DEERFIELD, Mass. -- The Connecticut River Watershed Council announces the program and the performers for its Goodnight Irene concert at Deerfield Academy’s Memorial Hall auditorium on Tuesday, Aug. 28 ...

When Lucius‘ Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig first sang with Roger Waters, the clouds above them parted and a giant rainbow stretched across the sky. Literally. Now the roles are reversed, and Waters is ...

All hurricanes have names, but this one has its own theme song, and a great one at that. “Goodnight, Irene” is a classic American folk song credited to Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter. In the 1950s, the ...

EVEN TO close friends, the Weavers’ 1950 recording of “Goodnight Irene” was as puzzling as if Soviet dictator Josef Stalin had picked up a fiddle and done three minutes of “Turkey in the Straw. The ...

With thousands of folks already fleeing parts of North Carolina and news of its remnants already being tracked in the New York tri-state area. . .all eyes are definitely on Irene, but some ears are on ...

Q. I am 82. My grandchildren and great-grandchildren think the song Good Night, Irene was written for me and they think that I should know the date it was introduced and who wrote and recorded it.