Karen Dalton's voice and story still haunt the world of folk music today, and she is a figure that shouldn't be forgotten.

Listen to these famous songs from the 1960s that shaped music history, featuring timeless classics that capture the energy ...

The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

But Guthrie and his contemporaries were more than folk singers — they were blacklisted radicals, shaping American music while staring down the Red Scare. In 1960, a young Robert Zimmerman ...

Michael Hurley, a beloved underground singer-songwriter who emerged in the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s, has died at age 83. “It is with a resounding sadness that the Hurley family ...

Sad news once again to pass on from the world of Irish folk music with the April 3 passing of Michael “Jesse” Owens. Born in Dublin in 1935, Owens ...