If an eye toward trends prevents a full immersion into folk tradition, how popular can folk music truly become?

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Grace Martin, a singer of traditional and original songs in the folk style, ...

The world of music is constantly changing. Genres such as folk-pop, indie-folk, and country music are currently experiencing a real cultural hype. The folk-pop scene in particular seems to be gaining ...

It happens to all of us: life gets in the way and your childhood dreams give way to more practical pursuits. But sometimes those dreams are just lying dormant, waiting to emerge. Natalie Kurgan has ...

Brian Turk, a 47-year-old bassist, understands how folk music might seem irrelevant today, especially in comparison to its explosion in the ‘50s and ‘60s. But he’s adamant this unique American art ...

For their 90th anniversary season, Wolfeboro Friends of Music presents A Band Called Honalee, a modern-day folk trio inspired ...

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 ...

Though I reserve the right to take all this back in the graphene-slim chance that I am ever nominated for anything, I am sceptical about awards. One of my favourite things about writing for The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Thursday evening, Sept. 28, the Oak Ridge Folk Dancers are sponsoring a workshop at the Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor ...

The Beatles proved time and again that they were musical omnivores. By that we mean that they weren’t afraid to borrow from any musical style, confident they could imbibe its essence and come out the ...

Considered one of the great composers of the 20th century, the deeply expressive Béla Bartók synthesised elements of folk music of Hungarian and related cultures into classical forms, producing a ...

For more than six decades, the University of Chicago Folk Festival has brought together an array of musicians and performers from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds—all united through a love for ...