Friends and fans of a late Juneau singer-songwriter are on a mission to make his music more accessible to people with a love for poetic songwriting and a voice from a mold that may no longer exist.

These three folk songs from the 1970s will leave anyone heartbroken. You can't help but get emotional with these.

BBC Radio 2 is putting folk music front and centre this summer with the return of the award-winning 21st Century Folk, for ...

Folk rock emerged in full force in the mid-1960s and saw the most propulsion from '65 to '68 or so, but 1966 struck the perfect balance of fresh sounds and notable chart successes to cement it as the ...

These folk songs were just a little too ahead of their time and too strange to become enduring 1960s protest anthems. I think ...

American folk songs have an evergreen charm that still connects with people today. These songs tell stories about freedom, love, hard work, hope, and everyday American life in a simple but meaningful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of America can be told through the lyrics of folk music – songs of the Great Depression, the civil rights era, and the ...

If you’ve been craving some new indie folk artists for your playlist, you’ve landed on the right page. We have been keeping a close ear to the indie folk scene lately, and a handful of new names have ...

Faced with Russia’s efforts to erase Ukrainian culture, people have embraced traditional music as a way to reconnect with their past and affirm their identity. Roksolaniya, a traditional Ukrainian ...

Folk songs have a way of capturing real, raw emotions. One such Telangana folk song, sung from a bride's point of view for her future husband, is now a massive YouTube hit. Want to know which song ...

In returning to a songbook that is decades — if not centuries — old, a new generation of performers is expanding the definition of what their traditional art form can be. Dom Flemons at the nightclub ...