One of The Monkees was part of Greenwich Village’s folk music scene before joining the group. Notably, he played piano on one of the Prefab Four’s biggest hits. Following his death, the song in ...

Greenwich Village in the 1960s was home to a counterculture folk music scene that produced legendary artists like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin and Joni Mitchell. A network of cafes and bars that ...

Izzy Young, a businessman, political activist and founding patron of the Greenwich Village folk music scene who organized Bob Dylan’s first major concert and devoted decades to supporting other ...

This brother-and-brother duo may have been from the Bronx, but their involvement in the Greenwich Village folk music movement led to this incredible folk album. Double-Back was released in 1971 and ...

Written by Woliver and Bernadette Contreras, Folk City: The Greenwich Village Musical wound up winning 10 out 10 Broadway World awards for which it was nominated, including “Best Musical.” But when ...

Buzzy Linhart, a mainstay of the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s and ’70s, died on February 13 in Berkeley, California, Eric Brenner and The New York Times report. Linhart’s health had been ...

There’s a moment in Joel and Ethan Coen’s new film Inside Llewyn Davis in which we glimpse a copy of folksinger Davis’ only solo recording. Davis, as played by Oscar Isaac, is seen on the cover ...

“When the Cars Begin to Fall” might just be the first song you’ve ever heard that incorporates the words “insurance adjustor.” Baltimore musician Robert J. Friedman was moved to write a song after ...

As ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ reminds us, Hollywood’s acoustic guitar heroes are always torn between art and commerce <br>Authenticity is always a tricky trap in ...

On an unseasonably warm October evening, Stella Prince, 20, sits backstage at the relatively new AB Hillsboro Village venue in Nashville's 12th Avenue South neighborhood. She's the Woodstock, New York ...