Folk music icon Christine Lavin will headline the Rose Garden Coffeehouse, featuring wit, storytelling, and song.

To borrow the title of an iconic Townes Van Zandt album, folk music is “a far cry from dead.” Many people view the folk music genre as a thing of the past, antiquated and rendered obsolete. But in ...

The best songs have the ability to be made popular again and again. Here are some folk songs that you probably didn't know ...

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 ...

Greek bard, Provencal troubadour or Negro blues man, the folk singer has always played the role of a romantic wanderer. Fashioning his songs from real or imagined experiences along the way, he has ...

The set-up for a typical Jesse Welles video is simple: the 32-year-old stands in an open field under a string of powerlines, clutching an acoustic guitar. From behind a tousled, curly mop of hair, he ...

Stevie Nicks, Woodie Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and John Denver are just a few genre-bending voices who were well-known in folk music. That being said, there are quite a few singers, both young ...

Playlist gets refresh: Folk Alley updated its 'Classic Folk' channel, adding a rotating mix of tracks from across folk history to maintain variety. Spanning generations: The lineup includes icons like ...

With a spectacular lineup of more than 30 bands, a wild banjo-throwing contest, film screenings, lots of dancing, workshops and jam sessions, the 15th edition of Brooklyn Folk Festival kicks off ...

While Bayreuth boasted a Wagnerian summit, Statesville, N.C., happily mustered the top names in folk and country music. To that city, nestled among the Appalachian foothills, there came last weekend ...

B-Side presented their second, hopefully annual, “Femmes in Folk” music festival April 26, fundraising for Bay Area Girls ...