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“Folk music and songs from Ireland, Scotland and America are deeply interconnected,” said the Irish folk singer, who will ...

With Peter, Paul and Mary, the musician, who died on Tuesday at 86, eased folk songs into the Top 10. By Jon Pareles Near the end of “A Complete Unknown,” the Bob Dylan biopic that centers on his move ...

The sun will be gone by the time you finish reading this. These seasonally-appropriate folk albums will still be there.

Fisher started playing in the early sixties and soon occupied the burgeoning folk scene within Edinburgh. His initial solo ...

Archie Fisher, Scottish folk singer, songwriter, guitar player, and long-time presenter on BBC Radio Scotland, has died at the age of 86 on 1 November 2025.

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 ...

Guthrie grew up in a small town called Okemah in Oklahoma. It started as a farm town. Then, in 1920, a nearby discovery of oil transformed the sleepy community into an “oil boom” town seemingly ...

LOS ANGELES — Singer-songwriter Peter Yarrow, one-third of the iconic folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died. He was 86. Yarrow, with Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers, captured the attention of ...