A city which axed its annual folk festival this year is to host a weekend of free live music at the same venue. Cambridge Folk Festival had been due to celebrate its 60th anniversary this July, but ...

A dynamic musical duo, Gloucester's Joe Kessler and Howie Newman, also known as Knock on Wood, will play a free concert ...

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

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 the violinist is known for… Folk legend Joan Baez reflects on a life in music and activism After six decades performing, folk legend Joan Baez is saying farewell to music with a tour this ...

Folk music became popular with youth in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. As alcohol-free third spaces, coffeehouses were key to that ...

The family of folk singer Michael Hurley, known as the "Godfather of freak folk," revealed on Thursday that Hurley has died.