It’s time to grab your dancing shoes–on this week’s episode, we’re learning about the waltz, with music by Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, and Ravel. The waltz, a ballroom dance in 3/4 meter, evolved from ...

Though the title of the song sounds like it’s about a dance with someone named Matilda, it’s actually born of an Australian style of poetry called a “bush ballad”—slang in the country for traveling on ...

Tom Waits turns 72 today, but don’t expect him to mark the occasion in any sort of public way. The cult favorite singer-songwriter has kept a very low public profile during the past decade and has ...

The Wiggles have celebrated Greg Page's return and marked Australia Day by recording a special version of 'Waltzing Matilda'. The children's entertainment group, who returned to their original lineup ...

One of the holiday traditions I look forward to the most is the annual Such a Night: The Last Waltz Live. It's an extraordinary collaboration of nearly 30 musicians from the Dayton area who come ...