FOLKWAYS RECORDS

This collection of Turkish music consists of different traditional and folk music from the various regions of Turkey. Listeners can also gain a sense of the different traditional instruments of...

Beginning in 1977, renowned folklorist Art Rosenbaum traveled around northern Georgia making field recordings of songs learned from the oral tradition. The outcome was a two-volume anthology and a...

Beginning in 1977, folklorist Art Rosenbaum traveled around northern Georgia making field recordings of singers who learned their music from the oral tradition. The outcome was a two-volume anthology...

Folk Music of the Western Congo presents music from the Bantu-speaking tribes of Western Congo. Included is a Bambala litigation proceeding, which requires litigants to both speak and sing their case...

In 1957, eight Oberlin students undertook a summer-long journey, sharing their enthusiasm and teaching songs, folk dances, folk games, and instrument making to camp and concert attendees from...

Folksongs Netherlands / Var Folksongs Netherlands / Var CD1. Midwinters Horn 2. Een Kindelien So Loovelick 3. Wees Nu Verblijd in 't Mensen Heelal 4. Drie Koningen- Driekoningen Geefmij Een Nieuwe...

These folk tunes reflect the great humor and humility of Saskatchewan inhabitants, be they long-time locals or newcomers, that has developed as all have had to negotiate life in a harsh climate and...

On a search for recordings from an old Cajun singer, Gerard Dele encountered guitarist Richard Fontenont on a proverbial dark and stormy night. Fontenont and his family took him in, told him stories,...

The four Vedas are made up of a large number of texts, composed nearly two thousand years before Christ, by the poets, seers, sages, and ritualists of Indo-European tribes who invaded the Indian...

Francis,Robert Robert Francis Reads His Poems CD1. The Mountain, Like Ghosts of Eagles, a Health to Earth 2. Chimaphila 1972 3. Overhearing Two on a Cold Sunday Morning, Silent Poem, December 14 4...

This album features classic sea shanties from the 19th century, "sung in the traditional manner, accompanied on historic 19th-century instruments, and recorded aboard historic sailing ships" at the...

Songs of Sea and Shore is a collection of traditional chanties from the eastern seaboard of North America, many of them with roots in Britain or Ireland. Stuart Frank, who launched the Mystic Seaport...