In an uncertain time, folk musician Jesse Welles – a four-time Grammy Award-nominee from Ozark, Arkansas – is reinvigorating ...

American singer-songwriters are taking up the protest torch like their forebears Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Joan Baez.

Singer-songwriters are taking up the protest torch like their forebears Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, criticising Donald ...

Elvis Presley's single, "Heartbreak Hotel" was released by RCA Records, Frank Sinatra played a benefit show at Carnegie Hall ...

Seasoned folk troubadour Pete Morton is heading back to one of his favourite haunts, the Cambridge Folk Club – but not in his usual guise as a contemporary singer-songwriter. For the premise of this ...

Peggy Seeger appeared on the Late Late Show Trad Special (Image: RTÉ) Viewers watching the Late Late Show Trad special have praised an ‘incredible’ performance on Friday night’s show. American folk ...

Late Late Show viewers were moved to tears by Peggy Seeger’s performance of The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. Peggy, one of the most iconic folk singers of all time, appeared on the first-ever Late ...

Emmylou Harris has always been a musical enigma, from the moment she first picked up the $30 pawn shop guitar her grandfather bought for her when she was a teen. She would later say the nightly folk ...

It was a reunion of sorts for President Catherine Connolly when she found herself among the traditional music fraternity at the launch of this year’s TradFest in Dublin. “She’s one of our own,” said ...