ON Christmas Eve, 1956, a 15-year-old boy heads due south on a five-hour Greyhound Bus journey from his home in Hibbing, ...

In a move that outraged folk purists, Bob Dylan went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. But was the crowd's anger really about the guitar?

INTERVIEW: A new bootleg series of the revered singer-songwriter’s work between 1956 to 1963 contains two early recordings of ...

Kingston music promoter Al Rankin was surprised when he was told last month that he would be the recipient of the Estelle Klein Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Ontario Folk Music Awards, ...

Autumn. The days get colder, the nights get longer, and you really don’t want to do anything but drive up to your cabin in ...

Pink Floyd singer David Gilmour reveals his favourite song by Joni Mitchell and explains why she's been such a strong ...

If you're looking for some 1960s folk songs that don't feature the names Dylan or Baez, then give these three a try.

In its ‘60s heyday, Newport Folk Festival became the crucible where tradition collided with an emergent generation’s fervent, socially activated spirit to ...

Johnny Cash Director Robert Gordon’s newest film Newport & The Great Folk Dream premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in September 5th. Owen Gleiberman, chief film critic in his review ...

Robert Gordon's Newport Folk Festival film draws on 100 hours of footage that has never been seen before, presenting ...

There is no one year in the history of folk music that is the single most important. However, there are a few that are more notable than others, and a few of those years reside in the decade of the ...

He was both the longtime archivist of folk music at the Library of Congress and a widely respected singer and songwriter. By Clay Risen Listen to Peter, Paul and Mary’s finale singalong, plus songs ...