It may be five months out, but New Englanders have already been clamoring to find tickets for the 2025 Newport Folk Festival, ...

After 36 years, festival organizers say the event hasn't been able to keep up with rising costs. They warn that some tough ...

Giddens was named a MacArthur Genius Fellow in 2017, and won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for the opera “Omar,” which she cocomposed and performed. It’s based on a memoir written by an enslaved Muslim man in ...