There’s an ancient musical tradition alive in The Hawkeye State. Learn about why the Iowa folk music scene is having a ...

Halloween began 2,000 years ago as a Celtic festival to scare off spirits. Here's how Samhain became a $13.5 billion American ...

Halloween and Easter are celebrated around the world, but how much do you really know about these holidays and the cultures ...

The rediscovery of a forgotten recording from 1935 sheds light on a language rooted in the state’s history of slavery and ...

Opera Philadelphia and the Penn Museum announced a partnership connecting the museum's newly transformed Egypt Galleries with ...

An American holiday with an Irish heart Long before Halloween became synonymous with trick-or-treating, jack-o'-lanterns, costumes and haunted houses, its origins lay in the ancient Irish festival of ...

Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s “Lincoln in the Bardo” at the Met Opera is the latest, and perhaps darkest, in a long series ...

Go ahead and think of the best city in America. You probably thought of New York, or maybe Chicago, or perhaps one of those ...

Modern Halloween traditions draw on five millennia of diverse cultural rituals, including the Celtic festival of Samhain, the ...

John Anderson, Country Music Hall of Fame member whose idiosyncratic voice powered hits like 'Seminole Wind' and 'Swingin',' ...

Omar ibn Said wrote his story in Arabic while enslaved in North Carolina in the 1800s. The autobiography inspired a Pulitzer Prize-winning opera by Giddens and “Get Out” composer Michael Abels, ...