The lure of a lively celebration of folk art outweighs concerns about the cost of fuel for thousands travelling to Canberra ...

Founded in 2016, the group takes centuries-old songs traditionally sung a cappella and modernizes them with instruments, ...

Austin, Texas group the Band of Heathens buck the system on 'Country Sides' album and look back on 20 years of being indie.

Senior staff writer Alaina Babb argues that folk music is far from dead, continuing to shape political discourse and movements across generations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American musician Joseph Terrell is part of the new generation of folk artists taking the genre back to its political roots.

Hard times in a rough land and a night in the Mount Holly jail. It's all part of the folk music experience of the Pine Barrens, which goes back hundreds of years. The Jackson Pines are bringing the ...

Robert Costa is a national correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning" and chief Washington analyst for CBS News. The story of America can be told through the lyrics of folk music – songs of the Great ...

It was quite the hootenanny — P.S. 56 students in Bedford -Stuyvesant sang a West African folk song called “Funga Alafia,” while jumping and dancing and spinning inside the school auditorium. They ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Nearly sixty years after Neil Youngreleased Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, a debate remains amongst fans and music aficionados: who was the "Cinnamon Girl" that captured Young's heart? Written in a ...