Folk musicians were forced to do their jobs by the circumstances of life in the Soviet Union. Despite the fact that they hated it wholeheartedly, they were playing folk songs and wearing folk-like ...

These days, the genre “folk” is folkin’ difficult to categorize. When we rounded the up the best folk albums of 2018, the list consisted of veterans (like Laura Veirs and Alela Diane) and newcomers ...

In a global music culture where the vibrant rhythms of popular genres, and the thundering bass of dance music and house tunes dominate the festival scene, there exists a plane where people come ...

Folk music tells the story of the dark sacred night of the United States in two distinct ways. First, it connects us with the music that was in the hearts and hearths of all of America’s immigrants, ...