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

Vancouver’s favourite seaside music celebration is back, and the 2025 edition is set to be one of its most dynamic yet. From July 18 to 20, the Vancouver Folk Music Festival takes over ʔəy̓alməxʷ ...

Every kind of music has riffs, and they should be celebrated just as much, from the basslines of The Low End Theory to the breathtaking drops of Alive 2007. With that in mind, it should come as no ...

Music will return to Royal Athletic Park this summer when the Victoria Folk Music Festival stages its inaugural edition on July 5. The one-day event is headlined by ex-Be Good Tanyas singer Frazey ...

She grew up singing in temple courtyards lit by a single bulb. Today, her music plays at Tomorrowland, and Coachella is next. Chitralekha Sen isn’t just preserving folk music—she’s flipping the script ...

CHARLOTTE — The Charlotte Folk Society hosted its second annual Folk Music Festival on Saturday afternoon. Saint Martin’s Episcopal Church and its surrounding streets were filled with the ...

Medici on 57th and Ali’s on 63rd — were all part of the folk revival movement. From the end of the 1950s through the early 1970s, acoustic music and songs from rural areas became popular with ...

Credit: courtesy of Evanston Folk Festival The lineup features renowned bands and musicians spanning genres of folk, country and Americana. SPACE Director of Music Jake Samuels shared his excitement ...

Join NCPR host Mike Alzo on North Country Public Radio for an hour of the best traditional and contemporary folk music.

Now in its 39th year, Festival International runs during the first weekend of Jazz Fest, starting on the evening of Wednesday ...

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 ...

Organisers are looking to next year's milestone, with the National Folk Festival to celebrate 60 years of music and dancing. Thousands of people have turned out in Canberra for a feast of music ...