To borrow the title of an iconic Townes Van Zandt album, folk music is “a far cry from dead.” Many people view the folk music genre as a thing of the past, antiquated and rendered obsolete. But in ...

Every Sunday evening on NHPR, Kate McNally brings three hours of folk music, in-studio performances and artist interviews to New Hampshire’s airwaves. This year marks Kate's 30th anniversary hosting ...

The 2025 Lowell Folk Festival, which for the past four decades has shared traditional music from cultures around the globe with audiences in the Mill City, has revealed the complete roster of 19 ...

What makes folk music, folk music? Is it its sound, or thematic and tonal origin? Well, like all music genres, there isn’t one thing that defines folk music. However, if one were trying to narrow down ...

Last weekend, Dolly Guleria, a vibrant septuagenarian, captivated the audience at Kisan Bhawan in Chandigarh during the Communist Party of India’s National Congress event. When fans inquired how she ...

The 41st annual Tucson Folk Festival brings 450 musicians to six downtown stages for 150 performances over three days. And ...

'Newport & The Great Folk Dream' blends rare archival footage and new interviews to revisit the festival that ignited a culture clash and altered American music Val Wilmer/Redferns The Newport Folk ...

Jonesboro native and Emmy winning singer-songwriter Connie Dover plans to pay homage to her Natural State roots during her Little Rock Folk Club performance Saturday at Little Rock's Hibernia Irish ...

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When your scribe first visited the Viljandi Folk Music Festival in 2021, it was still straggling along within the lockdown period, held with a reduced crowd capacity. The long weekend seemed perfectly ...