The traveling program, created by Naomi Westwater, aims to give credit to the role of musicians of color in the folk music genre while supporting today's non-white folk artists.

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

Mobile Fidelity has gone a step further for the album’s 65 th anniversary, offering the broadest possible soundstage on vinyl ...

It all started when Joni Mitchell showed up at a Halloween party in 1976 dressed in Blackface, an afro, a pimped out jacket ...

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

Fans of classic folk and folk-rock can catch Creeque Alley, an acoustic duo featuring local musicians Sean Fullerton and Dan Kirouac, at the Athol Senior Center at 1 p.m. Dec. 4, according to a ...

Those were the days but they don’t have to stay in the past. Legendary 1960s folk trio the Limeliters will open the Bakersfield Community Concert Association’s new season. For more than 60 years, the ...

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 ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — The Ann Arbor Folk Festival may be the folkiest of all festivals, according to the Milk Carton Kids, the Los Angeles-based duo featuring the harmonic stylings of Joey Ryan and Kenneth ...

He began performing at 4 alongside his father, the celebrated singer and guitarist Josh White, and later carved out his own career. By Clay Risen Josh White Jr., who began his long career at age 4 ...

With a career as extensive and a repertoire about as wide-ranging as it gets, legendary songbird Judy Collins says a passion for music still comes to her naturally. Collins calls it a basic operation: ...

Peter Yarrow, one third of the chart-topping 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary — which helped popularize Bob Dylan as the voice of a generation — co-writer of the song “Puff, the Magic Dragon” and ...