Folk Fest, and no one knows that better than Mighty Sam McClain. The 70-year-old soul and blues legend has […]
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