Excelling at the art of making uncompromising folk music put Americana-beloved veteran duo The Milk Carton Kids in an unimaginably compromised position. The tandem of Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan ...

Lou Barlow and John Davis are the Folk Implosion, and they are releasing a new album of the music they made for Larry Clark and Harmony Korine’s 1995 film, Kids. The album, Music for Kids, is out ...

Lou Barlow and John Davis of "The Folk Implosion." (Courtesy Michael Galinsky.) “There’s no telling what we’ll do when we’re free.” If a single line of lyric could tell a story, that line from The ...

When traditional Cajun and Creole musicians take to the stage, one mark of their genius is how easy they make it look. Whether they are wielding an accordion, a fiddle, or some other folk instrument, ...

In the dozen years that the Milk Carton Kids have played their modern folk music in towns and cities around the world, the folk festivals always felt best to singer-guitarists Joey Ryan and Kenneth ...

VERMILION PARISH — To enhance culturally rich experiences in 2022, the children of Vermilion Parish now have a folk roots music project, or ‘LÂCHE PAS LA MUSIQUE EN VERMILION,' spearheaded by the Fine ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ark. – Even at two years old, Clancey Ferguson knew one day she wanted to become a country music star. “She saw the fiddler from the Dixie Chicks on the Country Music Awards and she ...

In south Louisiana, being a traditional musician is about more than having a good ear, technical skill or a steady sense of rhythm. Those things are important, yes. But when it comes to excelling at ...

Ella Jenkins, the prolific musician, educator, and entertainer known as the “First Lady of Children’s Folk Song,” has died. Smithsonian Folkways, the label that released all 39 of Jenkins’ albums ...