NPR's Michel Martin speaks with banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck and soprano Renée Fleming about their collaborative project and album, "The Fiddle and The Drum," which celebrates Appalachian folk music.

Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn, who released a self-titled debut album as a duo on Friday, have lived almost parallel lives. Both women were born in 1977, and both grew up to be accomplished and ...

SANTA CRUZ — With its spare accompaniment, intricate instrumentation and often haunting vocals, there is an appeal to Appalachian folk music that transcends geography and generations. The genre dates ...

This post was updated May 19 at 12:52 p.m. Appalachian tunes are making their way to Westwood. Performing their song “Birmingham Again” in this year’s Spring Sing, the girl group Painted Ladies is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Singer-songwriter Mon Rovîa straddles two worlds. For him, it's important to pay homage to both in his music. The ...

On August 8th, the unmistakably unknown singer Oliver Anthony uploaded his original song “Rich Men North of Richmond” to YouTube, and as of Tuesday, the song sits atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The ...

From Bob Dylan to Beyonce, every song on Rising Appalachia’s new covers EP, Folk and Anchor, was carefully selected for the album not just because they were some of bandmate sisters Leah Song and ...

A sign was unveiled Friday honoring a folk music legend in Perry County. State Senator Brandon Smith of Hazard filed the ...

Belarusian musician and activist Siarhei Douhushau was in Chicago in March 2019 on a U.S. tour presenting folk art and music from his Eastern European home. Nadzeya Ilkevich, then a second-year ...

It’s our final show of the year. So we’re saying goodbye to 2020 with music and literature. But be warned, the culture we’re sharing is gritty. We’ll go on a song catching journey with a Connecticut ...