Sam Amidon mines the ‘intensity & strangeness’ of tradition to make music uniquely his own ... but he’s mostly known for recasting traditional American folk songs into vibrant contemporary ...

Folk music will never die, and these forgotten folk albums from the 1970s deserve to be dusted off and enjoyed in the modern age.

Ever since the '60s, Joan Baez has delivered a message with her music, but she was never going to be a two-chord folkie with ...

Humans must have learned to sing early in our history because “we can find something we can call music in every society ... two recordings of the English folk song “Scarborough Fair ...

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 ...

Coulter has been performing and recording traditional Celtic and American folk music for more than 30 years. He studied classical guitar and earned a master’s degree in music from the San ...

Folk music is traditional music that belongs to a particular ... For example there's English folk music, Scottish folk music, American folk music, Russian folk music and so on.