Watch Broadway star Michael Maliakel perform "I Wonder as I Wander," with The Tabernacle Orchestra. American folklorist John Jacob Niles was visiting Murphy, North Carolina, in the summer of 1933 when ...

All of us come to the manger as pilgrims. John Jacob Niles was mesmerized by the melody and lyrics he heard sung out by the poor daughter of a traveling evangelist. Niles was in Appalachia in 1933 ...

Waken, little shepherd -- Jesus, Jesus, rest your head -- Frog went courtin' -- Little Mohee -- The sea witch -- The Irish girl -- Go 'way from my window -- In that lovely far-off city -- Look down ...

The Christmas season is almost here! As a student of worship and music, I am inspired by the origin stories of the Carols and music of Christmas. For instance, the oldest Christmas (or Advent) Carol ...

The American folklorist John Jacob Niles was visiting the small rural community of Murphy, North Carolina, in the summer of 1933 when he heard a young girl, Annie Morgan, sing a fragment of a haunting ...