Rufus and Martha Wainwright are launching a new initiative in honor of their late mother, Kate McGarrigle, to provide musicians living with aggressive cancer time in professional recording studios.

We begin this week's All Songs Considered with the passionate voice, fiddle and banjo of Rhiannon Giddens. The proponent of traditional music (who won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday) is putting out her ...

On October 26, 2025, the musicians Lucy Dacus and Rufus Wainwright took the stage for a discussion with the New Yorker staff writer Amanda Petrusich at the 26th annual New Yorker Festival, a weekend ...

Rufus Wainwright recently announced an album of folk re-imaginings that will see contributions from a roster of stars. Set for release on June 2, the album, titled Folkocracy, will feature ...

Rufus Wainwright has announced his upcoming album Folkocracy will arrive June 2 and released its lead single “Down in the Willow Garden” on Monday. The track features Brandi Carlile, and is described ...

Music can make your day. One song playing at the right moment—perhaps with the right cup of coffee in your favorite mug, and the sun coming through the window—can really make life worth living. We ...

The pop diva is one of several to hold court at Madison Square Garden this month, and the West Indian American Day Parade and other celebrations return. By Erik Piepenburg Ivo van Hove’s stage ...

Rufus Wainwright is celebrating his 50th birthday with a benefit concert for Montauk Point Lighthouse, the first lighthouse to be built in New York and the fourth-oldest working lighthouse in the ...