Folk originates from the German word "volk," which means "the people." And that's what folk is at its core: from the people, documented and shared with individual experience in mind. The late 19th ...

Swedish indie folk singer Sarah Klang's voice has the rare ability to blend hope and sadness into one, writes The Associated ...

I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s Farm no more” singer and songwriter, Bob Dylan, once sang at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, ...

Women folk singers are preserving one of Morocco’s most cherished culturual traditions, a genre of folk singing known as aita ...

Renowned Lalon singer Farida Parveen has been admitted to hospital with severe respiratory distress. Her husband, ...

Multicultural singer-songwriter Mariee Siou is set to play at Club Passim on February 26. Touring in support of her latest ...

In the darkness of Hill Auditorium, a hush fell over a crowd of more than 2,000 folk music listeners from all over Michigan ...

(AP) — In a clipped Nordic accent, Swedish indie folk singer Sarah Klang politely asked ... during a rare U.S. performance in the intimate music space attached to Jack White’s Third Man ...

But cheikha across the North African Kingdom also perform in the indigenous Amazigh language, adapting the music and lyrics ... twentieth-century women folk singers. It is also the subject of ...

Women folk singers are preserving one of Morocco's most ... also perform in the indigenous Amazigh language, adapting the music and lyrics to reflect their region. The art form has inspired ...