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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Musical theater composer and musician Erin Kamler has debuted her new album, Refuge, which features intimate piano-vocal ...

“I kind of feel like I never grew up,” Geslison said. Students play both centuries old tunes and contemporary folk music. This includes bluegrass, Texas swing, melodies from the British Isles ...

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 ...

Expressing her joy, Awasthi said, “This was always my intention—to take Indian folk music beyond its traditional boundaries.” On whether folk music should adapt to modern styles, she ...

A powerful earthquake struck Southeast Asia on Friday, killing over 140 people in Myanmar and injuring hundreds as authorities in Thailand searched for dozens of people trapped under the rubble of ...

Over the past five decades, the organization has brought noteworthy folk music to East Lansing, including stars like Nanci Griffith, Suzanne Vega, and before he recently burst onto the global ...