Noel Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow are headed to Mesa to perform what Stookey says will be "a nostalgic visit through the Peter, Paul and Mary lexicon." But it's relevant nostalgia. As Stookey says, ...

Unlike the most famous 1960s folk singers, these three didn't come from the epicenter of it all—Greenwich Village in New York ...

Folk rock dominated the pop charts in the mid-1960s. These four massive hits put their definitive stamp on the genre.

Students learn about Bob Dylan’s transformation from folk hero to blues rocker through excerpts from the Bob Dylan Guitar investigation. They then compare and contrast reactions to Bob Dylan’s playing ...

Well before acts like Waxahatchee, Jessica Pratt, Angel Olsen, Big Thief, Bedouine, and more readily brought folk sounds to the indie sphere, a swath of women singer-songwriters did their part to ...

When it comes to Bob Dylan, there is no artist more intimately acquainted with his work than Joan Baez. The musical geniuses had a complicated relationship that intertwined personal affections and ...

Bob Dylan admitted copying Dave Van Ronk 'phrase for phrase.' But what happened next was 'very, very annoying' to the folk master.

Recently, I spoke to a woman who remembered vividly a concert she had once attended. It was 1965, she was fourteen years old and her father had taken her to see Bob Dylan and Joan Baezplay at the ...

Peter Yarrow, who helped make folk music a pop phenomenon in the 1960s as one-third of the vocal trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died Tuesday at his home in New York. He was 86. His death was confirmed by ...

Ian Tyson, a towering figure in Canadian music who found his greatest renown as half of the ’60s folk-singing duo Ian and Sylvia, died Thursday at 89. The cause of death was attributed to “ongoing ...

Peter Yarrow, whose Peter, Paul and Mary trio helped bridge folk music into the pop world with such hit songs as "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "If I Had a Hammer," has died at 86. He had bladder cancer, ...