A self-taught folk legend proves it’s never too late.

Long before it was recorded, folk music served as a way to keep stories and ideas alive. As such, music has always played an ...

One of the more enduring genres of music, one currently enjoying a modest increase in popularity, is folk music. The traditional genre often touches upon the quotidian topics of everyday life and ...

"American Folk" then became a tribute to the older musical roots that both Guthrie and Parton drew from: Shaker devotional tunes, psalm singing from the New England hymnody, Appalachian fiddle tunes ...

Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Karen Dahlstrom arrived at folk music the long way around. Raised on show choirs and jazz ensembles, she built her early ...

Folk songs are incredibly multifaceted. Folks write folk songs to capture the climate of the given time, to dissect the given emotion of any moment, and ultimately, to articulate a nuance that can’t ...

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 ...

Folk originates from the German word "volk," which means "the people." And that's what folk is at its core: from the people, documented and shared with individual experience in mind. The late 19th ...

The sixth song on the album, titled “Little Orphant Annie,” is a new setting of an old poem. For the song, Jones was inspired by Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley and combined his 1885 poem of the ...

Joseph Terrell wrote his song, "Genuine American Hero" after Renee Good, a U-S citizen, was shot and killed by an immigration enforcement officer last month.

Seeking the Divine continued to impress music lovers with a diverse lineup of artistes. Held at the Empress Botanical.