Unfortunately you've used all of your gifts this month. Your counter will reset on the first day of next month. Saturday (April 18) is Record Store Day, and we couldn’t think of a better song to help ...

This time of year – with flowers blooming and bird songs stirring to life – seems custom-made for a soundtrack of serene, melodic folk music. Delivering that serene sound as well as familiar, ...

When a band has three singers with strong harmony skills, many good things are possible. That’s the case with The Stray Birds, who play 5 Points Music on Friday. The core trio, which emerged from ...

Back in April the Pennsylvania-based Stray Birds trio swooped down to perch on the stage of Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs to create quite a lovely ruckus of rural Roots-Americana sounds. Afterward ...

Charlie Muench can be a little hard on himself. The musician is first to admit that. That relatable feeling — being not good enough, or holding oneself to an unattainable standard — kept the 2007 ...

From Lancaster County, Pa., the Stray Birds play American folk music. Beginning in 2010, Maya de Vitry (banjo, fiddle, guitar) Oliver Craven (violin/fiddle, mandolin, guitar) soon joined by bassist ...

Growing up in Lancaster County, Pa., Oliver Craven’s eyes and ears were drawn to the Southeast. Even today, living in Westchester County, the co-founder of The Stray Birds feels no particular affinity ...