For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has been a long road. A festival in Durham this weekend aims to remedy that.

Harry Belafonte was the “King of Calypso.” Singer, actor, and above all, an activist who fought racism and oppression ...

I wish I had been there, in the late 1930s, when Sister Rosetta Tharpe first plugged her guitar into her little transistor ...

Centre Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, 193 Main St., will celebrate the Second Sunday of Easter on April 27 ...