In 1937, Odetta Felious Holmes moved from Birmingham, Alabama, to Los Angeles. Only six, she was already bigger than the other kids when she arrived in East Hollywood with her mother, Flora, and her ...

Carl “Buffalo” Nichols has the deep, methodical voice of a storyteller. He speaks in low, even tones that seem unhurried, even as his sentences amble forward invitingly—a trait reflected in the steady ...

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 ...

Michael Stock has been hosting “Folk & Acoustic Music” on WLRN, South Florida Public Radio for over 30 years. Michael was introduced to folk music back in high school when a teacher at Miami Beach ...

To grasp the significance of what the twenty-first-century folksinger Rhiannon Giddens has been attempting, it is necessary to know about another North Carolina musician, Frank Johnson, who was born ...

For more than six decades, the University of Chicago Folk Festival has brought together an array of musicians and performers from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds—all united through a love for ...

Blues musician, writer and critic Tony “Little Sun” Glover died Wednesday of natural causes. The Minneapolis native, who spent the last two weeks in the hospital, was 79. Glover played guitar in ...

BERKS CO., Pa. - Folk music echoed through the Reading Liederkranz on Sunday. "This is the Mountain Folk Fest that we have," said David Kline. Kline helped organize the event. "I have a passion for it ...

Where festivals such as Woodstock Music and Arts and Moterey Pop dominated the music-centered idealism of the 1960s, a humble ...