Folk music legend Peggy Seeger will be paying tribute to her late husband Ewan MacColl on the Late Late Show’s trad special.

These are three massively popular folk songs that everyone loves, but are somehow so reflective that they feel personal to every one of us.

In an age of algorithms and streaming music, record stores offer an alternative. At Folk Arts Rare Records, founder Lou ...

Folk music has a timeless quality. These are three folk songs from the 2020s that aim to change your perspective on the world ...

Another band on the bill Saturday for the Gainesville Folk Festival is (V)owls, not to be confused with A, E, I, O and U.

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 ...

In its essence, folk music is music for the people — an art form inextricably intertwined with the soul of a region. Its nature is inherently visual, conjuring vivid imagery with just a single ...

Adam Moezinia’s Folk Element Trio fuses jazz and global folk in a concert at the Redding Performing Arts Center in January.

Vatican II allowed the presence of “the music of the people” at Mass. Folk music, the music that is indigenous to each of the various nations of the world and to the ethnic cultures found within those ...

The term folk music was originated in the 19th century, but is often applied to music older than that. Some distinct styles of folk music are called world music. The glimpse of rural world can be seen ...

Learn about Lohri’s traditional songs and dances like Bhangra, Gidda and folk music rooted in Punjabi culture.