Though I reserve the right to take all this back in the graphene-slim chance that I am ever nominated for anything, I am ...

Norwegian poet Wera Saether founded 'Mayer Tori' to preserve authentic Bengali folk traditions by teaching children traditional music.

She made stunning, forward-thinking songs in the 1950s, but was barely known – and aged 50, she disappeared. Now, with a new re-release of her music, she's recognised as a trailblazer.

To borrow the title of an iconic Townes Van Zandt album, folk music is “a far cry from dead.” Many people view the folk music genre as a thing of the past, antiquated and rendered obsolete. But in ...

Like Ireland and Scotland, Wales has a vibrant, healthy modern music scene based on instruments and music that stretch back hundreds of years. Read about the traditonal instruments of Wales, the ...

Held annually in early April, the festival has grown into what organizers describe as the largest free folk music festival in ...

In this fourth episode of The Public Works series, reporter Sheryl Kaskowitz discovers a folk soundtrack from the 1930s, part ...

Purists may lament the electric guitars in folk-rock, but these 1977 classics echo the poetry of acoustic roots music.

For Lubomyr Melnyk, his music is rooted in Ukraine. On March 31, Ukrainian-Canadian pianist and composer Lubomyr Melnyk ...

Nobody was doing folk rock justice quite like a few incredible musicians in the 1970s. In fact, the genre has come to be ...

Ever since leaving Turtle Island Quartet in 2012 in the wake of the string ensemble’s two Grammy Awards, Mads Tolling has ...