Long confined to tourist clichés, Swiss yodelling is moving on from being a folkloric curiosity. This ancient Alpine vocal ...

Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck will perform a joint concert at Carnegie Hall in the 2026-27 season. They plan to present ...

Soul to Soul” is a coming together of two very different but surprisingly similar cultures, inspired by that historic ...

In an uncertain time, folk musician Jesse Welles – a four-time Grammy Award-nominee from Ozark, Arkansas – is reinvigorating the spirit and relevance of the protest song, spreading messages on such ...

Tucker Zimmerman death: Folk singer adored by David Bowie dies with wife in fire aged 84 - Zimmerman and his wife Marie-Claire Lambert died together in a fire at their home in Belgium ...

Brian Turk, a 47-year-old bassist, understands how folk music might seem irrelevant today, especially in comparison to its explosion in the ‘50s and ‘60s. But he’s adamant this unique American art ...

In the bustling Folk Arts Rare Records shop in City Heights, owner Brendan Boyle is flipping through a cardboard box of records. "There's really important blues ...

Like the folk music it celebrates, the South Florida Folk & Acoustic Music Festival is a living and breathing entity, constantly evolving and growing with each edition. This year’s 36th annual ...

What makes folk music, folk music? Is it its sound, or thematic and tonal origin? Well, like all music genres, there isn’t one thing that defines folk music. However, if one were trying to narrow down ...

The best folk albums tend to suit this time of year—the muddy oranges, browns and greens; the slowing-down after frenzied summers; the darkness. Blending an embrace of the melancholy with an interest ...

Mississippi has always been at the National Folk Festival. The National Folk Festival has never been in Mississippi. Until now. Downtown Jackson hosts the 82 nd annual National Folk Festival November ...

Rochester, N. Y.. city of cameras and music, is the hotbed of U. S. zither playing. There last week the United Zither Players of America gathered for its Tenth National Congress and, proudly led by ...