Sophie Straat is reviving a style of music once popular in the working-class bars of Amsterdam to protest an increasingly ...

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

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 ...

“Mr. Tambourine Man” is a song that was written by folk rock icon Bob Dylan and released back in 1965. This song has been recorded multiple times through the years, and it was famously covered ...

Perhaps it developed to unite people, an idea called the social-bonding hypothesis, says co-author Patrick Savage, a musicologist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. “Slower ...

Anna Heslop became the first female helm at Cullercoats lifeboat station three years ago A lifeboat volunteer is the subject of a new folk song celebrating her work. Anna Heslop, 28, became the ...

Fans of Scottish folk songs are in for a treat ... people wanted a more modern town so they built a new town and kind of decamped to it. The song is about the contrast between the two, the ...

KAZAN, Russia — In a small studio in Kazan, the capital of Russia's Tatarstan Republic, the air was filled with the melodious strains of the famous Chinese folk song Jasmine Flower (Moli Hua in ...

This fall and winter and throughout 2025, Dave Kline & The Mountain Folk Band are celebrating 45 years of presenting, promoting, writing and performing bluegrass music by releasing their seventh album ...

The Smithsonian's collections and archives are a rich source of information on American folk music and its many genres. Smithsonian Folkways is home to a significant collection of folk music ...