Some of the most notable names in folk, Americana, and roots music history and their family members attended the inaugural Folk, Americana, Roots Hall of Fame (FARHOF) induction ceremony at the Boston ...

To borrow the title of an iconic Townes Van Zandt album, folk music is “a far cry from dead.” Many people view the folk music genre as a thing of the past, antiquated and rendered obsolete. But in ...

Just before World War I, two music students meet in a bar. Both lovers of folk music, though studying at a classical conservatory, they fall in love almost immediately. After the war, the two men ...

A new documentary featuring never-before-seen footage of a pivotal moment in folk music history taps into a revival of interest in Bob Dylan thanks to recent biopic "A Complete Unknown", which starred ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To say that Joe Hickerson left his mark on folk music history would be an understatement. In fact, Hickerson is the reason that so ...

Over the course of nearly 75 years, the singer, songwriter and activist Pete Seeger used his pen and his voice to champion many causes: civil rights, farmworker and labor rights, and the environment.

Director Robert Gordon picked through 90 hours of black-and-white archive footage stored for decades by filmmaker Murray Lerner A new documentary featuring never-before-seen footage of a pivotal ...

To say that Joe Hickerson left his mark on folk music history would be an understatement. In fact, Hickerson is the reason that so much of what is known about folk music exists at all. When he died on ...

A new documentary featuring never-before-seen footage of a pivotal moment in folk music history taps into a revival of interest in Bob Dylan. A new documentary featuring never-before-seen footage of a ...