Compilations like this one often include the likes of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, among others. That’s perfectly fair, considering how much work those big names released in the folk music’s heyday and ...

To borrow the title of an iconic Townes Van Zandt album, folk music is “a far cry from dead.” Many people view the folk music genre as a thing of the past, antiquated and rendered obsolete. But in ...

The Fox Valley Folklore Society had perfect summer weather for its 48th annual Fox Valley Folk Music and Storytelling Festival. The two-day festival has been a longtime Labor Day weekend tradition.

Folk originates from the German word "volk," which means "the people." And that's what folk is at its core: from the people, documented and shared with individual experience in mind. The late 19th ...

B-Side presented their second, hopefully annual, “Femmes in Folk” music festival April 26, fundraising for Bay Area Girls ...

CHARLOTTE — The Charlotte Folk Society hosted its second annual Folk Music Festival on Saturday afternoon. Saint Martin’s Episcopal Church and its surrounding streets were filled with the sounds of ...

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 ...

Fame, fortune, and folk music aren’t a trio that go hand in hand very often. Even if a folk musician is wildly talented and lyrically prophetic, the obscure and niche nature of the genre makes it hard ...