Folk music has evolved and changed through the years, but it’s never really gone away. While there are a few stellar folk acts out there in the modern world today, you just can’t beat the classics.

The set-up for a typical Jesse Welles video is simple: the 32-year-old stands in an open field under a string of powerlines, clutching an acoustic guitar. From behind a tousled, curly mop of hair, he ...

The National Folk Festival, which kicks off it's three-year Jackson run in November 2025, has revealed the first eight artists in this year's line-up. Produced by the National Council for the ...

We’re getting on in our look back at seminal songs from the 1970s (a tongue twister if ever there was one). We’ve been going by genre and have considered rock, glam, funk, punk, and country to this ...

The timelessness of great folk music makes it something that never goes out of style, and something that we just can’t seem to ever get enough of. Sometimes, time-tested folk traditions infiltrate the ...

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 singers Paul Stookey, left, Mary Travers, center, and Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary, pose in Hollywood Ca., July 6, 1965. Peter Yarrow died Tuesday at his home in New York. Thanks for ...

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Amid a 24-hour news cycle and personalized algorithms, a wave of young artists are reviving bold, plainspoken protest music that cuts through the... The set-up for a typical Jesse Welles video is ...