Though the term “folk music” goes back to the mid-19th century, its modern coinage typically refers to the post-war folk revivals in England and America—though it can also describe any indigenous ...

ELKHART — Folk music legend Judy Collins performs at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25 at The Lerner Theatre, 410 S. Main St. Collins, a mainstay of the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 1960s, ...

We’re getting on in our look back at seminal songs from the 1970s (a tongue twister if ever there was one). We’ve been going by genre and have considered rock, glam, funk, punk, and country to this ...

Through the crooked mountains of Raleigh, North Carolina, folk musician Helena Boling’s dad turned back time with a single CD on their way to school every morning. The disc featured eight of “the best ...

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 ...

When we think of the folk revival scene of the 1960s, we often look to Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, and even Woody Guthrie’s storied career. However, there were incredible female folk singers who ...

Is there anything to folk music worth lecturing about? When acclaimed music writer Scott Alarik stepped into the Commanders Mansion in Watertown last Friday night to deliver a talk on the subject, his ...

Japanese folk songs evolved in the same way as English language ones even though they are sung in different tones and scales. Patrick Savage at Keio University in Japan and his colleagues analysed the ...

John Lennon felt the “basic” Bob Dylan songs were based on the music of three countries from Europe. Yoko Ono said The Beatles’ songs were influenced by “the frame of capitalism.” Yoko felt that “to ...