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

Marie, the Oscar-winning folk singer-songwriter and activist, has been stripped of her Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian honor, following an investigation that cast doubt on her ...

Vashti Bunyan's star briefly rose in the 60s - then she seemed to vanish. She explains what really happened - and how she ...

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The director believes the icon himself wanted to better understand the period in his life depicted in the film, especially ...

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In the below list, we're running down 10 Folk Acts That ... the first half of the '60s. Apart from Cambridge, Massachusetts, it was arguably the epicenter of folk music. That's how you wound ...

The 1964 hit "As Tears Go By made her a star, but Marianne Faithfull demonstrated a remarkable ability to change with the ...

In The Wire 493, George Rayner-Law argues that as interest in English folk song grows once again, practitioners, critics and listeners should consider carefully the ideological currents beneath the su ...

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.