Banjo player, folk music aficionado and actor/comedian Billy Connolly once described The Dubliners as “folk music’s Rolling Stones”. If that’s the case, then The Pogues were its Sex Pistols: ...

Great lyrics are great lyrics, it doesn’t matter what genre of music you put them in. As long as they are true, poetically sound, and rhythmically catchy, great lyrics are going to shine no matter ...

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s recording of Jerry Jeff Walker’s “Mr. Bojangles” was a hit back in 1970. The group came together in the late 1960s, but their 1970s albums like The Dirt Band and Will The ...

Harpeth Rising is a purveyor of chamber-flavored folk music. Composed of three classically trained artists, Harpeth Rising touts three-part harmonies “reminiscent of both Appalachia and medieval ...

The Lake Erie Folk Fest will be returning to Euclid with the aim of celebrating traditional music. Taking place from 1 to 6 p.m. Feb. 11, this will be the seventh annual Lake Erie Folk Fest hosted by ...

Melbourne's Leah Senior talks about Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell and more. Listening to young Melbourne singer songwriter Leah Senior is like going back in time. Her finely crafted, melancholic tunes owe ...

WAPAKONETA —In honor of Auglaize County’s 175th anniversary, a concert of traditional Irish music by the band Mad Maudlin will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 26 at St. Patrick Catholic Church, ...

Well before acts like Waxahatchee, Jessica Pratt, Angel Olsen, Big Thief, Bedouine, and more readily brought folk sounds to the indie sphere, a swath of women singer-songwriters did their part to ...

Folk music is broadly linked to culture and ethnicity, the 60s counterculture, and social activism. American folk music is as varied as its musicians. But many of us associate folk music with acoustic ...