Romanian hip-hop collective Subcarpați and Polish-Ukrainian band DAGADANA have released a new song blending traditional ...

Though the term “folk music” goes back to the mid-19th century, its modern coinage typically refers to the post-war folk revivals in England and America—though it can also describe any indigenous ...

Through the crooked mountains of Raleigh, North Carolina, folk musician Helena Boling’s dad turned back time with a single CD on their way to school every morning. The disc featured eight of “the best ...

Ian Fisher is sitting in a Webster Groves coffee shop eating a pierogi. It’s an item he tries to order anytime he sees it on a menu when he’s back in his native Missouri. He picked up a fondness for ...

On his fourth album, Dundalk singer-songwriter David Keenan delivers a series of rich and detailed folk stories that carry on a strong Irish tradition.

As a jazz musician and assistant professor of guitar at the University of Arkansas, Jake Hertzog's work often requires extensive scholarly research. However, when looking for the roots of Ozark folk ...

If you're looking to alter your perspective on the world, then give these three folk songs from the 1960s a listen.

We’re getting on in our look back at seminal songs from the 1970s (a tongue twister if ever there was one). We’ve been going by genre and have considered rock, glam, funk, punk, and country to this ...

Contrary to Wynton Marsalis and Stanley Crouch, jazz is no longer an American or, even more specifically, Afro-American art form. Jazz has, in fact, always been about incorporating music from various ...

Japanese folk songs evolved in the same way as English language ones even though they are sung in different tones and scales. Patrick Savage at Keio University in Japan and his colleagues analysed the ...

ELKHART — Folk music legend Judy Collins performs at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25 at The Lerner Theatre, 410 S. Main St. Collins, a mainstay of the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 1960s, ...

Music in India isn't just entertainment, it's identity. Every region carries its own rhythm, language, and tradition, which together create one of the richest musical landscapes in the world. From ...