These three female folk artists changed the genre in very important ways, and their stories couldn't be more different than one another.

Amid a 24-hour news cycle and personalized algorithms, a wave of young artists are reviving bold, plainspoken protest music ...

Scott Jeffers is the front man for the band Traveler. He’s been performing his eclectic style of music around the Valley for ...

Joe Hickerson, a beloved archivist at the Library of Congress, died last week in Portland, Oregon. He was 89. For more than three decades, he worked to preserve America's collection of folk music. NPR ...

Compilations like this one often include the likes of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, among others. That’s perfectly fair, considering how much work those big names released in the folk music’s heyday and ...

Todd Snider, the beloved folk singer and songwriter, died at 59 from walking pneumonia. He was hospitalized after an arrest ...

PERKASIE — The Perkasie Mennonite Church’s Patchwork Coffeehouse will host a live concert with Atwater Donnelly on November 15 at 7:30 p.m. Atwater Donnelly are American & Celtic folk singers with ...

I confess to a bias. I am proudly an intellectual product of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression. One of the more trenchant cartoons of the period was an elephant dancing clumsily among a flock of ...

Woody Guthrie fans will soon get new music from the revolutionary folk singer 58 years after his death. Guthrie’s estate and Shamus Records will release “Woody at Home, Vol. 1 and 2″ on Thursday, Aug.

A self-taught musician, Elizabeth Cotten changed American folk music. The twice-nominated folk musician, Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten won her first Grammy at 90 years old. Fiercely proud of her North ...

Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s chamber opera “Proving Up” is set on the Nebraska frontier, but it takes aim at the hollow ...