BRISTOL, Maine — Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee started singing folk songs together 35 years ago. Since then, the music and life partners raised three children, released dozens of albums and played ...

Folk rock dominated the pop charts in the mid-1960s. These four massive hits put their definitive stamp on the genre.

Sea shanties have survived for centuries, far beyond the golden age of seafaring. A lot of them have strong ties to New England’s maritime culture, especially the culture built around the whaling ...

Though the term “folk music” goes back to the mid-19th century, its modern coinage typically refers to the post-war folk revivals in England and America—though it can also describe any indigenous ...

Anna & Elizabeth is a band whose name is a nod to Hazel & Alice, the all-woman bluegrass duo that was recorded on the Smithsonian Folkways label at a time in the mid-sixties when the bluegrass ...

Recorded at various locations in England between 1937 and 1951 by Alan Lomax, Peter Kennedy and others. Table of contents Haul on the bowlin' ; A' roving (Stanley Slade with male chorus) --Earsdon ...