Ellen Stekert, 89, is releasing her first independent album this year. Now if she could just find her treasured 1955 Martin ...

Highly acclaimed folk singer Eliza Carthy presents this four-part series charting the rise of British folk music from the revival of the 1960s to the thriving folk music scene of today. With music ...

The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

Our list of the 100 Best Protest Songs spans nearly a century and includes everything from pre-World War II jazz and Sixties folk to Eighties house music, 2000s R&B, and 2020s Cuban hip-hop.

As the civil rights movement gained momentum in the 1960s, folk music gave voice to a new generation longing for equality and justice. "We Shall Overcome" is particularly well-known as a civil rights ...

Peter Yarrow, whose Peter, Paul and Mary trio helped bridge folk music into the pop world ... While he made an undeniable impact on the music scene of the '60s, Yarrow was convicted in 1970 ...

Related Episode: Dylan’s Guitar Investigation Dawn Peterson’s dad was a pilot in the 1960s. He flew many singers and music acts, including Bob Dylan. Shortly after Newport Folk Festival in ...

Joan Baez and Bob Dylan had to make peace with their failed relationship in their own terms. This is how Baez did it.

Yarrow died on Jan 7 at his home, surrounded by family, following a battle with bladder cancer. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

We really felt we'd arrived in the South, where all this music which inspired the 60s folk revival was first recorded in the 1920s. Our next stop was also in Mississippi, though many miles of ...