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 ...

For more than six decades, the University of Chicago Folk Festival has brought together an array of musicians and performers from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds—all united through a love for ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Ian Dehmel sees the future of folk music every time someone walks through his door and gazes up at the wall of acoustic instruments that includes shiny new ...

Everybody knows (and some old heads remember) the psychedelic folk music movement of the 1960s. It was an astounding, sudden, and incredible change in music. The age of classic rock and roll had ...

Burn – A Folk Musical by Mason Emmert and Patrick Deane Greeley will get a concert presentation at The Cutting Room on Monday, October 23, 2023. Leading the audience through an entertaining evening of ...

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 ...

This brother-and-brother duo may have been from the Bronx, but their involvement in the Greenwich Village folk music movement led to this incredible folk album. Double-Back was released in 1971 and ...

The Kutztown Folk Music Society has announced its 2023 concert season, and it looks like there’ll be something for everyone who enjoys genuine, traditional and original folk music. Presenting a wide ...

In returning to a songbook that is decades — if not centuries — old, a new generation of performers is expanding the definition of what their traditional art form can be. Dom Flemons at the nightclub ...

Depictions of Irish folklore in horror have historically been less about Ireland and more about innumerable leprechauns and ...