In an uncertain time, folk musician Jesse Welles – a four-time Grammy Award-nominee from Ozark, Arkansas – is reinvigorating ...

Some folk lyrics from back in the day were good, others were inspiring, and some were absolutely iconic in their influence.

Four of the best examples of opening lines in folk music that still give me goosebumps on my arms every time I hear them.

On 1940, American folk legend Woody Guthrie wrote 'This Land is My Land' in his hotel room in New York City. The song would go on to become one of the most influential and iconic folk ...

Veteran singer Sabina Yasmin recently completed the recording of her episode at the Channel i studio on Monday afternoon.

Latyr Sy, a Senegalese percussionist and singer, was one of 75 researchers who played music for the study. Patrick Savage, University of Auckland The human voice is perhaps the oldest and most diverse ...

Sea shanties have survived for centuries, far beyond the golden age of seafaring. A lot of them have strong ties to New England’s maritime culture, especially the culture built around the whaling ...

Jonesboro native and Emmy winning singer-songwriter Connie Dover plans to pay homage to her Natural State roots during her Little Rock Folk Club performance Saturday at Little Rock's Hibernia Irish ...

What's the difference between speaking and singing? It’s a harder question than it sounds. You may think the answer is simply that songs have melodies and that speech lacks them. But that doesn’t ...

Highlighting the Japanese composers and traditional instruments was guest Shawn Tairyu Head. The musician also participated in a pre-show talk with Bloomington Symphony Orchestra music director Ryo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of America can be told through the lyrics of folk music – songs of the Great Depression, the civil rights era, and the ...

The story of America can be told through the lyrics of folk music – songs of the Great Depression, the civil rights era, and the social revolutions of the 1960s. As folk singer Pete Seeger put it in ...