He recorded over eighty albums — of children’s songs, labour, civil rights, and antiwar songs, traditional American folk songs ... the height of the 1950s and 1960s folk revival and the popularity of ...

Sophie Straat is reviving a style of music once popular in the working-class bars of Amsterdam to protest an increasingly ...

Blind Gary Davis, also known as Reverend Gary Davis, was a towering figure in the world of American music. Born in 1896, ...

The goal is to bring people of all ages together through the power of folk music from around the world in a low-volume, ...

House Of The Rising Sun” may be known by several 1960s and 1970s iterations, but it’s far from a mid-20th-century song. The roots of this particular traditional folk song have been traced back to the ...

The 2024 Brooklyn Folk Festival, presented by the Jalopy Theatre and School of Music , drew large crowds to Friday evening ...

Many thousands of Chinese, Japanese, African American and Irish ... there is an army of folk involved with these decisions and often impacted by their existence.” Gilchrist points out that the project ...

This year's festival is reviving a tradition that dates back to the 1970s and is honoring two musical legends: Charles Ives ...

Jackson is the first city in Mississippi to serve as a host city and will host the National Folk Festival from 2025 to 2027. The capital city was chosen out of 42 competing cities nationwide for the ...

Her self-taught musicianship, deeply rooted in gospel, folk and playground rhythms ... and-response technique — inspired by traditional African American musical forms — became a cornerstone of modern ...

For more than 80 years, the Holiday Folk Fair International ... including traditional music and dance performances, a variety ...

Chicago singer and songwriter Ella Jenkins, known as the "First Lady of Children's Music," has died at the age of 100.