We believe that the traditions and practices embedded in these three folk songs have profoundly changed how we view lyrics.

The last time folk music truly mattered, the world was on edge. In the 1960s, a young Bob Dylan arrived in New York armed ...

In an uncertain time, folk musician Jesse Welles – a four-time Grammy Award-nominee from Ozark, Arkansas – is reinvigorating the spirit and relevance of the protest song, spreading messages on such ...

The 1960s folk revival may have peaked by the middle of the decade, but several influential artists carried on the tradition.

Friends and fans of a late Juneau singer-songwriter are on a mission to make his music more accessible to people with a love for poetic songwriting and a voice from a mold that may no longer exist.

We’ve been following up our list of the 50 best albums of 2022 with more lists that dive deeper into specific genres, and here’s our list of 15 (technically 16) great folk albums from 2022. The albums ...

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 ...

The Folk Alliance International (FAI), the foremost global nonprofit for folk music, has unveiled the International Folk Music Awards Artist of the Year, and it's a tie this time.

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, ...

An off-Broadway play with music follows a woman during the Covid-19 pandemic who takes her boyfriend back to her North Carolina roots and reopens an old family wound.

In October last year the musician Angeline Morrison, whose 2022 masterpiece The Sorrow Songs drew on deep research to present ...