Several rising British bands are using centuries-old ditties to discuss hot-button issues like prison abolition, trans rights and the gig economy.

Acoustic music and songs from rural areas became popular with youth in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. And as alcohol-free third ...

Though folk is not as popular as it once was, a resurgence of the genre has been sparked through social media and activism as the forefront of social-political commentary. The basis of folk ...

For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has been a long road. A festival in Durham this weekend aims to remedy that.

There has only been one time in the history of popular music that folk music was cool in the traditional sense, and that was the early 1960s. The real hipsters of the day weren’t listening to The ...

Folk music became popular with youth in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. As alcohol-free third spaces, coffeehouses were key to that growth. When, in the late 1960s, Kathy Garness wandered down the ...

Michael Hurley, the outsider folk artist and singer-songwriter who came up in the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1960s and continued making music into the present day, has died at home in ...

Peter Yarrow, a member of the hugely popular and influential trio Peter, Paul and Mary, which popularized folk music in the 1960s with Blowin in the Wind and If I Had a Hammer among other tracks ...

Folk music pioneer Michael Hurley, known as the "Godfather of freak folk," has died. He was 83. The singer's family shared news of his death on Thursday in a statement posted by Hurley's record ...

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(April 3, 2025) There’s a particular kind of magic when music makes you feel like you’ve been somewhere before, even if you weren’t born yet. That’s the experience Sean Fullerton and Dan Kirouac hope ...

In the 1960s, when vinyl reigned supreme and digital music consumption was still a distant, sci-fi fantasy, record labels released 45 singles that included A-sides and B-sides. The A-side was ...