American folk singer and songwriter David Wilcox has been making music since the 1980s, crafting introspective songs that ...

If an eye toward trends prevents a full immersion into folk tradition, how popular can folk music truly become?

We Five managed a single unforgettable hit in their time together. That hit was the folk-rock gem "You Were On My Mind".

How do you respect tradition while also making sure you feel like yourself? Matilda Welin explores how re-invented, non-binary national dress is gaining popularity with a new generation. What is your ...

An estimated 405 million people – or about 6% of the world’s total population – are adherents of folk or traditional religions. These are faiths that are closely associated with a particular group of ...

In 1937, Odetta Felious Holmes moved from Birmingham, Alabama, to Los Angeles. Only six, she was already bigger than the other kids when she arrived in East Hollywood with her mother, Flora, and her ...

If you’ve noticed the word “folk” slapped onto memes and TikTok videos, usually followed by a long string of crying emojis, you’re not alone. The latest irony trend borrows from Black slang to signal ...

Folk singer-songwriter Beverly Rush returns to headline the Francestown Academy Coffeehouse, debuting new material on May 2. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

More than any year in recent memory, the folk and roots music of 2012 was focused on collective roots, elements of ancestry, the stories and events which unite us. The finest traditional albums ...

" The unconscious music of the folk has all the marks of fine art: that it is wholly free from the taint of manufacture, the canker of artificiality; that it is transparently pure and truthful, simple ...

India, a land rich in culture and art, has given the world some beautiful and meaningful works. Be it the folk dances that involve jumping through Bamboos, or the folk art that adorns people’s clothes ...