It's the 41st year for the series, with five concerts by nationally known folk and bluegrass artists with optional ...

Folk music will never die, and these forgotten folk albums from the 1970s deserve to be dusted off and enjoyed in the modern age.

Paxton has received lifetime achievement awards from the BBC, the World Folk Music Association, ASCAP and the Recording Academy. He has not been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

But the violinist is known for… Folk legend Joan Baez reflects on a life in music and activism After six decades performing, folk legend Joan Baez is saying farewell to music with a tour this ...

In the second instalment of his guide to the best in new, forward-thinking folk music, Patrick Clarke explores the relationship between musicians old and new, and rounds up ten of the finest new ...

Musicians pose with instruments that have been mainstays of Ozarks folk music during a 1949 folk festival in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. George Raise is on the left with the fiddle and Efton Allen ...

Petrie, however, became more enfranchised in the British folk scene when she started playing in a collective with five other female musicians. Petrie has a superb version of Thompson’s “Beeswing” on ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The setting for the Jodhpur Rajasthan International Folk Festival (RIFF) is a 15th-century hilltop fort ...