Growing up, Leela and Ellie Grace huddled by the radio each week to experience their father in a different dimension. For about a dozen years, Paul Fotsch hosted the show "Woody's Children" on ...

Even a 20-year-old Brooklynite like Nora Brown has come to love this genre, having performed it for nearly her entire life ...

Vatican II allowed the presence of “the music of the people” at Mass. Folk music, the music that is indigenous to each of the various nations of the world and to the ethnic cultures found within those ...

For more than six decades, the University of Chicago Folk Festival has brought together an array of musicians and performers from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds—all united through a love for ...

“Lover, when I sing my song / all the trees gonna sing along / and bend their branches down to me / to lay their fruit around my feet” —- Orpheus, “Wedding Song” (Track 4, Hadestown 2019 Original ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. While folk music might not be the most popular genre in ...

Iris DeMent was one of the most distinctive voices in the 1990s—a lyricist who inspired John Prine to write the liner notes for her 1992 debut album and a vocalist who inspired Merle Haggard to say, ...

A three-day celebration of folk, Americana, and acoustic sounds featuring 60 artists, kids programming, and local talent.

The Champaign-Urbana Folk and Roots Festival held its yearly festivities from Oct. 3-5, with events ranging from performances and jam sessions to interactive workshops. Multiple locations around the C ...

Goalpariya folk music has expanded beyond its origins, a positive yet concerning development. Punam Barua, a relative of the ...

Mississippi has always been at the National Folk Festival. The National Folk Festival has never been in Mississippi. Until now. Downtown Jackson hosts the 82 nd annual National Folk Festival November ...