Roland White was there at the beginning.... more

Those anticipating a prim evening of courtly amusements at the opening night of BAM's inaugural Opera Festival had their powdered wigs blown back. ... more

Spring blossomed as the first BAM Opera Festival, curated by William Christie and performed by his Les Arts Florissants ,... more

Jeff Bridges mounted the Hollywood stage on Oscar© night and gave the elegantly-groomed proceedings an ebullient kick in the butt.... more

Scruffy the Cat played some shows with Alex Chilton in 1987. ... more

Spiritual, haunted, rollicking and fiercely independent: Nathan Salsburg and a group of like-minded artists pay tribute to a singular voice from the Blue Ridge, E.C. Ball.

Courtesy of filmmaker Cindy Kleine, a higher-res look back the first video for Christmas, one of the brightest lights on the Boston scene in the mid-80s.

In 1936, a 21-year-old Alan Lomax, on his first solo ethnographic expedition, discovered a nation redefining its identity. He struggled with personal and technical challenges, but returned with 1,500 recordings and film — now available for the first time from Harte Recordings, the Lomax archive, and the Library of Congress.