We Black Folk challenges the public’s often white-washed idea of folk music and welcomes artists of color into the folk ...

For more than six decades, the University of Chicago Folk Festival has brought together an array of musicians and performers from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds—all united through a love for ...

Library of Congress archivist Joe Hickerson has died at 89. For decades, he worked to preserve America's collection of folk music and served as director of the library's American Folklife Center. Joe ...

A Complete Unknown — nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture and a Best Actor nod for Timothée Chalamet — documents Bob Dylan’s origin story in New York. But many of the characters in the ...

Director Robert Gordon picked through 90 hours of black-and-white archive footage stored for decades by filmmaker Murray Lerner A new documentary featuring never-before-seen footage of a pivotal ...

Kutle Khan: Folk music has always carried the history of longing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To say that Joe Hickerson left his mark on folk music history would be an understatement. In fact, Hickerson is the reason that so ...

In the vast and ever-evolving landscape of global folk traditions, women have long turned to music as a subtle yet potent form of resistance. Denied access to formal platforms of power political ...

Over the course of nearly 75 years, the singer, songwriter and activist Pete Seeger used his pen and his voice to champion many causes: civil rights, farmworker and labor rights, and the environment.

Ever hear of the wayfaring Pine Barrens fiddler from the mid-1800s named Sammy Giberson, who would walk around doing back flips? Or Maurice “Merce” Ridgway Sr.? He was a member of the Pinehawkers trio ...

Like the folk music it celebrates, the South Florida Folk & Acoustic Music Festival is a living and breathing entity, constantly evolving and growing with each edition. This year’s 36th annual ...