B-Side presented their second, hopefully annual, “Femmes in Folk” music festival April 26, fundraising for Bay Area Girls ...

For more than six decades, the University of Chicago Folk Festival has brought together an array of musicians and performers from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds—all united through a love for ...

In its essence, folk music is music for the people — an art form inextricably intertwined with the soul of a region. Its nature is inherently visual, conjuring vivid imagery with just a single ...

Vatican II allowed the presence of “the music of the people” at Mass. Folk music, the music that is indigenous to each of the various nations of the world and to the ethnic cultures found within those ...

For their 90th anniversary season, Wolfeboro Friends of Music presents A Band Called Honalee, a modern-day folk trio inspired ...

Everybody knows (and some old heads remember) the psychedelic folk music movement of the 1960s. It was an astounding, sudden, and incredible change in music. The age of classic rock and roll had ...

Folk originates from the German word "volk," which means "the people." And that's what folk is at its core: from the people, documented and shared with individual experience in mind. The late 19th ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Indiana Folk Music Society's Big Band performs at the Eagle Creek Folk Festival in 1996. A longtime music festival is ready to ...

If an eye toward trends prevents a full immersion into folk tradition, how popular can folk music truly become?

Folk music might have reached its peak mainstream popularity in the 1960s, but without the groundwork laid by the music of the 1940s, the folk revival in musical hubs like New York City in the 60s ...

Folk rock reached its peak in 1966, thanks to hit songs like Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence" and the Mamas & the ...