Faced with Russia’s efforts to erase Ukrainian culture, people have embraced traditional music as a way to reconnect with their past and affirm their identity. Roksolaniya, a traditional Ukrainian ...

Vatican II allowed the presence of “the music of the people” at Mass. Folk music, the music that is indigenous to each of the various nations of the world and to the ethnic cultures found within those ...

Available on vinyl, digital and compact disc formats for successive late 2025 Record Store Days, Warren Zevon's final live ...

It is worth mentioning that this list is far from exhaustive. I’m just a fan of these four tunes, in particular. Nobody was doing folk music in the 1990s like Jeff Buckley. “Last Goodbye” is still ...

Having begun in the 1940's and then surging in popularity in the 1960's, American folk-music again is enjoying a revival of sorts. Maybe it's because of the recent wars in the world and people yearn ...

Well before the advent of the drum machine or even the piano, there was folk music. These rich musical traditions have been inspiring composers of art music for centuries. Let's whet our musical ...

The most important talking head missing from “Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation” belongs to Bob Dylan, whose career was made in the basement clubs and coffeehouses this documentary ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook We live in an age where it’s hard to find the soul of America. Much of American society is ...

To write about folk music is to confront an assortment of American mythologies, some innocent, some odious. No one really knows what the phrase “folk music” means anymore—songs played on acoustic ...

An older entry on our list of iconic psychedelic folk bands, The Incredible String Band took the concept of “psychedelic folk” literally. Their music can only be described as what you’d hear from a ...

I have definitely found my voice as a folk singer as opposed to finding my voice as an opera singer. And the link that I like to make is that folk music is about authenticity, while opera is about ...