Ellen Stekert is a folklorist, folk musician, and professor emerita at the University of Minnesota who recently released her ...

Folk music as a genre has taken many different forms over the centuries. Traditional folk music has been defined as music that comments on cultural or national identity, is played on traditional ...

The New Christy Minstrels aren't exactly new. In fact, the group that helped spread folk music to the masses in the 1960s is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Now eight members strong and ...

A longtime music festival is ready to give up the folk for the 50th year. The Eagle Creek Folk Festival will ring in half a century Sept. 13 at Eagle Creek Park. The Indiana Folk Music Society will ...

John McCutcheon's show will be Sept. 22, 2024, kicking off the 50th season of Ten Pound Fiddle concerts. Since 1975, the Ten Pound Fiddle concert series has been bringing folk music stars to East ...

In 2024, Ross Wylde, a singer-songwriter from the US, stumbled across an unexpected listing on eBay. It was a previously unpublished photograph of Bob Dylan taken at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival, ...

When folk/blues singer Chris Smither takes the City of New Orleans train from Chicago to the Crescent City Friday, he’ll be coming home. Smither has been identified as a Boston artist the past 50 ...

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 ...

The Ten Pound Fiddle, a folk music organization in Lansing, Michigan, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The organization's longevity is attributed to its dedicated volunteers, strong financial ...

Most places founded on ideals don’t last for more than a few years, let alone a half-century. From all indications, Ann Arbor in the 1960s was built based on ideals of peace, love, and art. These ...

Ellen Harper runs the Folk Music Center in Claremont, Calif., and her son Ben Harper is a Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter. Ellen Harper's new memoir 'Always a Song' tells her story of the ...