Those were the days but they don’t have to stay in the past. Legendary 1960s folk trio the Limeliters will open the Bakersfield Community Concert Association’s new season. For more than 60 years, the ...

Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks has gotten plenty of love through the years, but I happen to think this gorgeous 1968 folk record is on the underrated side. Morrison started his career on the pop side of ...

Sandy and Michael Bashaw met at the Lemon Tree Cinema Cafe on Wayne Avenue in Dayton. It was the 1960s, and the coffeehouse and its neighbor, the Art Theater, started by Antioch grad Clark Crites, ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil ...

In the 1960s, folk music transformed itself from a quaint acoustic rural sound into a form of melodic resistance. Today, we are seeing the return of this powerful art form.

Timing can be a fickle thing in the music industry, which would explain why a pioneering folk icon left this world just as his prolific catalogue was reaching a brand new audience. Prior to the singer ...