One of the more enduring genres of music, one currently enjoying a modest increase in popularity, is folk music. The traditional genre often touches upon the quotidian topics of everyday life and ...

Friends and fans of a late Juneau singer-songwriter are on a mission to make his music more accessible to people with a love for poetic songwriting and a voice from a mold that may no longer exist.

The sixth song on the album, titled “Little Orphant Annie,” is a new setting of an old poem. For the song, Jones was inspired by Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley and combined his 1885 poem of the ...

"American Folk" then became a tribute to the older musical roots that both Guthrie and Parton drew from: Shaker devotional tunes, psalm singing from the New England hymnody, Appalachian fiddle tunes ...

The last time folk music truly mattered, the world was on edge. In the 1960s, a young Bob Dylan arrived in New York armed with a guitar, a harmonica, and a deep suspicion of authority. His songs ...

Noon Concerts at Trinity Santa Barbara presents Folk Bassoon: A Trinity Backstage Retrospective, 12:15-12:45 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14. Featured musicians are locals Kate Wallace, vocals and guitar; Doug ...

Like country breakup songs, folk breakup songs have an unspoken quality that makes them so relatable and easy to listen to. Whether you’ve had your heart broken or you’ve been betrayed by someone you ...