Faced with Russia’s efforts to erase Ukrainian culture, people have embraced traditional music as a way to reconnect with their past and affirm their identity. Roksolaniya, a traditional Ukrainian ...

Mississippi has always been at the National Folk Festival. The National Folk Festival has never been in Mississippi. Until now. Downtown Jackson hosts the 82 nd annual National Folk Festival November ...

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 ...

The set-up for a typical Jesse Welles video is simple: the 32-year-old stands in an open field under a string of powerlines, clutching an acoustic guitar. From behind a tousled, curly mop of hair, he ...

Folk Bitch Trio during a visit to Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles. The Australian musical trio is (from left) singer-songwriters Jeanie Pilkington, Grace Sinclair, and Heide Peverelle. (Credit: Steve ...

Folk music became popular with youth in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. As alcohol-free third spaces, coffeehouses were key to that growth. When, in the late 1960s, Kathy Garness wandered down the ...

The awards will be presented on the first night of Folk Alliance International's 38th annual conference, set for Jan. 21-25 in New Orleans. By Paul Grein Just five days after receiving 2026 Grammy ...

Recall the sound that set the salty, downhome tone for Beyoncé's history-making single "Texas Hold 'Em." The first notes you hear on the first track by a Black woman to top Billboard's Hot Country ...

Candice is a writer and horror obsessive living in Athens, Georgia, with her husband and their very handsome cat. It was partly her strong interest in the films of Bong Joon-ho and Park Chan-wook that ...