Herman Dune makes strange music. Maybe it’s only strange for the fact that the Paris-based band sounds more like American folk-pop than French chanson. Singer-guitarist David Herman Dune and drummer ...

In his latest dispatch from the French fringes, David McKenna reports on how a new generation is reshaping French folk ‘balls’, and surveys the best new releases from the past few months. Bosc, photo ...

A favorite project of scholars in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century France was to collect folk songs from various French provinces and to add new harmonic accompaniments before publishing ...

The opening track from the big band album by Rasmus Henriksen "Out of the Shadows" The tune is based on two french folk songs, and features Tomasz Dabrowski on flugelhorn, and Morten Drejer on Alto ...

A MOST interesting collection of regional folk songs, French, Cajun-French, and Creole. It smells a bit like an academic thesis, but, unlike most such, it is based on documentation that has value for ...

Kim Chase is an atheist, but she considers Franco-American music sacred. In her first year teaching at Lyman C. Hunt Middle School in Burlington, when she tried to lead the class in French folk songs, ...

In his latest dispatch from the French fringes, David McKenna looks at Irish and British labels providing great homes for Gallic experimentalists, cosmopolitan pop, abstract rap and the latest ...