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Playing folk music in an urban setting in the 21st century is a tricky business. Christian Kuffner, the ringleader of New Orleans' Zydepunks, has seen it go bad. "We saw a zydeco band in Massachusetts ...

We will sing it loud and strong, so everyone will know That the road to freedom is a long way to go. — Road to Freedom by John Stewart The words rang with new meaning in the chill night air, and the ...

I couldn’t stop thinking about her story, and knew that one day I wanted to write a song about it. A few months later, in Mexico, I had quite a prolific songwriting phase. Laura Marling talks about ...

It is not absolutely essential to have hair hanging to the waist—but it helps. Other aids: no lipstick, flat shoes, a guitar. So equipped, almost any enterprising girl can begin a career as a folk ...

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 ...