Recording folk artist Jeff Warner tells history through traditional music played on banjo, concertina, and “pocket instruments” such as cow bones. On April 24, Warner will perform a concert titled, ...

Learn about Lohri’s traditional songs and dances like Bhangra, Gidda and folk music rooted in Punjabi culture.

We’ve been following up our list of the 50 best albums of 2022 with more lists that dive deeper into specific genres, and here’s our list of 15 (technically 16) great folk albums from 2022. The albums ...

There’s something magical about wandering through a bustling street market where the air smells of handwoven textiles and the ...

Three days after stumping the crowd at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall by playing Van Morrison’s 2016 supreme deep cut “Going Down to Bangor,” Bob Dylan went significantly further back in music history — ...

As music trends continue to change every day, one Midland group works to celebrate the styles of old. Since the 1990s, the Folk Music Society of Midland has worked to promote folk music and ...

Compilations like this one often include the likes of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, among others. That’s perfectly fair, considering how much work those big names released in the folk music’s heyday and ...

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 ...

Folk music as a genre has taken many different forms over the centuries. Traditional folk music has been defined as music that comments on cultural or national identity, is played on traditional ...

For Sam Amidon, folk music is a malleable art form, despite the genre’s outwardly rigid traditions. On his new album, Lily-O, the Brattleboro native deconstructs traditional folk music, stripping ...

Folklore and Christmas have long been entwined, with many turning to nature for hints about the weather during the festive season - and surprisingly, these old wives' tales often prove accurate.