Youngbloods frontman Jesse Colin Young, whose old band was best known for the classic 1960s peace anthem “Get Together,” has died at age 83.

With a well-known appreciation and passion for music, Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia once offered an insight into the folk albums he loved the most.

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 ...

In the 1960s, she probably played at more rallies ... a significant generational and ideological divide between the two folk artists. Beginning in 1975, after the North Vietnamese won the Vietnam ...

A few decades ago, and particularly in the Sixties, with no Internet, social media, or streaming, it was so easy for artists who have ... but as they turned to folk and country (two great albums ...

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 ...

Highly acclaimed folk singer Eliza Carthy ... folk music from the revival of the 1960s to the thriving folk music scene of today. With music from artists including Bob Dylan, Kate Rusby, Martin ...

Berlin-based masters of Anatolian pop-folk psychedelia Derya Yıldırım and Grup Şimşek have returned with a new album, 'Yarın Yoksa', via Big Crown Records.

When Bob Dylan first entered the NYC folk scene in the late 1950s, one of his biggest competitors was also one of his greatest mentors.

but artists who stayed within their comfort zones, namely the harmonizing of folk music and activist politics. Seeger was shaped by the 1930s, Baez by the 1960s, and both, like Dylan, had a moment ...