Folk singer-songwriter Willi Carlisle is this year's guest artist at the 51st annual Alaska Folk Festival in April.

From the heart of Manitoba, Canada, to the soul of Southern Louisiana, World Cafe welcomes Andrina Turenne to today's Acadiana Music Showcase.

The Folk Show's listing of dances, open mics, coffeehouses, festivals and shows of interest to our Folk Show listeners ...

Four of the best examples of opening lines in folk music that still give me goosebumps on my arms every time I hear them.

Many classic folk songs and spiritual songs were born on plantations, used as a way for slaves to discreetly communicate with one another.

Hot Tuna, photo by Dino Perrucci Hot Tuna have signed on to perform at the 67th annual Newport Folk Festival. On Friday, July 24, the blues-rock duo of ...

This young NOLA showcase mines the terroir beyond the Big Easy clichés. The Deslondes are a good band who play a rootsy bouillabaisse of folk, country, blues and soul.

East Coast folk sounds are headed to west-central Saskatchewan this spring as the Kindersley & District Arts Council prepares to host Rum Ragged for a live concert. The JUNO Award-nominated ...

Robert Costa is a national correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning" and chief Washington analyst for CBS News. The story of America can be told through the lyrics of folk music – songs of the Great ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of America can be told through the lyrics of folk music – songs of the Great Depression, the civil rights era, and the ...

The last time Folk Alliance International hosted its annual conference in New Orleans, in January 2020 just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the event brought out more than 3,000 people, including ...

It was quite the hootenanny — P.S. 56 students in Bedford -Stuyvesant sang a West African folk song called “Funga Alafia,” while jumping and dancing and spinning inside the school auditorium. They ...