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 Trump and honouring Minneapolis victims.

Ahead of his Palm Springs show, the “American Pie” songwriter reflects on six decades of music, creative independence and why he’s still performing at 80.

TURN on the news and you can be forgiven for thinking the world is going to hell in a handcart. But one singer is refusing to ...

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

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 ...

Have you ever just had your world absolutely reordered because of a piece of music? If you consider yourself a devout music fan, then you surely have, and one genre that seemingly tends to lead to ...

The world lost a major figure in American arts and activism on January 27. Pete Seeger, who revolutionized through music, passed away at the age of ninety-four. At the Smithsonian, Seeger’s musical ...

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 ...