A song performed for decades by white musicians began as a work song by Black men building the Western North Carolina ...

Senior staff writer Alaina Babb argues that folk music is far from dead, continuing to shape political discourse and movements across generations ...

These three folk icons enjoyed pretty amazing comebacks later on in their careers, and I think they very much deserved the ...

The Animals helped to bring fame to “House of the Rising Sun,” but they weren’t the first to record this track. This song started its life as a folk ballad, first recorded by Appalachian artists ...

The music festival was founded in 1987 and has grown into a nationally recognized multi-day, family-friendly music festival ...

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 ...

The Ann Arbor Folk Festival is an event built on exploration, exposing audiences to what they hadn’t previously considered ...

In its essence, folk music is music for the people — an art form inextricably intertwined with the soul of a region. Its nature is inherently visual, conjuring vivid imagery with just a single ...

View post: Popular BBQ Chain Downsizing From 120 Locations to 11 This Year Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land is Your Land" in 1940 as a response to "God Bless America." The song contrasts American ideals ...

It is not absolutely essential to have hair hanging to the waist—but it helps. Other aids: no lipstick, flat shoes, a guitar. So equipped, almost any enterprising girl can begin a career as a folk ...

Greek folk songs of the 1821 Revolution not only told stories of brave revolutionaries, but also served as historical texts.