Every January, I attend globalFEST at a New York City nightclub and see some of the most fantastic music I'll experience all year. Now, given the pandemic's challenges and the hardening of ...

How do you make folk music relevant in these postmodern times? Traditional music is under threat everywhere you look, as are minority languages, arts and crafts and the habitat and environment that ...

Minyo Crusaders is a band that reimagines Japanese folk songs with global rhythms. As their name aptly suggests, Minyo Crusaders are on a mission to popularize old Japanese folk songs for a new ...

Band SsingSsing is not like other Korean bands. The six-member band, led by front man Lee Hee-moon, wearing glittery Bowie-like make-up and stylish costumes with stockings and heels, reminds audiences ...

Lee Eun-ju, a master of Gyeonggi minyo ― Korean folk music from the Gyeonggi region ― passed away Monday at the age of 98. Lee died of old age. Lee was the last living of the three ...

Korean traditional music, or gugak, has many faces. Even within its vocal traditions, it can be broadly divided into three regional lineages: Gyeonggi minyo from the central provinces, Seodo minyo ...

The Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles (Wijin Park, Director) and Korean traditional music (Gugak) artist, Seo-Yoon Jang present a special online project, English Gugak Series 'Korean Traditional ...

A music documentary about Minyo Crusaders, a Tokyo-based band that blend Latin and Afro flavours into unique arrangements with minyo: a traditional Japanese folk genre now at risk of extinction. For ...