Folk songs have a particular place in the world. Unlike many other genres, folk songs are meant to be meditated on. Listeners are meant to chew on the lyrics to gain some understanding of the world ...

Local musicians John Jantzen and Wendy Chappell-Dick have challenged themselves to learn and perform 50 historic folk songs in celebration of ...

Long before the Revolutionary War, numerous traditions of Indigenous music flourished in places later incorporated into the ...

There’s nothing quite like a good vocal arrangement in folk music. Here are some folk songs we could listen to all day long, just because of the harmonies. Simon & Garfunkel made their own version of ...

Artists from Bob Dylan to Dolly Parton have put their own spins on this folk rock standard, but we have no idea who wrote it ...

Folk music custodian Mame Khan, the first Indian folk artist at Cannes, champions preserving cultural heritage while evolving ...

The funny thing about folk music in the 2010s is that none of it really sounded alike. Modern technology has afforded acoustic-minded artists the ability to embellish their lyrics with production ...

Greenwich Village in the 1960s was home to a counterculture folk music scene that produced legendary artists like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin and Joni Mitchell. A network of cafes and bars that ...

The vastness of folk music is the perfect escape from anything pandemic-related. While we may be confined to the indoors (or at least to strict solitude) right now, music is a kind of journey that ...

There’s grief in Kachaudi Gali, but there’s also resistance. Coke Studio Bharat’s latest revival reaches beyond nostalgia to ...