Before you even walk into Nelson Town Hall on any given Monday night, you feel what's happening inside. Stomp, stomp, clap. A fiddler picks out a tune in the background, but it's almost incidental.

Brad Holland's musical instrument of choice is the body. • "I love the brooms," said the veteran "Stomp" performer, "but when we don't use anything — clap and stomp and use our body — I think that's ...

A hodgepodge of hipsters in day-old clothes gathered closely together, playing obscure string and percussion instruments for a performance on NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series. It was November 2009, and ...