A New Orleans newspaper reporter paid a rare visit to the so-called Colored Waifs Home in New Orleans a century ago this month, providing an outsider's take on what had become of the music program at ...

The Waifs will embark on a lengthy Australian tour in June, celebrating the 20th anniversary of Up All Night. The extensive run will see them performing the album – featuring the likes of breakthrough ...

This week, on The Saturday Early Show, the Second Cup Café welcomes The Waifs. Hailing from western Australia, The Waifs formed 11 years ago when sisters Donna and Vikki Simpson met guitarist Joshua ...

The Waifs are a folk-rock band from Western Australia. Their 2003 album Up All Night has gone double platinum in Australia and reached the top 5 of the Australian album charts. and the band won four ...

Decoration Day, as Memorial Day was once known, was a big celebration in New Orleans in the early 20 th century. In late May of 1913, for instance, an estimated 5,000 black residents of the city took ...

The cover for the Waifs' "Ironbark" album. For Vikki Thorn, one third of the Australian folk-rock trio The Waifs, next week’s concert at the Ogden Nature Center is a return to the state where she made ...