Folk music legend Peggy Seeger will be paying tribute to her late husband Ewan MacColl on the Late Late Show’s trad special.

These are three massively popular folk songs that everyone loves, but are somehow so reflective that they feel personal to every one of us.

In an age of algorithms and streaming music, record stores offer an alternative. At Folk Arts Rare Records, founder Lou ...

Another band on the bill Saturday for the Gainesville Folk Festival is (V)owls, not to be confused with A, E, I, O and U.

Let's look at three early folk rock staples that helped the genre become a major player in the 1960s and 1970s cultural ...

In its essence, folk music is music for the people — an art form inextricably intertwined with the soul of a region. Its nature is inherently visual, conjuring vivid imagery with just a single ...

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 ...

Over a dozen local, regional or national folk artists are convening at The Sounding Board on Saturday to honor Susan Forbes ...

The term folk music was originated in the 19th century, but is often applied to music older than that. Some distinct styles of folk music are called world music. The glimpse of rural world can be seen ...

Vatican II allowed the presence of “the music of the people” at Mass. Folk music, the music that is indigenous to each of the various nations of the world and to the ethnic cultures found within those ...