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 ...

Before there was Bob Dylan, the folk revival icon, there was Odetta. Before there was Janis Joplin, the wailing blues singer, there was Odetta. The woman whom Martin Luther King Jr. called the “Queen ...

Amongst the pickers who roam the earth in search of lost items to add to whatever collection they garner, there is the rare breed whose preference is for the very uncommon. Harry Everett Smith was ...

Friends of Chamber Music is opening its 31st season Friday, Oct. 9, featuring a performance by the Grammy-nominated ensemble ...

Violinist Zoe Aqua and the string band the Ebony Hillbillies will share a stage on Thursday at Gowanus club Littlefield. (New York Jewish Week) – Two folk music traditions that developed on opposite ...

Long before the Revolutionary War, numerous traditions of Indigenous music flourished in places later incorporated into the United States. European music was heard in the New World from the earliest ...

What do you think of when you think of American folk music? Perhaps Pete Seeger ballads come to mind. Maybe you are reminded of American classics such as “Yankee Doodle” or the music of Bob Dylan. The ...

Folk music has come and gone in various evolutions over the decades. Let’s look at a few memorable folk songs with particularly memorable lines that really changed the genre in big ways. Some of these ...

OAKLAND, Calif. — I’m remembering a quote from television producer David Simon (The Wire) who when producing his at-the-time new show on post-Katrina New Orleans, Treme, argued for music — not movies ...