The New England folk community is creating a Saturday afternoon folk festival in honor of the “Sunday Night Folk Festival.” ...

These three folk artists from the '70s aren't household names and yet still have songs that have endured for decades.

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 ...

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.

Greek bard, Provencal troubadour or Negro blues man, the folk singer has always played the role of a romantic wanderer. Fashioning his songs from real or imagined experiences along the way, he has ...

Let's look at three early folk rock staples that helped the genre become a major player in the 1960s and 1970s cultural ...

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 ...

The set-up for a typical Jesse Welles video is simple: the 32-year-old stands in an open field under a string of powerlines, clutching an acoustic guitar. From behind a tousled, curly mop of hair, he ...

Three decades after his death, Kim Kwang-seok’s voice still carries across Korea’s music, theater and film scenes. This week, ...