LANSING — Current and former employees describe Elderly Instruments as a “folk music mecca,” a “dream come true” and “holy grail kind of place." “It's a lot of things actually,” CEO and co-founder ...

India is the land of diversity and cultures. From the bright sarees and lehengas that adorn women in the North, to the simple and minimal white saree with golden borders that adorn the women of South, ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...

Ram Prasad Kadel, the founder and curator of the museum, has been collecting the musical instruments since 1995 together with his wife Nanda Sharma. His passion has taken him to all 77 districts of ...

Up one flight of steps and what you see is quite unexpected in this building. The place looks abandoned but not completely. There is not much light in the room except some rays from the few windows on ...

Balancing the morin khuur base between his knees, Las Vegas-based instrumentalist Hong Wang uses his right hand to slide a bow smoothly across the instrument. The fingers on Wang’s left hand glide ...

“The world’s two largest handmade folk stringed instruments, the rewap and duttar produced in Kashgar, applied for recognition by Guinness World Records last year and we are raising funds for the ...

The folk boom came and went. But the Claremont Folk Music Center is still humming, not to mention strumming. It’s been 60 years since Charles and Dorothy Chase opened the shop in the Claremont Village ...

“There is so much beautiful folk music in China,” says Suli Xue, founder of Pacific Harmony String Quartet, which performs in Benaroya Hall Saturday. “But I don’t play those instruments.” The ...