In an uncertain time, folk musician Jesse Welles – a four-time Grammy Award-nominee from Ozark, Arkansas – is reinvigorating ...

The last time folk music truly mattered, the world was on edge. In the 1960s, a young Bob Dylan arrived in New York armed ...

The Folk Alliance International (FAI), the foremost global nonprofit for folk music, has unveiled the International Folk Music Awards Artist of the Year, and it's a tie this time.

We believe that the traditions and practices embedded in these three folk songs have profoundly changed how we view lyrics.

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 1960s folk revival may have peaked by the middle of the decade, but several influential artists carried on the tradition.

To Walker, folk is “storytelling of communal and/or cultural struggle.” Or cultural experience. He looked back at Black ...

In October last year the musician Angeline Morrison, whose 2022 masterpiece The Sorrow Songs drew on deep research to present ...

Faced with Russia’s efforts to erase Ukrainian culture, people have embraced traditional music as a way to reconnect with their past and affirm their identity. Roksolaniya, a traditional Ukrainian ...