While working on the lower register of her voice with New York City singer Paul Reese, who first turned her toward folk music. By the 1930s and ’40s, the genre was driven by Peter Seeger and the ...

Folk music and classic rock lyrically go hand and hand, but thanks to these three covers, they also go hand and hand musically.

An oral tradition, folk music was a way for the illiterate masses to pass down stories of war, hardship and the struggle to survive everyday life from generation to generation. Every culture has ...

In spite of apparent differences, folk and folk-inspired music from the roots to the avant-garde is characterised by certain common features – simple, square rhythms, extended repetition ...

Black country, folk and blues musicians have always been vital to the genres' very American, very long legacies. The all-powerful Beyoncé, with her latest album, "Cowboy Carter," has shined a ...

A legend of the folk genre, Joan Baez was born in New York in 1941 but moved frequently as her father’s employment situation often changed. An early interest in music saw her learning ukulele as ...

Lead Belly is perhaps the best known name of the African Americans that helped define the genre, but you'll also find portraits of Mississippi John Hurt, Odetta, and Joshua Daniel White, and music by ...

February 21, 2025 • The Toronto native sits down with World Cafe's Raina Douris to talk about her debut, full-length album. February 12, 2025 • Alvin Ailey's seminal Revelations is considered ...

Meet Stefan Weiner, a folk singer-songwriter who’s using his musical talents to invent a new genre. In a series of TikToks, Weiner is reimagining stereotypical gay porn setups as folk songs ...

The sounds are ostensibly familiar – country bluegrass, folk, rock ’n’ roll – but ... I’m a death-to-genres guy. I’m not trying to be like, ‘Let’s do country music now.