In 2008 and 2009, singer-songwriters Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin and Buddy Miller toured together with a show called "Three Girls and Their Buddy." Miller produced and performed on ...

Odetta, the classically trained folk, blues and gospel singer who used her powerfully rich and dusky voice to champion African American music and civil rights issues for more than half a century ...

An Oprah-approved African-American Jew singing gospel music with Hebrew lyrics at a folk festival? That’s just part of what’s in store at this weekend’s Lowell Folk Festival, which runs tonight ...

IT’S EARLY July, and Mavis Staples is sitting in the offices of Epitaph Records, a truth that is surprising to her. The 71-year-old gospel and soul legend from Chicago isn’t the first artist of ...

The Hudson West Folk Festival returns to the Nimbus Arts Center in downtown Jersey City with 10 bands performing Americana, folk, gospel and soul, New Orleans jazz, and traditional Celtic music on ...

A singer-songwriter whose childhood was split between rural Kentucky and New York City will bring her unique blend of music to Iowa next week for two stops. Martha Redbone is on a national tour ...

She has sung Gershwin in Germany, jazz in Switzerland, gospel in the Soviet Union, and opera in Pittsburgh. But Odetta-a one-woman encyclopedia of folk music-is happiest singing native American music.

The National Folk Festival announced four more acts for its 2019 lineup this week. The 79th National Folk Festival is returning to downtown Salisbury from Sept. 6-8, 2019, and will bring acts ...

Fantastic Negrito was the first day’s first act on the big stage at this year’s Newport Folk Festival. That’s the nom de musique of Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz, a very tall man with a high afro atop his ...