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

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

It’s an inaccurate science to try to define music by category and genre. Artists rail against it, critics endeavour to nail it down into the simplest terms, the most convenient definitions and snappy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even a 20-year-old Brooklynite like Nora Brown has come to love this genre, having performed it for nearly her entire life which she has parlayed into a recording career. With 131,000 monthly ...

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

A three-day celebration of folk, Americana, and acoustic sounds featuring 60 artists, kids programming, and local talent.