Ballad singer, storyteller and traditional music preservationist Betty Smith is the first featured presenter in “Keeping the Fires Burning,” a series created by The Center for Cultural Preservation.

Earlier this week, Apple announced its intention to acquire Shazam. As some of you already know, Shazam is an app that allows you to identify songs you hear on the radio and in commercials by having ...

Vanguard Records is preparing the compilation "Songcatcher II: The Tradition That Inspired the Movie" for a May 7 North American release. The 17-track set of traditional folk ballads mined from the… ...

Music streaming platform Deezer has announced that its SongCatcher is now available for all users of the Android operating system. The functionality was first made available as a beta feature back in ...

Even more than the recent Depression-era comedy O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the turn-of-the-century drama Songcatcher is an absolute treasure trove of old-timey, traditional folk music. Set in the ...

Deezer has announced its new mobile feature that will allow users to identify forgotten or unknown songs. In the same week it was announced that Apple have purchased music identification app Shazam, ...

Music streaming service Deezer has made its audio recognition tool SongCatcher available to all Android users for the first time, enabling them to identify any music playing around them. The ...

“Havin’ a real backwoods experience, ain’t you?” Mountain man Tom Bledsoe (Aidan Quinn) is taunting scholar and “songcatcher” Lily Penleric (Janet McTeer), who’s just ridden a rickety horse-drawn ...

Hancock United Church of Christ is at 1912 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, MA. What shows have played recently at Hancock United Church of Christ? Violinist Aija Reke and pianist Lorena Tecu perform ...