"Songs for Murdered Sisters" was released digitally on March 5. A new song cycle released as a digital album this week calls attention to violence against women-- utilizing the words of one of this ...

Indiana University East professors Brian Brodeur (creative writing) and Nathan Froebe (music) set a poem to music and consider the results. Brodeur, an associate professor of English and creative ...

As for Van Morrison, he begins one lyric found in “Lit Up Inside & Keep ’Er Lit: The Collected Lyrics” with “Rave on, John Donne” and goes on to refer to Kahlil Gibran, Omar Khayyam, Walt Whitman and ...

In honor of Father's Day, this segment of A Celtic Sojourn is dedicated to the fathers' theme and relationships with family. In many of these songs and poems, the relationship referenced is between a ...

The 31st Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering was held last month in Alpine on the campus of Sul Ross State University. Preserving the proud tradition of the American West in words and music is its purpose.

“Crosby, Still and Nash because I wanted to get a three-part harmony that was that amazing going,” Nicks replied when asked about where she found her start in songwriting. “And just the way they ...

A new study from McGill University reports that listening to snippets of happy or peaceful music prompted study participants to recall vivid positive memories. Conversely, listening to sad or ...