The Worcester Jazz Orchestra will perform at the Winchendon Amphitheater, playing popular works by Glenn Miller and Buddy ...

Several rising British bands are using centuries-old ditties to discuss hot-button issues like prison abolition, trans rights ...

From the Statesman archives looks into a reader note about Austin folk singer Carolyn Hester who became known as "Queen of ...

Zan & the Winter Folk’s “New Morse Code” and Girl Blue’s “To the Bone” snagged the coveted Album of the Year and Record of ...

Folk music is a universal language of tradition and honesty, and it seems these three Hollywood actors agree entirely.

The North Carolinian band and four-time Grammy Award nominees will perform at the fairgrounds in West Springfield this ...

Everyone's heard of the 1960s psychedelic folk music movement, but what about the lesser-known subgenre of freak folk?

David Littler was one of the founding members in 1975 of the Houghton Weavers, one of the most well-known folk bands of the last five decades. David recently formed a new band, Legends of Lancashire ...

Folk music became popular with youth in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. As alcohol-free third spaces, coffeehouses were key to that growth. When, in the late 1960s, Kathy Garness wandered down the ...

Medici on 57th and Ali’s on 63rd — were all part of the folk revival movement. From the end of the 1950s through the early 1970s, acoustic music and songs from rural areas became popular with ...