The last time folk music truly mattered, the world was on edge. In the 1960s, a young Bob Dylan arrived in New York armed ...

An off-Broadway play with music follows a woman during the Covid-19 pandemic who takes her boyfriend back to her North Carolina roots and reopens an old family wound.

The 1960s folk revival may have peaked by the middle of the decade, but several influential artists carried on the tradition.

Some folk songs just hit so much harder for listeners later in life. These three tunes, specifically, border on being totally ...

Friends and fans of a late Juneau singer-songwriter are on a mission to make his music more accessible to people with a love for poetic songwriting and a voice from a mold that may no longer exist.

The Folk Alliance International (FAI), the foremost global nonprofit for folk music, has unveiled the International Folk ...

We’ve been following up our list of the 50 best albums of 2022 with more lists that dive deeper into specific genres, and here’s our list of 15 (technically 16) great folk albums from 2022. The albums ...

In its essence, folk music is music for the people — an art form inextricably intertwined with the soul of a region. Its nature is inherently visual, conjuring vivid imagery with just a single ...

It is not absolutely essential to have hair hanging to the waist—but it helps. Other aids: no lipstick, flat shoes, a guitar. So equipped, almost any enterprising girl can begin a career as a folk ...