Anders Osborne opened his set Saturday on the Festival Stage with the hard driving, psychedelic tinged “Different Drum,” ...

Leyla McCalla didn’t intend to make a “protest album.” On her previous two albums, McCalla’s gentle voice floats alongside her cello, a vessel for her plucked folk-poetry and Haitian music, a ...

"How much does a memory weigh?" Leyla McCalla sings halfway through her Tiny Desk performance in a voice that feels like it's floating in water – swimming, drowning, escaping, returning home – as it ...

Leyla McCalla, erstwhile Carolina Chocolate Drop and occasional Our Native Daughter, is on a search: “I am trying to be free … I’m trying to find me,” she sings at the start of this album’s first song ...

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Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify and Apple Music playlists at the bottom of the page. For "Penha," a pilgrim's ...

Each year, the International Folk Music Awards — a program of Folk Alliance International — gives the People’s Voice Award to a community member who “unabashedly embraces social and political ...

McCalla also wrestles with what responsibility an artist has to create those conversations, frustrated by the limitations of a song and power of a protest — confronting hard truths in her music also ...