Folklorist Jim Leary Highlights Wisconsin’s Folk Music Tradition
From 1937 to 1946, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Alan Lomax, and the University of Wisconsin’s Helene Stratman-Thomas, with federal support from ...
Nyckelharpa: Swedish Folk Instrument Made And Played By Eau Claire Family
Earl Holzman was already an accomplished woodworker when he decided to try something new. He began making nyckelharpas, an early ...
Farmer Explains Why You Should Sing To Cows
I have previously confessed this crime. Specifically to note, I was born to Methodists. Methodists by moral instinct rarely do ...
Musician Sets Family Story To Music
William Henry Gleiss was an engineer on the Milwaukee Road who died in a tragic train crash in 1918. In ...
Ballerinas Share The Thrills And Challenges Of Their Art Form
On a summer afternoon, in a mirror-walled Madison dance studio, Rachelle Butler and Annika Reikersdorfer sit on the floor stretching ...
The Legacy of Sister Thea Bowman
Twenty-five years ago, the first and only African-American Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration passed away. This year, Sr. Thea Bowman’s fellow ...
Celebrating bassist and Madison jazz legend Richard Davis
Editor's note: Legendary bassist Richard Davis of Madison, Wisconsin passed away in early September 2023, surrounded by his loved ones. ...
Wedding DJ: One More Song
This dance, as well as my wedding DJ career, was supposed to end an hour ago. I started this job ...
Gathering Spaces: Prisoners Gather for Music at Oakhill
The Music Room at Oakhill Correctional Institution is a pretty remarkable space. Here, within the walls of a small classroom, ...
Skating Backwards
Editor's Note: Ice skating is one of the pleasures of winter. Many neighborhoods have their own rinks. Writer John Hildebrand tells ...
Gathering Spaces: Songs from the Southern Wisconsin Singing
Folklore Village in Dodgeville hosted the 2014 Southern Wisconsin Singing in November at Plum Grove Church. More than 120 people ...
Madison Sacred Harp Singers
Madison Sacred Harp Singers gather twice a month on Sunday afternoons to sing together.
Gathering Spaces: Shape Note Singing
The tradition of shape note singing, also known as Sacred Harp singing, does not come from Wisconsin. It originated in ...
Neenah Man Creates Instruments Out Of Cigar Boxes
For most of his adult life Bruce Lee Rose has been making traditional string instruments at his home in Neenah. ...
Dudley Birder Is Known As Mr. Music In Green Bay
More than a half a century ago, Dudley Birder came to Green Bay as a young professor at St. Norbert ...