"This book is partially meant to be a visual companion to Ronald D. Cohen, Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002) and ...

Songs can live anywhere, but only a few make it to recording, and some live on as hit folk rock tunes, no matter that we ...

With roots stretching back centuries and into Appalachia, numerous artists such as Johnny Cash have given their own spin to this haunting folk gospel song.

The 42nd Annual Folk Music Festival is coming back to Sharlot Hall Museum next Saturday, October 3! After a seven-year hiatus ...

In returning to a songbook that is decades — if not centuries — old, a new generation of performers is expanding the definition of what their traditional art form can be. Dom Flemons at the nightclub ...

Sometimes a good folk rock story needs more time to tell, and icons such as Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen took as long as they ...

These 1970s folk songs all have lyrics that double as life mantras. You can carry these tracks around with you wherever you ...

Just don’t call it folk music or refer to his appearance as a farewell tour. “This is my 68th annual farewell tour,” Rush ...

Long before the Revolutionary War, numerous traditions of Indigenous music flourished in places later incorporated into the United States. European music was heard in the New World from the earliest ...

Folk songs are incredibly multifaceted. Folks write folk songs to capture the climate of the given time, to dissect the given emotion of any moment, and ultimately, to articulate a nuance that can’t ...