Herman Dune makes strange music. Maybe it’s only strange for the fact that the Paris-based band sounds more like American folk-pop than French chanson. Singer-guitarist David Herman Dune and drummer ...

Sitting in the green-shuttered Montmarte cabaret bar, I felt as though I were back in the comforts of a Kerry snug ...

Alan Stivell is thinking back to the time he taught Shane MacGowan to sing in Breton, the Celtic language of France’s northwest Atlantic corner, which is at the heart of the harpist’s lifework ...

In his latest dispatch from the French fringes, David McKenna reports on how a new generation is reshaping French folk ‘balls’, and surveys the best new releases from the past few months. Bosc, photo ...

French flags draped from the ceiling in the airy event space Sunday as people swung their partners around the Northwest Portland venue. The flags celebrated Bastille Day, part of an annual local ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. While it’s easy to group foreign language music into a genre of its own, within ...

A bit of Louisiana and French flavours will be added to the nightlife in East York this week. On Thursday, Nov. 7, Welcome Soleil, a French Canadian folk band, will make its debut at the Linsmore ...

How do we listen to music that tells stories, when we don’t speak the language? I have often grappled with this in recent years, feeling increasingly frustrated by language as a barrier to cultural ...

Something special happened when the two members of French indie folk duo Brigitte met for the first time. Sylvie Hoarau and Aurélie Saada, who make their Hong Kong debut on May 23 as part of Le French ...

On an especially freezing Monday night, roughly 20 people braved the elements and made their way to the Hogtown Cure on the corner of Dufferin and Dundas. But it wasn't to sample the little cafe's ...